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One of my kitchen timers lives in a mug. The cuteness of this monkey is out of the gate. Well, that's what I think.
Today this is an unusual collective noun for snails. At the time of Doctor Johnson, an escargatoire was a source of protein that was proliferated by the Romans.
Confusingly, the Roman snail (Helix pomatia) is a protected species in England, so goodness knows what is served in restaurants.
This is very special in this season. Springflowers in the winter. It gives the grey days some colors.
The first of my bulbs appear.
I bought a bag of bulbs in the market a while ago and potted them up for spring. This one seems keen to arrive early.
I have no clue what they will be.
I've been following Franceso Mattana's YouTube channel for a while and now I've bought his book. I've been divesting myself of many cookery books - I will never cook a gigot d'agneau, for example - but I suspect I will make many of the recipes here.
My time in Sardinia was one of the happiest and most fulfilling times in my career; the people were so kind and the countryside was breathtaking. And the food ...!
I have no intention of living till I'm a hundred but I hope to have some culinary fun in the meantime.
Sunday lunch needs be no more complicated than a bacon sammy.
Delicious, and more time to get outside to see interesting things.
one of several windows at Christchurch, Lancaster. I couldn't see any about them but I'd lay money that it's by Shrigley and Hunt. That green tint seems to be their signature.
I thought I'd try one of the YouTube air fryer recipes. This is for French apple cake. I forgot to include the milk in this shot.
2 eggs
50 g sugar
100 g plain flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp baking powder
50 ml milk
1 red apple, peeled and chopped
beat eggs and sugar till airy
add vanilla
combine flour, apple, milk, baking powder without knocking out the air
pour into a greased silicon dish
bake in air fryer for 30 mins at 160 deg C
turn out onto a rack to cool
decorate with icing sugar
Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1801 – 12 April 1866) was an English landowner, developer and Member of Parliament who founded the town of Fleetwood, in Lancashire, England.
Before its foundation, Fleetwood was described as a massive rabbit warren on huge snd dunes
This bust was made in Rome by Henry Behnes Burlowe.
Lancaster Priory as the sun goes down. The trees are bare, revealing the ancient parts of the Priory.
The title comes from the lyrics to Taps:
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Today the world celebrates World Typing Day, where we reflect on the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of typed communication.
This is my double-shot pudding keyboard in QWERTY layout, as invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1874 for his new-fangled Type-Writer. I have tried other layouts, including Dvorak, but always come back to this - it's hard to overcome muscle memory.
You might use QWERTZ, AZERTY, ŪGJRMV, ЙЦУКЕН, or another kind for your own language. But they all kicked off from QWERTY's original design and purpose (increase speed and acccuracy, and reduce the chance for typewriter mechanism to become jammed).
From the website:
This program is an audio-player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms.
It includes the visualizer and analyzer that you can see here; you can them off, ad lib. The equalizer is easy to use so that you can make the most of the speakers in your computer, or whatever you have connected. It's very efficient in terms of use of memory use. It runs nicely on my Mac, which is running GNU/Linux, and you can also get versions for FreeBSD and even Windows.
Torn crust and excessive crumbs mean my bread knife is blunt. A diamond coated rat tail file is more expensive than a new knife. When I was a child a man with a handcart used to come along our street each month and sharpen knives and tools for a few pennies. Where did such tradesmen go?
When writing letters was a thing it was common to see two post boxes together. One for local and one for foreign mail. Or a similar mix depending on the area. It probably costs too much to remove the redundant one of this well maintained pair.
These odd things are worn when having a brain scan (EEG).
The wall hooks made me smile.
The caps are soaked in brine to achieve good electrical contact. Sadly, the brine was quite cold.
The good news was that activity was detected. Even better was the cup of tea afterwards.
End-grain boards are forgiving to knives but need a little maintenance apart from regular cleaning. I've scrubbed, sanded, and disinfected my board. Re-oiled now and left to sink in overnight.
Some might compare this with Zen meditation. They might be right.
I'm not a train enthusiast but I enjoy seeing unusual trains. This Pullman train is painted in Nanking Blue. It's some kind of excursion rather than a scheduled service, and 'fine dining' is available onboard.
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The day after the death of James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, I noticed this on the side of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
My brief is to make food with supermarket ingredients. Today I made soup with canned chicken, sweet corn, and mushrooms.
This serving works out to be 95p including fuel, for 40 serves.
Spring onions (on special) added some color.
Added a cornflour slurry to thicken. Potato would do the same job.
White onions and garlic to frame the flavors.
Makes a change from all veggies and was received well.
It was a tedious session at work. No vibe at all. Bored to death. Cleaned down and went for a walk at the end of the shift.
I was so drained that I couldn't be bothered to do anything imaginative for tea. So here's chips, with some nice tomato sauce and grated cheese with peas. Not well balanced but easy and comfortable. And great with a glass of wine and a silly vampire movie!
The river Kent runs (confusingly for me) through Levens Deer Park, which is in south Cumbria. Here the river is wide and calm, but further upstream is some amazing white water, and a killer stopper. Some brave souls even kayak through that section. I prefer the calm and peace that is here.
Image taken for the trees on a beautiful day. I added it to the Instagram #5shotChallenge by @garethpon because it was perfect for a wicked flip! Lumiforms played a great role in adding light in the right places for abstract/illusion.
Another benchmark. This on the side of St John's Church, Lancaster.
Part of the survey and census of 1840.
I may get this as a tattoo sometime.
When i get anxious or overwhelmed i don't shut down; I clean. So last night i ended up cleaning the inside of the lab story cistern and accidentally broke off the ball of the ballcock. This morning i filed and gorilla glued the parts together and finished it with the hot glue gun. I "captured the moment" with this shot. It's a coping strategy.
The good news is that the loo is immaculate and the flush is even better than before 😁
The local water company had a pop up information stand at the local mall the other day. Giving useful advice to avoid freezing pipes and wasting water. They gave me this ice scraper 'free'.
Imagine my amusement to read that water bills are going up again, 'to cover investment in infrastructure'. The share price is up 30% over the year, so dividends should be up, too. I should be grateful for my piece of plastic.
I was feeling a bit out of shape this morning (yes, 'round' is a shape, but I'm not talking about that). But my shirt cheered me up no end with its cheerful label =]
"Camerados is a social movement – which really just means that there are lots and lots of us (from Baltimore to Blackpool) who think being a bit more human is a good idea. The movement started in 2015 and the main thing you’ll see us doing is opening Public Living Rooms in our communities – welcoming, no-agenda places for folk to sit down with a cuppa, have a chat, and feel more human."
https://camerados.org/what-is-camerados/