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Posted on17 March 202517 March 2025Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: Dijon Salmon

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on24 February 202524 February 2025Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: Whipped Cream Cake

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on25 December 202425 December 2024Crafting & Creating

The Twelve Days of Christmas

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Ah, Christmas is here. All twelve days of it. And, more importantly, all 12 days of Mum’s 12 Days of Christmas ornament project, which I’ve…

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Posted on13 December 202424 December 2024Travels, Adventures & Explorations

My Christmas 2024 holidays start here

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I am home for another Christmas holiday in The Homeland and looking forward to merriment, festive foods, and time with family and friends. And, of…

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Posted on17 August 202417 December 2024Travels, Adventures & Explorations

My summer 2024 holidays have ended

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It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was starting my 2024 summer holidays, and now they are over and I’m back home in Scotland.…

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Posted on13 August 202423 December 2024Travels, Adventures & Explorations

Geocaching: It’s a family thing

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Regular readers will know that I am “into” geocaching. My first geocache outing was in 2001 not long after the “sport” began, and I enjoyed…

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Posted on5 August 202414 December 2024Travels, Adventures & Explorations

Camping with Cameron

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The last couple of days have been spent camping and fishing with my Godson. It was his first time for both, and my first time…

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Posted on6 July 202410 November 2024Travels, Adventures & Explorations

Starting my 2024 summer holidays

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I am on my summer holidays again and I’m really looking forward to a few weeks in the homeland with Daddy. It’s a little odd…

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Posted on13 January 20248 March 2024Travels, Adventures & Explorations

Christmas 2023 holiday recap

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Yes, it’s time for yet another Homeland Holiday review – now that I am done unpacking and washing laundry. (Note: I said I am done…

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Posted on26 December 20231 February 2024Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: Christmas nutmeg cookies

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on20 December 20238 March 2024Crafting & Creating

Oh, Christmas tree

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I decided that Dad and I needed to have a Christmas tree this year. Not just any Christmas tree but the Christmas tree: The Great…

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Posted on13 December 202323 December 2023Travels, Adventures & Explorations

Another Homeland Christmas

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I sound like a broken record, but I’m on my Homeland Holidays again! This marks my third Christmas in a row in the homeland which…

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Posted on18 September 20236 May 2024Everyday Life, Musings & Ramblings

An expat’s home dilemma: 22 years later

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Twenty-two years ago, I arrived in Scotland to begin a one-year study abroad programme. It is sometimes hard to believe that it was that long…

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Posted on27 August 202310 November 2024Everyday Life, Travels, Adventures & Explorations

A chore-filled summer holiday recap

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And with that, another Homeland Holiday has ended. And, as always, I am left sad and heartbroken after leaving behind so many people who I…

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Posted on20 July 202316 October 2023Everyday Life, Travels, Adventures & Explorations

The crab days of summer

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Oh, how I love those lazy summer days of childhood. The days when there was no school and nothing to do but explore. Although now…

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Posted on19 June 20233 January 2024Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: Grandma Cook’s fried chicken

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on22 May 202325 May 2023Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: Vegetable bean soup

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on24 April 2023Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: A cake with no name

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on11 April 202321 April 2023Culinary Arts

My culinary heritage: Rice Jamboree

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As part of my culinary goals, I am revisiting my culinary heritage by re-creating and re-imagining my family recipes. This post is about one of…

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Posted on15 January 202324 March 2023Culinary Arts, Musings & Ramblings

My culinary heritage

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Food is an important part of my life. Not just for the nutritional necessities or the flavourful enjoyment, but for the social and cultural importance…

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Just Frances is a personal website maintained by me, Frances Ryan. I am a quirky runner, writer, thinker, drinker, crafter, adventurer, and researcher. I am also a daughter, sister, aunty, friend, and widow. But mostly, I am just Frances. (She/Her)

I blog about my life, including my travels and adventures, my experiences with PKD and ITP, my life as a young(ish) widow, and my life in general, really. Learn more about the topics I write about here.

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