Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Nov 23, 2011, 1:01 pm
Last week Food Writers and Critics were thrilled by the long-awaited launch of ‘Britain’s cheapest lunchtime meal’ – after aeons of in-depthest research by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), this can now be revealed as THE TOAST SANDWICH! Here’s the recipe: Ingredients 2 slices bread a...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Nov 3, 2011, 1:42 pm
Does your cat worry? Does it get tense… ? Nervous headaches? Or is your cat just bonkers? Recently we were out gallivanting all day and half the night – (I know - call us WILD!!) – so feeding times were in disarray. Arriving home we found Mulder-Cat glaring at us from the top step, the prote...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Oct 18, 2011, 5:24 am
Sought-after location; beautiful, quirky yet cosy cottage feeling (no trace of the abattoir); recently fitted kitchen; lovely relaxing garden with chalet/workshop; fantastic conservatory; en-suite to master; three reasonable bedrooms (well, wouldn’t want to boast…); dual-aspect bathroom with plu...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Sep 15, 2011, 11:25 am
Last Sunday was the annual village brocante - car boot sale. The village is blocked off to all evil through-traffic, and every street is packed with stands selling the entire contents of peoples' attics and manky old cupboards, and all their children’s cherished hoardings. Does anyone else fin...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Sep 1, 2011, 4:02 pm
Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!   Of all the pansy pots in all the gardens in all the world, it walks into mine… and I’m not touching it with a ten-foot trowel! I don’t watch Celebrity save-me-I'm-so-crazy!  programmes, but I know what goes on! And I just might be in a position to augment their supp...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Aug 12, 2011, 10:40 am
'Or is it 96… I don’t think they've successfully melted my memory…’ Is This a vision of the future? Not nuclear-wasted or obliterated by foul virus, but cryonically preserved at the last moment - for future defrosting? Robert Ettinger, pioneer of Cryonics - freezing people - died in July ...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jul 28, 2011, 5:51 pm
Surfacing with the hoover from a corner cranny under the table, I was startled to loom face to face with a Face at the french window! "Water meter!" he explained, when I’d regained my composure.  (has the uniform changed...?) "Ah," I frowned, grinning frozenly and thinking, Where IS the water m...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jul 18, 2011, 5:53 am
Grimly we ploughed through the neated rows of vines, ignoring the howling wind and the horizontal rain, focusing only on our Goal – a good view of the Tour de France as it shot through  A Village Near Us!  Rarely does the opportunity come this close – close enough to hear the wheels purring s...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jul 8, 2011, 12:08 pm
What can you say about flying Low Fare?  George and I recently experienced a Low Fares Airline for an intense session of ricocheting between France, Ireland, England and back again, and… well... it's very good In Parts. It was certainly friendly and it was certainly jolly cheap… as long as you...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - May 27, 2011, 12:59 pm
Planting a new burst of petunias this week I unearthed many things along with the old dead ones – sticks, snail-shells, a bit of old greaseblob put out for the birds and understandably spat out… A huge grey and black stone buried under the surface… or was that a tatoe infiltrating the pot? I...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - May 9, 2011, 10:50 am
As part of the Hideous Scar Competition currently being run by hideously scarred specimens CI and JW: http://canaryislander.blogspot.com/2011/05/scaramouch.html http://jw10-jw10.blogspot.com/2011/05/scar-wars.html George has unearthed this ancient and faded, black & white scar image from my Morris D...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - May 3, 2011, 5:09 pm
　 　 …is its unruly behaviour. Have you got Gravel? Would you like some? Had you, like us, occasionally dreamed of covering over that scruffy bit of mud and weed, yet never confronted the task? Until a delighted friend described how a Nice Gravel Delivery Man had simply steered his lorry roun...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Feb 20, 2011, 10:48 am
‘So where does this one go?’ brandishes George. ‘According to the writing on the back,’ I suggest, (ignoring disparaging comments on people's writing), ‘It goes bnd d drs tds g.’ Clearly, it's destined for... Behind my set of drawers nearest garden end wall. Unfortunately, George has ...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jan 21, 2011, 12:03 pm
Buy Five – Get One Free!! Was the enthusiastic suggestion on the baker’s counter. Well, you can’t have too many Galettes des Rois at this time of year… Or can you? What do you actually do with these six dinner-plate-size slabs of puff pastry, stuffed with frangipane - a sort of almond p...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Nov 20, 2010, 7:41 am
