Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking, Glenmore House
Ready……steady….. Bake!! What a fantastic bunch of very good-humoured girls were here for our Cake Making Day today!! We had the best fun – despite a power cut which threatened to call a halt to our efforts. In the end, all five cakes were...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Glenmore House
And still we have roses…..Last week it was the last Abraham Darby. This week it’s the last of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whose peculiar musk smell I’ve grown to enjoy over the years. It’s nothing like the deep perfume of some,...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Glenmore House
Each year I do this….and each and every year, I wonder if it will, once again, become this (below) in the spring? But right now it looks like the top image and so once again I almost hold my breath! But I really love pruning the garden – taking away...
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Glenmore House
This is how my days begin – the kitchen table loaded with everything I need to prepare & serve morning tea and lunch… (and this is but a fragment). Always looks pretty though….
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Glenmore House
Better late than never I guess….I’d intended to have good stock of Janelle McCulloch’s terrific book ‘The Modern Kitchen Garden’ in time for our Open Garden Weekend…..it was a nice idea. Anyway, they have JUST arrived, so if anyone...
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Glenmore House
Once upon a time, when the girls were much younger…the lead-up to Easter was all about painting eggs….sadly no longer, time passes too fast, but the memories last forever…and each year, the eggs come out of the large glass storage jars, a few more...
