Category: Photos
I Want To Ride My Bicycle
This weekend DmentD and I went shopping for my belated birthday present, a bike. I’ve been cycling since Christmas for exercise (aside from when it started hitting the hundreds!), but on his bike, big, heavy, cumbersome and too tall for me. Only by a couple of inches, but enough of a difference to mean that […]
Continue Reading...I’m Getting As Bad As DmentD!
When it comes to updating my blog that is *grins* Excuses aside, I just feel that I have less to talk about right now. Things have been going well, my work permit came through, all shiny and wonderful. So last Friday DmentD and I took a trip to the Social Security Office so I could […]
Continue Reading...The Waiting Game
My fingerprints were taken last week, and today my Advanced Parole turned up (the document that will let me leave and reenter America without forfeiting my application). Now we’re waiting for the Employment Authorisation Document and the interview appointment, we’re keeping everything crossed that they appear in a timely manner. In the meantime, here’s a […]
Continue Reading...The Time Has Come, To Talk Of Many Things
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings… I don’t know why, but that line has been in my head all morning. It’s been a good week, started a(nother) new schedule at work, I have my Sundays free again! And I’m working Wednesdays and Thursdays with Mondays and Fridays off. This is […]
Continue Reading...It’s Been A While
I know, I know, I’m a bad person for not updating in so long. But now I’ve started my externship I have less to talk about, so I have to wait for enough news to build up.. and hope I can remember it all! DmentD and I were given tickets to a Cowboy Mouth concert […]
Continue Reading...Catch-Up
We had already planned the crawfish boil for the 9th, which turned out to be the day after our wedding, and so it became our unofficial reception. There was the mass genocide of many many bugs, plenty of other foods. DmentD’s delicious cheesecake, I made two sorbets (lemon lime and berry, the lemon lime was […]
Continue Reading...Showpieces
The last couple of weeks in class we’ve been making showpieces. The first week was a chocolate showpiece with a theme of books/films/animals. I decided to combine the three and go for Harry Potter and the Phoenix! Surprisingly all my chocolate tempered nicely the entire week. I think this was because I was tempering much […]
Continue Reading...Shorn
Well, it wasn’t quite that drastic, but my hair is at least a foot shorter than it was! We even took before and after photos. There’s not really much else to say about it, I was finding it too hot, it is now much cooler and lighter.. it looks a little bouffant at the moment […]
Continue Reading...Confections
Recently in class we took a break from the chocolates and set to work making some confections. The first project, finished last Friday, contained candied zest, orange marzipan squares, divinity, praline, fudge, pate de fruit and marshmallows. The second project we did from start to finish on Tuesday making toffee, nut brittle and honeycomb. I […]
Continue Reading...Chocolate, Chocolate Everywhere
So much I’m already not wanting to eat it all.. now, put a nice juicy tender steak in front of me and it’s a whole different matter. Yes! That is what this class has done to me.. my sweet tooth is still there, it’s just a little overwhelmed with being surrounded for 5 hours a […]
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