16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn
There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
I make an awesome madeira cake
Come over to my house tonight to try some before we eat it all. I made a dozen madeira cupcakes and a medium-sized loaf (snort).
Will take photos as evidence.
Ingredients
175g/6oz butter, at room temperature
175g/6oz caster sugar
3 large eggs
250g/9oz self-raising flour
approx. 3 tbsp full-cream milk
1 lemon, zest only
1-2 thin pieces of candied citron or lemon peel, to decorate
Method
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease an 18cm/7in round cake tin, line the base with greaseproof paper and grease the paper.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating the mixture well between each one and adding a tablespoon of the flour with the last egg to prevent the mixture curdling.
3. Sift the flour and gently fold in, with enough milk to give a mixture that falls slowly from the spoon. Fold in the lemon zest. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and lightly level the top. Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 30 minutes.
4. Place the candied peel on top of the cake and bake for a further 30 minutes or until a warm skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn it out on to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
I can see!
It’s been about 12 years since I last went to the optometrist. Twelve.
Oops.
Because I need to renew my driver’s license later this year (and I only passed the eyesight test 4 years ago because I said I had the flu), I knew I had to go and get some decent glasses that didn’t get me through my HSC in 1996. So today I toddled off to my local optometrist for what I knew was going to be an expensive exercise.
$600 and an hour later, I have glasses that aren’t daggy, even have pink bits and have VERSACE plastered on the sides.
It’s official, I own a wanky pair of glasses.
I speak like this all the time
Except not in front of polite company. And ur mom.
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For clarification, I still think whereis.com sucks
Clearly, Steve@Sensis believes that whereis.com never gets directions wrong. I won’t mention how whereis tells me to drive down alleys instead of taking main roads (assuming it thinks there are no-right-turns where there are, in fact, traffic lights with right turn-arrows).
I’m also wondering if our friend Steve’s role description includes ‘Check Google Alerts for whereis.com references and promote our services and whore our current promotions’, or maybe he’s checking crappy blogs when whereis.com servers need to be upgraded so that they can actually handle the traffic they generate.
