April's Ramblings,Scrambling&Amblings

....besides "Loser!"

 I did  !

 Her Most Noble Lady April the Formidable of Leighton Buzzard

Well don't just gawk at the screeen , on your knees to do my bidding you peons !  Servants these days , so full of themselves...

 

 so follow this link and see  who you be :

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Have a swell 2007 , but for Pete's sake  , don't get on the road buzzed, K?

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Gentile Signora April ,

 Inizia la nuova la scuola di cucina che ci farà scoprire, mese dopo mese, tutti i segreti della pasticceria. Nella prima puntata la pasta frolla e brisée. Il freddo invoglia a piatti più robusti? Ecco le ricette a base di maiale e verza, dalla classica casoeûla milanese a quelle più innovative. E poi il prodotto del mese: i carciofi, come riconoscere le varietà più diffuse e tanti suggerimenti per cucinarli.

 Prosegue, inoltre, la promozione Ballarini con la teglia per pizza.

 Buon 2007

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Kind Ms. April,

The kitchen school begins the new that it will make to discover us, month after month, all the secrets of the pastry shop. In the first nose-dive the paste frolla and brisée. The cold invoglia to sturdier plates? Here the prescriptions made up of pig and verza, from classic casoeûla the from Milan one to those most innovative ones. And then the product of the month: the carciofi, like recognizing the more diffuse varieties and many suggestions in order to cook them.

 It continues, moreover, the Ballarini promotion with the teglia for peak.

 Good 2007

OK....

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To quote a line from Blackadder's Christmas  Carol.

It's that time of year again, gorging under the festive glow of shiny things scattered all about .

Steff,Soph and I just hung out last night eating  maple  glazed  nitrate-free ham, green beans and homemade choco-chip caramel scones while watching our favorite Christmas episodes  of "Ab Fab", "Keeping Up Appearances ",and" Father Ted."

 Our  dog's upcoming surgery for glaucoma  has definitely dampened our festive spirits.

We are alone  for the first time in years .

 After Tom died , we went off to live with my parents .

 My Mom's the X-mas Grinch and my Dad's  a Santa Claus  wanna-bee.

 Living between those extremes was sometimes a bit  maddening !

 I am usually in charge of  Christmas  correspondence   , designing  holiday cards  with our family's pictures  pasted into hilarious yuletide situations.

This year we are  sitting on top of boxes with a sick dog , so  pasting viking horns , garden gnomes  or  Christmas ornaments on family members was pretty much the last thing  on my mind.

Out rolled some  cards I had bought eons ago that I found squirreled away in an old box , planted a few scribblings in them  and off they went.

Maybe next year, the thought of elves who look like my family rolling a yule log down a driveway will entice me back into the card making spirit. 

Oh, yeah -- Happy Christmas all !

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and I actually like this.

 A refreshing lack of flip-flops in cold weather up here .

In the Houston burbs it could be freezing ( and it did a few times a year),yet still there'd be those who felt closed shoes were somehow an extravagance.

These folks weren't just students either. You'd see professors,random people in the stores , professional looking people ....it was a strange phenomenon to me .

The  default shoes here tend to be clogs or tennis shoes.