It was so fun to watch the expression on your mothers face as you read. She was captivated. I look forward to Friday...and spending time with you and your mother. Just delightful!
Hello Miranda and Donna🥰...this video was the ABSOLUTE BEST 😂😂....I laughed so hard, listening to you read from “The Canterville Ghost” and when Donna read OMG!!!🥰💕 it was so moving, going from laughing to feeling so deeply was AMAZING...and when you mentioned you Dad gave out the full size candy bars on Halloween, the kid in me would have found a way to circle back around to your house so I could end my trick or treating night with at least 3 full size candy bars😂😂...Have a great Weekend Miranda and Donna...thank you so much for this video🥰 oh I almost forgot....I’m making that pumpkin loaf... I just need to grab a can of pumpkin 😊
So look forward to my Friday treat with you two gorgeous ladies. I cooked with you today to take to friends for a Halloween supper after tricking and treating with the little ones. Thank you for the care you take with everything you do.
Another lovely video! I love pumpkin, all through November and December is my pumpkin baking. I love pumpkin bread, pies, cakes, muffins, cupcakes etc., yummy! The books sound wonderful. I would love to read them. I love Nella last, her books are so good. I love diaries and hers are very good, and like Donna I love to pick up her books and read her diaries every so often. I hope both of you have a wonderful HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃
Another great recipe. Can’t wait to try it out. Unintentionally on Halloween I made pumpkin risotto. Great tea reads. Always love seeing both you and your mum have a book chat and bake.
How nice to know more books that are spooky but not scary! Today I backed the scones you have presented, in two versions, one with the fruits and another with bacon in small pieces and parmesan cheese. Delicious.Tommorow is the day for the second Dorset apple pie. Now I know that pumpkins are not only good for soups, new adventures with them are planned.I love the fridays more than the any other day of the week since you are doing these videos.Thank you!!😋😋😋😍😍😍
Happy Halloween Greetings from Canada! My mom has a collection of the "Company is Coming" cookbooks, and she loves them for muffin recipes. Lovely to see them being showcased. Pumpkin loaf has always been a cherished recipe in our family. One of our favourite versions is to fold in just under a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips before adding the batter to the loaf pan. Chocolate & pumpkin are a match made in heaven! I highly recommend you give it a try one time. 🎃
Thank you for the Halloween reading suggestions. I have never baked with pumpkin before, but I do love carrot cake & walnuts, so I will definitely give your recipe a go. I really look forward to ending my week with your Tea Reads videos, very grounding & inspiring!
I love making a braided pumpkin yeast bread with crystallized ginger and golden raisins. I also managed to get some quinces, so I'll be making quince butter this weekend. I would definitely have been coming to your house as a child for the full size candy bars. Your choices for reading were wonderful. Such a good combination of funny, touching, and spooky! Happy Halloween!
What a hilarious video, it made me laugh out loud, I couldn’t stop chuckling, which drew some interesting looks from my family. I was watching with my AirPods in, it gave them a bit of start as I’d just been quietly curled up on the sofa 😂😂. Loved all the books, which I’d like to add to my collection, feel a challenge coming on with Honeysuckle Cottage 🤓. You and your mum are such a tonic in these crazy days of COVID confusion 😍. Not a spooky book, but I’m currently really enjoying reading Lady Audley’s Secret, it feels appropriate for the season, given its setting; whilst it has its dark moments, the style of writing has a real charm and a sense of whimsy at times too, I was hooked from the first page.
Hello from Canada then! 🙋🏻♀️ You two seem to have travelled the world! The cake looks amazing and it’s definitely all pumpkin stuff right know! Tea, coffee, muffins, everything!
