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Just popping in to show you what's going on in Canterbury:

Cheerio!

Brewery

Today's weather was very English until just a little while ago, when the sun showed itself for the first time today. Rain seasoned with the occasional hailstorm. Perfect weather to stay inside, especially if one has aquired the mandatory travel cold (fell ill a day before flying, still a little snively. All four of us were actually slightly ill on Travel Day, go figure. . .) but there was a mandatory meeting at school. Also, I had to get a funnel in order to bottle the mead we made yesterday:

Finnish mead is not what mead is like in most other countries. It's pretty much a special kind of home made very slightly alcoholic lemonade. We didn't use fresh yeast, so the amount we used is just a guess, so maybe this year's mead will be much more fun to drink than previous years'. . . 

This is actually my first try. Maybe one morning the fridge will have exploded. Also, I've no idea about the amount of raisins per bottle, the recipe just stated a few, so I put around 6-7 raisins per bottle, if this amount is way off please tell me now, before it's way too late.

Ckakckackakckakcakekae

When it gets closer to Valentine's Day, you have a really really good reason to bake a cake, right? A good reason to test the "ready to roll" icings (or frostings) they sell over here. Well, the icing tasted like I thought it would. Like the white parts of Liquorice Allsorts. Quite nice, although nothing special in that way. Just a soft, sweet kneadable thing. It's like edible plasticine. That's actually really cool. I also love marzipan, the icing wasn't as grainy as that. A subtle difference, but I think the icing is easier to use (because of a handful of additives, obviously), but marzipan tastes better.

Anyway, back to the cake! It was filled with lemon curd and raspberries, and looked like this:

And it was quite delicious, I can add.

This morning it snowed really big fluffy flakes!

Dino got slightly depressed in the sun yesterday.
Burned half of his face.Told him to use a sunscreen,
but he wouldn't listen.

Hmm, that's all, I guess.

Wet Wet Wet

How horrible. Gaming and preparations for Christmas almost alienates me from the internet.


The web should really try harder.


Looks like there won't be a white Christmas in Southern Finland this year :< There's some hope on Wednesday and Thursday, but after that it's warming up again. Bleh.

After that you can only hope for a white new year instead.


Okay, let's think about something happier.

Like pink text.



That made my day!

Cozy

Was quite a nice christmassy feeling when we treated our neighbours. The Finnish things were also recieved well, I even ended up giving the gingerbread recipe with them when they left. Now it's less than a week until we fly to Finland, and feast on meat and cheese (I hope). (:

Boink

The lurking shadow from yesterday was only a spider. It was showing off on the wall a little while later. It was the same species as the Living Room Horror, an earlier, not too pleasant aquaintance.


Tomorrow I'll write a proper update. I'll give my roomie permission to step on my toes if I don't do that. There's a lot to write about. I did, for example, eventually receive my desk today.

Now, however, it's too late to write. Notting Hill and assembling my desk and drawer ate my evening.