A lot of good things, maybe even most good things, come about slowly. I have been thinking about this a lot after I posted on slow and steady knitting, and began applying the slow, steady idea to other things in my life. Take Pongo, my beloved sourdough starter. Way slower than a package of [...]
Also tagged awesome, croissanty goodnessI sometimes wonder if I have some sort of pathological compulsion to verb-ify nouns (I think I just did it again). Bandwagonning: to jump onto a bandwagon of some sort.
I, like 98% of the international blogging community, will be doing NaNoWriMo this year. I do it most years, and I really enjoy it. [...]
Okay, I’m going to spend a couple of paragraphs explaining what I’ve been up to lately, but bear with me: there’s knitting stuff coming up.
On Friday, our orgy of packing and boxing and cleaning climaxed with Moving Day (there’s a metaphor that probably should have been shot in its early development). I have moved house [...]
I realise the claim that I am a bold and innovative thinker is not supported by my question “what is normal?”, but given that there’s already some debate as to whether or not I am a thinker at all, let alone what kind, I’m happy to simply skim past that debate like a dieter skims [...]
Also taggedI love Random X-day posts. They’re like a get-out-of-jail-free card for blogging.
1. I don’t care that the calendar still says August, it is totally spring here. Observe the following evidence:
the ornamental cherry and pear trees have all begun blossoming;
the frosts have stopped;
this morning I left the house without a coat and did not regret it [...]
We had some bad news this week. And then it became even worse news; almost the worst; and bad enough that it filled my eyes with hot black fire and made me feel hate like I have never felt. There are, of course, some things about which I can do nothing. And when the angry [...]
Also tagged shitYou probably noticed. I love cooking. Behold my mini-bagels, ye mortals, and despair.
Using my standard bagel recipe, I simply made tiny ones! Before I mixed and rose the dough, I divided the quantities into two: half had a dash of cinnamon and maple syrup added, and the other had finely minced dill and spring onions [...]
Also taggedWeekend performance review.
Cooking
Sourdough making: 17 points. (50 points for starting first sourdough bread dough; -25 points for forgetting to feed the starter; -20 points for the dud dough which did not produce bread; +12 points for coming up with name “Pongo” for the starter — have renewed zeal for maintaining starter culture)
Yoghurt making: 30 points. [...]
So my yoghurt-making experiment hasn’t been going as well as I’d like. I can get the milk scalded okay, and get the culture going, but after that, I’m having trouble keeping it at a stable temperature. My first batch I kept in the oven, at an ultra-low temperature, turning it off every so often and [...]
Also taggedI cleaned out my study today, and hell yes, it felt good. I can see my desk and it is much, much bigger than I remember. I recycled printouts and essays from my first semester of my Masters degree (that would be 2007), not to mention thousands of used envelopes with cryptic and archaic comments [...]
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