Hello Donna and Miranda, that looks such a delicious loaf thank you for another great Friday read and bake. Donna, I too got to know The Listeners by Walter de la Mare at school and still feel a spine tingling thrill whenever I read it as an adult. I don't know why but it has reminded me of the BBC's Singing Together which I loved as a small child in the 1960's and in particular the song "The Minstrel Boy" . The lines "The Minstrel boy to war has gone, in the ranks of death you'll find him, his father's sword he has girded on, with his wild harp slung along behind him" have stayed with me my whole life and the lyrics would make a great read at this time of year. Enjoy your Hallowe'en reading, Teresa 🍂🧡🎃💛📖🤎🍂
Wonderful episode, Miranda and Donna! I enjoyed the extracts you read very much. The pumpkin cake looks delicious. I haven‘t come across canned pumpkin purée here in Germany, but I‘ll surely be able to order it online. I really must read The Canterville Ghost! Happy Halloween! 🎃🍂
Thank you, Marion! I would imagine tinned pumpkin is probably available online. Hope you manage to find some. And I so recommend The Canterville Ghost! xxx
Hi! I was thrilled to learn you're half Canadian! Lol. I'm Canadian as well. I love pumpkin everything at this time of year. I loved this video as usual, and I love how you include your mom in them. I was very close to my mom, but she passed away eleven years ago. I always enjoy seeing your mom and you talk, because it reminds me of my mom and I. I plan on finishing reading Wuthering Heights on Halloween night. Its my first time reading it and I'm loving it. Happy Halloween to you and your family, Miranda!
I'm so glad to bring back happy memories of your own mother. Thank you for your lovely comment! Hope you had an enjoyable weekend - Wuthering Heights is certainly a good pick for Halloween! xxx
BOOOOOO!! Happy Halloween! My husband and I buy the full sized candy bars too!! The kids LOVE it! Unfortunately not this year with Covid.....I am loving these baking videos! So fun! The mantel is so festive too! GREAT job! Your mom is such a delight! You gals will be having your own talk show like Oprah soon!!!
So much fun with your passionate reading Miranda! I used to read Goosebumps horror stories to my little brother and cousin but we always ended up laughing just like you and your mum😂🥰
Another delightful Tea Reads episode. I thoroughly enjoyed the excerpts from both. I have never read The Canterville Ghost, and found your description of it almost as hilarious as the passage you read out Amanda! Donna’s reading from the wartime diary was very moving. As a mum who’s boys are now 21 and 18 I frequently remember funny or touching incidents from their childhood, and can not imagine the terror of sending sons off to war. I am very glad Donna explained that Cliff appears later in the diary under happier circumstances. X
Wonderful video! I love how cozy your room is - so beautifully decorated, too! Your pumpkin loaf looks delicious. I just wish I liked pumpkin more. I always look forward to when you and your mom read out loud. Such a treat! Another comforting and inspiring Tea Reads- thank you so much for sharing! Must add more books to my TBR :D (Btw, I just finished reading 'The Stranger Diaries' and it was fantastic!) Happy Halloween weekend to you and your mom! xoxo :)
What a great combination of frightening and funny reads. When you were teaching, Miranda, did you work with younger children? You're reading was just delightful. I can envision a circle of enthralled little listeners at your feet. I just added a can of pumpkin to my shopping list...!
I love pumpkin bread… the first one I ever made pumpkin bread as a teenage with my mom we made it in coffee cans…. ❤️enjoyed your baking .. and the warm conversation about your holloween favorites❤️❤️
I'm watching this video two years later. I was delighted to learn that your recipe is from a Canadian well-known Company's Coming recipe book. I love pumpkin loaf and muffins. So enjoyed this video! Thank you.
Yay, I have that Daunt's edition of The Canterville Ghost which I got last year but never got round to sitting down to reading. Now is indeed the perfect time to read it! Thank you for reminding us to take/carve time out for ourselves to indulge in literary and sweet treats.
Oh, The Canterville Ghost was one of my favourite stories when I was little and I have not thought of it in years! I need to dig out my copy, had forgotten how brilliant it is. Thank you both, happy Halloween!
I know I've seen a film of the Canterville Ghost but haven't read the book. Another one to add to the list! Your reading was delightful. I'm definitely going to try the Pumpkin loaf cake recipe - I have a can of pumpkin puree in the cupboard which needs to be used. A ghost story I enjoy is 'The Ghosts' by Antonia Barber, it was made into a delightful film as The Amazing Mr Blunden.
