Notices by David de Groot (david@theblower.au)

Cottage Pie (of sorts) for dinner tonight.

#food #dinner #pie

Yesterday I discovered I’d miscalculated and would be out of bread this morning for breakfast, so on the way home from the office I bought cheap croissants and a punnet of raspberries to make white choc and raspberry bread ‘n’butter pudding for dessert, which of course meant I had some for breakfast this morning 😁

#baking #dessert #pudding

Stollen for Christmas breakfast.

There's a new collection of Wallace & Gromit shorts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO12yGhOi3g

#video

Hmm, those of you who have been around long enough might recognise this plan as flawed. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/waroona-shire-suggests-blowing-up-dead-whale-to-save-money/105954240

Although, they are suggesting towing it out to sea first, so maybe they have learnt something.

Today, I’ve made a medieval fruit pie. (This one is apples and pears, with raisins, figs and a few dates).

Based on a recipe from A Forme of Cury (dated 1390), although the "coffin" (pastry case) might be of a later date.

#baking #pie

Omnes optant mundum regere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtt78SW-mgg

It works remarkably well.

#ClassicalLatinPop #music

It worked !

#cake

I'm baking Spekkoek as a special birthday cake for youngest child.

https://www.196flavors.com/netherlands-spekkoek/

Looks simple, lots of work though. (also filled the dishwasher with all the bowls and equipment).

@jpmens There's a 13th month in Germany? who knew?

@troberts and they have a nasty bite. Which can get infected really easily.

Don't ask how I know.

@caity No Allen key required (screwdrivers though)

I have adult Meccano (aka Ikea furniture).

Late afternoon excitement at work. Lea smelt smoke. We went to investigate, and I found a Lenovo 90W power brick in our workroom that was extremely hot, and smelly.

Now disposed of.

@valhalla Interesante. È parola in inglese che io non prima avevo sentito.

We’ve set off for the trek home, well sorta. Stopped to charge nearby, but may bail on this one soon as it’s quite slow.

#roadtrip #ev

Oh no! A BMW has turned up to charge and now our charge speed has halved.

Despite parking next to another Mini, 20kW is just too slow. We’ve moved, ironically, to a Toyota dealership and are charging there.

Whoot! BMW has left. Back to 49kW charging.

Am now installing a new computer (conveniently bought before we arrived) and because the monitor on the old one was a 15” VGA only one, we’ve been down the road to buy a cheap 24” one that does HDMI.