Eggs, bread and jelly.

Damask panel Pinboard with egg pins £39.00
Here's a picture of one of our new items. I love this quirky pinboard so much that I am going to ask Dave for one for Christmas. Oh! he's just lent over my shoulder and read the above and then told me 'they're out of stock' ~ so looks like I won't be getting one for Christmas then, still it's my birthday straight after so you never know! Joking aside, I like accessories like this, useful but a bit different and the little egg shaped pins are so cute.

At home, there have been an abundance of parcels arriving in the post over the last few days, all of them for Cecily or Dave and they have been squirrelled away somewhere out of sight. This is the part of the Christmas preparations that I like the most. The anticipation that the crinkle of wrapping paper invokes in me, turns back time and reminds me of being a small child. I wonder if it will have the same effect in another 35 years time? I certainly hope so!

Mum & I have been planning who will supply what on Christmas Day, some of the things that I really missed since I've been cooking Christmas lunch (because no-one can cook like your mummy can) will now be on our table. Mum's bread sauce is very special and whilst I cook a mean bread sauce, it's not like mum's recipe.

I am preparing a special pudding and mum won't have seen it before on my table as I tend to make it only very occasionally. It's a champagne jelly with primrose flowers suspended in layers in it. I saw the recipe on a telly programme years ago, they were showing foods from different eras and this was one from either Tudor or Victorian times (but I can't remember which). Anyway it looks amazing as the flowers seem to just float within the jelly and it tastes beautiful. Last time I made it (for a dinner party with special friends), I used pink champagne and it was just heavenly.

The kettle's just boiled so I had better go and attend to it, chat soon, Liz