Category: Passions

All my posts about things-about-which-I-am-passionate-other-than-writing: you’ll find posts here on parenting, knitting, cooking, frugality, the environment, gardening and whatever else catches my eye this week.

Fried Potatoes

This is a great way to use up left-over baked or boiled or roast potatoes (if you ever have such a thing). Delicious, nutritious and super-simple. Even my kids will eat this, and Weight Watchers approves too! INGREDIENTS 1 large potato or several smaller ones Olive Oil Salt METHOD If your potato is already cooked,… Continue reading Fried Potatoes

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Frugal Gifts for Christmas

I’ve just added a tutorial over at my other blog, about how to make these cookie-ingredient stuffed bags for $0.50 a piece. Knot Knitting, so you know, Knot Here.

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Better Breakfasts – Perfect Oatmeal

My Better Breakfast quest continues – with Oatmeal! Mr Kellog may have had a point (we do need more fiber in our diets) but his refined cereals just don’t cut it as a morning meal for me. The carbs burn off and leave me hungry. The sugar makes me sluggish. I need protein! I need… Continue reading Better Breakfasts – Perfect Oatmeal

Working Mother

So my call came; we did the preliminary catching up and had just started on the business at hand when my cell phone started bleating. I knew, of course, straight away. I didn’t even have to check the number to know it was the school…

Incompetence

…I had resolved to be totally on top of things this time, and here I am blotting my copybook before school even starts!…

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Jaywalker Bag

I failed to get a birthday present to my sister this summer. When I called (on her birthday) to ask what she wanted, she had just seen pics of my knitted Twiggy Tweedish bag and said she wated one of them, please. I asked what colours, and she said she liked my Jaywalker socks on… Continue reading Jaywalker Bag

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