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Changed a headlight and bought a new spare tyre on Saturday. Also discovered that the Myer Emporium computer sales department have no idea when it comes to customer service, so decided to take my $2,500+ desktop computer purchase elsewhere.
Now to do the long-delayed laundrying…
Over 100 here in my neck of sleepy Perth so Pool,Pool and more Pool and read some books
Busy day today!
Finished making a batch of apicot butter and, despite the heat, picked, washed, cut up and spread out on an old screen door a heap of tomatoes: after Tuesdays 41C they should be dried!
Tomatoes: http://www.jovialmonk.com.au/tom/cooking/sundrying-tomatoes.jpg
The apricot butter I urge you to have a good look! These fruit butters, unlike lemon butter, contain no dairy at all! Just concentrated fruit, bit of spice and a pretty small amount of sugar and so are superior to jams wwhich are nearly ALl sugar! They come from the USA who got them from its european migrants. These fruit butters are no longer made in Europe! (The Dutch appelstroop is but a bastard stepchild.) Give one a go!
http://www.jovialmonk.com.au/tom/cooking/Apricot_Butter.htm
Books, oh yeah, getting stuck into Crytonomicon after finally finishing Anathem.
terangeree: don’t go anywhere near Myer for anything technology-related. Overpriced and ill-informed staff.
Robert, I didn’t find them ill-informed.
Completely uninformed, yes. Ill-informed, no.
Most likely overpaid, though.
Spivvish, too.
NOT going to Perth Beer Festival
http://theworstofperth.com/2009/01/11/perth-beer-fest-blows/
last night … shit ended this morning at dawn. soo sleepy now. must stay awake till later this evening. must stay awake till later this evening mustatay wasake thsil latr thsievegniiosgafdhdfdkjhskfjdkj zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
As I looked at the full moon just past , I thought to my simple self , oO if man here would only see itself as classless , no quarter no eighth ,no half , just full and round .
’twas hot, damned hot, in Perth. Had lunch with some friends by the water at Claisebrook Inlet on the Swan, discussing their plans to go to Toronto, Canada, in March to get married.
Other than that, tried to stay cool.
Saturday morning – went to protest in Armidale Mall against Gaza bombing (which I helped organise). About 30 people which is good for Armidale when there are no uni students here. (They’re yet to arrive this year.) (that’s the equivalent of 6000 people in Sydney, a mathematician friend of mine tells me.)Good TV and local press coverage.
Sat. afternoon. Taking notes from Hugh, Earl Percy’s Letters:From Boston and New York 1774-1776. (Fascinating stuff – for me, anyway. Also dipping into Jay Winik’s The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern Waorld- 1788-1800. (I think he’s a Republican – or maybe I’ve been reading too many American historians who are a bit sceptical about Alexander Hamilton.) The book’s okay, but there’s something about it doesn’t feel right. No matter- I’ll work it out before I finish it – it’s a slow process.
Sunday – blogged a bit. started reading and taking notes from John Shy’s Toward Lexington. A wonderful book about the British Army in late colonial America.Read more Winik.Watched doco on medieval Germany on SBS, drama about the sinking of the Lusitania, then Tiger’s Boys on SBS. Loved it.
I also enjoyed watching the program about the sinking of the Lusitania, after we very cleverly installed three roller blinds in our east-facing kitchen. The efficiency of the blinds will be tested this week, I think, with temps supposedly going over 30 at least twice.
Spent the entire day working on a review of Jill Roe’s massive biography of Miles Franklin, stopping only every now and then to blog-stoush with the over-excited and to scramble through the tiny bi-weekly window in which we in Adders are allowed to water the garden with an actual hand-held hose, in anticipation of its being 41 degrees here tomorrow.
Lazy schmazy. Pfft.
I have two weepy hoses connected to a 1 to 2 splitter which is connected to a timer which is connected to a tap. Weepy hoses are deep under thick mulch. So saturday mornings at about 6.30, just b4 I head to my shop, I set the 2 hour timer and turn the tap on. Very efficient legal use of water.
Rest of garden is watered every other day with watering cans fed by my two rainwater tanks.
I had a great time at my first fairy birthday party! The highlight was when, just before the cutting of the cake, the dozen or so three and four year olds were handed “hooters”, if that’s what they’re called (noun, toys that hoot when blown). In about two seconds there was so much noise you couldn’t hear yourself think, what with a dozen nippers blowing so intently on their new acquisitions. It was hilarious! (…although maybe you had to be there.) You could just see the parents thinking to themselves: note to self…do not hand out hooters at birthday party!