Weekend around the state.

A TV program that is on each Sunday afternoon. It's not a program that we usually watch only because we are not ready to be watching TV when it airs but we caught the end of it yesterday.

They visited a printing place and showed the letters that was used to type set. He explained that the capital letters were kept at the top and said that was why they were called upper case.

Then he pointed out that the p and the q were very close in looks especially when they are mirror imaged and that was how the saying " mind the p's and q's" come about.

We have decided that we will pay a visit when things get back to normal, it would make for a nice trip out and not that far away. 

Anzac day and Anzac biscuits

Just cant celebrate Anzac day without an Anzac biscuit but they are full of oats, flour and golden syrup.

I make 90 second bread in the microwave so could I do something with that?

It was worth while trying.

First double up on the butter, add an egg some baking powder. Couple of tablespoon of muesli, a few squirts of sugar free maple syrup, then I added equal parts of coconut and almond flour until it was malleable.

Rolled into balls and cooked in the oven. Only made 12 but the taste was there just not as sweet and they kept their shape.

I would make them again for when we feel like like a sweet treat.

Window dressings

We talked about making some changes in our bedroom, I agrred that we change it up but also wanted different window coverings.

Originally we had bought a do one cover that we liked and I made curtains from them but as it was only a light cotton, the colours faded after a few years. Next I bought gold curtain fabric, the gold to match our silk doona cover, however there are different types of gold and curtains were a green gold, so one cover is a yellow gold, they don't match! A girlfriend offered to make the curtains for me as I had started back at work. They were made very well but with block out on the back  it was so dark.

Changed them after five years, I was determined to have them for at least that long. The first two sets were on rods and cords to open. The last pair are on rings and much easier to operate (and make).

Current curtains until lunchtime.

 Now we have a blind. We were thinking of getting verticals but No one was available and we couldn't go too far, either we waited or we bought it ourselves and also installed it ourselves. We went for the rod, on the left, rather than cords.

Now to the next bit in May.

Shetland

Not much on TV last night that we wanted to watch so I suggested we watch an episode of Shetland.

This is set around a police officer who is based on the island of Shetland. As some of the language can be a little hard to pivk up some words, we had the sub titles on.

Fiftyfive minutes is an episode and we watch one and then watch a second as in the series prior to this one, we knew that they go over two episodes. Well, at the end of the next one it was still very tangled so we watched a third, then a fourth and fifth. As we told each other, we didnt have to get up for anything the next morning. When we got to the end of the fifth, we did go back to see how many episodes there were and discovered, there was six so only one to go so of course we watched it.

Oh, my goodness, what a tangled web but probably the best series or movie that I have seen in a long time.

We turned the tv off at 1.20am after almost six hours. We usually go to bed about 8.30/9pm.

I feel okay but will be ready for bed early tonight I think, we havent done very much today, keeping a very low profile.

No bake cheese cake

I read a recipe the other day and decided to make something similar as I didn't have all the ingredients.

I was quite happy the way it turned out.

First I melted some butter in the microwave, added a spoonful of fake sugar and about three of almond flour. It came together nicely and then I was able to press it into a pie dish and into the fridge.

Actual recipe called for 500 gms of cream cheese, I had a pack of 250 plus a little bit. I beat that, added some cream and a spoon full of fake sugar and juice of a lemon. I also added gelatin. When it had a thick consistency I spread it on top of the base.

I have already made a jelly and when that was cool I poured it on top.
The results.

Can't really taste the lemon, I would double that if I make it again. 

Granny square blanket.

I have been working on these for awhile. At first I had trouble getting the square corners and even now they are rounded as I did a single crochet stitch in grey as the last row.

Twenty eight of them start with a square, the second lot of 28 had a circle in the middle then went to a square. That was the harder one to do.

I had a mixture of soft almost like ice cream colours, I feel I could have organised the colours better when I put  them together. I don't think there is two the same.

I did have to redo seven of them, they were in the first batch and I certainly did improve as I went along.

It's smaller than I thought and I could have done more rows around the outside, I did do three rows, yellow, grey and orange.

All rows sewed together, eight by seven.

Taking a breather before starting the next project tomorrow.

Warren's latest project

He bought a tent last year for when he goes off bike riding and stays overnight. The time that he used it was okay but he says he needs a fly for it.

 We also had a car cover which I am not sure it was ever used, it was bought when we had to park one car outside on the concrete. Nice idea but by the time I got home from work, I certainly did not feel like putting it over the car. He spent a couple of afternoons picking it undone. This week was the time to use it and see if he could make the fly. Of course, he could have just gone and bought a fly but that was nit the point. He did make a booking to use the sewing machine for a couple of days.

It is a small tent, a two man.

A study in concentration.

So it has four walls and an overlay top so breeze can go through it. Also there is a separate door.

The finis