What a lovely mother/daughter relationship; a treasure.
Thank you! We are very lucky! xxx
It was so fun to watch the expression on your mothers face as you read. She was captivated. I look forward to Friday...and spending time with you and your mother. Just delightful!
Haha, thank you very much! We do like having a laugh together xxx
Wish I could have tea and pumpkin bread with my mom please treasure each other
Hello Miranda and Donna🥰...this video was the ABSOLUTE BEST 😂😂....I laughed so hard, listening to you read from “The Canterville Ghost” and when Donna read OMG!!!🥰💕 it was so moving, going from laughing to feeling so deeply was AMAZING...and when you mentioned you Dad gave out the full size candy bars on Halloween, the kid in me would have found a way to circle back around to your house so I could end my trick or treating night with at least 3 full size candy bars😂😂...Have a great Weekend Miranda and Donna...thank you so much for this video🥰 oh I almost forgot....I’m making that pumpkin loaf... I just need to grab a can of pumpkin 😊
Love this comment, Kiki! Thank you so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed this episode. Hope you enjoy the pumpkin loaf if you give it a try 😃 xxx
Quick bread are fabulous! I love watching you ladies cook together! Beautiful relationship!
Thank you ☺️ xxx
So look forward to my Friday treat with you two gorgeous ladies. I cooked with you today to take to friends for a Halloween supper after tricking and treating with the little ones. Thank you for the care you take with everything you do.
That's so lovely to hear, thank you! I hope you had a wonderful weekend xxx
Oh my goodness, I must read all of these stories! Especially the P.G. Wodehouse. You and your mother look so cozy by the fire with your tea and books!
Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy the P G Wodehouse story as much as I do! xxx
Another lovely video! I love pumpkin, all through November and December is my pumpkin baking. I love pumpkin bread, pies, cakes, muffins, cupcakes etc., yummy! The books sound wonderful. I would love to read them. I love Nella last, her books are so good. I love diaries and hers are very good, and like Donna I love to pick up her books and read her diaries every so often. I hope both of you have a wonderful HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃
Thank you so much! Pumpkin recipes definitely are a huge part of autumn for me too. Glad to find another Nella Last fan 😊 xxx
Another great recipe. Can’t wait to try it out. Unintentionally on Halloween I made pumpkin risotto. Great tea reads. Always love seeing both you and your mum have a book chat and bake.
Thanks so much! Pumpkin risotto sounds delicious 🎃
How nice to know more books that are spooky but not scary! Today I backed the scones you have presented, in two versions, one with the fruits and another with bacon in small pieces and parmesan cheese. Delicious.Tommorow is the day for the second Dorset apple pie. Now I know that pumpkins are not only good for soups, new adventures with them are planned.I love the fridays more than the any other day of the week since you are doing these videos.Thank you!!😋😋😋😍😍😍
Thank you very much! Your scones sound delicious! Enjoy all your lovely baking :) xxx
Happy Halloween Greetings from Canada! My mom has a collection of the "Company is Coming" cookbooks, and she loves them for muffin recipes. Lovely to see them being showcased. Pumpkin loaf has always been a cherished recipe in our family. One of our favourite versions is to fold in just under a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips before adding the batter to the loaf pan. Chocolate & pumpkin are a match made in heaven! I highly recommend you give it a try one time. 🎃
Agreed, I like that combination.
That sounds great! Will definitely try adding chocolate chips sometime too. And how lovely that you know these cookbooks as well 😊 xxx
Thank you for the Halloween reading suggestions. I have never baked with pumpkin before, but I do love carrot cake & walnuts, so I will definitely give your recipe a go. I really look forward to ending my week with your Tea Reads videos, very grounding & inspiring!
So happy to hear that, Jane - thank you! 😊📚🧡
I love making a braided pumpkin yeast bread with crystallized ginger and golden raisins. I also managed to get some quinces, so I'll be making quince butter this weekend. I would definitely have been coming to your house as a child for the full size candy bars. Your choices for reading were wonderful. Such a good combination of funny, touching, and spooky! Happy Halloween!
