Bours of flours

[ailbhe]

I've made two lots of one-pound-of-flour bread dough today but I got bored so now I have two pizza bases (wholemeal and rye) and 22 little white buns and a half-pound plain white loaf. I've never made a pizza or an iced bun from scratch before (unless it counts when I did it with someone else) so I'm interested to see how it turns out.

Emer sat on my back in the coorie and put the dough into the bun trays, one piece at a time. For a joke, she twice put two bits of dough in one bun, and beat on my back and laughed until I corrected it.

Linnea has been showing me letters. This is fantastic - it's the first time she's done letters and numbers with me for ages. She showed me s and t and o and m and a. Then she did numbers. If we're on the way back to normal, I 'll be delighted.

She has also expressed an interest in swimming lessons but I don't think the pool will take her for swimming (as distinct from not-swimming-and-with-a-parent) until she's four. The not-swimming classes are not interesting for her.

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

Swimming> what a bummer.

[thereyougothen.livejournal.com]

in Edinburgh thre council run pools offer "pre-scjhool" classes for 3 to 5 year olds. this is without the parents in the water, and if the kids are ready to learn to swim, they are taught. if they are Nicholas, they are encouraged to get in the water at least...

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

She showed me s and t and o and m and a

You know that stoma are the microscopic openings in leaves that plants "breathe" through? (Take in CO2, emit oxygen) That would make Linnea very advanced for her age :-).

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Do you have a recipe for iced buns? I'm pretty sure they're just white bread with icing on, but I'd like a recipe that works...

[ailbhe]

I made white bread buns as per the recipe on the Dove Farm Yeast Pack and spread icing on while they were hot, as per the instructions on elderly pack of Tesco Icing. They were grand.