Cool Baby Food Recipes For 1 Year Old images

Some cool baby food recipes for 1 year old images:

52.34 - Another mosaic

Image by dichohecho
I seem to have self-portrait fail at the moment... All the ones on the left are courtesy of other people. The right is a train-window reflection.
I think I'll bullet point my week for simplicity's sake.

Monday:
(setting the scene: I have a week's holiday and went up to Reading on Sunday to see my friend Sarah, see previous post)
Sarah cut a few hundred words out of her essay while I read a book, then she read it to me and went to a lecture. I had the task of deciding where to go for lunch. I found a voucher for Ask on the interwebs so we printed it out, got a bus into the centre of Reading and realised the voucher was still on her desk. We went there anyway and both had Calzone which was pretty nice, except for the mushrooms :s
Then we, umm, ended up shopping! And wandering about. We found MK One! I thought they had all gone but apparently not. This one was just selling off old stock and the part of the shop you can't see was pretty much empty. It smelled awful too. But we both bought things! Sarah needed a white dress so she could dress-up as Sandy from Grease for an S party (Primark surprisingly yielded nothing) and I found a nice flowery dress which bizarrely has a Dorothy Perkins label in it. We found Sarah a new handbag in TK Maxx and a jacket in Primark, it turned into quite an impressive haul :s
We also went to Shakeaway, yay! I was going to have Bueno flavour but the lady pointed out that I could have one of their specials with more in for the same price. So I had a "Dave" which was Bueno and Fererro Rocher with Flake on top. Mmmm. Sarah had doughnut flavour, which was surprisingly nice!
Hmmm. We went to the station and picked up my tickets for the rest of my journeys from the magical ticket machine. We went to Debenhams (whoop!) but I didn't have the things I wanted to exchange with me so... I couldn't exchange them. I did find a lovely pajama top in the FDG section of menswear (from a set with the bottoms missing, I have far too many pajama bottoms). They reduce things when half of them goes missing or gets dirty or broken. Lots of it never gets bought (it's only kept for a certain number of weeks).
Aaaanyway. Then we walked back up to Sarah's hall and had Thai curry for supper. Then we went to the pub with some of her friends which was fun (a game of "I have never..." was played), although it seems I can't take much more than a pint of cider without getting thoroughly tipsy... And then we came home via a chip shop.

Tuesday:
Had breakfast with Sarah in hall. Then we sat about and uploaded photos and chatted. Then I missed the bus I should've taken, but there was another going to almost the same place so it was fine. Buses to anywhere in Reading seem to cost £1.70 and they don't give change. At all :s Luckily Sarah and I had the exact change between us, but she told me people often end up paying £2 or £5 as they don't have time to get change from anywhere.
Anyway. I got to the station at about quarter to twelve (train at 12:11), bought myself a pasty (wrong pasty shop for my special discount card, booo (the logos are very similar)) and sat on the platform to eat it. The train was non-stop to Paddington, then I got on the tube (but had to change at Edgware Rd as the train terminated) to go to Liverpool St. Being an idiot and feeling a bit rushed, I went and bought a tube ticket. I didn't need to since my ticket was across London. Booo.
Anyway. I got to Liverpool St with a few minutes to spare, considered buying some fruit and then decided the queue was too long. So I went and got on my train. I was one of the first people on it so I got a table seat and selfishly put my bags next to me. There was plenty of room on the train, it just looked a bit full in my carriage because no-one wants to walk all the way down to the other end of the platform to the emptier ones...
The train went directly to Halesworth via lots of little Suffolky places (and some bigger Essexy ones) and I wandered around for ten minutes before realising that the bus stop was the other side of the tracks. There isn't a bridge or a subway at Halesworth, you just walk across the lines! But yes. I arrived at Halesworth at about 4 and got an exciting yellow and blue bus to Southwold, they time them to meet the London trains, very clever.
Hmmmmmm. I did Granny's Su Doku and we sat and talked for a while. Then we had baked potatoes for supper, I had a lovely hot shower and then went to bed pretty early.

