Yak & Natter

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Joe found this art-generator. It must be good if it results in something that looks artistic even when created by me. There are quite a few variants available.

The Boarder had a useful link the other day – it’s a page showing all European School Holidays. This should come in useful for booking the next snowboarding adventures.

I made my first bagels yesterday – and they turned out to be a success. We’ve had a bread maker for 2 years now, and have progressed from pre-mixed bread-mixes, through the recipes that came with the machine, to those in a recently bought book. Yesterday I attempted my first “internet” bread recipe – for bagels. I had to adjust the recipe slightly as I didn’t have any Barley malt syrup or Molasses – so I just put them in plain boiling water. They also floated the moment I put them in, but this recipe suggests “cooking for about 30 seconds on each side” which is similar to how long I boiled them.

I was out of town yesterday, so I don’t have any first-hand experience of the pro-hunt demo outside the Labour conference. I’ve been catching up on the whole dead horse thing via various blogs: Jamie, Iestyn, Tom’s Blog of a nobody, Adactio, their side of the story and more importantly the Sky News report: Hunt supporters strip.

The BBC have a news story about rural transport today, and one of their “Related Internet Links” is for the Government guide to public transport. This website allows you to put in your start and end points and travelling time and it will provide you with a list of journey options. Sounds pretty useful.

We were at Milton Keynes with Paul to put a couple more hours of snowboarding under our belts. There are photos.

The Economist has a short write-up on how the seaside is changing with younger people moving in.

Brian Clough died today. Cloughy was my Grandmother’s favourite football manager, and always one she respected, and used in a “Cloughy wouldn’t have done that” kind of way. This was of great amusement to my Father as he used this to wind her up on all possible occasions. I still don’t know why my Gran was a Nottingham Forest fan as she lived in Hull and surrounding areas for all of her life, but she was. One of those things I guess.

There are some great Cloughy quotes at IOL: Soccer – I guess these are the kind of quotes my Dad liked to remind Gran about.

We visited Steff, Simes, Daisy and Noah over the weekend which was smashing. I’d just like to thank Steff for introducing me to the concept of serving Ben & Jerry’s in slices: it makes perfect sense.

Oh, the photo? It just goes to show that it’s hard to make a Red Panda balance on your head for very long.

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