Thick wet fog .....
25th
January 2017 (Wednesday)
..... 09.30 On this date 258 years ago,
Scotland’s famous ‘son’, Robert Burns,
was born, so we will start today’s Hutte with two lines from his poem “Tam o’ Shanter” ......
“Pleasures
are like poppies spread – you seize the flow’r, it’s bloom is shed;
Or
like the snowflake in the river - a moment white, then gone forever”!
....
enjoy your “Burns Day” wherever you are.
Yesterday
we had a gorgeous Spring like day;
today we have not! Today we
have
thick, wet, fog .... not a day for going onto a Nature Reserve. I will go ‘downtown’ later.... by then the
sun might have broken through, though the chance of that happening doesn’t look
promising just now. A cuppa is
required methinks!
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| Haggis neeps n' tautties |
22.30 Jings ....this has been a miserable day as
far as the weather went; the fog never
lifted until sunset time.... in fact at times through the day it was the
thickest fog I have ever seen from my bedroom window, However that didn’t stop this being an
interesting, and productive day.
Fiona, one of Janice’s friends came round in the morning, then Debra
arrived, so, for a time, there was a lot of happy ‘girl talk’. Fiona left, then Debra and Janice
went out to the shops. I baked
‘Melting Moments’ when the girls were out, and
had a cuppa, and ‘MM’ with
the girls when they meandered back from the
shop.
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| Steamed pudding |
In
the afternoon Janice and I, operating as a smoothly operating team, concocted a
syrup steam pudding..... and cooked it the auld fashioned way; in a
‘steamer’. The process of manufacture
led to a lot of laughs... and a lot of sponge;
I had to make two 4x4x4 batches.
I thought it was going to be too sweet, but done the way Janice said it
turned out perfect; the syrup soaked
into the sponge. The last time I made
one, the syrup remained mostly on the outside of the sponge.... that was done
in the microwave. Obviously I need a
‘steamer’. The steam pudding was the
third course at our mini Burn’s Supper Dinner tonight.... the ‘big’ one (Burn's Supper) being
on Saturday.
Photographs
: Top – Haggis neeps n’ tauties,... with a wee dram in the background,
Middle
– the steam pudding, and Bottom – the pudding ready for scoffing.
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| Pudding plated and ready to eat! |