Wednesday:
I woke up fairly late, helped Granny's neighbour find jigsaw puzzles to borrow, fetched a book from The Orwell Book Shop for Granny and wandered about a bit enjoying being in Southwold. The green metal pumpy thingy in the middle of the market place is missing, apparently it got taken out by a Dutch flower lorry :s I saw lots of people throwing dirty looks at the orange plastic barriers that surround the hole.
Granny and I had lunch at Coasters (broccoli & blue cheese soup and a greek salad for me, ricotta gnocci(?) for her, then "chocolate marquise" and peppermint tea) and wrote a few postcards and letters to assorted family members. There was a lovely sunflower on our table and it was quite sunny too.
Then I went & got a nice green biro and a notebook with a lovely (lino cut?) pattern of birds holding envelopes on. I want to put nice things in it but I don't know what yet. Possibly it'll be a scrap book.
Then I went to the pier. Southwold pier was restored a few years ago and seems to be doing pretty well. It was surprisingly busy for a random week day in March (not prime British seaside time) but not too busy, which was nice. There weren't any new exiciting machines at the pier (they have lots made by Tim Hunkin, including one which frisks you and another which tells you if things are art or not). I tried to get a postcard of the rent-a-dog machine but the postcard dispenser was broken so I had to tell the nice pier man, who gave me my money back. The only postcards they had of the machines in the shop were of the "Quantum Tunnelling Telescope" which I've never tried, so I don't know what it *actually* does... but I sent it anyway.
Then I went back, via a deli where I bought some funny croutons which appeared to be a clever way of using up the leftover fresh bread. Granny and I did more crosswords and then ate the croutons with Leek & Potato soup for supper before another earlyish night.

Thursday:
I woke up even later, read a bit, showed Granny my Moo cards and looked at the more recent photo albums. We had lunch at The Red Lion pub (lentil & bean hotpot for Granny, homemade burger for me) who insisted on holding onto a credit or debit card in order for us to have a tab. I'd understand if they were busy/it was summer/it was evening/we looked a bit dodgy, but Granny is clearly not about to run off anywhere. Humph. But the food was nice.
In the afternoon I took the book back to the book shop, had a new watch strap fitted at The Amber Shop(possibly a little expensive but Granny wanted to get me one for my birthday), got one of my photos of Mum in the snow printed as a present for Granny, bought some stamps, and wandered around the other side of Southwold, nearer the golf course and marshes. Then I went back and did more Kakuro and crosswords and sewed the button(which fell off in Reading) back onto the sleeve of my coat.
Supper was bread and cheese and salad (and spinach and ricotta filo parcels for me), then I did a bit of packing and went to bed.

Friday:
I was woken by my alarm, breakfasted, got dressed and finished off my packing. Then Granny decided she'd post presents for the family rather than weighing me down with things. I said goodbye and walked up to the market place, bought some more crouton things (they were good) and caught the Friday Shoppers' bus to Norwich. It takes all the old ladies of Wrentham, Southwold, Reydon and Wangford to Norwich for a morning/lunchtime of shopping and delivers them back again. I was one of maybe three people without a concession bus pass so it cost me £5. But that's not bad as it was pretty comfortable and quick. Quicker and probably cheaper than getting another bus to Halesworth and a train to Norwich.
Anyway. I sat next to the aforementioned neighbour who's a lovely jolly lady and told me all about her and her daughter's gap years in Canada and South America and places.
The bus deposited us outside John Lewis and I walked down towards the city centre a bit. I went & exchanged what I needed to exchange in Debenhams (which has 2 cafés in Norwich! Excitement!) and had a look in Primark before going to a little café and having a coffee and a little bit of cake (to revive me after an arduous morning of course). I got one of those little biscuits free with the coffee, the ones that come wrapped in plastic and have slightly odd names that I can't remember...
Then I went into the Castle Mall. It didn't exactly look promising from the outside, the two shops at the front were both gone (relocated or bust), but it was a bit better further in. There was a photo machine like the one in Taunton but alas it wouldn't read my SD card. I tried on LOTS of stuff in New Look, half of the shop was sale stock and I bought a nice stripy t-shirt and a soft grey skirt. Then I had a look in TK Maxx but didn't find anything particularly good. I considered getting Caroline some nice soap as a present but didn't. I got her some pink slipper boots with cakes on from La Senza instead. La Senza is one of those shops I never would've gone into before working at Debenhams but now find fascinating (in a non-pervy way). They have some lovely soft pajamas which're now in the sale but I didn't think I could justify buying myself more.
Then I headed down to an arcade thing and found a nice little juice bar place (which I recognised from Adam's photostream) and bought myself a panini. Just as I was finishing Adam himself walked past (he'd said he might be in Norwich that afternoon) which was a pretty amazing coincidence. So we went & got our free coffees from the Starbucks on Gentleman's Walk and had a nice chat about Flickr and college/university and Debenhams, he's a nice chap and takes good & interesting photos. His 365 is rather good, even if he thinks his life is boring. Got to be better than reading all this rubbish :p A woman gestured wildly into my coffee just as I was walking past but luckily it went all over the floor and not us, and she blamed herself and offered to buy me a new one! I didn't mind too much, apart from the embarassment, as it made it easier to carry (and it was a free one). Adam's the first person I've met from Flickr (I don't count my sister for obvious reasons) and he's not a creepy 40-something year old bloke which is good. All the same I'm not particularly keen to go round meeting lots of people, what with the chance of many being creepy...
Anyway. After that I went & caught a bus out to UEA (£4.50 for a day ticket) and managed to get off at the wrong stop, I saw Caroline just as the bus was pulling away again. We went to her room & she made notes, I did her Su Doku, we blitzed through the Independent's concise crossword, chatted and I checked my e-mails and Facebook. Later on we had lovely Covent Garden soup (terrible luxury) with half-bake rolls and the croutons I'd brought, followed by cheesecake!
Then she produced a small bottle of vodka and a large amount of orange juice which we drank some of whilst "getting ready". We caught a bus back into the city centre and had a drink before meeting one of Caroline's friends and her tutor group (complete with tutor) at Mercy (a club). We spent the rest of the evening there, then got a taxi back to UEA, showered and went to bed.

