Friday, 23 May 2008

My mum is flying to America tomorrow to visit my brother for the first time since he moved there. My Mum is very, very scared of flying so this is a HUGE deal for her. I know that once she is there, she will have the best time ever and I have given her a long list of places to visit (mainly involving cake or cook shops - together with a list of things to buy for me!!!) Good luck Mum - you will love New York!

Mike recently sent through these photos of him and Mum working on their allotment setting potatoes - they even have a proper tractor! It is such a lot of work for them both but I think they enjoy it and we certainly benefit with lots of free vegetables! Roll on summer!

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  1. That's one biiiiig allotment. I hope your mum will enjoy her visit.

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  2. Hope she has a wonderful time! Tell her to bring an umbrella, we've had a lot of rain lately :)

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  3. Wishing your mom a safe and fun filled journey.

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  4. What a huge allotment! I hope your mum has a fab time in New York! Safe journies Mum!

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  5. Huge Allotment, that! Keith used to have 3 council ones but even they didn't amount to enough to warrant a tractor. He did use a rotavator once he had worked out how to walk behind it without chopping his toes off!
    love, Angie, xx

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  6. Not really a comment about this post- but a question... what is castor sugar?

    I'm in the U.S. and we don't have anything called castor sugar. Is that just regular sugar, or superfine sugar?

    Also- is icing sugar what we call powdered sugar?

    Thanks!

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  7. Thanks for all your lovely posts - Mum has arrived safely in New York and is having a great time!

    Kikilia - we have three types of white sugar for baking here in the UK. Granluated which is regular sugar, quite a coarse grain. Caster sugar is a finer granulated sugar which I think must be your superfine.
    Icing sugar must be your powdered sugar - it is dusty and not granulated and if you mix it with water you get icing. Hope this helps

    Hannah
    xxx

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