It takes a lot to get me off my island and into Kirkwall. Most times when I think about going I end up saying that I really don’t need anything that badly, and I stay home. The general idea is that I go on a semi-regular basis to buy some of the things that I …
Monthly archives: March 2014
Patum Peperium
“Spread thinly, on toast” I don’t know about the toast but I do feel as though I am spreading myself a bit thin just now — and this blog is showing the signs of it. I had a day in town yesterday and am feeling tired and strung out so I thought I’d reward myself …
Grrrrolls
The Tiger rolls that I made this morning looked terrible and all but burned. It was with trepidation that I yielded the bread knife this evening. Amazingly, they were fine on the inside. We ate two each. The “High-baked” examples have been left for soup-dunking tomorrow. Important Note to Self: do not attempt to bake …
Serious Weirdness
I am having a nightmare day. I all but burned my bread this morning. Since lunch everything that could go wrong has done so. Now the web sever seems to have thrown a paddy. This site may disappear. If it does, it is not intentional and I shall attempt to keep disruption to a minimum. …
Less is very possibly more
A searing pain in my left eye blasted me awake this morning with uncivilised zeal. The awareness of nausea followed soon after. I groaned and pulled the duvet up over my head, and tried to turn my attention to the day ahead. Good, sufficient bread left to cater for tea today, so no need to …
Life goes on
I’m failing to fit everything in again so we have a brief summary once more. I’ll try to keep the more interesting points up front. We have acquired a second-hand Roomba. So far it has failed to produce the anticipated hours of cat hilarity. Treacle is really rather cool and laid back about it. Teddy …