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Embroidery, Cake and Our Town
Many, many years ago my Mum embroidered pillowcases with Goodnight, the child’s name and kisses for all her Grandchildren and two of our four, now in their 40s, still have theirs, if a little worn. I have started today making such pillow cases for each of our six Grandchildren for Christmas.
First pillowcase
I iced the Hummingbird cake tonight to take to a shared supper and it went down well.
Hummingbird Cake
We love our small town. You might enjoy watching this video that tells you about Redruth, its history and how it is blossoming recently.
Recycling, Cake and Book No 7
I always enjoy going to Porthtowan’s Eco Park both for the Singing for Your Heart and Soul and for the grounds. Today I found another quirky planter made of old tyres.
Beautiful planter
This afternoon, it being stormy and wet again, I decided to bake and made a Hummingbird Cake. I found it in one of my SIL’s cookery books while we were in Atlanta in September. It sounds delicious, contains bananas and pineapple, vanilla and cinnamon so we will see when it is sandwiched and iced with a cream cheese icing.
Just out of the oven
My last choice for the Book Challenge is Lonesome Dove, a 1985 Western by Texan author Larry McMurtry. It was reading this that made me want to visit Montana but we haven’t made it yet.
I loved a Western!
The story focuses on the relationship between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. The novel explores themes of old age, death, unrequited love and friendship and is unputdownable! I think it has been made into a film but I don’t like to see films of books I have read as they rarely match up to the film I had in my head when I was reading!
Pattern, Biscuits and Book No 6
The goldenness and the swirliness of the creamed butter and sugar pleased me.
Like a sunflower
I made musical biscuits this afternoon.
Lemony notes and guitars, awaiting icing
My penultimate book in the Book Challenge is Le Petit Prince. In the Spring before my A Levels, I spent a month (or was it three weeks?) in Toulouse, France living with a family and bought this copy of The Little Prince while there. Just in case anyone should know her, my pen-friend was called Josianne Fromage. I learned so much with the family about French life as well as improving my spoken French. I first saw The Magic Roundabout on tv while there and attended the Christening of a little relative. Josianne later came to Truro to spend time with my family but afterwards we lost contact.
Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Recently I found a beautiful small English edition to which I treated myself. It has a lovely pale blue ribbon to mark one’s place.
The Little Prince
WordPress sent me a message today.
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! I have been blogging for seven years!
Sketch, Cookie Cutters and A Leaf
We have had a sketch book of my Dad’s for many years and I thought I had taken out and given away the various sketches. I brought it down today so that the LiveWires can use the paper for their delightful drawings and discovered another of dad’s drawings, of Wheal Busy. My Dad was an author of children’s books and adult historical romances – a man of many talents.
Wheal Busy dated 4/vii/80
I sent for some new biscuit cutters so will have fun with the LiveWires making Autumn biscuits.
Biscuit cutters
A lovely Autumn leaf found on my walk today.
Red leaf
Guest Blogger and Cake
Daughter No 1 is the one who 3d printed the vase. here she is going to explain the Epicyclic Gears shown below.
This epicyclic gear set (also known as planetary gears) is 3D printed in one operation as a complete moving part. The term planetary comes from the inner gears (the planets) orbiting the central sun gear. This type of gear set is often used in automatic vehicle transmissions as it can handle large amounts of torque in a very compact form. The gear teeth are V shaped meaning they lock in place along the axis of the gear, so this widget does not come apart, nor could it be assembled from its individual component parts. It can only be created using 3D printing.
It is printed using Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), as was the vase, and is made of Polylactic Acid plastic (PLA) – a biodegradable thermoplastic derived from natural resources such as corn starch or sugar cane. The lines visible on the surface of the widget are indicative of the path the print head took as it laid down a 0.4mm wide bead of molten plastic which fused together to form the completed widget. The component parts are printed with just enough clearance between themselves and their neighbouring part that the beads of plastic of each part do not fuse with those of the other parts, resulting in a working assembly of seven individual parts all printed together.
Printed epicyclic gear, a thing of beauty and great fun to play with!
I baked a cake today – Blackberry, Apple and Date Cake and it is scrumptious, especially with a dollop of Creme Fraiche.
Blackberry, Apple and Date Cake
Day 18 – Together
Friday 20th September 2018
A peaceful family day with lots of relaxing and chatting together, sharing recipes and family stuff. On our walk for lunch we spotted a tiny door in the wall….
Cakes to make; I’ll be trying the Hummingbird Cake!
Door…
Lunch was a delicious and very American burger.
Best Burger
