This was a brilliant day, I got the chance to go to a blogger meeting in Glasgow. We do not get many options like this that come to Glasgow so how could I not accept the invitation? It was a blogger bake off and I wrote a post about it here.
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Lis with her cakes ready for the oven |
Monday
We all got a goody bag to bring home with us from the baking day, here is mine. We all came away with a Kenwood kMix mixer, and I am well impressed with it. We got to keep the aprons we were provided with, we also had a couple of nice heavy duty canvas bags, a Kenwood truck, keyring and dish towel and a Curry's usb memory stick.
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the goody bag |
Tuesday
One of the recipes I had picked up from Sunday was for ganache, and so I decided to try it dairy free. So here is the result of that experimentation very nice it was too. If you are interested there is a recipe post here.
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was difficult to photograph the brown on brown |
Wednesday
We were back visiting in the Stirling area and did some geocaching afterwards, last chance we will get as it will be dark from next month afterwards. I had planned on doing a new trail of them in Alloa, but they were not loaded onto my GPS, so decided to get some more of the ones at Gartmorn Dam. I liked the autumnal colours in this.
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nice autumnal colours |
Thursday
I had the children over tonight. We went out conker hunting before it got dark, but have to say we were disappointed did not find many at all. We did manage to find a cache that we had missed previously. Upon our return we made a start on our Halloween decorations. They had a laugh making these, and Fifi decided this was the best way to get her photograph taken, the pumpkin was not finished at this stage.
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can you see me |
Friday
Our schools have had their October holiday this week, There was no hurry to send them home, and so they stayed and played. One toy that comes out regularly is the Hama beads, these were today's creations. Her butterfly is for a friend and his heart has his initial and his girlfriends.
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Bobs |
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Fifi's |
Saturday
Daughter No2 and SIL were down last night, along with the dog. This is his new bed that he would not lie on, so OH made me laugh. I found the dogs stuffed toy sitting on the cushion reading a copy of the Historic Scotland magazine.
Daughter was taking Fifi and the other bridesmaids dress shopping today. I was informed it was very successful and despite being hyper the three of them were well behaved, would not have expected much else to be honest with you.
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well somebody may as well use it |
Sounds like a busy week for you. Lots of activities going on with baking, pumpkins and hama beads as well as the geocaching.
ReplyDeletethe sort of week I like Erica
DeleteI so want to go to a blogger event, sounds great. Love that view for your geocache too
ReplyDeleteI have been to very few, there are not a lot of opportunities up here.
DeleteLove the picture that you took on Wednesday, very picturesque. x
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great week and the event looks like a great day! Blogger events are brilliant aren't they, I went to one on Monday and I love meeting other bloggers in person. Have a lovely week x #project365
ReplyDeleteyes they are. and it is nice to meet fellow boggers
DeleteSounds like a great blogger event. We don't get many up our way!
ReplyDeleteit was a great event, and we dont get many here either
DeleteThe Kenwood day sounds good and the cakes look rather tasty. Nice looking pumpkin too :)
ReplyDeleteDH says the cakes were lovely, The pumpkin one made me laugh
DeleteIt looks like you had a great week - especially at that blogger event. A Kenwood Mixer is a great gift for a goody bag!
ReplyDeletewas a fab add to the goody bag, and I really like it.
DeleteSounds like a fun, busy week :) Glad you enjoyed the blogger event - being in the US I miss out on this too, although I have recently found my way on to the Boston Parent Blogger network, and attended my very first event! Love the pumpkin :)
ReplyDeleteYou've had some great times this week with the blogging event and that walk into the countryside; great colours in that photo.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to Project 365.