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Dead.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Dead; not my corner of the internet – this is just pining for the fjords, but my poor walking boots.

Dead.

A couple of thousand miles.
Five countries.
Three-and-a-bit years.
Three mountain ranges.
Two continents.
One dead pair of walking boots.

Spending the Royal Wedding bank holiday wandering around the Scottish Highlands including Ben Nevis finally finished them off. The laces snapped at airport security and a gash in the side opened up descending the Ben. The soles have leaked since January.

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Dandelion wine – or – That was Easter Monday

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Making dandelion wine is a messy business; First you have to collect ~400 grams of flowers, then you have to separate out the petals:

Messy

Finest dandelion petals (and a few unlucky bugs)

Then boil them all up with sugar, raisins and some orange peel:

Stir and strain, stir and strain

And then hope it ferments into something nice.

glub. glub. glub. (continue for 4 weeks)

Fingers crossed, that in six months to a year, we’ll have some nice wine.
Recipe:
400g of Dandelion flowers, 1kg of Sugar, 150g Raisins, Peel of 4 small oranges, 1 gallon of water. Simmer flowers in water for 30 min, strain off flowers and add sugar, raisins and peel to solution and simmer for a further hour. Allow to cool before removing peel and straining and squashing raisins for their juice. Add yeast and decant to demijohn. Wait.

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Something’s crawling in my hair.

Monday, July 19th, 2010

It’s a flying ant day here in London. The parks and pavements have been covered in large, brownish, winged & wingless females looking for somewhere to start a new colony.