Saturday:
We set an alarm to wake us up at a decent time (which worked) so we had breakfast in Caroline's flat-type-thing before catching a bus into central Norwich and spending the morning shopping and wandering. I bought her a lovely cream-coloured flower which is a brooch/hair clip from H&M, she bought herself a pearly hair band and a leather jacket, and I bought 2 belts, a pair of little pearly earrings, and some nice spotty things from Topshop. We had coffee/tea and cake/(chocolateless, she's given it up for Lent :s)muffin at Café Nero opposite the market before having a look round the nice little lanes. We went into a church which seems to have become an arts centre. People were selling old records and antiques and vintage clothes and there was a tent inside the church. It was lovely and sunny and someone started playing one of the themes from the Amelie soundtrack on a piano which gave it a lovely atmosphere.
Later on we had lunch at Pret A Manger, I had soup in a pot which was surprisingly nice. Then we went back to Caroline's room and packed up my stuff in record time before getting a bus to the station. We had to leave plenty of time for this because there was a football match on, which tends to cause traffic and delays.
In the end we were there about 40 minutes before my train left but we went and sat in AMT Coffee with coconut milkshake/hot apple juice (both new discoveries and very nice) and wrote postcards to various people. Then we said goodbye and Caroline went to Morrisons while I got on a train to Colchester (at 16:30).
My trains all went pretty smoothly, and I observed that Manningtree looks like quite a nice place, even if it is in Essex. There was a bloke on my first train who had an advance ticket for one an hour earlier and had to pay the difference (fair enough really, it does say on the tickets and they tell you that the restrictions are what make it so cheap when you book; although I would say that as mine all turned out fine!).
At Colchester(17:28) I got on a bus to Billericay (I hadn't registered its existence before!) which was crammed with people coming away from a Colchester football match but otherwise fairly comfy. And there was a Spanish baby in front of me :)
At Billericay (18:30) I got a train going into London, so I arrived at Liverpool St at about 7pm and had plenty of time to make my way across to Paddington.
I arrived at Paddington at about 19:45, the magic time when Sainsbury's and M&S were doing mark-downs on all the things going out of date. So I got a very nice M&S salad for £1, a little bag of apple for 20p and 2 Taste The Difference pain au chocolat (ate the second for breakfast today) for 49p as well as a bottle of water at a non-ridiculous price and my free coffee from Starbucks :D
I asked the First Great Western bloke if I could go on the 20:06 (which was also faster to Taunton) but he said not unless I paid more. So I left it... and went and ate my supper before finding my nice reserved seat on the 20:30. I charged my phone and slept on the way back, somehow I wasn't finding Marcus Aurelius's Meditations terribly tempting. My train wasn't your normal London-Reading-Taunton-Exeter, or even London-Reading-Newbury-Castle Cary-Taunton, oh no, it was London->Reading->Didcot Parkway->Swindon->Chippenham->Bath Spa->Bristol Temple Meads->Nailsea & Backwell->Yatton->Worle-> Weston-Super-Mare->Highbridge & Burnham-On-Sea->Bridgwater->Taunton. Boo. But Dad came and got me from Bridgwater so I got home marginally earlier than I was meant to.
So that was my exciting journey!
When I got home we had Kate's birthday cake (a week and a half late) which is very very good, apparently the recipe is from celebrity masterchef or something? Yummy anyway. Anna was there but went back to London again this morning. But it was nice to see her, if only for a few hours either side of sleep!

