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Bedroom, Baking. Bored, Bolognese`

Things I did at the weekend part umpty-two. Not all B-words were performed at once.

Er, last weekend. This is about a week late by now…

It all started off simply enough on Saturday when Jan and I decided we really should clean under the bed properly (we’d been putting it off quite long enough for fear of what beasts might be lurking there in). I could post pictures of the frankly disgusting blackness we’d been hiding ourselves away from but I don’t want to disturb anyone more than necessary. Suffice to say we set about attacking it armed with water, bleach and a mop. Nobly I dipped the mop into the the bucket of diluted bleach, lifted it out—and the mop head promptly fell off, with perfect comedy timing. These things just happen to me. Turns out the mop was a bit too old, and had corroded away at the base. So it was off to a local hardware store for a new mop and, as we were there, a new brush and even a better bucket. (A proper hardware store at that, with bits of chain, screws and unidentifiable things in its Aladdin’s cave interior. It’s not even the only one nearby).

Suitably armed we (well, mainly me as we only had one set of marigolds) set about the task, with mop and scrubber. What a wonderful way to spend a Saturday (warning: previous sentence may not be true). The best part was probably that moving around the furniture in the bedroom to make room for all this cleaning did reveal Jan’s thought lost disposable camera, so she may now actually finish the film off and we can find out what forgotten captured moments are on it.

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Another Sunday, Another Bake

As I seem to be documenting baking more than anything else here at the moment, this weeks efforts were an apple and blackberry pie I more or less made up and a banana loaf from Nigella’s Domestic Goddess:

Quickly - To Mars!

We really need to get that Mars programme rolling to go and bring the poor little rover home*. Seriously though; given it was supposed to last 90 days, it’s been one hell of a successful mission!

It’s just possible that my youth may have been overly influenced by such things as Short Circuit, Doctor Who’s K9, and friendly robots like Twiki. I think that Spirit deserves to be brought home, or at least have a museum built around it so the nasty Martian dust won’t bother its solar cells.

Domestic God

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As I had a recent birthday the wonderful Pixie presented me with How to be a Domestic Goddess as Nigella Lawson does lots of cakey goodness :-)

Of course, I had to test some things out at the weekend. A cake (lemon and almond), lovely snickerdoodles, and, just for the hell of it, some fairy cakes!

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Penguins Shouldn’t Be Kicked

nkp.jpgHow had I missed this so long. No Kicking Penguins. Brilliant! Mam would have wanted a t-shirt.

Previously...

