I have been a very nice girl. . .

The last week has been rather eventful!

Bad things:

- Our oven had a partial breakdown

- Our boiler had a full-scale breakdown (no hot water!)

Good things:

- I managed to repair my other bicycle brake myself (100 Big Girl points, right?)

- The oven got fixed.

- The boiler got fixed.

- We had tortilla today

- We had an Australian guest over yesterday

Time flies, it would seem it's time for the Wish List again! Please note that I gladly accept other types of chocolate than the ones listed here, such as Fazer's Blue, Tupla, Dumle, Toffifee and so on.

The List



Money
Rahaa  
pengar 

Always appreciated.


...

Let's wish for something really girly for once:



Body Scrub
Vartalokuorinta

I just really kind of like it, and I would probably never buy it myself.




Okay, back to normal:




The Elder Scrolls: Anthology

 

Look at all these games! And there are even maps included!
I would never need to play anything else again, not for, like, 500 hours at least!





Angel Chocolate Bars
Enkelisuklaapatukoita
Änglachokladstänger

Mmmm.






Cloetta Center Toffee (original)

 Oh, yum yum yum!



Punch-rolls, or just green marzipan (Sallinen)
Punssirullia, tai ihan vain vihreää marsipaania (Sallinen)
Dammsugarbakelser, eller helt bara grön marsipan (Sallinen)





Naminami.



Arrack
Arrakki
Arrak

For baking (mostly, ahem)





Glögg-concentrate
Glögitiiviste
Glöggkoncentrat

Glugluglug.




Recipe Journal
Reseptivihko/kirja
Recepthäfte/bok










Should have a combination of pages to write in and plastic pockets to
hold cut-out recipes. Super plus if it has different sections for starters,
soups, main meals, snacks, desserts and so on.




Who Cooked The Last Supper?
by
Rosalind Miles


Seems like a funny and interesting book.


Dough
Fyffee
Stålar

Can hardly have too much.

Only two weeks until I arrive, be prepared!

Circular Heating Element.

Another chapter in the "everything breaks down in our final year in this house" story. Apparently the circular heating element at the back of our fan-assisted oven has decided to suddenly stop working. The good news are that the grill element still works, so the oven is not completely useless, and that the reparation shouldn't be too expensive, if it is indeed only the element, and not some strange electrical fault. We noticed this yesterday when we made lasagne, and put it into the supposedly pre-heated oven only to find it cold, although the light was on and the fan was blowing merrily away. 

The next tenants will find themselves in a truly pristine house, at least when it comes to all kinds of appliances, we'll eventually have them all broken and switched to new ones before our time is out.

In other news it is steadily getting colder, someone told me they heard a long time cold scare prognosis of this winter going to be one of the worst in all time British history, with temperatures possibly plummeting below -25ºC. Hopefully it won't happen, for the sake of everyone living in these poorly insulated houses, and England will simply cease to function.

A couple colder days would be nice though, since the freezer really needs defrosting. It builds up frost really fast, due to the outrageous indoor humidity.

Announcement

This beautiful MS Paint still life portrays an earring that seems to have been lost here by one of our guests last spring. Does anyone recognize it?

In other news the dissertation draft deadline is on monday, so this weekend seems to be destined to be filled with writing. Today, however, this dreariness is considerably lightened up by the plan of preparing and eating sushi. We actually bought a tiny piece of fresh salmon to use in it. Wow-ow!

Mera Camera

I've actually been spending some time in the darkroom lately, here are some pictures from a couple weeks back:

Bugs on the water.

Roomie in the woods.

This is what the fifth tenant looks like.

As you can see I took a bite of the big one on the left.

 

This is what happens to a light sensitive paper when you 

mess up and it gets a little too much of not-pitch-black

It has been a lot of fun.

The weather is getting colder and colder. We are approaching "triple sweater plus leggings under your trousers, scarf, and a cap on your head" indoor temperatures. Have I mentioned that hot water bottles are the best thing ever?

Monstercake!

Thanks to Roomie for letting me borrow her lovely sweater.

On thursday we went on a gallery trip to London. A lot of walking it was, and a lot of art as well. After that I, for one, was pretty exhausted, but luckily we had decided to order some Chinese takeaway instead of starting to cook something ourselves around 8 o'clock. It was so good. We were invited to go to a Halloween costume houseparty in the evening. Me and Roomie, we were so tired we decided we probably wouldn't stay for too long. Still, we managed to stay for a bit after midnight. Some of the costumes were really good. I was dressed as insomnia, as you can clearly see from the illustration above, just a slight case of "I have limited props, time and energy to fashion a decent outfit from thin air"

Next day we baked a monster cake:

Me and Roomie baked the cake itself, and then Finnish Friend joined in to help with the decoration. It's a pumpkin cake, very similar to carrot cake, except that this one has a bit of orange in the batter. It's very good, I can tell you. While tasting the cake we watched Nosferatu (1922), grandfather of numerous vampire (and horror) films.

The sound and music in it was really interesting and diverse.

Yesterday we watched Time Masters (Maitres du Temps) (1982). It wasn't that good. Some interesting ideas, but a rather dull storyline, and some really bugging visual elements, mainly unsettling He-Man faces:

Hmm. Anyway, that's it for now. Take care y'all.