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Hog Hollow Recipe Corner
PARFAIT with WALNUTS Parfait – our executive chef tells us – is the French word for Perfect – and it commonly describes a type of frozen dessert. In the USofA they take it a little further by layering the parfait, … Continue reading
Hog Hollow Bookclub: meanwhile in North Yorkshire
All the Colours of Darkness By: Peter Robinson Published by: Hodder 2009 ISBN: 978 0 340 83694 1 A brutal murder and a suicide: it seems like a straight forward case. Jealous lover murders his boyfriend and in great remorse … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club
Tagged Burgess, crime, detective novel, Her Majesty's secret service, Ian Rankin, McLean, MI5, MI6, murder, novel, Philby, police inspector, secret service, spooks
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Jean’s Christmas Cake by Jo Melton Butler
I am not a fussy eater! There are however two items of food to which I am NOT partial – one being mince and the other raisins. David says that I should add the other things I don’t eat too … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Food Club
Tagged cake, christmas, christmas cake, food, hog hollow food club
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Filling in a Form:
Or How to go to Gaol, and pay for the pleasure by: Ms Jo Melton Butler/Joanna Louise Melton Butler/Mrs Melting Butter/ Mr/Prof JL Retlub Notlem/whatever! Once upon a time, as many stories begin, someone or some persons with clout and with … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged application forms, forms, government forms, hospital registration forms, municipal forms, passport renewal forms, tax forms
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Hog Hollow Book Club – Jo Melton Butler Reviews….
The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi Published: Bloomsbury – 2007 ISBN 978 0 7474 8351 6 Beware the Gods – they keep watch … and they still interefere in the lives of mortals. The setting: archetypal Greek Island – Thiminos … Continue reading
Hog Hollow Bookclub: A Bit of Spywork!
A Most Wanted Man By: John le Carré Published By: Hodder & Stoughton 2008 IBSN: 978 0 340 97797 1 A young Chechen Muslim illegal arrives in Hamburg, starving, yet with crisp hundred Euro notes secreted amongst his person. Issa Karpov … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club
Tagged 9/11, chechen, cold war, east, east Germany, muslim, novel, paranoia, Russia, russian mafia, secret service, spy, spy novel, west, west Germany
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Sinethemba Gospel Choir Sings for Minister of Tourism…
The Sinethemba Gospel Choir, from the local Kurland Village community, comprises several members of Hog Hollow Country Lodge Staff. The choir forms part of Hog Hollow’s Community Upliftment Programme.. Sinethemba competes in national choir competitions and was listed as one of the top gospel choirs of the Western Cape in 2010. … Continue reading
Posted in Community Involvement
Tagged Choir, Community Upliftment Programme, Gospel Choir, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Tourism, South African Traditional Music, Sustainable Tourism
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The Hog Hollow Book Club
“And don’t forget the Classics … “ War & Peace By: Leo Tolstoy Translated by: Rosemary Edmonds Published by: Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780140444179 This is what a very fine person told me when he read that I was attempting … Continue reading
Posted in Book Club
Tagged 1812, Battle of Borodino, cannons, Cossacks, Leonid Pasternak, Mikhail Kutuzov, Moscow, Napoelonic wars, Napoleon, Napoleonic campaigns, Patriotic War, Russia, Smolensk, Tolstoy, Tsar Alexander
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