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A new passion

You all know my love of sewing And you also know that I enjoy photography and reading and you ve seen that I bake occasionally. Well before Christmas I was having a discussion about making bread and in particular sourdough with one of the lovely girls from work and her lovely husband sent me in a sour dough starter, if anyone has dabbled in sourdough baking they know that getting a good sourdough starter takes a bit to create.   So I was pretty thrilled. Instantly I was hooked and So in the month leading up to Christmas I had quite a few attempts at making a loaf of sourdough, unfortunately all of them fairly unsuccessful Each of them tasted good, just like the real thing but unfortunately just did nt rise very well, despite all my efforts. So Gadget knowing that once I had the bread obsession happening i would nt stop until I had a success decided to give me a helping hand and gave me The River Cottage bread handbook for Christmas . So I spent many ho

Holidays, sunsets and stitches

I was one of the lucky few who received annual leave at my workplace this year, unfortunately illness does nt go on holidays at Christmas so most of us just work straight through. We took advantage of this opportunity and joined friends at Soldiers Point, Since the sun sets over the water here it makes for great sunsets and the photographer in me just can t miss a potential great photo. so most evenings I have been watching the sun go down through a camera lens This photo was taken looking over the Marina, where the big boys keep their toys Taken from sunset beach late December 2013 Taken last night Since I ve had a bit of time on my hands, I ve been catching up on my reading and researching a new passion and I ve finally made a start on the 4th month blocks from Somerset patchwork in the Merrimack Quilt These are the block I needed to make, four of the small ones ( bottom right) and four of the larger ones I've been busy and have completed the four small blocks I've really enj