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It's Friday so that means it's soup time for a crowd. The biggest challenge is getting the soup to reduce in time without cooking out the flavors. This one seems to be on track.
The scourge of pavement chewing gum.
In 1992, the sale of chewing gum in Singapore was banned during the government of PM Goh Chok Tong. This was in response to vandals placing gum over the door sensors on the MRT trains, which was inconvenient and very expensive to fix.
Contrary to popular belief, when the same idea was presented to PM Lee Kwan Yew, he felt a total ban was too drastic.
(Today one can buy 'dental health gum' but be careful where you dump it - or you could pick up a $2000 fine!
What should i do with these green tomatoes? I'm thinking an interpretation of salsa verde. Not enough to bother making a chutney.
I looked up to see the lovely clear sky, and noticed this mast, bedecked with folded and directional dipoles, microwave dish, etc and wondered why I had zero phone signal.
I have some nice baclava on the cold shelf. But it can wait for another day. Here's the leftover ice cream from the other day. Easy and tasty even if it looks a complete mess!
Washing up done. Coffee drunk. Greetings exchanged. Time to sit and listen to some music.
I hope you all had an excellent lunch too 👍
Like the mountain, K2, when you look at the queue for Wimbledon tennis snaking down the street and covering Wimbledon Park, it must seem like an impossible dream to get to the end.
Here is my first loaf baked with Bulgarian white flour. It looks ok to my eyes but the taste is outstanding. I'll buy this flour again.
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In a corner of the library is a tea and cake stand, run by volunteers from the Firiends of Lancaster Library. After a morning at work, a slice of coffee and walnut cake with a nice cup of coffee was what I needed. Looking up at the ceiling, I noticed these words. I thought they were rather fun.
Intorduce more members to Readers Union and yu could claim a Conway Stewart fountain pen. Notably, Winston Churchill favored a Conway Stewart. They still make pens, with buttery-smooth gold nibs, but they are somewhat more expensive today than 25 shillings.
A Saint George's cross has been daubed onto a memorial. The first I've noticed in the City of Sanctuary. I despise the way in which this symbol has been weaponized recently. Flags have always stirred deep feelings and baser emotions.
Polari is seldom heard in this area. Or so I thought. But have you ever zhuzhed up your place before visitors arrive? Well that's a polari word. Argot, slang, dialect, have always fascinated me.
As for Gertrude Stein's book, Food, it is not a recipe book. Now I need to find a copy of the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. it contains some seriously interesting recipes.
The Bookish Type is a lovely bookshop in Leeds. Their mail order service is excellent. I hope to see their dolly eeks before too long.
A bee visits some common ragwort.
This plant is potentially lethal to horse and cattle but is the natural feeding plant for the cinnabar moth, whose numbers are down considerably in the last few years. This particular plant was also full of bees doing their pollination job. Humans should not touch this plant either as it can cause rashes and other irritations.
As I stood next to it in the sunshine, there was the most amazing smell of honey coming from it.
This day last year a friend from Hong Kong served me with this delicious mint tea.
Where the is, I hope he's doing well.
By midday my kitchen had reached this balmy temperature and the relative humidity had actually dropped to this number.
No bread-making today.
In case you are wondering why I don't turn a heater on, consider these numbers:
Household electricity prices (2024) in US $ per KWh
Italy 0.43
Ireland 0.41
Denmark 0.36
Belgium 0.35
Germany 0.35
United Kingdom 0.35
France 0.30
Australia 0.26
Kenya 0.26
Netherlands 0.25
Uruguay 0.23
Spain 0.21
United States 0.18
China 0.08
Russia 0.05
Saudi Arabia 0.05
Turkey 0.05
Venezuela 0.05
Qatar 0.03
I'm thinking of laying an extension cable to Doha for some cheap power!
And behold, some coffee spoons! Someone's wedding gift from decades past? Who can tell. I don't think they've been used ever. For a paltry pound I couldn't pass them by.
I love the mauve coffee beans. An odd choice of shade, but why not!
A pilgrimage from Lancaster Castle to the memorial stone of the 15 Lancaster martyrs ended with Holy Mass.
From 1534 to 1791 it is was illegal to celebrate the Catholic Mass, be a priest, or follow Catholic faith in England. Punishments were brutal.
This is a portable altar stone, chalice and patten that would have been used in secret during this time of prohibition and persecution, being easy to hide or carry from place to place.