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Christmas Recipes
134 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Here is a list of some of the best Christmas recipes on this site, they have been well received and are all family recipes that are tried and tested through the generations. If you use and enjoy them please tell Jonathan how you got on. TUNIS CAKE RECIPE CHRISTMAS PUDDING... »
What are you spending on Christmas
Whether in the UK or the US interest rates have come down and not really been handed on. I have a mortgage in its 2nd year of a 5 year fixed rate and its still offering a better deal that most mortgage companies are right now with the rate in the UK at 2%. So... »
The Economy : Is my job safe
For working people its wait until next year, as we don't really know what happening; after Christmas we may have a clearer idea and hope that interest rates have been reduced to nearer 2% in the Uk, freeing up credit and lowering mortgages. ... Gordon Brown says he is going to spend on public... »
Christmas stress and expectations
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Well it was our new daughters first Christmas and I had my older children from my first marriage coming round and staying over Christmas eve as well as my partners sister, who likes to be known as super aunt and does a pretty good job. Oh yes and... »
Who would work in IT at Christmas
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Who would work in IT at Christmas, most people using computers in your company aren’t actually working they are either browsing for presents on the net or actually buying them, or doing their grocery or lingerie shopping. Whilst doing this they take their eye of the ball and... »
Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for flapjack and Crunch
50 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid holidaying in Filey with my grandma flapjack was a thing called crunch, exactly the same as modern flapjack but crunchy, my suspicions are that modern flapjack was arrived at because as it is soft it has a longer shelf life, where as Crunch... »
Freecycle vs Ebay
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we might... »
Freecycle vs Ebay
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we... »
Freecycle vs Ebay – giving it all away
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we... »
Recipe for Christmas Tunis Cake
957 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So a friend mentioned today about Tunis Cake, an alternative Christmas Cake his Mum used to spend some time obtaining or making at Christmas…So this recipe is for Roger Ingredients 325g self raising flour (sifted) 250g softened butter 250g castor sugar 175g ground almonds 1 lemon juice, and rind 4 eggs Now for the topping: Chocolate topping:... »
Christmas and the tree
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I love Christmas in all its Christian and Pagan Glory, I expect the date the 25th December relates to the winter solstice which has slowly changed over time in northern europe. The solstice is now on the 22nd December, or it may be those few days after when... »
The Ultimate Christmas Present
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I recently watched a DVD called the Secret “The Secret DVD!” (TS Production, LLC) it really is the only present worth buying for yourself or anyone you know, and though I have put this link through to amazon, they will redirect you to a secret distributor as it os only... »
What is Jonathan Spencer’s Ordinary wisdom
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I was wondering the other day what this weblog was all about, besides being my opinion on things, originally it was going to be called the thing they don’t tell you, but that wasn’t right. I thought of it in terms of a recipe book, mainly because I... »
Divorced, and a man, with children
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I am divorced and a man, not a good position to be in in 21st century Britain. I see my two children once a week on wednesday afternoon and every other weekend. When they come to my house to stay, whilst they love me as their dad it... »
Best place for Books on Mind Body and Spirit
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Last Christmas I found this site by accident and bought some books from them to send to my god daughter, Ia m just about to put in another order, in the mean time I have had their free “Cygnus Review”, a free magazine sent out to everyone buying... »
Men Divorce and your (my) confidence
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Ever since I seperated and got divorced i find I am emotionally and psychologically off balance. As any one who works knows colleagues can often not be the best of communicators, but I only have to get a phone call from a director and I think everything... »
Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for Peppermint Creams
380 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... Recipe for Peppermint Creams by Jonathan Spencer I used to love it when my mother made these at Christmas when I was a boy, half dipped in chocolate they are even better. —UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf— The ingredients 1 Ib of icing sugar 10 drops of peppermint oil..or more to taste (for... »
Childhood Memories of Christmas
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Ghost of Christmas I was bought up in a detached house in south east england, built in the post war boom in the 1950’s it reflected many of the vlaues of the 1930s. The quarry tiled kitchen floor, the parquet floor in the hall and sitting room.... »
Children Seperation and Divorce
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I have often wondered how children cope with the seperation of parents especially in a world where it is so much more commonplace. Well now I get to see it first hand… And begin to understand my own feelings about my children, you never realise what your parents... »
New Year
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Happy New Year I have always seen the turning of the year, at Christmas, or the December equinox on December 23rd, and have never really understood the celebration arounf 31st Dec/1st January. Perhaps it never meant much in my family growing up and as a young man was... »
Turkey stuffing for Christmas or Thanksgiving
173 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... Stuffing for your turkey (at Christmas) Yes yes, you can buy ready mix stuffing,but it is just not the same as homemade stuffing for your turkey at Christmas Chestnut stuffing – Ingredients large tin of chestnut Puree I egg I onion (chopped and sauted) 2-3 slices of wholemeal bread... »
Celebrate what you have (do not concentrate on what you have not got)
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Rejoice in what you have (stop moaning) Back again after a stressful break moving house, I have become aware of the importance of celebrating what you have … http://www.jonathanspencer.net/uploads/img406436f088c11.jpg In the Uk especially we are so good at moaning about things, (never complaining, although we are getting better at this) if... »
Christmas
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Well it was a lovely day, everyone together, just as I have imagined christmas to be since I was a child and perhaps thats what we do if we enjoyed Christmas as a child; we try to recreate those Christmases. I loved getting the bikes i had bought for... »
A Poem for Christmas.
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Inside me (are three wise men) by Jonathan Spencer Inside me are people turned away from The warmth of the hearth In the town of their birth They have arrived But they are lost An uneasy silence settles A pregnant pause They are sent... »
Is online christmas shopping safe
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So I have had a pretty good weekend doing a bit of shopping in my local town and posting my christmas cards (there was one instance but I write about that in another article). I did a little shopping had a BLT to revive me oh yes... »
I love Lingerie (encourage your partner to buy it)
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I love Lingerie, good lingerie is sexy and the look and feel is fantastic for a woman to wear as well as for a man to admire on her. However Its so tired how men buy these things for women at Christmas, and its usually something thats... »
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