Tanya Peasgood

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  • Photo: Big wheel at Skegness

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    Photo taken yesterday with iPhone and Camera+ using clarity mode and HDR filter.

  • Photos: HMS Warrior (#NationalTreasuresLive)

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    I love visiting the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth and my favourite vessel there is the ironclad warship HMS Warrior. She’s a beautiful ship and the upcoming visit of BBC National Treasures Live has prompted me to dig out a couple of old (2004) photos I took of her. The shot through the rigging was a cool angle and just showed off the fabulous intricacy you see in any tall ship. Also there’s a view of her berthed alongisde the dock.

     

    Both images have been edited with CameraBag for Mac.

  • A recipe for Coconut & Jam Cookies

    A popular cookie recipe made for the guys at work – promised I’d share it before I left.

     

    Ingredients (makes about 30 cookies)

    280g / 10oz plain flour

    225g / 8oz softened butter (salted)

    140g / 5oz caster sugar (golden caster gives the biscuits a nice colour)

    100g / 3.5oz desiccated coconut (unsweetened)

    1 lightly beaten egg yolk

    4 tbsp jam

    1-2tsp flavouring

     

    The jam & flavouring is your choice. I like raspberry jam and use framboise (raspberry liquer) for flavour. Strawberry, apricot or cherry would work well too.

     

    Recipe

    1. Preheat oven to 190C / 375F / Gas Mark 5.
    2. Line 2 flat baking sheets with parchment
    3. Put butter & sugar in a bowl an mix with a wooden spoon until creamy and pale coloured.
    4. Beat in egg yolk and flavouring
    5. Sift flour into the mixture, add coconut and stir until thoroughly combine
    6. Scoop heaped dessert spoons of the mix and roll into a ball. Put on the trays spaced well apart.
    7. Make a hollow in the centre of each ball (end of a wooden spoon works) and fill the hollows with jam
    8. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool on the trays for another 5-10 minutes. Remove from trays to cool on wire racks

     

    Enjoy! They are very yummy 🙂

  • Photo: Warwick Castle

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    Taken on the 24th of July with iPhone and Camera+. Really sunny and hot – a great day for watching the jousting.

  • Pulteney bridge and weir – Bath

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  • Photo: lunchtime rain

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    As I hid in a doorway waiting for it to stop!

  • Photos: Goose & Swan on the River Bure at Wroxham

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    Beautiful day on the Norfolk Broads last Sunday with a lot of wildfowl on the water

  • Photo: Blickling Hall in Norflok

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    Blickling Hall is a beautiful Jacobean house owned by the National Trust in North Norfolk with associations to the Boleyn family. It’s well worth a visit for the house and amazingly extensive grounds. There’s even a pub in the wider estate

  • Photos: Cornish Panoramas

    This set of photographs taken with my new Sony A33 on a week’s holiday in Cornwall. All of these ones were to try out the inbuilt panorama mode on the camera which I think has done a pretty good job. The views are so big in Cornwall they merit the sweep shots

  • Photos: Hells Mouth – North Coast Cornwall

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    Between Portreath and Gwithian on the north coast of Cornwall is a lovely area called Hells Mouth. It’s a great place to walk through the gorse and look at the fantastic coastal views.