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Gingersnap Cookies

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This is a good recipe. By Stephanie Jaworski at Joy of Baking.

The recipe calls for less butter, but provides more taste. I have made these several times during the holidays, and they were a great success.

I double up on the ginger, and the cloves, use salted butter, and roll the cookie balls in a granulated sugar/cane sugar combo, because I like savoury. At the same time, I have cut back on the granulated sugar content by 50%. As I like my cookies very chewy, I also add 50 gr of sunflower seeds, and take the cookies out of the oven as soon as they begin to firm up at the edges, i.e. right at the 10 min mark.

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I am currently revising content on my blog and mini-sites. Some material has been taken down, but will be re-introduced shortly.

The Long Return

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I have not had the time to tend my website for a long while. During this winter and spring I have been immersed in the task of completing my MA thesis. The title is “Romantic Attitudes and Aesthetic Strategies in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, The Counsellor and The Road“. It is an account and analysis of McCarthy’s expression of the Romantic attitudes to death, life and materialism and the application and effect of bildung and Romantic irony and allegory in his recent works.

I have received an A for my efforts, so I am singularly pleased. That’s one – very significant – item I can check off on my list. Having, finally, completed my education is not only a reward in itself, but a confirmation and validation of my ability and the persistence with which I have pursued it, despite the challenge, I have had to face during my student years, in the form of chronic pain.

Of course, with this result, invariably I must ask myself – PhD?

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Beading my Time

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I have acquired a consuming hobby over the last year; beading. It is a most excellent passtime in which I indulge when gardening is unavailable due to season or weather or circumstance.

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Green / Purple Large Peyote Stitch Bezel Pendant

This bezel pendant was actually the first item I made. I just had to go all-aboard first time round. I made one for myself, my Mum, my niece and her Mum. Then I ran out of the 24mm purple pearls I used for the base. My niece will have to wait for hers, as she is still at that age where she has to put everything in her mouth.

Peyote stitch bezel. 24 mm wax pearl base. 6/0 and 9/0 Czech rounds, 8/0 and 9/0 Tohos rounds, and 11/0 Miyuki delicas. Czech drop crystal. Purple bead thread.