Category Archives: Housekeeping

Blame it on the Victorians*

By Liz | Published: March 27, 2009
I know, its Friday. This is the second week in which there will be no Friday book review. Victorian Historians are to blame. I’ve been deep in research for an essay on history as written by Victorians and all that reading has left me NOT WANTING TO READ. I’m shocked by my own reaction. I [...]
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Part two: In which our heroine makes a hot sugary liquid and does not burn herself

By Liz | Published: March 18, 2009
I’m really good at kitchen accidents and have experienced burns caused by hot sugary liquid. They hurt, a lot. This is relevant because the next stage of making crab apple jelly was to add sugar to the liquid. I measured what had dripped out of the bag overnight. It was about 4 cups so I [...]
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Golden Apples

By Liz | Published: March 17, 2009
WARNING: These crab apples were harmed in the making of this post. The previous owner of our property planted a crab apple tree. As far as I can tell crab apples are useful for 3 things: 1) Bird food, birds love them. 2) Apples for dolls tea parties, their size means they look like a [...]
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The Week That Was

By Liz | Published: December 15, 2008
I got through the week. After Tuesday I was really stuffed. Both physically and with bad food. The BBQ at swimming club fell through due and the organisers were left with about 30 kids and parents wanting tea so they gave us fish and chips which were no the best I’d ever had, plus they [...]
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Monday is over

By Liz | Published: December 9, 2008
I survived the first day! There are some changes thou. First of all the mayor is going to get a cake. It will be easier and look more impressive than the custard kisses I was planning. Second I’m getting the tyres today. It will take 2 hours after my doctors appointment, but it will leave [...]
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Silly Season

By Liz | Published: December 8, 2008
I have been absent in my blog duties for a while. This is because I have too much stuff to do. This week is going to be mad. Monday: I have to go to the Police Station and make a victim impact statement. See Friday for why I’m doing this. I also have to cook [...]
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Recent adventures

By Liz | Published: January 10, 2008
  On the left we have before, on the right after. This transformation took 14 hours, we started by sanding at 6am and finished wallpapering at around 8pm.It was so worth it. The room looks great and has inspired us to keep moving on redecorating our house. I also had a less edifying adventure. I [...]
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Dusty

By Liz | Published: January 2, 2008
On Monday I bought this. The duster, not the child.   It is supposed to help with problems like this.   This may be a little large for a feather duster to deal with. Don’t worry, the mess in the photo is largely gone. It was actually caused by a big cupboard clean up. House [...]
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