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I made some muffins yesterday, blueberry ones that came in a pack with idiot proof instructions. Worthy of praise indeed, as the muffins are the best tasting muffins I have ever tasted. The instructions were simple and the ingredients were all measured and combined in 5 minutes. Twentyfour minutes in the oven and “PING!”, high standing super soft very tasty blueberry muffins sitting in the kitchen filling the flat with their aroma. If you can get high on muffins, you’d get high on these.
The author used the Betty Crocker Wild Blueberry Muffin Mix.
Apparently today is something of ‘the coldest day of the month’ or something to that effect. All I know is that it was quite chilly this morning, BBC weather says today will be a high of 6C and I am highly skeptical of the statement in the first sentence.
A good sunny day, followed by highs of food and lows of dustballs.
Today a old white wardrobe was sacrificed and dismantled for use as a new makeshift dining table. As I told my brother later, it was a quiet family affair, there was the odd creak and squeak and at the end of it all, music was played: Dyson Symphony No.5 in C Major.
It was definitely the end of an era for that old thing.
Travelling through London is not for the faint hearted, with congestion, pressure and bullies out there, you need your wits about you and if you haven’t got that, the finger will do. Please note that this author does not deem the use of the ‘finger’ as good code of conduct and can safely say she has never used it.
She has however used variations of the F-word, S-word, P-word, and general hand gesturing that has 2 meanings:
1. What are you doing?!
2. Yes, you may go before me.
She has also in the past made good use of manouvering the car so that the backend is in the way of ‘creepers’ who secretly try to pass you when you’re distracted by the amount of dust on the dashboard.
Aside from all that, the boredom factor is high when the drive is long due to all the obstacles on the road: man holes, pot holes, tarmac layers, pedestrians, cyclists, tourist, buses, van drivers and of course Nissan Micra drivers, they are particularly annoying.
This author is in possession of a Nissan Micra and has been known to drive it.
Today there was a lot of packing, hauling and grunting. Interestingly, before it all happened, our resident Mrs Turtle, knew something was amiss and made sure I knew that she knew that something was up. Clever turtle.
This new year, I have gotten myself a Palm Z22. I am very happy with it. It does what it says on the tin, and it does what I need it for, namely to read ebooks with and play the odd game. It’s a bit difficult to carry a giant mac CRT screen around with oneself whilst trying to read and drink at the same time, but with the new Palm Z22, that’s no problem! The only thing I didn’t like was wondering why the ‘Addit’ program wasn’t updating news and trials whenever I ’synched’ with the mac, turns out ‘Addit’ is not Mac friendly and needs a PC, good job Herman is up to the task then.
On a different note, I am fuming over this flatbed Epson scanner I have, it cannot scan more than one thing at a time, every half an hour. It is not slow, just something wrong with the lamp where these streaks start appearing on the second scan. If you leave it for half an hour, the streaks will lessen and with some luck disappear for the duration of that one scan. It annoys me to no end, I have a stack of scanning to do which normally should take about 30 mins to an hour, tops! This is really testing my patience, as does the ‘Noah’s Ark’ game on my palm, I have just reached the status ranking of ‘Noah’ after having been his wife and son previously. The next rank change is in approximately 998,900,000 points, having been used to previously going up in rank in increments of 500,000 and less, this is ridiculous. It doesn’t take a genius to work out what the next ranking is.
