Recipe for success - best cookery book?
Roadside shrines - tacky or touching?
Dogmatic or pragmatic - which are you?
Premature ornamentation - Xmas tree up?
White poppies - disrespectful or not?
CaptainNancy's (admirably succinct) family rules: "Don't be a dingbat/duffer. Keep calm and carry on. Dream big. Shut up and get on with it."
Carmenere's cinder toffee: sweet, sticky, made-in-five-minutes toffee squares that'll spark off a few 'yums' among the 'oohs' and 'aahs' of your little fireworks-watchers.
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