Hello, don't forget October is Breast Cancer Month. Everyone I know has a friend or relative who either had it or is being treated for it. My Mum had it in the early noughties. Don't forget to donate.Meanwhile the dollar is strong so I bought this from the outnet.com. It's By Malene Birger and it was deadset cheap
Malene's beautiful home is in this month's Marie Claire. She says she can't create or relax if there is mess. Damn Straight Malene!
I'm feeling so fond of her I might wear this Malene frock to my friend M's birthday party later on today
My friend M is the healthiest person I know. She wasn't going to make a dessert because she has an aversion to sugar and butter. She said she'd serve strawberries with no cream or icecream ( I know, I was worried too) It reminded me of an episode of the Nanny where Niles the butler said he'd chopped some fruit for dessert and the Nanny said "I hope you'll be sliding a cheesecake under that!"
So I've made some raspberry and white choc chip blondies to take in case anyone else has a sweet tooth
My bouganvillea that I planted 5 years ago has finally bloomed. Don't let the opaque tights that I use to stake them with or the past-its-use-by-date-pergola throw you
This morning I popped around to M's house to help her get her place ready for her birthday party. I brought some greenery and flowers from the FF garden to action some floral arrangements.
I like a messy garden and a messy bunch of flowers in a vase. Tortured arrangements are the Devil's Work
I also baked a ham for M to serve. This is me in her kitchen actioning the cloves
It looks Hamtastic really, and it feeds a crowd well. This is what it looked like in its gingerale and mustard and lime marmelade glaze before we shoved it in the oven to bake:
Happy Birthday M!
Malene's beautiful home is in this month's Marie Claire. She says she can't create or relax if there is mess. Damn Straight Malene!
I'm feeling so fond of her I might wear this Malene frock to my friend M's birthday party later on today
My friend M is the healthiest person I know. She wasn't going to make a dessert because she has an aversion to sugar and butter. She said she'd serve strawberries with no cream or icecream ( I know, I was worried too) It reminded me of an episode of the Nanny where Niles the butler said he'd chopped some fruit for dessert and the Nanny said "I hope you'll be sliding a cheesecake under that!"So I've made some raspberry and white choc chip blondies to take in case anyone else has a sweet tooth
My bouganvillea that I planted 5 years ago has finally bloomed. Don't let the opaque tights that I use to stake them with or the past-its-use-by-date-pergola throw you
This morning I popped around to M's house to help her get her place ready for her birthday party. I brought some greenery and flowers from the FF garden to action some floral arrangements.
I like a messy garden and a messy bunch of flowers in a vase. Tortured arrangements are the Devil's Work
I also baked a ham for M to serve. This is me in her kitchen actioning the cloves
It looks Hamtastic really, and it feeds a crowd well. This is what it looked like in its gingerale and mustard and lime marmelade glaze before we shoved it in the oven to bake:
Happy Birthday M!xxxx
hi ff,
ReplyDeletei just realized reading this post that you remind me of the nanny. i loved that show and she was deadset funny like you and loved all the over the top clothes just like you. i love it.
~janet
J I am going to take that as a compliment! I loved the Nanny too. She wore a lot of leopard print. xx
ReplyDeleteLove how helpful you are with your friends and their celebrations - a tin of brownies, a ham, all those flowers... You are a true friend!
ReplyDeleteFF: I found this blog today, absolutely hilarious:
ReplyDeletehttp://shouldbeonthenanny.blogspot.com/
I also think your ham baking skills are tres excellent. Am also supporting the Breast Cancer Month appeals - a friends mother was diagnosed a few weeks ago and only just got out of hospital a few days ago.
Loving the bouganvillea too, am delighting in spring with all it's blooms.
Dear FF, How exciting all of ths is. And so much action, as you would say. Certainly 11/10 for that splendid looking ham - I should not know where to begin. Happily for me, Harrods Food Hall has something similar but, sadly, without the FF touch - all of those cloves, a lifetime's work!
ReplyDeleteLike you, I do enjoy informal arrangements of flowers and cannot abide those ready done affairs which are catapulted to the door by Interflora.
Hi FF! you recently posted on Princess Mary, wearing Birger. Did you know she gets criticised a lot because she spends so much money on fashion? The European princess are fun to watch and follow! Victoria from Sweden visited France recently, wearing a coat from H&M everyone can buy online for 49 EUR. Fantastic! She surely did a great job for her national company, since H&M is having difficulties at the moment. Financial wise. Metta Marit is fascinating, too. She came from the in-crowd, drug consuming, friends your parents would not appreciate and ended up happpily at the side of a prince whose family accepted her and her son from an earlier relationship. And now Victoria and the former owner of a fitness studio. Modern tales ...
ReplyDeleteIs it just me thinking Malene is more popular today than ever? Or am I just more aware thanks to your blog? :-)
What fabulousness! what a lovely party it will be! must go as Mr B is cross, he has gone to sit in the car as we are supposed to be going out and no one except him is ready...xx Oh no, Mr B is shouting at me to go have a wee - oh, no, wait, he means the boys...
ReplyDeleteI thought of you when I saw Malene's place. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteNo butter or sugar?? Gosh!
Dear Ms FF, I think you could melt all the ice in Antarctica with your warmth and enthusiasm. I hope you had a lovely time at M's party. Just letting you know that Plan B drill is going great guns and the mineros may be out as early as the middle of next week. Fingers and toes. One minero, however, may want to be the last out - his wife met his girlfriend at the mine entrance. Oops. I spent too much time yesterday watching old Two Fat Ladies' videos on YouTube - such lovely decadence. Thank you for reminding us of them.
ReplyDeleteActioning is your forte! That is hamtastic and the Birger is money well spent xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! The next time I have a birthday I'm bringing you over the pond. I am doubly impressed that you cooked ham wearing a necklace.
ReplyDeleteYou are so lovely and tasteful and...in this middle American cold rainy Saturday I am dressed as a roofing contractor (husband's LL Bean flannel shirt over Grand Rapids ArtPrize tee and jeans).
ReplyDeleteYou might find my stockings story funny (though appalling). Two winters ago we had terrible ice dams on our ranch house roof (if you don't get our weather, ice dams are thick ridges of ice that cause meltwater to flow back into your shingles and leak through the roof and windows - the Devil's handiwork indeed). I read that one way to conquor them was to fill old stockings with rock salt and place them on the ice to melt channels - I did so and promptly forgot about my old opaque cream tights until the came out the downspout in April rain. Whoops. And they were a WHOLE pair of stockings with top too, not a knee-hi (I put them up on Christmas Eve in hideous weather and was obviously distracted).
I know without knowing you that you, FF, would never have old salty stockings washing down your drainpipes in Spring....
That ham is truly fantastic. At elegancemaison we love a baked ham and will try that glaze PDQ. And thank you for introducing me to By Malene Birger. I haven't yet purchased but I am following the discount and sales sites over here like mad.
ReplyDeleteSo true Malene & FF. Mess is the devil's work.
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoyed the party and the blondie was heartily consumed.
Are you sick of this rain too?
Don't miss Q & A tomorrow night. Geoffrey Robertson is on the panel.
xx