Thanks so much Elizabeth! That braided bread sounds delicious - yum! xxx
What a hilarious video, it made me laugh out loud, I couldn’t stop chuckling, which drew some interesting looks from my family. I was watching with my AirPods in, it gave them a bit of start as I’d just been quietly curled up on the sofa 😂😂. Loved all the books, which I’d like to add to my collection, feel a challenge coming on with Honeysuckle Cottage 🤓. You and your mum are such a tonic in these crazy days of COVID confusion 😍. Not a spooky book, but I’m currently really enjoying reading Lady Audley’s Secret, it feels appropriate for the season, given its setting; whilst it has its dark moments, the style of writing has a real charm and a sense of whimsy at times too, I was hooked from the first page.
Haha, love to hear that! So glad we made you chuckle too. I do love these stories! Hope you had an enjoyable weekend xxx
Hello from Canada then! 🙋🏻♀️ You two seem to have travelled the world! The cake looks amazing and it’s definitely all pumpkin stuff right know! Tea, coffee, muffins, everything!
Thank you Julie! Yay for all the pumpkin goodies this time of year xxx
Hello Donna and Miranda, that looks such a delicious loaf thank you for another great Friday read and bake. Donna, I too got to know The Listeners by Walter de la Mare at school and still feel a spine tingling thrill whenever I read it as an adult. I don't know why but it has reminded me of the BBC's Singing Together which I loved as a small child in the 1960's and in particular the song "The Minstrel Boy" . The lines "The Minstrel boy to war has gone, in the ranks of death you'll find him, his father's sword he has girded on, with his wild harp slung along behind him" have stayed with me my whole life and the lyrics would make a great read at this time of year. Enjoy your Hallowe'en reading, Teresa 🍂🧡🎃💛📖🤎🍂
Thank you so much, Teresa! Must look up 'The Minstrel Boy.' Hope you had an enjoyable weekend xxx
Wonderful episode, Miranda and Donna! I enjoyed the extracts you read very much. The pumpkin cake looks delicious. I haven‘t come across canned pumpkin purée here in Germany, but I‘ll surely be able to order it online. I really must read The Canterville Ghost! Happy Halloween! 🎃🍂
Thank you, Marion! I would imagine tinned pumpkin is probably available online. Hope you manage to find some. And I so recommend The Canterville Ghost! xxx
Hi! I was thrilled to learn you're half Canadian! Lol. I'm Canadian as well. I love pumpkin everything at this time of year. I loved this video as usual, and I love how you include your mom in them. I was very close to my mom, but she passed away eleven years ago. I always enjoy seeing your mom and you talk, because it reminds me of my mom and I. I plan on finishing reading Wuthering Heights on Halloween night. Its my first time reading it and I'm loving it. Happy Halloween to you and your family, Miranda!
I'm so glad to bring back happy memories of your own mother. Thank you for your lovely comment! Hope you had an enjoyable weekend - Wuthering Heights is certainly a good pick for Halloween! xxx
BOOOOOO!! Happy Halloween! My husband and I buy the full sized candy bars too!! The kids LOVE it! Unfortunately not this year with Covid.....I am loving these baking videos! So fun! The mantel is so festive too! GREAT job! Your mom is such a delight! You gals will be having your own talk show like Oprah soon!!!
Haha, thanks so much Mamey! Hope you enjoyed your Halloween weekend, even though it was quiet xx
So much fun with your passionate reading Miranda! I used to read Goosebumps horror stories to my little brother and cousin but we always ended up laughing just like you and your mum😂🥰
Haha thank you! These stories make us both giggle 😂🧡📚
Another delightful Tea Reads episode. I thoroughly enjoyed the excerpts from both. I have never read The Canterville Ghost, and found your description of it almost as hilarious as the passage you read out Amanda! Donna’s reading from the wartime diary was very moving. As a mum who’s boys are now 21 and 18 I frequently remember funny or touching incidents from their childhood, and can not imagine the terror of sending sons off to war. I am very glad Donna explained that Cliff appears later in the diary under happier circumstances. X
I definitely recommend reading the rest of The Canterville Ghost, Penny! Such a funny story xxx
Wonderful video! I love how cozy your room is - so beautifully decorated, too! Your pumpkin loaf looks delicious. I just wish I liked pumpkin more. I always look forward to when you and your mom read out loud. Such a treat! Another comforting and inspiring Tea Reads- thank you so much for sharing! Must add more books to my TBR :D (Btw, I just finished reading 'The Stranger Diaries' and it was fantastic!) Happy Halloween weekend to you and your mom! xoxo :)
Thanks so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed The Stranger Diaries too! 😊
Just lovely! What a tonic!
