Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Teaser Tuesday - Oct 28



Teaser Tuesday

The rules are:
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
  • You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!
When Monte called in for his regular cup of tea in the morning, Tom and Rachel were introduced. He was the double of Harold, although a few stone heavier and with permanent laugh lines etched into his face.
From Peter Lihou's Rachel's Shoe our BATS (book group of the month) - rather too many names in those 2 sentences for a teaser. I wasn't impressed, it felt like teenage fiction (though I suppose there's nothing wrong with that) lots of derring do and a little predictable - having recently watched Edge of Darkness I preferred the rather similar denoument of the TV series.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Mutterings - Oct 26

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Family :: Nuclear
  2. Leather :: Armchair
  3. Chunky :: Monkey
  4. Shaking :: Fear
  5. Suffering :: Servant
  6. Pockets :: Deep
  7. Loose :: Change
  8. Show :: Girl
  9. Vest :: String
  10. Finale :: Grand

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Mutterings - Oct 19

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Freak :: Out
  2. Thrown out :: Pub
  3. Wedding :: Ceremony
  4. 99 percent :: Whole
  5. Terminal :: Cancer
  6. Culprit :: Thief
  7. Bows :: Struck (I'm with the violins)
  8. Stock :: Beef
  9. Hospital :: Ward
  10. Dodge :: City
Missed a week - we've been away!


Sunday, October 05, 2014

Ginger shortbread

I cooked ginger shortbread yesterday for the during(!) morning service this morning and used a recipe from an old Scargill cookbook:

Ingredients

  • 150g self raising flour
  • 110g margarine
  • 55g sugar
  • 1/2 tsp ginger

  • For icing:
  • 55g margarine
  • 4 tblsp icing sugar
  • 1/2 tsp ginger
  • 1 dessertspoon syrup

Method

Melt margarine and sugar.

Work in flour and ginger.

Bake in swiss roll tin in mod. oven 20-30 min (yesterday I found it was around 20).

Melt ingredients of icing and pour on shortbread while it is hot.

Cut when cold.

The cookies that were also cooked - I'd provide a recipe but my notes have the following as the instructions:
Rub in marg
and the ingredients say 'milk' with no quantity - so we're lucky they turned out well!

Mutterings - Oct 5

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:
  1. Candle light :: Carols
  2. Kevin :: Bacon
  3. Fireplace :: Stone
  4. Pots :: Pans
  5. Scarf :: Dr Who
  6. Colossal :: Rhodes
  7. Golf :: Ryder (Cup)
  8. Construction :: First (First Construction in Metal is a work by John Cage)
  9. Reason :: Sense
  10. Washington :: State