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Garden Furniture Decisions

Summer is just around the corner, and along with pottering in the garden there is nothing better that sitting relaxing and enjoying your handy work. Of course it also means the weather is nice enough to eat alfresco, invite family and friends round for a barbecue, a garden picnic or one of my favourites Afternoon …

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Easy Fruit Cake Recipe made with Oil

This recipe for Fruit Cake made with oil is one of my cakes I can continue to eat as part of my ‘healthier bakes’ for lower Cholesterol. I am choosing to bake less with butter and baking fat, and instead using more olive oil or rapeseed oil. This is a favourite bake Fruit Cake recipe made with oil. A …

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First Garden Bouquet of the Year

This may not quite be a bouquet of many flowers, but it is the first vase of blooms from my garden this year. All from the Lilac shrub, which is in full flower at the moment. It is so nice to smell the scent of fresh flowers from the garden in the house again. Lilac picked …

#BEDM birthdays cakes recipe

Looking for Birthday Cake Inspiration

Ever since my nieces 3rd birthday I always baked her birthday cakes. This year she will be 9 years old, she was quick to tell me at the weekend this will be her last year of being a single digit it will be the double figures of 10 next year! I am still unsure what …

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Join in with The Great British Bee Count during May

For the month of May Friends of the Earth are encouraging everyone in the UK to count the bees in their garden. I will be joining in sometime over the next week, hopefully on a nice sunny day that will bring all the bees flying by.  All you need to do is watch for bees …

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Preen Manor, NGS Garden – Shropshire

‘What could be nicer than strolling through a delightful, plant-filled garden, enjoying a “proper” home-made tea and at the same time raising money for charity?’  These are the opening words in the 2015 National Gardening Scheme, Shropshire guide book. It lists all gardens in the county that open to the public and raise money for …