Daniel Etherington

Quick inventory of the flour I’ve got:
Strong white flour
Strong wholemeal flour of an organic persuasion
Stromg wholemeal flour ground at the watermill at Otterton in Devon
Four grained malted flour from Swaffham Mill in Cambridge
Self-raising white flour
Plain white flour
Tipo ‘00′ flour
Chickpea flour
Rice flour
Rye flour
Barley flour
White maize flour, aka masa harina
Buckwhea flour
And today’s new addition:
Millet flour
It’s all piling [...]

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With Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360, Party Chat has been disabled for the majority of the multiplayer game modes, much to the irritation of players like me who prefer to just party up with a few real friends and chat, you know, like normal people who don’t want to be audio spammed by [...]

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When I saw  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and the scenes involving Moria, one thing that struck me was – if Moria was such a major kingdom for the dwarves, how come the door was so small? I’ve read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and the Silmarillion, but [...]

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It’s late summer already. Sheesh. Still, got to love this time of year for all the free fruit. Spent Sunday gathering elderberries, blackberries and wild plums and making stuff. Also loads of rowan berries around, but I’ve not experimented with them (you can make wine, and a jelly which is presumably like rosehip jelly).

Elder is [...]

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Friday – hot, dry and even summery. Sunday – warm and dry. Monday – warm and, so far, dry.
Saturday:

(Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the photo – and for holding the brolly while I flipped burgers…)
Still, at least we had plenty of cake:

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Oh the irony – the spellchecker on my blog doens’t recognise the word “blog”.

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