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Swedish-style Cinnamon Sweet Rolls
The actual Swedish recipe I got this from includes a tablespoon of cardemon but, with a mutter of 'Those wacky Swedes', I ignored that. This is my version (and are the rolls I brought to sushidog's tea party the other week). I've just made another batch. Well it's a bank holiday, gotta have baked goods on a bank holiday weekend.
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Dispatches
Saturday - A quiet day with silenttex (referring to spending quiet time with silenttex always sounds like it should be a pun, it isn't), we spent most of the day with our feet up watching Battle of the Planets. Not a bad way to spend your free time.
Sunday - 4th Great LJ pieoff - I won! Strudel Surprise came first in the Faux Sweet category, and there was stiff ( Read more... ) -
Five inches left...
I've just updated my books list ( here). My total is now 57 books and 65 inches, giving me just 5 inches left to read my goal of reading my height in books. I recently bought the last part of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and we have a bank holiday weekend coming up in which I plan to gorge myself on all seven parts, so I expect I'll have reached ( Read more... ) -
Dispatches
Saturday - Day of BakingTM. Cinnamon macaroons and cinnamon sweet bread rolls baked successfully. Recipes to follow. I shall be making these again! Mmm... cinnamonny goodness...
Sunday - I was planning to attend flickgc and drplotka's picnic, but rain stopped play. Later on in the day I headed down to sushidog's - past the crime scene, where SOCOs in overalls and masks ( Read more... ) -
Pirates of the Caribbean II - a quick review...
Much like the Back To The Future trilogy, this middle part is overly long, has a confused plot, isn't as much fun as the first movie and appears to serve only to set up the third movie ( Read more... ) -
Dispatches
Saturday - House to myself. All day. Got up after silenttex and cookwitch left for the day and went to bed before they came back. Aside from the cat: complete, blissful solitude. Dinnerladies is superb, excellently written and acted, it is both hilarious and moving in the right measures. Victoria Wood is a comedy god. I can see why trampledamage loves it so much.
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Cars - a review, no spoliers
Went to see Cars on Monday and can report that it is fabulous! Ignore all the critics telling you this is Pixar's first dud. It so isn't. For sure, it's not at the level of Toy Story, but it's darned entertaining.
Before I get to mentioning the characters or the plot, I have to eulogize the animation. It is astoundingly good. Remember back when ( Read more... ) -
The $2.13 million comma!
This is my kind of news: Stray comma may cost Canadian firm $2.13 million.
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Ten Songs...
Last week, mitchy was propagating a music meme and, ever one to jump on a passing bandwagon, I asked for a letter. She gave me T. I was originally concerned that I wouldn't be able to remember any songs I like, but then I hit on the cunning plan of asking my iPod. Unfortunately my iPod, while very cute and excellent at providing me with music I like to ( Read more... ) -
Dispatches in the early morning...
Saturday - Lovely afternoon out at Richborough Fort with silenttex. Had a fab time wandering the ruins trying to understand the directions from the audio guidebook - it did get a bit Choose Your Own Adventure at times: you are standing in front of a ditch, ahead of you you can see steps leading down and to your left is an information panel... On the way ( Read more... )