Blinking boilers! This time it's leaking water all over the place so everything's had to be turned off. Since yesterday no heating, no hot water and no chance to go and 'borrow' heat from the local shops because we await the arrival of the engineer who I hope will fix it. According to the lady who arranged the appointment the boiler is just looking for some attention since it was the wireless unit that got it all last time. Hmm, it's an interesting theory. Still I find it comforting that those on the end of helplines, with a fair number of whom I've had to deal this last few days but that's for another time when my fingers work better, are quite human and slightly daft. Just makes your day that.
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You will remember, those of you who have been reading along for a while, that I am an enthusiastic bus pass user and as you can imagine was as excited as the next man about getting the new all singing dancing add any service you like pass to replace the old worn out one. Well! My parents got their replacement pass, Mr mak'Bread got his replacement pass, my friends and colleagues got their replacement pass but did I? No of course not. 'You better get that sorted' said a friendly bus driver six weeks ago. So I took his advice and phoned up. I was assured all was in hand and the new pass would be delivered long before the old one ran out on 31st December. Was it? No of course not, why else would I be telling you all this? By this time of course we were into the festive season and nobody was answering the phone. So at midnight on 31st when the world celebrated the new year, I mourned the passing into invalidity of my trusty pass. Eventually three days later I got someone who said that she'd reorder for me but it would take five to ten working days. Now do you not think a wee explanation of what had gone wrong might have been a polite thing to provide? Apparently not. However, the bus pass has arrived and only two working days after it was reordered so I made Mr mak'Bread some of his favourite scones to thank him for listening to me moaning on about the inefficiences of admin land! My handsome son says I should be grateful I get a pass at all and I suppose he's right but then again you have to be old to get it so there is a downside! Probably not, resolutions with their inbuilt failure chip do little for me and if I indulged more than was good for me over the festive season I will let the garden fix that in due course. I have a number of projects for 2017 worked out thanks to my pal Ellen who likes to keep me challenged in a project sort of way but nothing overly taxing or worryingly self-improving. I must admit 'though to counting my steps over the last few days but that's nothing to do with healthy living, it's just because I found this really cool pedometer app thing for my phone and I'm still playing with it. The novelty will wear off, no doubt, long before the festive excess. Also getting back into the rhythm of baking after abandoning bread in favour of various Christmas goodies. So here to start the new year are Kaiser-style Rolls, just right for a turkey burger or whatever takes your fancy. Wishing you and yours a very happy 2017 Kaiser(ish) Rolls Ingredients: 500g white bread flour 5g fast action yeast 3g salt (or more to your taste) 15g sugar 350 liquid made with one egg, 30g melted butter and water Method: Mix everything together and work to a smooth dough. You can do this by hand for 10 minutes but you may find it easier to use a mixer with a dough hook. because the dough is quite sticky to start with. Cover and leave to rise for about an hour. To shape the rolls press each on with a Kaiser ROll stamp or use the tutorial given here Cover the rolls and leave to double in size, brush with egg wash and sprinkle on sesame seeds. Bake at 220C for 15 minutes until golden brown then leave to cool. You should eat these or freeze them quickly because they're only worth toasting on day 2. |
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Hello, I'm Marianne. I live in Central Scotland with my husband, Jim, and an occasional rabbit. Glad you could join me :) Archives
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