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aquagoat
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Ha, sorry about your loss, Poly. 95 is a nice age, though.
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Thanks Bonny.
Indeed. I hope I've got more of those genes that led to him keeping his wits until the end and less of those that led to my Mum's current state.
On a more ordinary note, the weather here is crazy. It's to do with being on the south coast of a very large land mass with nothing but sea between us
and Antarctica. We get warm winds blown off the deserts one week and chill winds off the sea the next. Your body thinks it's almost Summer and all of
a sudden it's Winter again. We're just at the start of a Summer burst now.
My new picks arrived yesterday and I put new strings on my favourite guitar, so I'm back in guitar mode again for a while.
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Guitar mode sounds great!
I'm still resting from the book fair, it was pretty intense. Yesterday I had to flyer in a large section of town, that was no fun, so I'm kicking back
today.
Yesterday I baked some kruidnoten, our famous spice cookie that you just cannot put down...
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polydigm
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I might have a go at making some of those myself!
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Good luck! Totally worth it!
My recipe:
100 gr self-raising flour
50 gr brown sugar
40 gr butter
2 tablespoons of milk
1 teaspoon of speculaaskruiden (I got mine pre-mixed but this contains cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, orange peel, coriander, nutmeg, cloves. If you're
doing without one and aren't making a little reserve, go a bit harder on the ginger and cinnamon than the others)
Sieve flour and sugar, add cut butter and milk and spices, mix into a paste, wrap it in plastic and leave in the fridge for an hour.
Preheat oven at 175 degs.
Roll into 1x1x1 cm balls, put them on a flat baking surface with waxed paper on it, press them so they get a wee bit flat. They'll grow in the oven so
leave some space between them.
Bake for 20 mins, let cool, munch, whip up second batch, repeat...
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Sounds delicious!
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I'm now onto the third batch in three days!
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Not feeling too well today...
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What's up?
Thanks for the recipe.
The ingredients I found for speculaaskruiden were the following:
4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground mace
1/3 tsp ground ginger
1/5 tsp ground white pepper (a pinch)
1/5 tsp ground cardamom (a pinch)
1/5 tsp ground coriander seeds (a pinch)
1/5 tsp ground anise seeds (a pinch)
1/5 tsp grated nutmeg (a pinch)
The reasoning is that mace (from the nutmeg shell casing) is much milder than nutmeg (from the nut itself).
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There are a lot of different spice mixes. The one I use is bought as a ready-to-use spice mix. Once I had a different one, but that one was
unfortunately waaaaay too heavy on the non-sweet stuff. Result was like eating black pepper.
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polydigm
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Are you feeling better?
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Not much, but I had to do my route... rainy weather...
I'm gonna hit the shower.
(cue hologram FZ writing a song about a housewife engaging in sadist acts with household items)
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What's wrong, Bonny?
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General feeling of malaise.
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It's 11:10pm in Eindhoven. I hope you're getting some good rest.
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Got up early for work...
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Ho, ok. I hope it'll dissipate, soon.
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Me too! 
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Having finished the verandah, the water from which runs onto our kitchen garden, I've had to put guttering on the garden shed, because that water runs
in under the end of the new verandah. The down pipe runs into a 70 litre bucket at the moment until I find a suitable rainwater tank. We've had about
7 mm of rain so far this morning and that's already almost full so I've had to fill up a couple of other buckets. The water is for the kitchen garden.
We're growing tomatoes, aubergines, capsicums and french beans this season and a permanent boysenberry hedge and herb garden. The only thing I have to
replace periodically in the herb garden is the parsley and basil. The sage, thyme, mint, oregano and chives are perpetual and well established.
The garden shed was built by the previous owners as well and the verandah on that was also in a state of collapse, so I had to rebuild its verandah as
well before I could install the guttering. The kitchen garden has been a project for a while and it's really good to see it finished.
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Sounds neat!
I did my flyer route today...
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