Vintage Pancake Day - but not featuring any pancakes

In truth this was made a few years back but trundled out certain times of the year....and why not!

I spray painted an old wreath that I had bought for 50p at a church fete and glued bits on!

Vintage toy whisk (what do you mean you don't have one!) - regret selling one of these with a tiny rolling pin and tiny pudding bowl only recently - for £4...why, oh why....

I have other pots and pans in this 1970s saucepan 'range'....a little on the small side to use for making dinner.

I know why....too much stuff....

I do not have an electrical device for whisking purposes.  Best to teach whisking skills at an early age so the children always played with 'old' stuff (how they must have longed for a bit of bright plastic!!!)

So rather than having just the one child's whisk......

....it is best to have a few.....

Own whisk shown here to gauge scale....

For the beady eyed amongst you I have thrown in the child's sized mincer - sadly used for salt dough extrusion therefore rendered useless by the children!


This was my first idea....cheep, cheep.....

I ended up making the 'flowers' just to fill the gaps...

.....they have remained in this old posy bowl ever since....post on posy bowls another time...cough, cough...

I am particular about my pancakes - they are frequently made by Dom (Dom 'The Pancake Maker' - as opposed to: Warwick 'The King Maker' (did you have that Ladybird book...!!!!) What!!!) for breakfast.  I like traditional pancakes which for me means thin, with lemon juice and caster sugar (preferably cast from a nice old sugar shaker....sugar shaker post another time....WHAT!!).  I will update this post a little later with some poor quality photographs from this morning breakfast (light not so great at 07.00!)

Arthur:  'Do you think that she is for real?'

Martha: 'Good question Arthur.  I am not too sure and feel that she may have one foot in La La Land'

Arthur:' Just the one foot......?'

Martha: 'Good point.  Maybe two feet and a leg....'

Thank you also to Rebecca of  beautiful square feet  for a blog award - I am not sure if I have time to complete the brief fully but will complete some