Lotta pictures ’round here. As I mentioned previously, if anyone can persuade me to rock the slow-rise bread, it’s Bertinet. Having let my lush, silken dough rise for 90 minutes, it was time for shaping. I took about two-thirds of the enormous dough the recipe produced and divided it into ten lumps. After a short [...]
Tagged adventures in cooking, awesome, bread…doing things we always wanted to! Well, faithful chums, M and I are off for a month to New Zealand. I can’t wait. We depart tomorrow morning, so consider this your official warning that this here blog is going to take a one-month hiatus while I prowl around the wilds of NZ, getting my boots [...]
Tagged etc.I’m afraid the blog is on hold at the moment while I deal with a small crisis in my little world. Hope to be back soon.
Tagged UncategorizedSo there’s a group on Ravelry which is doing a NaKniSweMo dodecathlon. Which is a fancy way of saying that they’re taking the NaKniSweMo idea and multiplying it by twelve. NaKniSweMo is, of course, an adaptation of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, where you write 50,000 words in the month of November). I personally think [...]
Tagged UncategorizedThe blog is currently on hiatus while M and I deal with a family crisis. I’ll be back soon.
Tagged UncategorizedSorry about the hiatus, chums. I wish I could say that my life has been so glorious and hectic and dazzling that I’ve been kept away from the keyboard, but frankly, that’s not the case. I’ve just been doing other stuff. Things I Have Been Doing: Finished reading the Harry Potter series. When I was [...]
Tagged UncategorizedDid you ever do one of those “personality” quizzes? When I was in high school, these pseudo-psychological things were all the rage in the vaguer classes such as “social studies” and “health”. Now that I’m a grown-up and occasionally get bundled off to training courses for work, I’ve learned that they’re still kicking around. They’re [...]
Tagged UncategorizedThis picture shows the clouds on the ground one morning this winter. My Dad took this picture, and I think it’s beautiful. Winter scenery never ceases to enchant me.
Tagged UncategorizedSo I cook a lot. I knit a lot. And I have a compulsion to write about both: but as a blog reader myself, I know that a good blog post is one with piccies in it, so I try to photograph everything. I’m not a very good photographer: I have a great little camera [...]
Tagged UncategorizedFinally the autumn weather is upon me! I love autumn; the crisp mornings and evenings, the clear blue days, the ‘whoomp’ as the central heating kicks in at about 6:30 in the morning and wakes me up. I love the way the air smells in the mornings, and I love it when there’s a moderate [...]
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