a picture my son drew of a wave on a beach

Nig ­Nogs

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tagged with: #recipe #tea-treat #zaida
My Mums Nig-Nog Recipe
Zaida’s Nig-Nog recipe.

6oz Oats
6oz flour & 1 tsp bicarb
(4oz granulated)
6oz golden syrup
6oz butter

melt butter & syrup
mix dry ingredients
make into balls, flatten

oven 150 10 mins

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Marmalade

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tagged with: #recipe #preserves #zaida
My Mums Marmalade Recipe
Zaida’s Marmalade recipe.

I stole your recipes Ma, hope it’s OK. I thought I’d post them on my blog so that I can send people here when they give me substandard tea treats and marmalade.

1.8kg - 4lb sevilles
2 lemons
2.7 kg - 7lb granulated.

  1. Wash …
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55th ­Birthday

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tagged with: #health #vego #eating #life
thirsty dog
One really should stop for a drink when one gets busy…

It was my 55th Birthday yesterday. I was ever-so-slightly stereotypically depressed about it. The night before I was kept awake not by the deep philosophical problems that beset humanity, it was constipation. I had a pain across my gut …

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50th ­birthday

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The reason I travelled all this way was for my little brothers 50th birthday party. I pretty much never go home and do this stuff. I had an awesome night and just love my clan so much.

I danced with a lot of people and every second person seemed to …

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British ­Library

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tagged with: #walking #travel #london
Some trees on a damp winter day on Hampstead Heath
Hampstead Heath today

My plane landed in the London darkness at 5:30am this morning. The 15 hour flight was extruciating. I took the train to Farringdon to give myself a walk through an old haunt to my hotel in Kings Cross. London has changed a lot since I knew …

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Looking at ­Boats

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tagged with: #sailing #boats

Living in the Outback far from the sea I have become increasingly obsessed with what I cannot have. Of course, if I found myself on the deck of a boat I would probably miss the flat brown Outback. This post is link-heavy with things I have been reading and am …

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huffduffer

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tagged with: #audio #podcast

12 years ago I was trying hard to earn a living building stuff using Drupal. A clever chap from Brighton called Jeremy Keith was doing the same but with more success than me. He built a wonderful tool for creating your own podcast called huffduffer. I’ve used huffduffer on …

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The Thundering ­Typhoons

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The Thundering Typhoons
The Thundering Typhoons was a local band from when I was a teenager.

The old mp3s in this post have been kicking around my hard-drives for decades. Have a listen, I think they are pretty great.

Johnny I Hardly Knew Yah, a brilliant song …
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Plans Destroy ­Dreams

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Winnie and I out running on a dirt track outside Broken Hill
When did my plans become excuses for inaction?

At Wendron Primary School in the 1970s we would be sent outside for our breaks. Sheltering from the drizzle beneath the playground crabapple tree we would play Tiggy.

To play we would first work out a plan. Like crows and jackdaws us …

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Boat Shopping… ­still

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tagged with: #sailing #plans

I have been getting a lot of emails of yachts for sale. Maybe the used boat market is more active at the moment. The Clansman’s are my favourites but I also like the Viking 30’s (like this one) and this Herreshoff H28 looks fancy.

FreeRangeSailing's Clansman
Troy and Pascals’ Mirrool …
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State of ­Mind

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tagged with: #reading #thots #travel
Gurdjieff wearing a fez
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

I have been slowly replacing the rotten timbers on our front veranda. Broken Hill summer is making the work hot and cooking my brain. It has been especially warm in the afternoons. Yesterday I escaped to the couch with the swampy cooling the house and watched Gurdjieff …

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