Traceyjayne

@Traceyjayne (4361)

United Kingdom • Age 59

Joined myLot 10 years ago

I work in a nursery in a school. I enjoy cooking, reading, knitting, walks in the countryside and staying at our caravan at the seaside. I hate bad manners.

Traceyjayne 's Activity

Gooseberry Fool

celticeagle @celticeagle (178378) • Boise, Idaho 11h

I just learned about this British dessert. It is made with stewed gooseberries, Greek yogurt, whipped cream, sugar, and some like it with shortbread. I love gooseberries. It is a bit late in the season for them. They are usually...

gooseberries

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Traceyjayne Gooseberry fool is delicious.

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My spring rolls were a flop

Always smiling @allknowing (151686) • India 11h

Although they were tasty the spring rolls that I talked about were a flop. It was a long time ago that I had made them and gave them a try again yesterday The mistake was that I used rice batter instead of all purpose flour to...

spring rolls

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Traceyjayne Never mind …better luck next time.

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Off the the seaside tomorrow ….yay !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 11h

Working in a school I get 6 weeks holiday in the summer and I usually go to my caravan for the whole six weeks. Obviously, this year, with me breaking my arm earlier in the year it was not possible for me to go. I am determined...

holiday

seaside

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Traceyjayne Thank you x I’m sure I will be okay ….luckily we have been on the site nearly 20 years and have good friends there so Im sure if I have any problems there will be friends there to help.

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Off the the seaside tomorrow ….yay !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 11h

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Garden centres on today’s agenda …. Plants for the sink !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 11h

So in our rather funky garden we have lots of , let’s just say, unusual items…..one of these being a sink. So we were wanting some plants to put in the sink, we wanted something with some colour ….hopefully purple ….and something...

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Traceyjayne We hadn’t been to this one before and didn’t take notice of the closing times. 4.30 is early to close. I hope the flowers will be available next weekend but if not we will find something else….

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Rescuers save a dolphin that was trapped in a lagoon

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (113086) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 12h

Employees of Lowcounty Marine Mammals which is located in Bluffton South Carolina answered an emergency a call bout female dolphin who was trapped inside of a lagoon on Saturday July 12. Thanks to the teamwork of the Marine...

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Traceyjayne Dolphins are amongst my favourites so pleased to hear it’s safe.

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Puzzles

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (125257) • Gainesville, Florida 14h

When I was a child, one of my favorite things to do when visiting my grandmother was to put together jigsaw puzzles. It seemed we always had a puzzle to work on, and I can remember spending hours talking to her as we put together...

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Traceyjayne I have a couple of friends who do a lot of jigsaw puzzles, one frames them nd hangs them on the wall….thebither passes them in to others when she has finished with them. They both get annoyed when there are pieces missing as the buy them from charity shops.

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A sunflower of sorts

Judy Evans @JudyEv (360874) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Aug

@TheHorse wrote about his sunflower so it seemed timely to put up with iron sculpture of a sort-of sunflower. It’s in the garden of the farm where I grew up which now belongs to my cousin and her husband. I’ve put up a few photos...

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Traceyjayne If you like that sort of thing you would love our garden ….full of quirky things like that.

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A new jigsaw for me

Judy Evans @JudyEv (360874) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Aug

I have a new jigsaw to do. This one says ‘The World of Miss Marple’. Our son gave it to me for my birthday. I haven’t started it yet. Apparently, there are hidden clues to each of her television shows. I haven’t watched any of her...

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Traceyjayne Miss Marple is one of my favourite characters…..if you need any help with clues give me a shout ! I love most things written by Agatha Christie. I gave a couple of friends who spend a fortune at charity shops buying jigsaws almost weekly. Sometimes they get...

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Do You Like Pie?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (197799) • United States 15 Aug

Pies can be sweet or savory. Some of the many examples are: mince, lemon meringue, strawberry rhubarb, quiche, pecan, pumpkin, sweet potato, mud, steak and kidney, mushroom, pot, apple, Key lime, chocolate cream, coconut,...

