All In One Cake and Coffee Icing 6oz butter - (Soft ?tub) 602 caster suger 3 eggs beaten 8oz SR Flour. 1 tsp BP Bake 190° sift flour + BP Beat all together 20-30 mins Coffee Fudge Icing 8oz icing suger 2oz butter 3 dst spoon strong black coffee Heat sugar, butter + coffee Cool 5 mins Beat well - pour over cake ......

I was out walking the dog on Round Hill this morning. I took this picture and futz'd around with some filters to highlight the textures. The outback is gnarly Before I took this picture I was reminded of a drawing I had seen once, probably Van Gogh. I cannot find it now but it was like this one: One of Van Goghs'...

Zaida's Rock Hard Buns 8oz SR Flour 4oz Fat 2oz sugar 4oz dried fruit 1 egg I tbs milk demerara for topping [HOT] Oven 200°/180° Fan Rub-in fat All suger & fruit All egg & milk Bake 15 min's ... Permalink

A self-portrait of Lissitzky from 1924 Tracy next door to the Silver Tree Bookshop gave me a haircut on Friday. We chatted about ceramics, Tracy as it turned out is a member of the Broken Hill Potters Society . The conversation reminded me of my old interests in The St Ives School of artists. I mentioned Barbara...

Zaida's Nig-Nog recipe. 6oz Oats 6oz flour & 1 tsp bicarb (4oz granulated) 6oz golden syrup 6oz butter melt butter & syrup mix dry ingredients make into balls, flatten oven 150 10 mins ... Permalink

Zaida's Marmalade recipe. I stole your recipes Ma, hope it's OK. I thought I'd post them on my blog so that I can send people here when they give me substandard tea treats and marmalade. 1.8kg - 4lb sevilles 2 lemons 2.7 kg - 7lb granulated. Wash, halve & squeeze fruit - Keep juice in fridge. cook pips in 1pt(?)...

One really should stop for a drink when one gets busy... It was my 55th Birthday yesterday. I was ever-so-slightly stereotypically depressed about it. The night before I was kept awake not by the deep philosophical problems that beset humanity, it was constipation. I had a pain across my gut from a day of...

The reason I travelled all this way was for my little brothers 50th birthday party. I pretty much never go home and do this stuff. I had an awesome night and just love my clan so much. I danced with a lot of people and every second person seemed to have a cold. A short visit to my Mum in Pocklington and a long train...

Hampstead Heath today My plane landed in the London darkness at 5:30am this morning. The 15 hour flight was extruciating. I took the train to Farringdon to give myself a walk through an old haunt to my hotel in Kings Cross. London has changed a lot since I knew it 30 years ago. I waited for my hotel to open it's...

Living in the Outback far from the sea I have become increasingly obsessed with what I cannot have. Of course, if I found myself on the deck of a boat I would probably miss the flat brown Outback. This post is link-heavy with things I have been reading and am still reading. I am following my interest in boats and...

12 years ago I was trying hard to earn a living building stuff using Drupal . A clever chap from Brighton called Jeremy Keith was doing the same but with more success than me. He built a wonderful tool for creating your own podcast called huffduffer . I've used huffduffer on and off ever since. The Huff-Duff unit...

The Thundering Typhoons was a local band from when I was a teenager. The old mp3s in this post have been kicking around my hard-drives for decades. Have a listen, I think they are pretty great. Johnny I Hardly Knew Yah.mp3 Johnny I Hardly Knew Yah , a brilliant song with a long history Fifteen years going on sixteen...