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Stefanie Archivist
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Archivist. Records Manager. Talks nonsense. Over here now. She/her. All views are my own etc.
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Accidentally neepless through my own poor planning, I’m fully in on the mash ‘n’ haggis.

Sipping a low alcohol G&T and sending Burns’ night greetings out into the world #ConfinedCocktails
A plate contains a pile of creamy mashed potatoes adorned with three slices of crisply fried haggis. Behind the plate is a glass containing a gin and tonic, next to a can from M&S.
January 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Cheers. In this, day 197 of January, I’m finishing off the last Snowball that was lurking behind things at the back of the fridge.
Winter continueth.
#ConfinedCocktails
A cocktail glass containing a bright yellow snowball cocktail, garnished with several cocktail cherries on a cocktail stick, sits on a coaster.
January 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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On to the Bellinis #ConfinedCocktails
A hand holds a large cocktail glass containing a Bellini cocktail. In the background a blurred Christmas tree
December 31, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Cheers!
I’m on to the Bellinis
A hand holds a large cocktail glass containing a Bellini. In the background, an out of focus Christmas tree.
December 31, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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The Chocolate Pudding.
A slice of dark chocolate pudding topped with coffee infused cream sits in a blue bowl.
December 31, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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I’m using my #YayAdvent beeswax tealights as table dressing. Thanks again.
A blue pottery tea light holder with a glass chimney has a burning hexagonal beeswax tea light in it. A decorative coil of silver wire and pearl beads surrounds the holder.
December 31, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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May your Hogmanay be as you would want it and best wishes for 2025 to the #ConfinedCocktails crew.
I’m starting out with a pomegranate martini along with my Venetian duck leg ragu & linguine.
A plate containing linguine topped with a rich ragu and grated Parmesan sits on a table laid with a tablecloth. A martini glass is nearby, containing a pinkish red cocktail
December 31, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Cheers. I’ve been playing with a new breadmaker all afternoon & am now basically eating All The Bread with a pomegranate negroni #ConfinedCocktails
A loaf of wholemeal bread sits in the pan of a bread making machine. A cocktail glass containing a red cocktail sits on a table next to an open ham sandwich
December 28, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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There was the usual over abundance of popcorn croutons. And a discussion about seasoning. #SoupSky
A bowl of cream of corn soup, garnished with popcorn croutons, sits on a Christmas dinner table.
December 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Using up leftover pomegranate juice on Boxing Day via the medium of a pomegranate cosmopolitan.
Though I vaguely feel there should be a pomegranate cocktail out there called a Persephone….
#ConfinedCocktails
A cocktail glass seen from above. In the dark red cocktail floats an orange slice and several pomegranate seeds.
December 26, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Cheers to all the #ConfinedCocktail crew.
Merry Christmas and best of the season. Mine’s a Select Pomegranate Negroni.
A cocktail glass with a dark red cocktail, garnished with orange is held in a hand.
December 25, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Thank you @melindahaunton.bsky.social for a special #YayAdvent Christmas Day treat.
My very own trebuchet!!
(With added pencil sharpening functionality). I 💖 it 😀
#EveryGirlsFavouriteSiegeEngine
A hand holds a mini die cast trebuchet catapult that doubles as a pencil sharpener. In the background lies an advent calendar, a red and white candy cane and a label that reads 25 Irresistible Bonus
December 25, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Day 24, Christmas Eve brings a wee dram of Edinburgh gin.
#YayAdvent
A miniature bottle of Edinburgh gin lies atop an advent calendar
December 24, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Worth it though
Smooth, velvety cream of corn soup in a pan.
December 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Look at that velvety fabulousness! Makes the Faff Factor 5 and mouli-ing worth while. #SoupSky
A velvety smooth cream of corn soup fills a large pan.
December 24, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Sticking with the classics while my tea cooks. A Mumsnet Bellini. Best use of organic peach pulp. Fight me.
A cocktail glass contains a Bellini. Next to it is an empty Rachel’s Organic baby food pouch in pure peach pulp flavour and an empty can of proseccco.
December 24, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Combining #ConfinedCocktails and #YayAdvent for Christmas Eve, using my mini stoli & surplus cream for a truly Russian White Russian
A cocktail glass contains a dark mix of Kahlua and Russian vodka with a pale layer of cream floating on it. A miniature of stolichnaya gold vodka sits next to the glass, empty.
December 24, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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For those who remember the days of #ConfinedKitchen, Popcorn soup is happening! #SoupSky
A pan contains a slowly simmering soup with stock and sweetcorn. A bay leaf floats in the soup.
December 24, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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Final tea from my advent calendar for #TeaUp, it’s a cup of F&M’s sold out Christmas blend with cocoa nibs, clementine & Christmas spices.
A mug that reads I knit so I don’t kill people sits on a table, contains hot tea. Next to it is a small stack of chocolate rice cakes.
December 24, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Day 23 brings a memory of social media sites of the past…
#YayAdvent
A Christmas decoration in the form of a bluebird in a cage lies next to a sign saying 23 Formerly known as Twitter! A Christmas decoration of a blue bird in a silver cage hangs in a Christmas tree
December 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Not inaccurate…
#YayAdvent
Extract from book page which says THE VILLAGE CHURCH A village has to have a church; those are the rules. For hundreds of years, the village church has been the center of village life and death, with emphasis on the last one. It is the biggest, grandest, highest building around. It has fonts to drown in, vaults to be sealed in, a bell tower to fall from, and an altar to be sacrificed on. The vicar will find your body if you venture here. THE CHURCHYARD Behind the village church. Literally the village body dump. It's full of headstones of various ages, some crooked and sinking into the earth, and some still covered in fresh stonecutting dust. Someone's always going in at night to leave flowers or keys or letters-or any combination of the three. It's busier than the train station. Technically you're supposed to be dead before you end up here, but villagers aren't strict about this.
December 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Day 22, an essential survival guide #YayAdvent
A book titled Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village lies next to a label reading 22 Important advice.
December 22, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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I’m so sorry. Have some festive birbs. Hope you feel better soon.
A flock of hand made beanbag robins sit in front of a bowl of fairy lights.
December 21, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Day 21, light for the Winter Solstice, with beeswax tea lights #YayAdvent
Two honeycomb pattern beeswax tea lights sit on an advent calendar next to a label that reads 21 Light on the darkest day
December 21, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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Much Christmas cooking- apple butter, candied oranges, ginger truffles and one of The Chocolate Pudding.
Any ideas on what to do with 3/4 pint of orange syrup?
A patchwork of images of Christmas cooking, featuring oranges and chocolate and jugs of syrup and mixers and chocolate pudding batter.
December 20, 2024 at 5:44 PM