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Traceyjayne My Grandads favourite was lemon meringue pie. I like both sweet and savoury pies.

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What’s your “excitement“ lately?

Amber @AmbiePam (101653) • United States 14 Aug

What passes for excitement these days? Getting a doctor and a pharmacist on the phone with each other at the same time. No phone tag or I’ll call tomorrow. All day! I even had to instruct the pharmacist to quit leaving messages. I...

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Traceyjayne My excitement is that I am going to the caravan tomorrow….just for a week but I have missed going due to my broken arm.

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Have you ever known someone who was murdered?

snowy @snowy22315 (194563) • United States 14 Aug

All in all, you hear a lot about gun violence in this country, but in all my years I have not known anyone who was killed. My mother heard about the older sister of a classmate who was murdered. Friend's brother knew someone and a...

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Traceyjayne Years ago there was a high profile story about a newspaper delivery boy who was delivering a paper to a farm just as the farm was being robbed….unfortunately the boy got shot and killed ….possibly because of what he had seen. This newspaper boy was called Carl...

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Garden centres on today’s agenda …. Plants for the sink !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 11h

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The Mister came home early !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 11h

Ha ha ….just read the title of this ….makes it sound like I have a secret lover that has to hide in the wardrobe …… No, what , actually, happened was …. The Mister and his work colleagues finished what they needed to and decided...

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If it’s Thursday, it must be baguette day !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 14 Aug

Thursday is our shopping day, I do love going shopping with my Mom. As a treat on a Thursday, we have part baked baguettes with some sort of cooked meats. We finish cooking the baguettes in the air fryer ….just seven minutes and...

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Traceyjayne Yep, with you on that one !

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Order placed on Amazon ….. lots of money saved !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 14 Aug

My Mom needed some washing pods and I priced them up for her ….i do this with most things that are quite expensive now so that we can get the best deal. We are lucky in that we do have most of the major supermarkets fairly local...

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Traceyjayne I price check often now …since Covid when all our prices went up by silly amounts ! Whatever I can get from Amazon I will do now as I can use my vouchers from the receipt apps I use so basics everything from there is free.

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Camembert and lingonberry sauce

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (4361) • United Kingdom 14 Aug

For tea this evening we had breaded Camembert rounds with a lingonberry sauce. We bought a pack that included 4 cheese rounds and two packs of sauce. This was bought from Lidl ….although we did have extra lingonberry sauce in a...

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Traceyjayne I don’t know much about them. They are a red fruit. Apart from getting it with the cheeses from Lidl, we bought a jar of the sauce from IKEA so it may be more a Swedish thing ….that part of the world anyway.

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Do You Like Cake?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (197799) • United States 14 Aug

Yellow, chocolate, angel food, white, German chocolate, ice cream, Cassata, red velvet, confetti, pineapple upside down, carrot, fruit, cheese, sponge, coffee, flourless, tiramisu and stollen...the list is endless. Cakes come in...

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Traceyjayne @LindaOHio I also do a lime drizzle cake ….thats yummy too.

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Rescuers at a zoo wildlife alliance rescue a pronghorn calf

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (113086) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 14 Aug

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance employees Melody Tayles and Marty Swaim drove by auto from San Diego to New Mexico to rescue a pronghorn calf who was close to starving. A pronghorn looks like a deer but they look more like...

rescuers pronghorn

zoo

landowner

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Traceyjayne Another great feel good story. Thanks for sharing ….never heard of this animal before. Pleased it’s making a recovery .

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A dugong study off Queensland

Judy Evans @JudyEv (360874) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Aug

Dugongs fascinate me. They’re not the prettiest of creatures but they seem very gentle. Off Moreton Bay in Queensland, dugongs are being studied in an effort to understand more about their behaviour. This in turn will help...

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Traceyjayne I have never seen anything like this. I e certainly never heard of these . I enjoyed reading all about them though.

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