Good Friday 2021

This year's hot cross buns come to my kitchen via Marguerite Patten's Everyday Cookbook, using a veganised rich dough (soya milk, baking marge & egg replacer powder instead of milk, butter & egg), wholemeal bread flour (because the white flour is self raising) & 6 oz of mixed dried fruit. The recipe makes '16 - 20' & I made 16 (I know you could count them, but some might have evaporated from the cooling rack before the photo shoot) since it was easy to keep halving the dough till I got to 16. But I'm glad I didn't go for 20, as they're jolly small!  I guess they're better for being small, but I'm used to the commercial ones that are twice the size! And I clearly didn't use this recipe last year since last year, I only just got 12 on the cooking rack
and the crosses are piped on. But I didn't record what recipe I did use then, so I really needed to post today! 

I also made economical Easter biscuits, using the recipe mum wrote in her home economics book at high school. 
The fancy cutters worked better on the 'jigsaw' that I did with the re-rolled dough, as the first trays out of the oven look a little caught, & there's not so much definition on the rabbits or chicks. Or so many chicks in the photo, but some had gone by the time I took the photo, as my parents came by to drop off Easter eggs for us, & Younger Son's birthday cards. 

He's 18 now, both my children are adults! Though he annoyed me this morning as I'd got a big bottle of orange juice from the supermarket yesterday, & he drank it all overnight. 

March socks are officially March&April socks now.  I've finished sock 1 & got down to the heel on sock 2, but need to be home & not busy so I can turn the heel. And I can't do it with my contact lenses in, I need to be able to take my glasses off as needed to peer at the stitches & check all is well. 

So I took a dolls' clothes project with me when I church sat on Tuesday - we had thy church open everyday this week, either for services or private prayer, & have 2 people in the church for private prayer so no-one is on their own. No-one came in on Tuesday, so I got on with a dolls' sleeping bag using a King Cole pattern. My glasses steam up with a mask on, therefore it's easier to wear contact lenses when I'm going to have to wear a mask. 

I do wonder if more people will go for laser surgery to correct myopia rather than glasses or contact lenses? I've considered it, but apparently the less short-sighted one is, the better it works. And I'm really quite short-sighted. Also, I really don't like the idea of having eye surgery. If I get cataracts, I'll reconsider that. Right now, I'll stick with glasses & contact lenses. 

Ooh, I went for a run the other day, the first one I've done since the beginning of January! 
When I say run, I mean Jeff. That is using the Jeff Galloway system of planning to run & walk at short intervals so you can keep on going rather than 'run run run oh I'm knackered I need to walk the rest'. Jeffing with doggie and an interval timer is a pain, as the idea is to run, phase into a brisk walk, speed back into a steady run, and it should all be lovely and smooth. With the dog, it's run, suddenly stop to sniff, walk, stand still & wait for dog to finish his wee or poo, get the poo bag out & pick up after him... Much less stress without the timer going off to tell me I should be running now!

Yes, it is the Easter holidays, but Younger Son was still in college - he needs to use the Macs at college for music as the software isn't available for pc, & covid has restricted his time in college. He'll be in college next week too which is quite nice as I get a peaceful holiday. Apart from the feeding the dog, getting boys up in the morning (I wish someone would invent alarm clocks), doing the laundry, being a taxi driver for Younger Son...

I have a new washing machine! Ooh, it's got a delay setting on it so I can load it the night before and come down to find I didn't start it properly and it needs starting to do the 3 & a half hour cycle! No, I've worked it out now, & it was just at the end of the cycle this morning when I got up.  I do have to remember it's a cold fill & takes a lot longer than the dearly departed old hot fill, but it does a jolly good wash.

Do you have Easter traditions? We never did Easter egg hunts when we were young, but my parents do them in their garden for the grandchildren. Then we all have a meal together. Not last year of course, but they're planning individual hunts for each set of grandchildren, since we can now meet in gardens. Younger Son said he only does them to help the little ones, but did still want chocolate eggs. Mum gets chocolate for everyone anyway, so that wasn't a problem. I'll be at church for Easter Sunday, & this was the first year I've been to the other services. Our old vicar used to break a chocolate egg to show how the tomb was empty, & then share out the broken chocolate, but that won't be able to happen this year. 

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