Baking
Imagine the scent of nutmeg and fresh baked scones to go with this picture:
Note the one deformed scone made from the leftovers that wouldn't fit in the cutter right in the middle. That one tastes best of all. Here's the recipe, go bake!
Alison Hawke
New physics
Device to probe limits of physics.
UK physicists have completed the first crucial element of an experimental device designed to probe the forces that shape our Universe. The Atlas experiment will explore the fundamental properties of matter and look for "new physics" beyond the limits of our current
Post Thanksgiving
Yesterday was the first day I didn't touch my novel since the start of November. Felt weird not to go to the laptop, open the file, check for spelling errors, load the wordcount into the spreadsheet, the whole routine. Not that I didn't go to the
NaNoWriMo Winner!
Fifty thousand four hundred and sixty five words in twenty five days. I've won! Printed out my winner's certificate, printed out the whole novel. I did it!
Thankfulness
* Hubby
* Tim and Ceci over for dinner
* Making fajitas for dinner
* Thanksgiving day with Rox and Eric tomorrow
* Bob the turkey
* First snow that didn't last long enough to cause serious trouble
* Being less than two thousand words away from the end of my novel
* Four day weekends
Newsflash: Novelist killed by deadline
Sugar free Redbull first thing in the morning is a bad idea. I'm still sleepy, but I'm buzzed and twitchy too. Nasty combination.
This last week I've really slowed down on my novel. I've been writing less than two thousand words a
Saint Delia Online
Norma found her first. Delia Smith, patron saint of British cookery and promoter of cranberries, is online in all her recipe-providing goodness! Check out these recipes:
* Easy chocolate truffles
* Venison Steaks with Cranberry Cumberland Sauce
* Traditional Christmas Pudding
* Luxury Fish Pie
Those chocolate truffles were almost my undoing as
Scale, and lack thereof
The BBC website says we're in for heavy snow on Wednesday. Local radio said it would be an inch of snow in the morning. My English sense of scale has been irreparably damaged. A hundred miles is something you drive in an afternoon, not a place at the
Hello Spam
On my old blog, I had about two comment spams, probably because there was no automated way to blanket spam the blog. I had my first comment spammer today, shut him down after about nine hits. I hate spam. I'm researching spam blocking plugins. The sooner they allow
Roadmaps and plans
This was in the church bulletin on Sunday, along with a bunch of others. I liked some of them, but this one stuck out:
Do you have any idea where you're going? - God
"God Says" billboard
It got me thinking. I'm not exactly sure