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All my favourite pubs of south east London, including Deptford’s CAMRA-institution the Dog and Bell.

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A peek inside my favourite pubs of south east London – today is The Royal Albert, in New Cross.

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This week I’m giving you a peek inside my favourite pubs of south-east London. Today is The Bear in Camberwell, a shady spot for the best Sunday lunches south of the river.

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My dream garden, with Interflora

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Read this, and you'll never have to spring clean again. Promise. 

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Gardening this weekend? Here's 10 tasks for the garden in May. 

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A wee breather...

A wee blogging breather today, after finishing #30daysScotland (woo!) so here's a piece from the archives...

The Art Fund's Edible Masterpieces - is yours ready for the 9th of May?

http://crumbsandpetals.com/2014/02/the-art-funds-edible-masterpieces/

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Day 30 of 30 Days of Scottish Food - celebrating the final post in the series with a cold can of Irn-Bru! 

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Day 29 - Tunnock's Tea Cake

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Day 28 of 30 Days of Scottish Food - the Selkirk Bannock

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Day 27 - Lorne Sausage

Rumour has it the sausage was named after Glasgow music hall entertainer Tommy Lorne, who took the piss out of the Glasgow square sausage by calling it "a doormat", although Lorne in Argyll disagrees.

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Day 26 - Scottish Plain Loaf

An economical way to make bread – as the loaves rise upwards – and so popular with working class, city dwelling folk. This in turn gave rise to the plain-loaf/pan-loaf way of speech – to speak in a “pan loafy voice” is to have made your voice posh, losing your city vernacular for a more refined, aspirational way of speaking.

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Day 25: Chicken Tikka Masala

Ahmed Aslam Ali, owner of the Shish Mahal in Glasgow’s west end, claims to have invented the dish, after a diner during the 1970s complained about the dryness of his chicken tikka dish and the chef dumped a can of tomato soup over the top. 

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Day 24: Dundee Marmalade

Legend has it a Spanish ship with a lot of Seville oranges in the hold had to take refuge in Dundee harbour during the winter of 1700, and an enterprising Scot - James Keiller - bought the cargo. When the oranges proved too bitter to sell, his equally enterprising wife Mrs Keiller made marmalade of them.

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Day 23: Partans

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Day 22 of 30 Days of Scottish Food: Traditional Scottish Sweeties.

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Day 21 of 30 Days of Scottish Food - say aye tae a pie.