Sad news today. Tony Hart died this morning. He was an important part of my childhood. Being an asthmatic kid I couldn't always be as active as other kids so I used to draw a lot. Take Hart gave me plenty of inspiration, ambition to be as good as Tony Hart and laughter from Morph and Chas. I never sent anything in to the gallery but always thought I could do better. I remember watching it with friends and we'd tun into mini Brian Sewells determinging the quality of the art work based on the kids age.
As well as talk of Clementine Cake on twitter there has been talk of brewing Ginger Beer. Ginger beer is my drink of choice and I'm always in search of a good one. I find many commercial ones too sweet. Once on holiday in Brasil I had a ginger beer made with freshly squeezed ginger which is the gold standard at the moment and a tough act to live up to. @eskimimi (who has a lovely blog ) linked to this River Cottage recipe last week . I had to hunt around for brewers yeast as the brewer's yeast you can buy in chemists and health food shops is deactivated so won't work for brewing, despite the name. (trade descriptions act anyone?). I ended up buying my yeast online after consulting my brewing guru Bioniclaura . As well as knitting Laura brews her own beer, which I got sample when I stayed with her and her lovely dog and husband in Dublin when I went over at the end of October. More on that later. I couldn't wait to get started but had to wait til we returned from Hasti
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