The bird scarer doesn't start until four thirty this morning. Almost a full hour later than yesterday. This might still be too early for the villages young fathers who had gathered in the village hall to watch the first matches of the World Cup and sink a few beers. The New Zealand mans television projector was deemed to be a great success although the wind blowing through the corrugated iron roof caused the large sheet that acts as a screen to sway. The effect on the viewer was said to be not unlike being on a small boat in a brisk breeze. The local farmer says there was a good turnout but reckons a quarter of the village population are away on vacation.
This morning we walk past the pier and up the hill to the ruins of the cathedral. It's bright but decidedly nippy. There's been an abandoned bike left lying on the shoreline for the last month. Perhaps someone will come and pick it up before it rusts away in the salt air ? The BBC have sensibly focused on football this morning and limit their comments on the Middle East to the 'whiplash' nature of the negotiations. Everyone seems to agree that the resignation of not one but two Defence Ministers will be the final nail in the British Prime Ministers coffin.
The secret of avocados :https://sftw.substack.com/p/how-avocados-stopped-being-seasonal
Chile v Argentina :https://marcusnunes.substack.com/p/the-chilean-mirror-what-argentina
And so it begins :https://youtu.be/gHT_fl6EYBs
The Pope weights in on the World Cup :https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2064739688104001872
2027 on the horizon :https://www.theopen.com/st-andrews-2027
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Fifteens look remarkably like what NZers call Lolly Cake. Easy, and always acceptable at a parish morning tea, or the like. Take one packet of Malt biscuits, crumbed, gently heat 3oz butter with half a tin of Sweetened condensed Milk. Cut into small pieces a packet of "Eskimos", or Fruit Puff sweets, mix together, Press into a lined tin, or roll into a long log. refrigerate till cold. sprinkle with Desiccated coconut. Slice. Your version had the added "sophistication" of Glace cherries. Another version uses finely chopped preserved apricots. You could make it next time you need to "contribute to morning tea! - shades of "Ladies a plate"
Hari Om
Fifteens are definitely from NI... and named for the recipe ingredients: 15 digestive biscuits, 15 marshmallows, and 15 glacé cherries, all bound together with condensed milk and rolled in desiccated coconut. No baking, just formed and chilled. My dad was the tray bake master. He was a dab hand at tablet, pure coconut ice slice, fifteens, and millionaires shortbread! Oh, and leek and tattie soup! YAM xx
I loved seeing the Tartan Army arriving in Boston. This World Cup is so fraught with negative vibes, but hearing about your neighbor's sons has kept my hopes alive. Also the Pope, although it's astounding how the comments to his post immediately devolved into "see, the Pope confirms it's "soccer" not "football".
The shore will slowly reclaim the bike.
The Pope’s words ring true. The arrival of the Scot fans was certainly fun. Win or lose they will all have a good time. I found the article on avocados enlightening as was the article on Chile vs. Argentina. Surely some one could use that abandoned bicycle.
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