♫ Jesus is Alive 🎝

 I came across this song. It's very catchy! (It's also aimed at preschoolers)

 

Mackerel wraps

I based this extremely losely on something a friend once gave me - but I don't think she'd recognise it, as hers used chicken and sour cream! 

  

You will need (per person):

• 2 wraps (these ones were Lidl's seeded wraps)
• Approx 100g mackerel - I like sweetcure smoked mackerel*
• 1 tomato
• A few leaves of lettuce 
• Mayonnaise
• Grated cheese 

What you do:

1. Chop tomato. Tear up lettuce.
2. Grill mackerel on both sides until cooked through and the skin is all crispy.
3. Warm wraps
4. Spead on some mayo 
5. Divide lettuce, tomato, mackerel and cheese between wraps
6. Roll up
7. Eat

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*My dad doesn't like smoked fish so I used a tin of mackerel for him, with the tomato sauce rinsed off, and heated through in a frying pan. 

Telephone quote

"I do not think I am exaggerating the possibilities of this invention when I tell you that it is my firm belief that one day there will be a telephone in every major town in America."

~ Alexander Graham Bell

Paws 🐾

I've read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe innumerable times over the last 40 years. But I only just noticed something. How does the captain of the secret police write a letter and nail it to the floor if he's a wolf?

My old studio 🙁

A long time ago I used to have a studio in town - I now work from home.

Which is not as good (though cheaper) - but  I'm glad I'm no longer there, as the whole building burnt down yesterday. 

I feel for all the small businesses that were there.  

Found this video online. The drone starts travelling along Gordon street if you're trying to orientate yourself.

Cheese and apple pancakes 🧀🍏

This is how we do pancakes in my family - no-one knows where the recipe came from.

You will need

• Pancakes (the crepe sort). We use pancake mix but you could do it properly of course.
• Apples (we used two between three people)
• A similar quantity of cheese e.g.cheddar

What you do

1. Preheat oven 
2. Grate the apple and cheese and mix together.
3. Make the pancakes. 
4. As each one is made, fill with apple and cheese mixture and roll up.
5. Arrange on foil in a baking tray, cover with foil and put in oven for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted 
6. Eat 😋
7. Use up leftover batter (if any) to make more pancakes and eat with lemon & sugar, jam (or this time dulce de leche)

Before tobacco health warnings

Was tidying out some craft stuff, and found these old pipe cleaners. They're real pipe cleaners, not the coloured craft ones you get now. (They came from my Granny.  For craft purposes - she didn't smoke a pipe!)

The text on the back is interesting:

 

WHAT IS A PIPE?

It is the poor man's friend. It calms the mind, soothes the nerves and makes a man patient under all difficulties. 

From the moment a man takes to a pipe he becomes a philosopher.

It has made more good men, indulgent husbands, kind masters and fathers, than anything else in the world.  

STUDY YOUR HEALTH and clean your pipe daily for it is a filter which purifies the smoke before it enters the mouth. 

IF YOU ARE WISE you will smoke two or more pipes alternately and leave a pipe cleaner in those not in use. You will find them all the sweeter.

Rather overblown claims there, maybe?