Thank you! ☺️
I am so amazed that I can sit here in Adelaide and enjoy afternoon tea with you both. So so lovely, thankyou both so much. Love Colleen 💜💙
Our pleasure! Thank you! xxx
What a great combination of frightening and funny reads. When you were teaching, Miranda, did you work with younger children? You're reading was just delightful. I can envision a circle of enthralled little listeners at your feet. I just added a can of pumpkin to my shopping list...!
Haha, thanks so much, Pamela! Yes, I was a primary school teacher and mainly taught Reception. Hope you managed to get tinned pumpkin! xxx
As usual a lovely video and great book recommendations. Happy Halloween!
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it xxx
I love pumpkin bread… the first one I ever made pumpkin bread as a teenage with my mom we made it in coffee cans…. ❤️enjoyed your baking .. and the warm conversation about your holloween favorites❤️❤️
I'm watching this video two years later. I was delighted to learn that your recipe is from a Canadian well-known Company's Coming recipe book. I love pumpkin loaf and muffins. So enjoyed this video! Thank you.
I loved every excerpt! The Listeners is so perfect for Halloween--I'd never heard of it before, but I'll probably read it every year now! 🧡🕯🧡
It is such a fabulous poem! xxx
Yay, I have that Daunt's edition of The Canterville Ghost which I got last year but never got round to sitting down to reading. Now is indeed the perfect time to read it! Thank you for reminding us to take/carve time out for ourselves to indulge in literary and sweet treats.
Oh super - yes, this is certainly the time to read it. Such a fun read (and a beautiful edition of it) xxx
You are both such wonderful readers and communicators 🧡🧡
I’ve got the complete ghost stories book by Dickens from the London Library this week. It’s nice to read a book with a good binding .
Yes, their books are always beautifully bound
And, I love Donna's blouse.
Oh good! I bought it for her, and it arrived just this week so this video was its first ‘outing.’ I think she looks lovely in it 😊🧡
Miranda, cherish the memories with mum. I bake a pumpkin pie with phyllo dough as the crust and add nutmeg to my recipe.
Oh, The Canterville Ghost was one of my favourite stories when I was little and I have not thought of it in years! I need to dig out my copy, had forgotten how brilliant it is. Thank you both, happy Halloween!
Hope you found your copy, Georgia! It is such a fabulous story! xxx
@@MirandaMills I did, but I'm jealous of yours! I might invest in it as a little stocking filler (any excuse).
This is so funny in such a cosy atmosphere. Thank you!
What an adorable video! You two are such a charming mother/daughter duo!!
I know I've seen a film of the Canterville Ghost but haven't read the book. Another one to add to the list! Your reading was delightful. I'm definitely going to try the Pumpkin loaf cake recipe - I have a can of pumpkin puree in the cupboard which needs to be used. A ghost story I enjoy is 'The Ghosts' by Antonia Barber, it was made into a delightful film as The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Lovely video and excellent readings!
Glad you enjoyed them!
Happy Halloween from across the pond.
Thank you! And to you 🎃👻🖤🧡
Delightful blog - your joy is contagious - thank you 🎃
I want to send you two a spatula! Loving this all, so much.
Thanks so much, Julie! 😄🧡
I was thinking the exact same thing! I have various sizes. So handy to have in your kitchen.
@@lust8505 That's funny!
i really enjoy your video and you read my favorite one .
Glad you enjoyed it! xxx