I woke up this morning to feel Sunday and thunder in the air. The thunder was right, but not the day. Mid-week public holidays are very confusing.

I used my day off to make zucchini brownies. I used vegetable oil instead of coconut oil and they worked well. Next time (and there will have to be a next time, as there was another five zucchini today ( Read more... )

I didn't think I had anything to write today, but then I saw the dog breed for today's title. Amazing coincidence: tonight I watched the first episode of a new series about kelpies, in which five kelpie pups from the same litter are being trained up as cattle/sheep dogs ( Read more... )

Today's haul:


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A bit of excitement today: my bi-monthly cheese box arrived. This month ( Read more... )

A Christmas story ( Read more... )

According to an advertisement I saw, today, 24 November, is National Fairy Bread Day. An advertisement by the company that makes the vital ingredient of fairy bread, so I was all prepared to scoff, but it turns out they are using it as a fundraiser for a mental health charity so... kudos ( Read more... )

I have spent all day on Zoom meetings. Not much to write about there, so here's a question meme about cakes.

What’s your favorite cake?When I was little, my mother had a recipe book bought as a fundraiser for something or other. Recipes from the hospital auxiliary or some such. That had a simple chocolate cake in it that we made so often that the ( Read more... )

I have been a little flat these last few weeks. Stage 3 lockdown again (plus masks this time) + audit + the bleak midwinter (it snowed within 100km of the City by the Sea the other day!). So I've made an effort this week to do something fun, or at least constructive and not work-related, every day.

Sunday
The very lovely emma2403 sent me a carton of sirop ( Read more... )

End of financial year business has been keeping me occupied these last few weeks. I'm not in charge of organising end of year stuff in this job, just doing pieces of work as required; but being in local government, there are a good few more statutory pieces of work required. Plenty to do ( Read more... )

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