Sunday:
Today I started making roast chicken because no-one else seemed to be doing it but then Dad came along and said he wanted to half microwave it which screwed things up a bit. So then it became a collaborative effort, I did a lot of veg peeling.
This afternoon I've done very little. I've mainly been catching up with Flickr. Eek. That can't be healthy. On the plus side it's been a lovely sunny day, I've seen catty and I've unpacked already.
Oh and there's a lot of frogspawn in our pond.

Aaaand that's it! Phew.

Christmas "gift" from Flickr & BigHugeLabs for all members ...

Image by The Gifted Photographer
Flickr Scout Explore: Christmas "gift"
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1. Lox cornucopias: dairy recipe, 2. stunning colors in this sunset tonight!, 3. Southern squash and cornbread casserole (nondairy), 4. The perfection of white roses ..., 5. Tapas: Gambas al Ajillo, 6. Hanukkah 2006: first batch of latkes, 7. Fragile crepes filled with lox, 8. on Explore: autumn carpet of many colors,

9. Prague .... a true historical jewel ..., 10. Cafe Sunflower's Tuscan sandwich with portobellos, goat cheese, vegetables, yam fries ..., 11. Atlanta's High Museum ...Richard Meier's sleek white masterpiece, 12. front of the G9, 13. White chocolate mousse phyllo tower, wine poached pears and pistachio nuts, 14. FIMO clay tzedakah box which we use for coins before Shabbos, 15. Hanukkah 2006: first batch of latkes, 16. art in glass at its finest: from a friend's collection,

17. Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Tenor, Is Dead at 71, 18. Vegan chocolate cake, 19. creation of French toast creme brulee, 20. Curvaceous and voluptuous cook: Nigella Lawson, 21. today's breakfast: bagel, lox, red onion, tomatoes, cream cheese, 22. flickr.com/photos/96683394@N00/1414962453/, 23. spring tomato olive salad with blanched asparagus, 24. Monumental cluelessness?,

25. Panko crispy chicken schnitzel, 26. Quail Hill in Irvine, California... flames are perilously close ...., 27. Presidents' Day traditional cherry pie awaiting the top crust, 28. my students' gift to me one year, a Frabel Glass dreidel..., 29. on Explore this week: the setting sun hits a few of the trees ..., 30. Vietnamese seafood soup, 31. more latkes and it's only the second night ..., 32. " Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”,

33. focus now upon the single flower in a bouquet, 34. The beauty of a single rose, 35. Breakfast of Champions: bagel, lox, red onion, tomato, cream cheese, 36. Lycopene lovesong, 37. my Greek salad, made as authentically as possible, 38. Professor Liviu Librescu: saved the lives of several students by blocking the gunman before he was gunned down in Monday's shooting, which coincided with Israel's Holocaust remembrance day., 39. Details in stained glass, 40. lights just coming on in the evening dusk ...,

41. The vibrant colors which surround us daily ... do we really look at them?, 42. healthy fruit dessert ..., 43. peach-strawberry pie, 44. Mini Indulgences ... individual servings of classic desserts, 45. the bounties of fall ... this wound up on Explore!, 46. new roses for my mother's 96th birthday tomorrow, 47. Canon Powershot G9 .. taken with my Canon A620, 48. Trader Joe's fruited baby carrots in honey wine sauce: apricots, cranberries, orange zest, huge raisins,

49. Lox, cream cheese, red onions on a freshly toasted bagel: a mechiah!, 50. butter poached salmon filets, 51. Vegan cooking by Jessica, my daughter, 52. fruits ..., 53. A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within ..., 54. Peach-blueberry cobbler completed .. needs vanilla ice cream!, 55. Roast shoulder of lamb, baby red potatoes, vegetables, 56. Hamentashen for Purim,

57. focus now upon the single flower in a bouquet, 58. Lalique ... translucency and depth done in frosted glass, 59. The Pie: apple-cherry in a butter crust, 60. Cleavage with a cleaver: Giada rules!, 61. The beautiful and delicate art of Thai fruit carving (which I found on the Net), 62. a thought for the day from my internist ..., 63. Mstislav Rostopovich "a gigantic cello virtuoso"..., 64. Classic old Atlanta home,

65. Hanukkah flowers: alstroemerias, or lilies of Peru, 66. The Rebbe was always right ..., 67. Atlanta Midtown at dusk ..., 68. Traditional chicken soup: classic comfort food in the extreme, 69. love me or leaf me ..., 70. Trying my cucumber-red onion-carrot marinated salad with various ricewine vinegars, 71. birthday roses, 72. Flickr tool ... Recursive ...