River Cottage

Started on a beret in a lovely sage green colour, will do scarf and mittens tgw. I also want to make a baby jacket. So have a lot going on in the knitting/crochet line.

Latest acquisition?

Kitchen Workbooks: Slow Cooker Recipes
4 Ingredients 2
Superb Soups
Robyn Martin: Fast Finger Food book 2
Country Cookbook
Delia Smith: One is Fun
Cupcake Heaven
Family Circle: Party & Finger Food
Fresh & Tasty Puddings and Desserts
Robyn Martin: Quick 'n' Easy Finger Food
Party On! Cookbook - finger food for fun occasions
Family Circle: Quick & Easy Workday Dinners
Step by Step Pies - sweet and savoury
Women's Weekly: Mince in Minutes
Women's Weekly: Wicked sweet indulgences

OK, there are a few there for which I have absolutely no use, but the finger food books will be great for catering at the Hall, the quick/easy recipes good for normal life, and mince in minutes is good for economic constraints. The wicked sweet indulgences will make useful food porn, but are unlikely to achieve full expression in my house (though happy to post to anyone interested. Will give you a review once I collect them (tomorrow evening).

Delia Smith- One is fun? Tee hee hee

TopBannana

Playmobile pirate ship with just about all it's accessories.

Grandsons - sorted.

Iam assuming it will be recipes for one, I may be mistaken of course ...

Well hats off to Delia - this is actually an excellent book for those living alone. It would never have occurred to me it was worth making a fish pie for one - I would have been eating it for a week. And quick french onion soup that does not sound as if it is likely to lack anything in flavour - not to mention a thick minestrone for one.

I think I am going to enjoy working my way through this one ...

The finger food books look incredibly helpful for one who has never bothered faffing around with this sort of thing when entertaining - I just go for a dinner party, or packets of crisps and nuts if it is drinks only. The soup recipe book has some excellent recipes in it too - I may yet just start cooking and never stop again ... Dinners will get a lot more exciting around here I have to say - tonight's reheated osso bucco will be a thing of the past perhaps (or will the habits of a lifetime prevail??).

She makes a very good point that we who live along tend to efface ourselves and that failing to cook proper meals is an expression of this. An interesting perspective really

Not sure that is the reason, but it is too easy to 'make do' if it is just for yourself. If you were cooking for one person and that wasn't you, you would take more trouble.

Sounds as if you have some interesting books there anyway. Have fun with them.

I haven't 'done' anything on freegle for a while except a hairdryer I need to get rid of 

If I can manage an interruption-free weekend I plan to get stuff together to get rid of from the bedsit in town - Lots of stuff to go - I am trying to cull all the 'might come in handy's' at the moment ... Paring things down to make up for the absence of a shed in the short term.