Breaking Through, Travelling On

skint_spice

Are those like Selkirk Bannocks? I love those, off to look for recipe for chocolate porridge cake now:D

Karmacat

I'm sure they're like Selkirk bannocks, Skinty :hello: the original recipe and tuition come from Pippi in Orkney

mizmir wrote: »

Sounds like an opening - but isn't it frustrating when people don't do the job properly? I had that with a book I had on a local asylum that one of my ancestors was in. It was full of unjustified assumptions and leaps of inference. Drove me mad! But useful photos and basic information.

Talking of geneaology - I signed up for the Family History Writing Challenge this month - have you ever done it? I did it last year and wrote quite a bit. Haven't even got off the blocks yet this year!

I've not even heard of it but I'd love to know more about it! I try to write little biographies, but I've written one fair sized one, about one of my great grandmothers. Linkie? You may regret that I can pester, you know

The thing I've recently decided I *have* to do is get some more oral history down - I have such a lot of it about some people, but none about others - and identities on photographs, I'm terrible at. And I've just been given a ring by my mum (she's feeling her mortality, which is possibly why all this oral history stuff is on my mind) but we're not sure whose it was ... it'd be nice to know.

Bannocks sound yum! Please can I have mine with butter?

I thought I remembered a cheese slice smiley I was going to use instead of butter, but I can't find it, so it will have to be *completely* virtual :rotfl:

<lobs many bannocks down the phone line to Skinty and Mizmir >

Right, my huge great Wednesday piece of work has been done, I'm wined and dined, my phone session I agreed to leave open hasn't materialised, and the house hasn't blown away, which is always good. So I'm sitting here while my lunch digests (its a good excuse, and I'm sticking to it), and then must do that, but must watch it, its already 4pm. More scanning then, I think.

mizmir

[Catches bannock] Yum! :beer:

FHWC link - http://www.familyhistorywritingchallenge.com/

Hungry dogs to feed - better go!

Karmacat

Yay! Joined The one that immediately attracts me is the Irish cobbler who joined the British Army and fought at Waterloo, him and his daughter Mary.

Haven't done much this evening, just a few tiny bits of scanning but I *did* post off the Amazon sale.

Karmacat

Not sure what's right for me to focus on today ... I *do* need to go to the supermarket, and as I look out at the garden when I'm at the kitchen sink, I can see a million jobs I could do - and for some of them, I don't even need to go onto the (non-existent) grass, I can stand on the patio, or on the expedient stepping stones (otherwise known as bricks) that are stranded in the grass. And a client at 11.30.

Tricky!

Cheery_Daff

Hope you picked just one thing and did that I know I sometimes spend lots of time running between potential jobs trying to decide - and probably could have actually *done* several in the time it takes me to choose one I'm pretty sure you're far more sensible than that though!

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery! Yes, it was fine - I confess I haven't stepped outside the door - the rain has been constant and often heavy *all* day, and the forecast for tomorrow is better round here - so I've tidied, scanned, seen to the post, organised pix and papers for the cat website, bought a kindle book written by somebody I'm getting to know.

I think organising the papers is actually going to be the most helpful, it takes me to the next level. Oh, I also had a lot of fun on a website that has colouring-in pix, I've got this idea for the same outline, simple for young children, intermediate for older kids, and *extremely* complex for adults - you wouldn't believe the number of adult colouring in books, and the results are really beautiful. I've been scanning my design doodles, and I think I'll put some up on the blog, I love that sort of thing.

And I had cheese pasta. Mmmmm. Grated cheddar cheese. Such a luxury, as I have to use feta most of the time

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, an at-home day, how lovely! :j

I love colouring in and confess to having occasionally printed off adult (as in 'grown up', not er, 'rude' :eek: )colouring books for myself and other people It'd be lovely if you could put up your own doodles, what a brill idea! :j

Mmm, cheese pasta. I just made myself a quick but VERY unsatisfying meal and am contemplating starting all over again :rotfl:

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Ooh, an at-home day, how lovely! :j

Exactly :beer:

I love colouring in and confess to having occasionally printed off adult (as in 'grown up', not er, 'rude' :eek: )colouring books for myself and other people It'd be lovely if you could put up your own doodles, what a brill idea! :j

Wow! I didn't know that! And yes, grown up not rude :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I just put the first ones on the blog - they'll be a *part* of a whole design, they're not whole designs themselves....

Mmm, cheese pasta. I just made myself a quick but VERY unsatisfying meal and am contemplating starting all over again :rotfl:

Unsatisfying is the worst sort! You've had the calories (or I have, when I have that sort of meal), but they weren't tasty calories. Bah! Hope you got something nice to eat before Bedfordshire

Karmacat

Back again ... my list was quite little today - had a phone call to do, had the diary to bring up to date and make sure nothing clashed in the next 3 months, went to the supermarket (wow! 500g Sainsbo Basics cornflakes were 31p, for ages, and now they're 35!) **and** the shopping is put away and tidy Thats the key word - I've been tidying like crazy, because its occurred to me that if the weather is as filthy tomorrow as threatened (I was going to write "promised" ) then the rellies coming down from London might get stuck if they're dozy leaving, and my sister can't put up *all* of them - heavens! So floors have been swept, kitchen stuff put away (I was a squirrel, for instance, with salt - 2 bags were open, and one split when I got it home, so I had **loads** of the stuff open - its all in a nice big jar now ).

And I'm working at 6.30, tho that session might finally be changing to weekday daytime quite soon. Lovely!