This week we have mostly been baking… “What’s new?” I hear you cry. Well, this week Ollie has felt the knead to get involved! I suppose he is getting bored with doing muffin but applying for jobs and working on his computer. It was a bit of a whisk, but things seemed to turn out dough-k.
We have made panettone and Christmas cake. Some of the panettone has now been eaten, but none of the Christmas cake. It gets to sit around drinking rum for a month, the lucky thing.
At the weekend, we drove to Abbotsford to collect our winter tyres. We’d left them there back in week 30 because we didn’t know where we’d be when the snow arrived. It was a long drive down, a short wait to have our summer tyres swapped out, then another long drive back. About 700km in total! We are also not sure where we are going to be when winter is over, but wherever we are we will have to drive to Abbotsford again… sorry planet.
Of course we watched some of the US election results on Tuesday. We went to bed a little depressed and confused about the world we live in, but things have been getting steadily better from there. In other news, Ollie would like to encourage you all to fight the corrupt system and help stop the count!
We are still applying for jobs and looking for online work. Ollie has been having some luck with short data science contracts, but there is less market for a freelance mission systems engineer. Days still seem to be going pretty quickly, but they are less filled with thrilling adventures and photo opportunities. For this reason, we were thinking of only updating Rollie followers every other week. This isn’t a dictatorship though, so you can have your say below.
Do you want to keep hearing from us every week?
Thumbs up = “Of course, I need something to read in lockdown”
Thumbs down = “I was too polite to say, but once a fortnight would be plenty”
No illegal voting please, we don’t want you finding any ballots at 4am and adding them to the list.
Roaming Rollie 
Mama Mia! What a succulent offering, I’ve never seen such a substantial rise. My mouth was watering in eager anticipation at the thought of those luxuriant juicy fruits engorged with rum. I may have to lie down for a while in the snow to recover.
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This is gross. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed and hope that their children never see it!
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… you are making me hungry. And Top bread puns! you have learnt well from the master.
But surely now you have started your own diner stuff will start picking up and you will have a bit more to talk about?!
Please do what you feel you need. It must be hard work trying to entertain us all the time. But I do need some suggestions as to what else to do on a Saturday at 6.30am.
P.s….idea for next week: Christmas Cake competition. I am going either ‘sherry’ or ‘Noel’ oooh oooh or ‘Marsy’ (pan).
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That is a NAME the Christmas cake competition.
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Holly or Ivy obviously
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What is foot and how to I ball?
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I’m afraid I voted with the herd, It’s always lovely to hear from you, but I suppose I can find something else to do on Saturday mornings once a fortnight at a push. Do whatever is best for you!
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👍 Yes please keep the updates coming it’s my Saturday morning routine cup of tea in bed and read what you have been up to!
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I too, like my sister, voted with the herd….(Who voted ‘no’?), but again, I understand if you can’t fit a report in/are far too busy to do so. Phil is going to make a Christmas cake, so we will pick a suitable name…and now I think he’ll try a Panettone too. Phil says did you try sticking a wooden skewer through it and suspend it upside down to cool? I imagine not, as it probably got eaten straight away!
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I did not try that! Is that a thing? We used this recipe https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9426/panettone-loaves/. Ours turned out slightly dry – but this was because I left it in too long. I’ve been having issues with the oven, I didn’t think it was as hot as it said it was, but perhaps I underestimated it…
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