Other Posts on General

  1. Info Dump
  2. Baking - Weeks 3 and 4
  3. Delayed Delivery
  4. Baking - Week 2
  5. As I Like It
  6. Three Times Here, Three Times This
  7. Mad March Message
  8. Stuck
  9. A New Post For The New Year
  10. Night Train
  11. The Sun Has Got It Is Hat On
  12. A Couple Of Icons
  13. Beat Of The Heart
  14. Welcome, Tourists
  15. I'm Sick Of Using Random In Title
  16. Just A Quick Note
  17. Hope This Ends Up Making Sense
  18. There's No Internet In 1913
  19. Not The Post It Was Going To Be
  20. Is That What's Missing
  21. Where's The Fat Controller
  22. Voice Over Man
  23. Time Of The Month
  24. Potty?
  25. Why Not...And More
  26. Imaginary Staircases
  27. Windmills On The Mind
  28. Still No Robin Hood
  29. These Bloody Dragons
  30. A General Update Post Thingy
  31. Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo (Tom)
  32. Work, Work, Work
  33. Can Anyone Identify This?
  34. One Of Those I Ain't Dead Posts
  35. So I'm Probably As Guilty But What The Hell
  36. I Have A PhD You Know
  37. An Edifice
  38. Red Light (Please)
  39. Feline Secrets
  40. Arrrr Missed It
  41. Ssschhhmap
  42. Have I Failed To Notice Anything Important?
  43. Some Follow Up, Some New Stuff
  44. Come Back Murray!
  45. Mancolgia
  46. More BBC Tele Stuff
  47. BBC Needs Two Archives
  48. Alan Johnson, Man Of Many Talents
  49. Will The BBC Acknowledge Linux?
  50. Logo(error)ed
  51. Stop Press: A Vaguely Science Post!
  52. Meow LOL PURR
  53. Been To Nottingham To See, Er, Ed
  54. Been To London To See The Queen
  55. Praise The Sorter
  56. Seen This Before
  57. My Hugo 2007 (Short Formats) Winners
  58. James In Newcastle: A Review
  59. James Gig Tonight
  60. You'd Think A Library Would Have A Web 101 Book
  61. What's 24 Hours, Here Or There?
  62. Encrypted Post 2007-04-08
  63. This Is George
  64. On The Black Squares Move I
  65. Tick Tock, Tick Fucking Tock
  66. Where Was Ski Sunday
  67. Sugar Up
  68. £235
  69. Bachelor Of The Ridiculous
  70. There Is No Secret
  71. Smoking Is A Stupid Way To Take Drugs
  72. Campbell Shrew
  73. The Seaside
  74. Eaten By Dragons
  75. Into A Virgin Sky
  76. It's Uncle Tony Again
  77. The Prime Minister Just Spammed Me
  78. More Flickr Favourites And Me
  79. You Know You've Been Using A Keyboard Too Much When...
  80. Photo Map
  81. Photos
  82. How To Do Good Public Relations
  83. Four Letter Words
  84. Brighton Avenue!
  85. Into The Dark
  86. Info (On)Line
  87. Cat Vision
  88. Fighting Back
  89. Bah
  90. It Must Be Christmas
  91. Time For Torchwood
  92. They'll Investigate Any Old...
  93. Invisible Shoes? I Wish They Were
  94. The Best Gadget Of All Time
  95. They Keep Killing Torchwood
  96. Seen This Before
  97. The Classics?
  98. SciFiCide
  99. Flickering Fairy Torches
  100. Energy Barrier (Or I Just Want To Read About The Moon)
  101. CyberTorch
  102. Ghosts In The Machine?
  103. Train (On)Line
  104. A Six Word Story You Say?
  105. TorchGood
  106. A Collection of Unrelated Things I Thought To Post Today
  107. Hic-UP
  108. Why The Trains Are Always Late
  109. Almost Peeing Myself :-)
  110. Encrypted Post 2006-09-04
  111. The Farn
  112. The Sun Is 100 Degrees...
  113. Told You So
  114. Literary Ghosts
  115. Some of Us Still Cry Out
  116. At Least They Worked Out Somethings Wrong
  117. It Wasn't Me!
  118. Stream TV Pay TV
  119. Cup Of Tea
  120. This Entry Is A Bit Like A Car
  121. Off The Rails
  122. PowerGen Are Incompetent
  123. More LloydsTSB
  124. LloydsTSB Online Banking
  125. Free Rolling
  126. Talk to Each Other, Maybe?
  127. Flickr Favourites And Me
  128. Mother, Is That You?
  129. A Map for the Future
  130. In Space No One Can Hear Bugs Bunny
  131. Everythings Fine
  132. PC Licence
  133. Slight Album Upgrades
  134. Saddened
  135. Give 'S A Hug
  136. Light Bulbs Needed Be Taxing
  137. See That Band Waggon
  138. Ghaa
  139. See/Don't See
  140. Photographs of Ghosts
  141. May Contain Nuts
  142. Treacle Moon, Bum De Bum De Bum
  143. Mince Pies!
  144. More Broken Telewest
  145. I've Got Feedback For You
  146. It's LEGO Not Legos
  147. Telewest TV Email Broken Interface
  148. Blue over Pink
  149. Achoo
  150. Zap!
  151. Not So Terror-able MPs
  152. Photographs
  153. Bang, Fizzle, Woo
  154. Paris Is Burning
  155. Billboard Dreams
  156. A Small Entry
  157. Rubbish
  158. Mmmm Chocolate
  159. I'm Not Interested: Live With It
  160. One of the Good Ones
  161. Illness
  162. That Might Make Me Old
  163. Chocolate
  164. We Don't Do Terror
  165. Olympics
  166. A Quick Update
  167. Loft Clearance
  168. Bit Busy
  169. What is Ticky-Tacky Anyway?
  170. Identify Your Objection
  171. 21 Years Late
  172. Stormy Reception
  173. Paper Butterflies
  174. Rumble Grumble
  175. Please Hold (On To Sanity)
  176. I Want to Abstain
  177. Verbal Spam
  178. Punctured
  179. Around the World
  180. I'd Watch That
  181. Trust Me
  182. Pancakes
  183. Terrifying
  184. Urrrh
  185. Dreaming
  186. Mousing
  187. Black Coffee
  188. OUCH
  189. Street Heritage
  190. Things I've Noticed
  191. Hello
  192. Merry Christmas
  193. Later
  194. Evolve
  195. Good Riddance
  196. You Know When...
  197. Unacceptable
  198. There Be Dragons
  199. Funny Science
  200. Fireworks
  201. Election
  202. Bloody Cyclists
  203. Make a Wish
  204. Serial No. 1984
  205. Rich Puddy
  206. Arrrr
  207. Haunting Technology
  208. Attacked by Furniture
  209. Timely Irony
  210. Ok, That'll Do
  211. Wet
  212. HOT
  213. Pass the Jelly Babies After All
  214. Bushed
  215. Movie Arachnoids
  216. A Momentous Day
  217. Graveyard of the Wasp
  218. Hic-Up Cure
  219. No ExtermiNation
  220. Ouch. Note to Self
  221. Buzz, Spark, Smoke
  222. Lost Under The Paper
  223. Towel Day
  224. Busy, Busy, Busy
  225. <15? Look away now
  226. Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics*
  227. (Not Quite) Exterminate
  228. Fish and Chips
  229. Segway, Transport...and Football

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Who:
Dr Ian Scott
Where:
Croydon (and Gateshead), United Kingdom
Contact:
ian@norcimo.com
What:
Bullding Services Engineer (EngDesign), PhD in Physics (University of York), football fanatic (Newcastle United), open source enthusiast (mainly Mozilla)

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