Rushing out the other morning, we skimmed (mercifully) over the nether half of a mouse, thoughtfully deposited on the top step by our cats. (One assumes…). George hurriedly flung it onto the autumn leaves, (which I heard this week are in fact Very Good for your flowerbeds and not just the lazies...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Oct 19, 2010, 1:07 pm
What makes a man Irresistible? Great sense of humour? Pulsating brain? Bulgy brave biceps and a sixpack, or Lots of money? YES! - All of those! And so inevitably, I fell for Earl Okin the moment I first saw him – twenty years ago performing at The Stables in Milton Keynes. Oh Thrilling memory...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Sep 4, 2010, 9:55 am
‘I know!’ beamed George over cooling Weetabix in a recent heatwave. ‘Tonight we’ll take the mattress down and sleep in the Bunny Room!’ Brilliant idea! Not actually with the bunnies… for only their memory-much-hallowed remains. (And perhaps the odd wayward wisp of tail fluff clingi...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jul 10, 2010, 10:39 am
… again? Driving is of course fraught with danger and divorce, particularly when heading Beyond Familiar Territory. I was definitely not made for driving – I hate it, and never have any idea where I am. On the other hand George, whose ridiculous eyes cannot sensibly be inflicted on a steering...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jun 11, 2010, 4:42 am
Oh Pain Excruciating!! And still one ear to go! I don’t know why I should develop Allergies at this tender age, but all of a sudden my pierced ears refuse to let earrings In, my nose is streaming (cats? dust? general breathing?), and my eyes retaliate Redly and Voluminously at a miniscule whiff...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - May 18, 2010, 3:54 am
A few days ago, George and I went to a funeral in the cemetery we live next-door-but-one to. Agnès, living between us and the gravestones, used to say how handy it was that when her husband departed she’d just pop him in a wheelbarrow and tip him over the wall. Well, he did indeed go first and wa...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Apr 13, 2010, 1:18 pm
‘Tis the season for George to make his Hot Cross Buns and as usual, he’s made several batches in pursuit of Perfection. He remembered that last Easter, the buns turned out just a little heavy and somewhat bland... their Crosses detachable, and able to exclude draughts from under the front door...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Mar 28, 2010, 12:37 pm
‘Ah, oui,’ said the neighbour on the other side of our rampant leylandii… ‘That would be great!’ Oh Hell! Why did I ask? Well, because they’re our leylandii, they’re growing at the rate of Woody Allen’s pudding in “Sleeper”… (I should point out that the pudding in the film ...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Mar 15, 2010, 4:36 pm
“ ’allo? – Madame Doolittle?” “…Ouiiii…” I confess cautiously. There is a profound sigh on the end of the line, then someone pulls herself together and focusses on script: “Allow me to introduce myself, Mme Doolittle,” she rattles off Frenchly, “I’m phoning on behalf of EDF ...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Feb 21, 2010, 7:58 am
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jul 22, 2009, 11:17 am
… that I may glue it back on with evostick. Alfredo is my favourite of the ducks that fly across our fridge in homage to Hilda Ogden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Ogden. This morning I swept him to the floor with vigorous Dettox, and his head went the way of one of his long-lost little yel...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Jul 22, 2009, 11:17 am
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Protectively garbed and brows furrowed, Luc and Fabienne peered down at the tray set out on the garden table. ‘Hi you two,’ we cried jovially, ‘are you doing a jigsaw?’ ‘Noooo!,’ snorted Luc, ‘we’re doing Nature! Experiments with slugs...’ Oh! Little Tinkers. Sure enough, t...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The other day we went round to friends for lunch in the garden – perfect tranquillity on the outskirts of town, warm sunshine, fragrance of fresh rosemary, thyme, mint… Fabienne’s “light lunch” began with plates of tiny tomatoes, olives, nuts, quiche and water melon; it slipped into gala m...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
‘But WHY do you want to change your driving licence, madame?’ said the surprised voice. ‘It’s unnecessary - England is in the EU!’ ‘You’re Right!’ I nearly said, ‘What the hell am I doing, voluntarily plunging into the tortured bowels of French bureaucracy?’ But I didn’t say ...
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Dolores Doolittle posted an article on All the Days of Dolores - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Yesterday I launched myself on the garden. It was chilly and grey with a delicate drizzly haze – Perfect. Gardening can only be enjoyable in wellington boots. If it’s too hot to wear wellies, then Don’t garden - you’re just asking for steamy exhaustion, tiny, vicious critters that fight ba...
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