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Hi, Albert! Hope you and yours are keeping safe and well. Beautiful day here. Almost totally blue sky, with only the odd white cloud. Bit breezy, though, which is making today's job a little more difficult than it should be. I'm stood on a ladder, cutting overgrown ivy from the top of a stone wall about 8 or 9 feet tall (actually, at this very moment, I'm in the house having a bit of lunch). Some of the ivy stems are up to 2 inches or more thick, which makes trying to cut them as their branches and leaves blow about in this breeze a bit tricky at times; especially whilst stood on the ladder. But, hey, it could be worse! I could be standing on a chair instead of the ladder...
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I think it's just eggs, Tim. Assuming it's the same recipe I mention in my previous post... Here's a recipe from the BBC website: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/summer-souffle-omelette (I use butter for the frying, rather than oil) You can, of course, vary the filling, or even just make them plain. The above website has some alternative filling suggestions, and even one for making a dessert type one, if you have a sweet tooth.
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I didn't know the origin of this type of omelette, but it's one that I make occasionally, though only when I have the extra time needed for separating the eggs and the whisking of the whites. A friend of mine demonstrated the recipe to me when I was renting a small apartment in my last year at university many, many years ago (around 1970 or 1971). The resultant omelette is deliciously light and fluffy, due to the air that has been introduced during the whisking of the whites. I usually finish the omelette under the grill for a minute or two after first cooking in a frying pan. This makes the omelette rise and become even more light and fluffy. When my friend showed me the recipe he just referred to them as souffléd omelettes. They are simply delicious!
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I'd suggest watching something light. Maybe a film or something? Try to avoid watching too much news, anyway.
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Sounds to me like you're doing bloody good!
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Sounds like Las Vegas. I spent a night there around six years or so back, after a week in the Grand Canyon. It wasn't by choice, and I wouldn't deliberately go again.
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I'd never heard of Kate Tempest before last night, when People's Faces was played on Irish radio. To say I was gobsmacked on listening to it would be an understatement. I wasn't sure who I was listening to, so made sure to listen to the DJ afterwards to find out who was performing. I honestly thought it was a song written for the current pandemic but, when I Googled Kate Tempest, I was amazed to find it was from an album she released last October. What an amazing talent! The full poem:
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A beautiful piece. Released last year, it could almost be a poem for today:
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Greetings, Albert. Here's a picture of Croaghaun Mountain, on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland. (No, it's not one of my photographs.)
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It's Sunday morning here, and currently overcast with a temperature of around 10°C (50°F), and a forecast high of 15°C (59°F). There was a bit of rain overnight, but I think it was no more than an April shower, and it's promised to be a dry day. I reckon I should go out and face the day. But I need my second cup of coffee first.
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Hi, Page! You've caught me at the end of a perfect day (spilled flour excepted). I'll hopefully chat you tomorrow. Night all!
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Just checked them. One's got whiskey in it, and the other brandy. Both seem fine to me.
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I read that as Alberto sauce at first...
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Does she sit at the table with you?
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These things happen, Albert... Or flour in this case.
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Talking about bread baking, I was putting together the ingredients for one of my loaves earlier. Everything was going fine until I lifted the pan from the weighing scales with 500 grammes of wholemeal flour on it and promptly dropped it! Made a mess of the kitchen floor, I can tell you. Fortunately I have in a stock of wholemeal bread flour, and the pan wasn't damaged. So, after sweeping up the mess, I was able to weigh out a second lot and make my loaf.
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Hey, Albert! Nice photos, but I hope you didn't take them today. I think you're supposed to be socially isolating, and not travelling too far from home... (Just kidding, my friend. )
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Sometimes too much colour can distract from the subject of the picture.
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Cheers, Buddy. If you mean the train with "The Jacobite" on the front, that was taken in Mallaig, in the Scottish Highlands. I had climbed Ben Nevis the day before (the highest mountain in the whole of the British Isles), before taking a day return trip on a that steam train on the West Highland Railway from Fort William to Mallaig. Below is a link to a photograph I got of the train passing over the curving Glenfinnan Viaduct, which was actually used in several of the Harry Potter films, most noticeably the flying car sequence in 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'. https://www.flickr.com/photos/86156059@N00/9472014300
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Fack! Not sure what Val will think about boiling Penguin eggs...
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Just out of interest, one of my Flickr albums contains my black and white (and some monochrome) photographs.
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Good morning, gang! A mainly cloudy day here, with current temperature around 10°C/50°F and a high expected of 15°C/59°F. Still no sign of a break in this spell of dry, settled weather, however, which is good news. Although it won't surprise me if the farmers start praying for rain soon. I must get out and face the world (well, the garden) eventually. But first I need my second mug of coffee. Because...
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The cocoa was delicious! Good night, all
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Time for my cocoa
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They're just some of the bits of rock, fragments of concrete, and broken slate that I have found in the garden as I have been clearing it.
