After a miserable wet day it is suddenly a clear blue sky and sunshine. There is a sharp wind blowing and it is not warm - at nineteen degrees the central heating has come on and I have just put a shawl round my shoulders. But what a difference the sun makes.
I have been tired all day today and have done little and casting my eye over the television pages for this evening there is nothing particular I wish to see except Gardeners' World. So it is a good night for making a few notes ready for Book Group on Tuesday.
My son has just been round for half an hour for a chat and H my neighbour has been round to borrow my scales so that she can make a cake, so not a day without company to chat to.
See you tomorrow,
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21 comments:
I love that you have that human contact, Pat. It is so important!
Enjoy your evening with Monty.
This weather surprises me, even tough something similar seems to happen every Autumn. Oh well...
Nice that you have had some company after such a busy day yesterday. Sorry you feel the cold but I am still enjoying not feeling hot and sticky. The novelty has not worn off yet!
It must have been a country of two halves today or something. We had a beautiful day with sunshine and warm wind all day. It is far too warm tonight to need a fire.
We are warm and sunny again today. I had all my windows open to air the house out. A week ago it was quite cool and all the windows were closed tight. I harvested all the pears from trees today.
The universe has gone a bit crazy here. Yesterday I became stuck in a long traffic jam between one main road and another, sirens blazing in the distance. I returned home, business completed, another way, to see broken trees and tree branches still on the roads from a storm two days ago. Sunshine today, so that's a good thing.-Pam, Sth Aust.
It was sunny today, but certainly cool. The season is changing.
Well we have the same weather system as you Pat. The cold is definitely starting to bite, but rain is welcome I suppose.
It was beautiful here yesterday, sunny and mild, and looks to be pretty much the same for today.
No wonder you were tired all day yesterday, after the busy Thursday you had! I hope you woke up well rested this morning.
As Rachel commented, it certainly appears to be a country of two halves. I was able to show a visitor to the nature reserve that I warden this morning, how it's now possible to walk all round the reserve, in the ditches! The bed of the ditches are all baked bone dry now thanks to our continuing drought. It's quite depressing to think of all the aquatic wildlife that has now been killed off and even if it ever rains substantially this winter, which is not currently forecast, that wildlife will take some years to return.
I was intrigued that neighbour H uses scales to bake her cakes. I didn't even realize people used scales over measuring cups and spoons. I'm prone to estimating which I've been told is a "no no" when baking. It's the reason I'm only a mediocre baker, at best.
Well Melinda, you live and learn reading British blogs.
Melinda - nobody uses cups and spoons for measuring in baking ovr here.
Thanks for calling in everyone.
Hope you enjoyed Gardener's World....Monty and new pup Ned! Good gardens as well
Melinda -I bought measuring cups and spoons to be able to use American recipes. But what I cannot understand: How do you measure butter in a cup?
Hilde in Germany
Hilde, our butter comes in one pound packages. Each package has four 1/2 cup "sticks" wrapped separately. Each stick is marked as to TBS, 1/3 cup, etc. Very convenient. Just cut how much you need.
Our butter comes in a block with gram measurements marked on the outside wrapper.
Although you can get butter in a tub, I prefer to work out measurements according to the wrapper.-Pam, Aust.
You let it soften, and then use a butter knife to pack it into the cup. You use a side of the knife to even it out.
Thank you all for your help. Our butter does not have any measurements,so I will have to weigh it. I have a very nice cook book from the English National Trust which I often use. There, the measurements are in cups and spoons, in the Imperial system and in the metric system, with numbers like 106 or 87 gramms. I remember my mother having only one big measuring cup with units for fluids, for flour, sugar etc. And her cakes were excellent.
It is Monday today and we have not "seen" you since Saturday morning. Hope all is well with you, Pat.
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