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15-12-2011 Gobble Gobble!

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14-12-2011 Winter Berries

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13-12-2011 Above the Clouds

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12-12-2011 Sun Behind Scots Pines

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9-12-2011 Padrón me!

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These are Padrón peppers which are served in Spain as part of a tapas meal.

Fried in olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt they are delicious, but the fun quirk is that 1 in 10 might be very spicy hot!

8-12-2011 Facing up to the bear facts

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7-12-2011 Linked

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6-12-2011 Pelican Preen

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5-12-2011 Winter Sun

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2-12-2011 Time for Tiffin

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Hooray it's cake Friday!
We've got some rich chocolate tiffin made with gingernut biscuits and apricots to share.

1-12-2011 Flag Wavers

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30-11-2011 Winkles on Weed

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29-11-2011 Violet Height

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28-11-2011 Green Velvet

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25-11-2011 Why the long face?

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24-11-2011 Racy Little Number

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23-11-2011 Satellite photo? Surface of Mars?

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Click to find out

21-11-2011 Jewelled by the Rain

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18-11-2011 Proof of the Pudding…

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… is in the eating!

Have some spicy fruity bread puddding.

17-11-2011 Broken Spine

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Is there life after Kindle?

16-11-2011 Caught in the Web

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15-11-2011 Fifteen

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14-11-2011 T for Tethered

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11-11-2011 Sunny Squash

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10-11-2011 The Day is Short

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9-11-2011 The essential forest tool kit

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8-11-2011 Rune Stone

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7-11-2011 Daily Bread

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4-11-2011 This week has been tiring… but good

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3-11-2011 Three… is a magic number

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2-11-2011 Quiet Reflection

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1-11-2011 We're sizzling for British Sausage Week

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31-10-2011 Strange Mushrooms

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28-10-2011 End of the week treat

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It's been a long week, so wind down with a slab of Kladdakaka – a Scandinavian chocolate cake.
It's very rich, so go easy!

27-10-2011 Through the Gate

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26-10-2011 Give Me Your Answer, Do

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25-10-2011 City Brights

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24-10-2011 Leaf Fall

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21-10-2011 It's Pieday!

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Did you know it's Apple Day today?
We have a juicy apple pie (with added blackberries) to share.

19-10-2011 You'll need a coat in this weather

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18-10-2011 Difficult Path

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17-10-2011 Eat Your Greens

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14-10-2011 Chocolate Week Treat

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Here's a little treat because it's Chocolate Week.

Don't eat them now, they're for later this afternoon. Yum!

13-10-2011 Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

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12-10-2011 Low Light

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11-10-2011 Earning a Crust

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10-10-2011 Hang Ten

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7-10-2011 It's Friday Afternoon Cake Time!

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Looks good doesn't it?
As autumn creeps in with a cold breeze make yourself comfortable with a slice of moist coffee and chocolate cake.

6-10-2011 Fractal Wonder

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Probably the most wonderful looking vegetable on the planet.
Nature is such a great designer.

5-10-2011 Well Red

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4-10-2011 Edible UFOs

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3-10-2011 Autumn Fire

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30-9-2011 Where's that cake?

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Sorry, no cakes today.
Will a meerkat do?

29-9-2011 Nice and Stripey

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28-9-2011 In the fairy forest

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27-9-2011 And it's not even Brighton!

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26-9-2011 Even bees have to rest

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22-9-2011 Blue Sky Moment

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21-9-2011 Get ready for winter

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When winter looks as beautiful as this, it is easier to bear.

20-9-2011 Happy Transport

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19-9-2011 Rock Star

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16-9-2011 Have Your Cupcake and Eat It

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As we come towards the end of National Cupcake Week, here's some Lavender & Lemon ones to make Friday even sweeter.

15-9-2011 Heart Strings

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A sculpture by Asmundur Sveinsson, he was one of the pioneers of sculpture in Iceland.
Throughout his life, Sveinsson remained loyal to his belief that art should be for the people and have its place among them. He was called the “poet of the people” in the field of art and undoubtedly this ideal was rooted in his philosophy of life no less than in the traditions of sculpture. Most of his sculptures were conceived as works for public spaces, an integral part of their environment or designed for utility.

14-9-2011 Rural Idyll

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13-9-2011 Just Curious

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12-9-2011 Electric Tree

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9-9-2011 It's nearly the weekend

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Time for an afternoon treat... we never could resist a huge meringue!

8-9-2011 Tom Tom

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Even if the sun isn't shining where you are, these should brighten your day.

7-9-2011 Brrrr, Autumn's Here

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"Not sure about the British weather, I think it may be time to pack my bag and travel south"

6-9-2011 In Knots

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5-9-2011 So What's Real?

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2-9-2011 Friday Treat

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Phew! It's hot today so we thought we'd share some strawberries and a light cake.

1-9-2011 The Green Lantern

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These are tomatillos which are related to the cape gooseberry or physalis.
They have a nice flavour and you can find a recipe here for a Mexican salsa verde.

31-8-2011 Creeping Green

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30-8-2011 Make a Splash

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26-8-2011 Nice Buns

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Something to brighten the day. It's raining here and we need cheering up.

25-8-2011 Life Takes Hold

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24-8-2011 Tied & Dried

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23-8-2011 Twisted Tree

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22-8-2011 Chained

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Some things just look better when they're rusty.

18-8-2011 Give Peas a Chance

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17-8-2011 If you go down to the woods today…

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Thanks to the zoom lens, an appreciable distance could be kept from this surprisingly relaxed looking brown bear.

16-8-2011 Playing Tag

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One of the few places in London where this type of criminal damage is allowed/tolerated.

15-8-2011 Earth Tones

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Is this an abstract oil painting or nature itself?
You decide.

12-8-2011 Sunshine Bread

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Have a hunk of fresh focaccia. The tomatoes are sweet and juicy, full of sunny days.

11-8-2011 Easy Reading

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Obviously if you want to read what's on the plaque, you may need glasses.

And yes, the spectacles were there for real... it wasn't set up!

10-8-2011 Painted Wings

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9-8-2011 Simply Bee

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There is beauty still left in this world.

8-8-2011 Fragile Wings

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5-8-2011 A Savoury Treat

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We hope you didn't eat too much at lunchtime as we'd like to offer you a spicy pork empanada.

4-8-2011 Crash Survivors

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Grotesque curiosities in The Science Museum, London.

3-8-2011 Hot enough for you?

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2-8-2011 A nice place to cool down on a hot day

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Wishing we could be here today, Holkham beach in North Norfolk.

1-8-2011 Rusty Nose

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29-7-2011 Strawberry Muffins

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We've quickly whipped up some strawberry muffins using real strawberries.
Careful – they're still hot from the oven!

28-7-2011 Low Quay

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27-7-2011 Fuzz Away

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Some people prefer the smooth skinned nectarine rather than its more hirsute cousin, the peach. Same great flavour but no fuzziness to set your teeth on edge!

26-7-2011 A Life Aquatic

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They look cute, but watch out for their very sharp teeth. Terry Nutkins can tell you all about that!

25-7-2011 Butter Baby

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A vintage advertising sign in Reykjavik.

22-7-2011 Fudge It!

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Today's Friday treat is some lovely handmade fudge – dig in!