Scrumptious Links

Taken from "Home Catering and Cookery", 1956. "The housewife who caters for a large family will find it more economical of time and energy, as well as of fuel, to have one baking period for the scones, cakes and bun’s needed for the whole week. The various items will, of course have to be stored…

If, for even one moment, we can stop and take a breath or two in the run up to Christmas, we can as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggest’s choose to do Christmas our own way: we can, if we so desire, refuse to get stressed about all that we are too exhausted to face and embrace all…

I might be a good housekeeper, but I’m a truly terrible record keeper. I start shopping lists and promptly lose them.  Ask me for the recipe of something delicious I have  served you for lunch and I will disappear into a pile of cookbooks never to be seen again.  Receipts  evaporate and home inventory doesn’t…

In celebration of the gloriously sunny weather we are enjoying here in middle England, I offer you a little collection of pretty watercolour images scanned from On The Sands, a Green Beacon 1957 early reader (they always have the best images don’t they?) that once belonged to my very own Mum. Oh for the bliss…

Though the majority of mini disasters in my life are of my own making, occasionally things happen I could neither predict, nor unhappen. And so it was yesterday, when I sent out a Vintage Halloween post six months before it was due and confused so many of you, that one kind lady wrote to me…