Awww, thanks for the welcome back, my sweets. I feel lurved, and I lurve you all back. And I hope I will find the fortitude to stick around for a while
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Re: Happy Hallowe'en!nightwind69November 1 2011, 19:00:14 UTC
Yeah, what is it with overzealously-protective parents? They seem to rejoice in sucking the fun out of their children's lives. :p I suppose trick-or-treating is going the way of Christmas caroling, which was one of my favorite childhood activities... 'Tis a shame.
Parkin! Gimme! I should learn how to make it myself, but I've discovered, much to my dismay, that baking is a dicey thing at my altitude. I'm not an inept baker, but anything that has to be even slightly cakey/bready just doesn't seem to work very well up here. :P Ah well, that one bad thing about living at high altitude is greatly outweighed by all the good things, I guess. A massively efficient cardiovascular system that can run on even when there's only one or two oxygen molecules present is a nice thing to have. *laughs*
Re: Happy Hallowe'en!jalaperiloNovember 2 2011, 00:04:37 UTC
I'm at sea level, so I have no excuse for crap baking. I've tried my hand at parkin a few times, but it's a bit sub-standard. I can't get the oats and treacle right. Slowly getting better at it though, whereas if I make brownies a lot they get poorer in quality, so that's a once in a while thing. Fudge was an epic fail. I make a beautiful victoria sponge cake (which it so simple, it's idiot-proof so it's not really an achievement)
I only had one family (three trick or treaters, but they were all baby cousins) come to my house, but my excuse is that I live in the sticks, not parental apathy.
Should've asked the oldest if he was Ozzie Smith (dressed as a Cardinals player) and watched the confusion commence. He's 8, wouldn't have a clue.
I made up bags for trick-or-treaters. I gave out two yesterday for two of the neighbor kids. One's about ready to have a baby so I technically only got ONE trick-or-treater myself.
I had quite a few, and had fun sitting in my 'suit on my porch unmoving and scaring the everliving DAYLIGHTS outta them when they took candy outta the bowl on my lap. I was mostly pretty gentle about it, except for the little sh*ts who tried to grab handfuls instead of one piece as my sign asked.
After a couple of hours, though, I got cold, tired, and my contacts were *killing* me, so I called it quits.
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We had two turn up at Ma's house. We reckon we had more, but the door bell is too high for the little ones to notice, lol.
We had parkin. :P Bakery bought cause mam wasn't well, but still good. I'm definately gonna perfect a recipe and send you some!
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Parkin! Gimme! I should learn how to make it myself, but I've discovered, much to my dismay, that baking is a dicey thing at my altitude. I'm not an inept baker, but anything that has to be even slightly cakey/bready just doesn't seem to work very well up here. :P Ah well, that one bad thing about living at high altitude is greatly outweighed by all the good things, I guess. A massively efficient cardiovascular system that can run on even when there's only one or two oxygen molecules present is a nice thing to have. *laughs*
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Should've asked the oldest if he was Ozzie Smith (dressed as a Cardinals player) and watched the confusion commence. He's 8, wouldn't have a clue.
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I'm too far out in the country.
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After a couple of hours, though, I got cold, tired, and my contacts were *killing* me, so I called it quits.
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