6.7.11

*** soup ***

The other day I was looking forward to making butternut soup, the most amazing butternut soup recipe ever.  Always a definite winner.  I spent a quite considerable amount of time, lovingly chopping ingredients, boiling vegetables and what not, before I attempted to blend this soup.  Usually I do this using a kitchen device my family refers to as a 'magic wand', but on this occasion I was not able to locate this wonderful piece of equipment and consequently decided to chuck everything in the blender.  I have seen people do this, not a problem, right? Wrong.

I poured everything into our liquidizer, pushed the button to blend. Which worked well for the first thirty seconds or so, thereafter I heard a strange- and very unhealthy sounding- grinding noise and saw that the orange mixture was splatting into the bottom part of the blender.  At this point I thought it a good idea to salvage whatever soup was left in the blender and hurriedly turned off the plastic twist attachment.  The rest of the soup should still be ok, right? Wrong again.

The second I lifted that plastic container off its mechanical counterpart all my lovely, but boiling hot, soup poured through the bottom of the jug (which I had now noticed had lost its entire plastic base) and all over my hand.  Not only did I burn my hand, but instinctively tried to lick off the hot soup- as my hand was burning- and scorched the top of my lip.  Not the cleverest idea.

Needless to say I was not a happy camper- and a soupless one at that.  My flatmate donated a polish soup as compensation for my loss, so all is well that ends well. I still like soup.



20.6.11

*** uhm, dance (?) ***

I am busy working on my master's dissertation, and while doing some research I came across this video.  It's a dance choreographed to look like it is underwater [at least it looks that way to me], absolutely amazing.

These are just a few stills that I screen-captured, have a look at the video here.




16.6.11

*** sunshine and a garden ***

I cannot say enough how much I want sunshine and a garden to be jolly in. Glagow is an alright place, I can't really complain about it much, considering I lived in the death-trap, magnificently beautiful, heartwarming and sunny deathtrap- but deathtrap nonetheless, that is Africa...

But still I miss the sun's heat on my skin, the crazy yellow light after afternoon thunderstorms, lekker braais and overwhelmingly warm people taking it easy in their gardens with a klippies en coke... or an ice cold zamalek.  Europe sure could learn some things from Africa...

[excuse the small image size... images from pinterest]



9.6.11

*** clever design ***

This is such fantastic advertising: for the Bronx Zoo. Clever clever!
[From tokketok]

6.6.11

*** fluffy animals ***

For some reason the miserable weather in Glasgow is increasing my want for a tiny little fluffy squishy animal as pet... I want, I want, i want! Too damn cute for words. [From pinterest].



5.6.11

*** bitching about comic sans again ***

I remember going on about how awful I find comic sans in a previous blog entry, so I will spare everyone from doing so again. I found this picture (on pinterest I think) that amused me oh-so-greatly, I had to reblog on this topic though...

31.5.11

*** scratchcards ***

Another obsession I have always had is one for scratchcards. There is something deeply soothing, but also exciting, in scratching a scratchcard.  It's not much unlike the need I feel to push an elevator button before other people do...  I came across a 'how to make your own scratchcards' blogpost today and felt the desperate urge to share it with the world.

1. You will need cardboard, your 'ticket', glue, contact paper, silver acrylic paint, dishwashing liquid
2. Stick your ticket onto your cardboard
3. & 4. Stick the contact paper over the scratch part of your ticket.
5. Mix dishwashing liquid with paint (1:2 ratio of liquid:paint)
6. & 7. Paint over stratchy part
8. Hey presto.


So superduper amazing.
[Original link here]