Saturday 30 August 2014

Youngest Granddaughter, Cookies and another Scrumper

YGD has been staying over this week and last week and I'm delighted to say she will be back for a couple of days next week
She is now 9 and pretty independent and really enjoying the freedom that a couple of acres gives an active child.
 Here she is whizzing around on an old bike that grandad has dragged out of the loft. He has highered the seat and handlebars, oiled the odd nut and away she goes up and down the drive and between the buildings.

And here she is on the "swing" that grandad has made for her in a damson tree. Shy isn't she?!
 And with the doll she bought with her birthday money. She has combed and plaited the dolls hair time and time again. There seems to be quite a lot of hair on the brush and I have to keep reminding her that it won't grow again!

   Something else she has enjoyed doing is baking. What child doesn't ?! Our favourite thing to make at the moment are biscuit/cookies from a recipe I found on Beth's blog..."Twenty tiny toes and a button nose" (still don't know how to do a link) These are called "hob nobs" we have made them slighter bigger than she suggests and this means that they are soft in the middle and are little like a cross between a hobnob and flapjack. they are DELICIOUS. We also made some with honey instead of golden syrup and they were just as good. As I have plenty of honey I shall always use that in future. Pop over to Beth's blog to get the recipe.

 We noticed that the Charles Ross Cookers were being pecked by the birds. We thought probably blackbirds,who have also been pecking at the windfalls. We were wrong ! Here is the culprit...
I suppose it IS a black bird!

All for now
Gillx


16 comments:

  1. My best apple is in the chicken run!!! I was going to make some Soda Bread with my grandsons this year. Bread baking was earmarked for a wet day, but there wasn't one; next year maybe.

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    1. They love making bread don't they? Mind you it often ends up a grey colour from the over-working.

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  2. I guess that (black bird) says "tested and approved".

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    1. Oh yes indeed! We had to pick the rest before she did!

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  3. Great pictures. Kids really do just love a bit of space don't they!

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    1. Don't they?! She has an ipod and other such stuff, which she doesn't bring with her and doesn't seem to miss at all. She does get a fix of Mossie Monsters activity games on my laptop.

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  4. Just a quick word to let you know I tried your tomatoes and green beans recipe yesterday and we really enjoyed it. I have frozen half of it and we shall have it warm as
    a salad with cold meat - I think it will be nice like that. We have a glut of green beans at present, so I am trying everything. Thanks.

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    1. If you have any veggie friends a few cooked potatoes and some grated cheese turn them into a meal. Never tried them with cold meat, will give that a try.

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  5. What a pleasure to discover your little plot via "Weaver." I'd love to return again and again!


    ALOHA from Honolulu
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    =^..^= . <3 . >< } } (°>

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    1. Hello Cloudia, Thanks for dropping by. Just popped over to look at your awsome photographs.

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  6. Not sure what it is but the blackbirdsget into our raspberry cage easily but can never get out again - farmer has to catch them by hand and release them.

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    1. We have that with dunnocks and the brassica netting .

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  7. http://tentinytoesandabuttonnose.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/budget-bites-hobnobs-3p-each.html.
    Trying to help...
    Hoping to try this recipe later too.

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    1. Thanks for that Helen. Looks like I even got the name wrong! I will put that right on my next blog

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  8. Ha ha, that's one bird I don't get in my garden. It looks like your grandaughter's having a fabulous time while she's staying with you.

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    1. School holidays will soon be over and we shall miss her staying over. Mind you we are lucky enough to see her every weekend.

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