Bank Holiday II

#Bank #holiday #summer Photo by Olya Kobruseva on Pexels.com They’re having a whale of a time down at the local branch of your bank today basking in the glow of a beach made of pound coins and swimming in a sea of five pound notes and playing with corals of five pence stacks enjoying ice …

Double

#FOWC #Double a sweet tasting response from inky to fandango’s latest one word challenge Not your normal after dinner treat it’s got two of everything, vanilla scoops, chocolate scoops, brownies, the lot covered in drizzles of sweet chocolate syrup even the wafer’s got a dash of cocoa running through it pudding – a nice light …

Yellow

Yellow A Zesty colour sign of the start of spring and summer daffodils and daisies explode with colour and marigolds make hay in the morning sun Lemon sponge sits in the oven cooking slowly for a farmhouse lunch – Vanilla custard softly turning in a copper pan as breakfast is served – a soft boiled egg with …

An Ode to apple crumble

O wonderful pudding with a biscuit – like top what wonderful delights will release when you pop   sweet bramley apples – softened by fire with buttery topping – a crumble to inspire sliced and laid out in a tin foil dish fulfilling a little lad or lasses’ afters wish   and whilst in the …

Taking a biscuit for a paddle

When the weather is particularly choppy,  I like to sit down in a nice comfy chair and enjoy a biscuit with a cup of hot chocolate.  It reminds me a little of my youth, when I used to enjoy a cup with my little sister before bedtime.  We still share the same enjoyment of the …

A Tale of a Biscuit Tin

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Ready, Set, Done!.” In my room, on the top of a cupboard by my writing desk, lives a relatively old biscuit tin.  Its Metallic red in colour and has the main characters of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories on it. There’s Winnie-the-pooh (or as I like to call him …