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[curiouswombat]

What have I been up to? Well, there were teas at church, my cousin visiting for a week, including a nice meal out once some of the other bikers were on their way home so things were quiet, NYK2 and I spent an afternoon experimenting with making filled croissants, I have been knitting pink flowers, organising a picnic for a group of the Messy

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[debris4spike]

I love those flowers ... and a great thing to support ... Claire is more than happy to be celebrating 10 years cancer-free

[curiouswombat]

I will post a couple more pictures of the pink flower project later - I was helping with some of the sewing this morning :)

[shirebound]

I used to love scavenger hunts, and probably still would. :)

I'm eagerly looking forward to Sunday's Paralympics Marathon followed by the Closing Ceremonies.

What gorgeous and bright flowers! Love 'em.

[curiouswombat]

I told a couple of the children who did it that I am going to add a new rule next time - no more than 2 of your things can be a leaf!

They had to find something that was
• Round
• Yellow
• Plastic
• Longer than your toothbrush
• Smaller than a 1p coin
• Green
• Good to eat
• Leaf shaped
• Smooth
• That floats

As it was for children I thought that would be reasonably easy, but take a while. Caoimh found a leaf-shaped leaf - but also one longer than her toothbrush, another to be the thing that floats, a round one, and a yellow one!

[shirebound]

What fun!

[cairistiona7]

Those croissants look lovely. Do you make your own dough? Watching the baking shows where people make it from scratch, it always seems such a tedious and fraught process.

Life proceeding at a slow pace for me. I can't think of anything earthshaking enough to make you go over to DW to peruse my blog there, but you'd probably spot a caterpillar, turtle, or frog pic for your trouble. :D

[curiouswombat]

Do you make your own dough? - definitely no! Making croissant dough is like stuffing mushrooms - life is too short; Tescos is our friend! It was more the working out how to get the custard/cream filling in without splitting them that fascinated us.

I might well pop over and look at animal pics :)

[reapermum]

You're right about the Returnverse being a rabbit hole. And the others aren't far behind, I carried on to those. :-)

[curiouswombat]

Thank you - I am genuinely so pleased that you enjoyed them!

I have about 100 words of what should be the last chapter of Going Home written and have promised myself that I will get on with it this week.

[taz_39]

Jealous of those croissants! I still haven't mastered lamination, even for basic pie crusts.

Great job on those flowers :)

[curiouswombat]

We didn't make the croissant dough I'm afraid - we know from previous
experience that Tesco's do it nicely!

We were more interested in how to fill them with creamy fillings as they were not like almond paste or chocolate that could be baked inside. You have to wait until the croissants are cold, then if you make tiny incisions at both ends and insert a narrow piping nozzle you can gently fill them, and finally hide the incisions with the icing, we discovered.

[wiseheart]

I never make puff pastry myself, either. Lidl and Aldi have lovely versions, rolled out already, so one just has to cut and shape them.

[curiouswombat]

So much easier than trying to make it!