One of the Weebly innovations that I was talking about the other week is the facility to delay posting so I can write when the muse takes me and post it on a day when I'm not around. Tried it out over the last two weeks and it seems to have worked except it hasn't posted to Facebook so all you loyal Facebook likers have been left without your weekly mak'Bread fix. Ho hum, back to the drawing board.
This is a picture from my Italian adventure to make up for it! (Mr mak' Bread took 800 pictures while we were away so I can bore you forever!) Isn't it funny how much of our lives is just habit? I prefer to refer to my 'systems' but it all boils down to a set of habits that I have to make my life run smoothly. Sometimes, 'though, the habits aren't about being efficient but are born out of laziness. Take baking bread for example. For the last few months I've been baking the same recipe all the time. Sometimes I make it a different shape but essentially it's the same loaf of bread. Now I can justify that by saying that Mr mac'Bread isn't one for innovation with his morning coffee and there is a limit to how much bread two people can consume but the crunch is that it's easier not to have to look out a recipe, read it and check you have the right stuff; in fact I know it so well I can do it without thinking at all. Very pioneering! So in an effort to shake off this breadmaking torpor I have set myself a challenge. I'm going to try and make a new bread every week in November and December (well, realisitcally I should say up until the week before Christmas when I expect there will be other things to be getting on with.) Watch this space! Just when I was getting to feel comfortable with Weebly's last set of updates along comes another lot. I'm sure in the fulness of time I will love and appreciate them all but right now it's frustrating and I can't understand this constant need to 'improve'. The humble digestive is another example, she says to prove the point.
Never mind, here's a tasty picture to make us all feel better. Do not believe anyone who says this retirement lark is easy. I was completely fooled by the cards with pictures of deckchairs and glasses of wine placed by the sea or in a garden full of roses and the kindly words about putting your feet up, relaxing etc etc. I am having a ball, there is not doubt, but 'taking it easy'? Must be on somebody else's planet. Still it is lovely to be so in demand; two engagements this evening (I have opted out of the second, I had the tickets for the first bought already) and two tomorrow (timing will allow me to do both but I'll have to eat late!) and the local orchestra's charity concert on Friday. All go but great fun!
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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
November 2017
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