Foodblog

 There's been whey too little food blogging, don't you think?

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 How cheesy, I know.

Ta-daa!

The meaning of this is that I'm currently into making fresh cheese, and then using the whey (vassla/ hera for you Finns) to make cold rise bread. They make for a very delicious breakfast combination, I can tell you. I have also made jelly. It was supposed to become winegums, but it turned into jelly instead. I'm too lazy to take a photo right now, but a cut piece of it looks almost exactly like this, except 348 times prettier, especially when the sun shines through it.

Speaking of the sun, the weather has been exceptionally sunny and summery, which has been nice, as it feels as if this country is drying up slowly, until the regular damp gloom ensues. One thing that has stayed in our damp entry room for too long is my winter coat, as it had some cozy colonies of mold growing on it. They seem to have perished rather expectedly when I threw it into the washing machine. The mold is one thing I won't miss when I move away.

Drawing Lobster

This is how exciting life in England can be when you're not paying attention to your own lunch.

In other news I've been ill and recovered since I wrote last time, just a fever, but an oddly tough one as it went on for a little over a week, although it never got very dramatic in my case. About halfway through the illness I got weird sniffles, my nose didn't get particularly blocked, and wasn't terribly runny either, but was kind of itchy and irritated all the time. It took me a couple of days to realize that the symptoms were identical to the allergic symptoms I get later in spring, and lo and behold, they went away with allergy medicine. It isn't that strange I guess, although the weather has been terrible the temperatures have been mild, so loads of trees are already blooming and growing leaves. I sincerely hope it really is the trees and not that I have developed sensitivity to mold. Hmm.


Here is a link to some animations I've drawn here at uni.


As you might devise from the link, I have started collecting my stuff on yet another website, Drawing Lobster. I'm building it with the intention of it being my sort of main, artistic showcase website for a forseeable future. There isn't very much on there yet, so the index isn't working in an ideal way yet, as some of the sections remain empty at the moment. Later on I'll put a CV and portfolio on the website as well. So, now there is another way to keep up with what I'm doing.