I’ll be back…!!

A quick update ! Such a lot has happened…when I get internet connection back next week there is sooo much to write about and share! My main computer which administers our network at home completely crashed last week and is being sorted out- fingers crossed the data on it can be saved/retrieved. Therefore at the [...]

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Glory Buns

This is a recipe for simple currant spiced buns that turned out so absolutely tasty and yummy and easy to make that I simply called them GLORIOUS.. They are not only economical but taste sooo good! The more I think about it the more I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing. I think about war [...]

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Cheese Whirls

Here is a recipe used during the war as a fun snack… I made these today after I had observed the Remembrance Day silence and while I listened to the full Remembrance Day service from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, on my local radio station, CKBW. After the service I watched some of the veteran videos which [...]

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Today it’s ‘Time to Remember’…

I’m not sure I believe in war.. The more I think about it the more I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing. I think about war a lot and I think about how all over our world it has effected every day families regardless of colour or creed. So today I’ll be thinking about all the [...]

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Lord Woolton Pie

Lord Woolton Pie – a delicious vegetable dish Here is a very famous WWII 1940′s dish, Lord Woolton Pie.. WIKIPEDIA- Woolton pie, at first known as Lord Woolton pie,[1] was an adaptable dish of vegetables, created at the Savoy Hotel in London by its then Maitre Chef de Cuisine, Francis Latry.[2] It was one of [...]

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Week 13 – 35lb off with 65lb to go!

Despite a few glitches over Halloween (no matter how hard I try to convince myself there is no way they had funsize Kit Kats in the 1940s!) the scales this morning are showing another 2lb off!!! I have now lost 35 lbs and am down to 280 This means I am on track (with a [...]

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Will the real Carolyn Ekins please stand up…

Life is weird at the best of times. Some people go through life with a goal, they know who they are, they know where they want to be and they stay right on track to get there. The majority of us bimble through life never truly knowing who we are or where we want to [...]

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