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Excited about my purchase of icing nozzles on Friday, I baked today. 24 plain cookies (using half the empire biscuits recipe from Hairy Bikers, Mum Knows Best) and 10 buns, 2 muffins (using Rachel Allen's Bake recipe ( Read more... )

RE: my last post about leaving the guinea pigs community. That thread received over 50 comments. People are still posting on it this week and its almost 2 weeks since I posted. Mostly they think I should be open to their "advice" and that I am a terrible pet owner for not being able to cope with their criticism. One person even posted "I checked ( Read more... )

X-posted to guinea_pigs

"I am leaving guinea_pigs. Every time I post something it seems I am wrong... I should not use lemon juice to stop them biting the plastic of their cage, I should never have kept pigs outdoors when I was a child (when I was only 10 and it was really my mother who was in charge), I should never feed them spinach, or cabbage, or now beets... just ( Read more... )

Science review starts tomorrow... I'm pissed about it, but I'll update with that later. Basically, I'm only giving myself one hour to plan this lesson... I am a good teacher. It's going to involve a keyword matching starter, planning an experiment(Thio and HCl), carrying out the experiment and then the calculations to find the rate of reaction. ( Read more... )

I've lost my phone ( Read more... )

Edited to add the HarryPotterBirthdayEngagement Cake
You asked for cake photos...

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Katie who I do chemistry tutoring for is 18 at the weekend, and her Mum has asked me to do make a cake for her and her twin brother ( Read more... )

Today is apparently Blue Monday, Wikipedia tells me that... according to a press release by a mental health charity, the formula is:


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So I checked the status of my order on Amazon... and it says delivered... Odd that since it's not at my house, and no card was on the mat when I got home. Signed for by someone called Mountain... whoever that may be. And if it was one of the neighbours (that I don't really know) why haven't they knocked on to give it to me? I've checked the back ( Read more... )