Ok so I have new double glazed windows and a new front door! Yay!
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| My New Front Door Outside |
Isn't the front door just so smart? Apart from the paper number sign that is on there until Rick puts the real numbers up.
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| New Front Door Inside |
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| Nanny's Apple Cake |
And this is the apple cake that I made using Nanny's recipe that Mum gave me the other week. Not in a pretty container (this is because of the discovery of mouse droppings in my flat...... yuk) but its a pretty cake and lasts for a whole week staying moist and lovely. Perhaps we should post the recipe sometime....
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| New Teapot and Cups |
This teapot with matching cups is part of my new discovery. A shop I have never seen before has popped up nearby, its a
Danish homewares shop which is very cheap and a bit like Ikea without the furniture and without the horrible queues. The teapot has such a nice fresh design with a bamboo handle and has a built in strainer inside and was only £6! The matching cups were just £2 each. Bargain no?!
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| New Teapot |
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Tea Tin
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This tea caddy/tin was also from Tiger and just £1; lovely peacock design. I also got some great black candles; 4 for £1 and one of those rubber non slip mat things for £1. All in all I am very happy with my new purchases and my discovery.
I can't believe we have somehow got the same plant; this is a pic of the one we were talking about on the phone; as you can see the black tinge is not really noticeable right now, perhaps as you say it will come back as the sun returns. It is an
Echeveria called '
Black Prince' and the one in the background is called '
Duchess of Nuremberg'. Might plant them outside in a pot together when it gets warmer.
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| Is this the same plant that you have? |
Blogger is so weird. I can never seem to get the layout of the pictures with the text as I want them. Useless.
ReplyDeleteyes i find that too! lovely looking cake, haven't made that one for YEARS :) actually, i'm not sure it's the same plant anymore! lol but maybe yours is just smaller than mine. ill post a photo if i ever find my camera.....:/
ReplyDeleteBoth plants look etiolated, but that is because they are indoors, without enough light. It will get better in the Summer. The Aeonium Jo has, and I do, is called 'Zwartkop'. The ones in the greenhouse are dead, one at home is green in centre and black on the older leaves - kept in porch where lots of morning sun.
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