Grow Your Own Magazine

When you are seriously trying to achieve something good, just for yourself, your adorable 'other' or someone else that you truly care about, I fail to understand just why everything that CAN go so positively wrong, just Ruddy Well Does...........

I'm making an effort this year to put back into a local Village what they have given to us, in terms of friendship, by making a cake that the whole community can be a part of, and with this damp weather, the icing is just NOT wanting to dry out at all, which is making it's very existence a complete NO-NO.

Are you doing something lovely to make someone else smile this week too?

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

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BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs

thats lovely wellie, and oh bugger i feel for you with the icing, i buy cakes in a packet lol!!! useless me!! lol!

i am trying to make my kids, mum, dad and sis smile this week because sis is emmigrating to NZ on saturday and it will be a sad day, so trying to be strong for all! (extremely hard when want to be sad myself _)

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Gardening - A labour of love that begins with daybreak and ends with backache!
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I was up til the early hours waiting for choc to set enough on cones to decorate with choc buttons for D's birthday cake~hours before 15 little playmates were due for her party!~(a month ago!)
have you put colouring in your icing?I've started to use colour gel~it doesn't make the icing so soggy.What's the cake?

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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

I made some almond shortbread for my OH to take up to granny and grampas, does that count.

I don't do the village thing, there are some great bods here, but there are a few really stuck up sorts which I can't be doing with.

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Gardening is the grandfather of Rock and Roll, its all about sex and drugs.

Last week I have been mostly decorating and I made a bedroom in Paris go from this to this.

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

andi&di, I do sympathise.... and there are NO chocky buttons on this cake?! and no colouring IN the icing! and if I told you what the cake was (given that it's for a SHOW, and then I'd give the game away to my opposition?) I'd have to kill you I'm afraid, and the nice people at Grow Your Own (and I HAVE actually put their logo on my cake... so they should actually send me huge amounts of Thompson & Morgan Vouchers now, given that huge amounts of peeps from Gloucestershire are now going to a) buy the magazine because of my cake or b) log onto or register onto the forum because of my cake....)Mikeywills, yes it DOES. And basically yes, and yes and yes.
You've just made me laugh out loud..... X

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

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BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs

scareyAngel - what to what? Sounds FAB though! X

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com
BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs

Maybe best not tell then!!Show us the results when you get your 1st!

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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

arrr wellie, dont kill Di, well unless she gets my pic off her avatar, as that is actually me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

want to see pics of the cake as soon as its done, my aunty sent down some "Millionaires shortbread" and a choco cake from Carlisle for my, does that count lol!

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Gardening - A labour of love that begins with daybreak and ends with backache!
http://clarkiesveggieblog.blogspot.com/

andi&di,
if I manage to 'fluff' a FIRST PRIZE, remind me to stick a chocky button on it and dance round it....?!
How did you get on with your's? Sounds like Fun with a load of chocky buttons on.....!

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com
BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs

I'm far from show standards but got really into doing novelty cakes a couple of years ago~have a peek in my album!It's become my rather uncheap alternative to birthday presies for friends~keep forgetting to take photos tho!Good Luck with yours!~keep some choccie buttons in your pocket just in case!

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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

squashysoo,
be brave. my friend Trudie went to NZ and loved it. Potential for lovely holidays girlie. X

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com
BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs

andi&di,
I shall, thank you.... you sound like a girl after my own heart if I may say so.
X

So... what say you peeps? Doing anything Lovely to Make Someone Smile Are We?
Are We?!
Don't be Shy now....!

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com
BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs

Heck, I always trying to make peeps smile, sometimes I manage it, sometimes I don't. I have a lot of fun trying though.

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Gardening is the grandfather of Rock and Roll, its all about sex and drugs.

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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

whats up jen?

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Gardening is the grandfather of Rock and Roll, its all about sex and drugs.

Yep, me too - but I'm never quite sure if they are, or if it's wind...

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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You'll get a lot more of that before you know it.

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Gardening is the grandfather of Rock and Roll, its all about sex and drugs.

I'm very careful about my diet you know!

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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Oh I see, you don't like sprouts then!

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Gardening is the grandfather of Rock and Roll, its all about sex and drugs.

I am trying to do something for myself this week.

It's my birthday tomorrow so I took this week off as holiday.

As it's been so wet lately, I thought on Sunday I would cut some new raised beds (the boy has been saying for a year now he will dig some for me, I even bought him some stainless steel tools as he said my fork and spade are crap).

My plot I'm putting the veg raised beds on is basically clay and has not been dug evidentially for over 12 years now. So I can have heavy wet digging or rent a pneumatic drill when it's like hardened concrete.

Got two dug completely and went for a third. Managed 2/3 when I just couldn't do anymore.

Yesterday went and completed the third and dug over the other two again mixing in compost. Oh forgot to say boy child bought me 16 bags of compost for my birthday and went and loaded that on my motor, transported to the site and lugged it onto my plots before starting digging.

Again I got to the state where I just didn't have the energy to do the last bed and got soaked in the rain to boot.

Had a lie in this morning as I was so zonked and my back feels like it has steel shafts in it, not too flexible at present. And it's raining but I've still got to go down the lotties to water (greenhouse and tunnel).

OH and myself are planning to do Chinese for my birthday dinner, so got to do shopping for this.

Kids love it when I do Chinese as I tend to go a little OTT.

Planning: Kung Po Chicken, Beef in Cashews, plain boiled rice, fried rice, spring rolls, pork and ginger dumplings, dim sum, pork spare ribs and butterfly prawns.

So tomorrow I'll have to go pick cabbage, peppers, spring onions, spinnach from plot.

Looking forward to Thursday and I'll have a rest (perhaps)