Haven't been condensing my tabs as I'd like, but that's because I've been mainlining Phryne Fisher mysteries for the last few days. I'd already read Cocaine Blues, The Green Mill Murder, Raisins and Almonds, Murder in the Dark and Murder and Mendelssohn - all completely out of order, mind you - so I've been going through and reading the others in ( Read more... )

And so, jam, the finale! I didn't take picture of the stirring and testing for set, because, as jam-makers know, that moment you choose to be inattentive is the moment the jam turns on youBut here is one pre-cooking shot, one obligatory jar shot, and a big picture of the recipe in the book I use. It should be large enough that you can click through ( Read more... )

Ordered a couple of balls of yarn off eBay to make up the difference in a project I'd run out of yarn for. The yarn is deleted, so Lincraft and Spotlight didn't have it any more. The delivery arrived today... and it's the wrong colourway. Not their fault; mine. I somehow forgot to check that the colourway number was right before I bought it. Found ( Read more... )

Literally; we're on a mattress on my mother's lounge room floor. It's pretty comfortable this time around ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I had all the energy, and today I had trouble getting off the couch. But I did make both jam and another banana loaf, so, not all bad.


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And I've felt like I have, unlike normally, when I either don't do things, or do do things, but feel like I haven't got anywhere near enough done.

But first: ( The Saga of the Nokia 920. )