on a clear day...
On Saturday, after the library and my coffee...
I baked a fruit cake...
Here's the recipe...
Notes: I only used 3/4 cup of brown sugar. A mix of the following flours - white, wholemeal, spelt, buckwheat, almond meal. And spices - mixed spice, allspice, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg.
And being the weak willed woman that I am, I succumbed to the temptation to knit up my op shop find wool. Using this vest pattern (having previously used it to knit a vest for Marnie and Hayley) but doing it in 3x rib this time...
And reading The Good Women of China. Definitely not a bedtime read. The (true) stories are heart-wrenching and amazing...
I read chapter 5 (The Mothers Who Endured an Earthquake) before bed last night and then couldn't sleep for thinking about what these women (and their children) went through.
Today is beautiful and sunny, but we had rain the previous couple of days and everything is green...green...green...
I had headaches Monday and Tuesday (due to a low pressure weather system going through) and was in 'go slow' mode, but today all is well and I'm catching up with things...
Washed my car
De-spidered the garage
Did a 'stock up' supermarket shop
A trip to the post office, and my back issues of Grass Roots magazine I had ordered arrived...
so I got to browse them while I had my coffee today
But now, I've gotta get out and mow those lawns :)
Washed my car
De-spidered the garage
Did a 'stock up' supermarket shop
A trip to the post office, and my back issues of Grass Roots magazine I had ordered arrived...
But now, I've gotta get out and mow those lawns :)
xx
So beautiful by the river!
ReplyDeleteThat book about women of China — it's the kind of thing I can't face reading these days. I somehow both want to know and not to know . . .
Yes...I'm the same. I can only take so much of the heart-wrenching stuff, then I need to read something 'light' to get my balance back. xx
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DeleteThat is so true. I just finished reading a book by Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue, about domestic abuse, it was good, but I was glad to be finished with the story because it was disturbing. My next book is a refreshing breath of fresh air, The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan, because I too needed something light to get my balance back too.
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Nice to see the magazines arrived ...... as did your letter on Friday - so lovely to get some snail mail xo
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