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Carnival 2010
Saturday 10th July was the date of 2010′s Ambergate Carnival. I was not on the committee this year having been involved in fundraising and events for Carnivals 2008 and 2009. Luckily this meant I had...
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Behind the Photos
I was on the phone to Deb from FabulousPlaces.co.uk the other day, confirming details of the props we needed for a photo shoot at Amanda Hamilton’s lovely cottage in Duffield. I suddenly heard a...
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Tea Loaf & Fresh Walnuts
Our friends at the Heage Firs Farm, just up the road, have a beautiful walnut tree in their garden. If it wasn’t raining quite so hard and I hadn’t got Market kitchen heading over later today to film...
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Grate new fire
Since we moved in the fire in the living room has mainly been held together with jubilee clips and hope. When the shaped fire bricks fell out of the back it was time to get it sorted properly. I took...
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Market Kitchen
I had a fabulous day at Optomen Studios, filming for Derbyshire Week at Market Kitchen. The show aired on Thursday 9th December at 7pm on the Good Food Channel. Leslie Jordan was a guest, he is perhaps...
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Katie’s Cupcake Tower
On 1st December 2010 my very special friend, Katie was 40 years old. A magical masquerade ball was planned at Shottle Hall. Unfortunately due to the massive amount of snow we had in early December the...
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Magazine
For the last year I have been working with Deb from fabulousplaces.co.uk on a new magazine for Derbyshire called etc. We have had a lot of fun travelling around the county, meeting people, visiting fab...
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We’ve Published!
For the first time I feel justified in putting an exclamation mark in the title of a post, because we have now published the first edition of our magazine! “etc.” magazine is full of articles about...
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House Work
I am in limbo. My new attic studio is so tantalisingly close to being finished that I can’t bring myself to do my usual hunt round the house for the right light to take photographs of recipes in...
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Overnight Oatcakes
I have been eating oatcakes all my life. It’s only recently that I started to make my own. These aren’t Scottish oatcakes, which are more of a biscuit to eat with cheese. These are Derbyshire oatcakes...
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