Monthly Archives: November 2004

Why does cookie dough taste so much nicer than cookies? Answers on a postcard to…

Last week I went to a quiz and tried to guess the year of the Battle of Trafalga basing my decision on whether Sharpe was alive then (yup, Sharpe the character in the Bernard Cornwell books and tv shows), and … Continue reading →

Arg – I never thought I’d be a reference advocate! I discovered an error and a contradiction in my notes – the contradiction is that it says “complete albino horses have pink irises and are photophobic” and next sentence it … Continue reading →

*mumbly* I have a mouth ulcer. So they’re banning fox hunting. I was rather angry to read that though I had no doubt it was coming. I was angry not because of some some attachment to traditions or some nostalgia … Continue reading →

Phase 3 in The Great Cookie Experiment was rather more successful. Rather than assuming they’d flow into cookie shape I squished them. Also I have no sugar so they are healthy sugar-substitute cookies. They’re are about 20% butter but you … Continue reading →

I baked! They were supposed to be cookies. The first batch came out more like squat biscuits so I added milk to the second batch – and got fake cat sick! Tastes nice and that’s what matters 😉 Note – … Continue reading →

Firstly, 11th of the 11th, Armistice Day. I feel rather peeved that I’ve not bought a poppy – seems like the older I get the harder it is to find them. However I have put some work into sigs and … Continue reading →

This is EVE btw – computer game very much like ELITE, the old BBC/Acorn game. Humans got stuck on the wrong side of the universe and now have a new space community there – you can fight, mine, trade, plot, … Continue reading →

Oh and I killed my fish! Poor little danio – we were commenting on Fri that he was looking a bit worse for wear and was not long for this world (we were looking at him because we’d noticed the … Continue reading →

Both ends of the bunny are functioning within normal parameters. She’s scoffing for England. Turned out to be her teeth, possibly. A tiny spur was taken off and now she’s better so *shrugs* I have to go back to PB … Continue reading →