- I made cupcakes with housemate N and then we sat and decorated them. I hadn't played with fondant before.  It was the most birthdayish thing I've done this year.

( Results were nice )

Very lovely weather. Cat asleep in the cat tower. The Baseballs on the radio. I'm in the kitchen with the big industrial fan blazing away the heat and I'm baking Interesting cakes (ginger-coffee and chili-honey-chocolate) and everything smells good and I'm trying to note these moments when they happen.

The first batches of mead are starting to become really pleasantly drinkable. More about that on the mead blog

This morning I went to the recycle centre and found a 500gr ball of colourful yarn for yarnbombing purposes (for €1.50), and then to the market, where I got Elstar apples and very ripe raspberries. Now I have made raspberry and apple ( Read more... )

This morning I was at the stable at 10 because the equine dentist was coming. Rowan didn't need any work, which was nice. It was very sunny (hurt-my-eyes sunny in fact) and though it was cold and windy too I enjoyed being outside for a while to lunge-work the powney. I rode bareback for about 10 minutes too - only to walk him out, but he was solid ( Read more... )

1) Tentative schedule for the shower situation is: seal and reshape tomorrow, tiling saturday, sealing again on sunday, drying on monday, back in use on tuesday.

2) I have about 900 teabags now. *hugs Karen and Ali*

Burn Party: ritual burning of meat, soy and university paperwork. We went to the river, dragging a bbq and firewood and lots of food & some booze with us, and ate yummy things and then made a lovely little fire and I burned a stack of uni paperwork, just copies of things and notes and general accumulation of I-better-save-that-they-might-want-it- ( Read more... )

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