I've made this year's Christmas pudding mix. Everyobody have a virtual stir and make a wish!

I just stopped posting this summer. Blame Twitter (I'm @fechtbuch there too), blame the softball team stopping posting to or reading the team's blog so I stopped writing match reports. Blame whatever ( Read more... )

Bought Christmas pudding ingredients today, and made puddings this afternoon. Just need more stirring and cooking, now. As always, feel free to have a virtual stir and make a wish.

Christmas puddings made now - the mixture just needs stirring. As always, you're all invited to have a virtual stir and make a wish.
for the stout component of the recipe, I used a little of the Goff's Black Knight Porter I was kindly given by WW the other week. Am now reluctantly finishing the rest of the bottle off - well, wouldn't want it to ( Read more... )

Well, after leaving unplugged till yesterday morning, internet's back up. For now.
Met up with London Renegades inkognitoh, silverjet_allie and Pete on friday for drink and natter. Went to the Railway Tavern, liverpool St, where we were herded to the Engine Room. This being a loud, disco-like place, we moved on. And anyway, ships have "engine rooms", trains don't. We ( Read more... )

Well, I'm sort of back online, with advice from various people and websites. Still not right, though. Couldn't repair damage to XP Home installed on my PC, which didn't come with a disk version in case of problems. Had to install a cracked Windows XP Professional from a disk my mate AT gave me ages ago, and I'm now infested with malware. Also ( Read more... )

Yes, it's Christmas pudding making time again.  I'm making puddings as usual.
For the third year running, I'm inviting everyone to have a virtual stir of the pudding mix and make a wish.  Don't tell anyone your wish, or it won't come true.

After softball on Saturday, we went to the George for beer and food (gourmet fish finger sandwiches, and very tasty fries). Had a good natter. More nickname ideas (somehow, Alison's "Fordo" nickname mutated into "Frodo"). I thought Peter should be "Shoeless Joe". LH batter, RH fielder, low-ball hitter. And he likes Field of Dreams ( Read more... )

Went up to the Midlands this weekend.  Enjoyed my mum's company and her conversation (sample: "do you remember when we came back from Wales in all that snow, the year before you were born?").  Made more Christmas puddings, and had first home-made mince pies of the season.  Started Xmas shopping, too ( Read more... )

Just made Christmas puddings.  Lovely smell of spices and fruit and alcohol from the kitchen now ( Read more... )