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The Ultimate Apple Crumble Recipe

The Ultimate Apple Crumble Recipe

  Cold winter’s nights are the time for snuggling inside with some hot, homemade, delicious comfort food. When it comes to this genre of food, apple crumble reigns supreme. I also call this particular recipe Crumble Apple as the emphasis is definitely on the crumble (that is the best bit) and not as much the apple. I started off with a fairly standard Apple Crumble recipe, greedily doubled the amount of crumble and then made a couple other modifications. With…

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The Man Cave

Rocking Out With Modern Rocking Chairs

Rocking Out With Modern Rocking Chairs

  When you think of rocking chairs, you probably imagine an old lady sat doing some knitting with her cat in front of the fire. I’ve recently bought a rocking chair, but not one for grannies. Mine is stylish, sophisticated and modern, as I have purchased an awesome Eames style rocking chair. It’s absolutely brilliant, here’s why:   Genuine Eames style chairs cost hundreds of pounds but you can pick one of these up for under £50 and the quality…

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Outdoor Adventures

Christmas Gifts For Skaters #2 Bearings

Christmas Gifts For Skaters #2 Bearings

  Buying Skateboard Bearings for a skater is like buying boardwax for a surfer – they’re the perfect stocking filler. So whats a bearing? Well basically in the middle of all skate wheels is a cutout which has the job of housing and protecting two sets of ball bearings. The purpose of these bearings is to stop friction between the axle and the inside of the each wheel as you skate around and these spin. You need this because the…

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Outdoor Adventures

Wild Tide’s Home Brewed Ale – Stage Two

Wild Tide’s Home Brewed Ale – Stage Two

  Following on from my first post about stage one of my home brew. I thought I’d update you with how it’s going. After I had left the beer to ferment I went to bed, got up and went to work. When I returned the Brubox had changed… It was no longer stooped to one side, it was now pressurised from the fermentation and was rigid because the CO2 had been released into the cube. Bubbles were coming regularly from…

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Reviews

Posh Christmas Shopping In London and Daniel Wellington Watches

Posh Christmas Shopping In London and Daniel Wellington Watches

  Last week my girlfriend and I made a little shopping trip up to the big smoke. We had a great time and saw lots of the sights and sounds of London. The excuse for the whole trip was Christmas shopping but realistically we knew we probably wouldn’t buy anything. However we thought it would at least fast track us into the Christmas spirit. We decided to take the tube to Knightsbridge (to visit Harrods) then get the tube again…

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