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Orange or lemon cake
9:26pm, Tuesday 13 July 2010

100g margarine
150g sugar
1 lemon, grated and juiced (or an orange)
1 egg, beaten
100g SR flour
7" tin, greased and lined (or save effort with a silicone tin)

(also works well with everything doubled, in a bigger tin)

Melt the margarine in a saucepan and mix with the sugar. Take it off the heat and mix in the lemon rind, then the beaten egg. Fold in the flour and put the mixture into the tin. Bake at 180°C for 25-30 minutes. In the same saucepan (to save washing up) heat the lemon juice and "some" sugar. Stab the cake all over with a fork and pour the syrupy mess over the cake. Try hard not to take it out of the tin until it's cooled.

Response to DCSF's "Home Education - registration and monitoring proposals"
1:08am, Friday 16 October 2009

The Department for Children, Schools and Families is consulting on proposed changes to registration and monitoring of home-educated children.

This is my response, which was allocated number 2284. Many thanks to friends and others (including the Family Education Trust) for suggestions and ideas for points to include. Please feel free to borrow from it if you want - if it encourages you to reply to the consultation, so much the better! [more...]

Vocabulary of a 16 month old
12:30pm, Friday 8 May 2009

Stuart's vocabulary is quite extensive now:

key	key
door	door or window
doch	dog, quadruped
RAAAA	the dog that lives at the pub opposite our house
ee-ee	Mousey
brumbrum	car, bus, tractor, vehicle
don	gone
din	drink
dindin	dinner, food
Mumum	Mum
Dadad	Dad
dinky	stinky (poo), sticky, wet
hoch	hot, dangerous, mustn't touch

Chocolate mug cake
2:56pm, Friday 13 February 2009

(from here...)

5-MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

4 tbs plain flour
4 tbs sugar
2 tbs cocoa
1 egg
3 tbs milk
3 tbs oil
3 tbs chocolate chips (optional)
some nuts (optional)
Small splash of vanilla

Add dry ingredients to a large coffee mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.

Add the chocolate chips and nuts (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes on high. The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

When it says "mix well" it means it. Also works quite well with soya milk.

Things to put in a barn
10:02am, Monday 10 November 2008

How about... a house?

Could be dark, though...