K, this evening, I decided to make a steam pudding, and due to a rather dried out orange, it ended up being a lemon and orange steam pudding.

Which got us talking.
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On Monday evening. miss_s_b did, with a fair bit of help from Shrub and me, bake cupcakes. A sign that I'm getting naturalised is I'm now in the habit of calling them buns (mostly, admittedly, because Shrub gets confused otherwise). SB was in charge on Monday, because I'd not baked cakes for years (and years and years), and simply lack confidence in the ( Read more... )

This is a pretty good description of my friends list and feed reader this morning:

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How about you? Taking Jennie to work for an eight hour shift in abit, then back here-got a bit of a grotty cold so don't want to sit in the pub given we're doing that tomorrow for her birthday anyway. So, come on people, post stuff, amuse me ( Read more... )

What's your reaction to a chance to go on a decent rollercoaster? The reason I ask this is because we[ 1] went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach[ 2], and Jennie insisted on going on as many of the big fast rides as possible. At one point she observed to one of the crew "I'm not bothered, but he is"-meaning me. The thing is? I wasn't bothered, just really ( Read more... )

My daily digest of texts, tweets and status updates.

• 10:12 is wondering what colour the sky is where Mad Nad is from. She sounds so rational on the Radio until you pay attention to the words :-( #
• 20:52 is delivering leaflets with a 4 year old. She's much better than me. #

ETA: Nadine Dorries, referred to as "Mad Nad" was on Woman's Hour discussing ( Read more... )

My daily digest of texts, tweets and status updates.
( Sent by text from wherever I was at the time )

shrublette is attacking me with Mr Chompy. I blame innerbrat, damned silly dinosaurs.

Ah, it appears he prefers chocolate to humans, I'll buy him off with a chunk.

Contentment. Really. People reading the journal for more than 6 months are probably slightly confused by the complete lack of cynical bastard Mat that you've sort of got used to.

People that actually know me have seen me smile, randomly, at something that I've thought about. No prises for guessing what that normally is mind, but there y'go. SB ( Read more... )

See, the scariest thing about getting properly involved with snapesbabe, at least in the early stages, was meeting/getting to know shrublette, her recently 4-year-old. So I was very nervous the first time I stayed while she'd be there rather than at her Dad's. Her reaction?

( Having a 4-year-old fan )