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Lucca is 3.5 hour drive from the house and the drive itself is fine. The trouble, and I knew this would happen, is that Lucca is not a town to drive in Continue reading The Bumble arrives at Col Buttero and a trip to Lucca
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I have tried for years to make the perfect home made pasta and never really succeded. There are so many different recipes and ways of making it that it makes your head spin and you can’t try them all. My ravioli have either come apart and the filling melting into the water or the pasta has had a grey unpleasant looking apperance. So, whilst on … Continue reading Pasta à la Anna – the Apecchio way
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Ciao peeps We’re on the last leg of our summer drive down to Italy. It’s gone remarkably smooth so far (knock on wood and spit :)) It might have something to do with us buying the Flexi fare with Eurotunnel as for the last few years, the trains across the channel have just been getting worse and worse, delayed every single time, and when you’re … Continue reading The drive to Col Buttero
Good evening chaps and chapettes Today’s words are all about writing and research and the importance of backing your stories up. I’ve had to go through all my bits and pieces with regards to the four stories I’ve got on the go (all at very different stages) because summer is coming!!! and the conservatory where I normally keep them gets too hot. The heat and … Continue reading Writing, researching and spreading yourself too thin
Just a quickie today to share these beautiful photos with views from our windows. Our italian house is in the mountains outside the small town of Apecchio in le Marche, Italy. The town is well known for its truffles and rather posh beers. We arrived yesterday (ridiculously early ryanair flight) and opened the pool up for summer. After the dreary weather at home wrote quite … Continue reading Good morning from Col Buttero
Hello We’ve just had a bank holiday weekend here in the UK, and one whole day of this long weekend was sunny. We spent that day gardening, building steps for the garden path and cleaning windows. Oh, yes, all very interesting. Actually, everything is starting to look quite summer like now and the next time the sun pops out I shall attempt to get a … Continue reading Rosemary jelly troubles
Thank goodness Easter is over and done with. Don’t get me wrong, I love a long weekend as much as the next person but it might take a few years before I promise home made easter eggs to all the family again. I did get a reprieve though as my sister in law was away so I only had to make two easter baskets in … Continue reading Liquorice truffels and the Easter egg challenge
We’re on our way to Wellington to buy some car part or other for an old Lanchester that my husband has been doing up for years. Keeps him happy lol. I tend to tag along on his jaunts as long car journeys are perfect for story planning and plotting. You’re stuck in a car with someone who can’t escape from your idea bouncing, and you, … Continue reading Stuck in a jam
Hello chaps and chapettes, It’s almost Easter and every few years my mind starts thinking that I’ve got chocolate making cracked, and I confidently announce that I will make home-made easter eggs for all. This tends to happen when I’ve been playing around with chocolates for a while, with no time constraints and no expectations. This is one of those years. My chocolate tempering success … Continue reading Easter egg madness…
I’m back from Brighton. Actually I got back yesterday but I sleep so badly at hotels that it takes me a day or so to get back to normal afterwards. Why do they whack on the heating at 2am?? Who knows. At least this time, there wasn’t an unknown man alseep in our room when we arrived. This actually did happen last time we were … Continue reading Back from Brighton…
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