Egg, potato and gherkin salad
Ingredients
250 gr baby potatoes
2 Eggs
2 Spring onions sliced
100 gr Gherkins chopped
1 tbsp capers
1 tbsp plain yoghurt
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp white wine vinegar
2 tbsp Mayonnaise
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A couple of projects our board have been working on are now completed.
Many people will have noticed the powerbox in the Square now that it has been transformed from a sombre allover green to a stunning artwork featuring a Flanders poppy design. Local artist Allison Hudson completed the painting (a ‘first’ for her) in good time for this year’s ANZAC Day, and a small ribbon cutting ceremony with our Mayor, Board members and Allison’s family on site was held.
ANZAC Day this year had special significance, being 100 years since the end of the Great War. To acknowledge this, some repairs to the Cenotaph were completed, and the park was decorated with white crosses and a superb display of reproduced photographs. Further upgrades are happening soon. … Continue Reading
Biography’s mostly seem to run to a formula; happy/sad childhood, good/bad school experience, luck/lack of in chosen life’s direction etc. This book does not follow the formula, every page tells of growing up in the 1950s but in surroundings more akin to a century earlier. Anthony Russell grew up in a working castle.
Leeds castle was built in the 1440s with the owners over the years serving kings, queens and governments. It is described as England’s most beautiful castle. It was owned by his grandmother an American lady with a huge fortune of her own who had married into the family in the 1920s and subsequently spent millions of pounds on a total restoration of the castle.
He and his brothers, and later a sister, lived in the top floor of the castle where they each had a nanny. They never saw their father the Hon. Geoffrey Russell, an inner circle member of the Tory party, who totally ignored his children. Their mother popped up to the nursery to see them from time to time. The family did not join together for meals and the children grew up without any experience of adults except for their nannies until at the age of nine or ten when they were gradually introduced to the adult world at afternoon society gatherings. … Continue Reading
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