FOTD 26th April 2024: Kalenchoe

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I know, kalenchoe again, but I could not resist it. I was in the supermarket again yesterday and naturally had a look to see if they were still selling them. This time I picked a yellow one and now I have two with the pink I bought last week. They are so easy to care for and are not very thirsty,.If this continues I will soon have a table full of them.

FOTDn 26th April 2024: Kalenchoe

FOWC with Fandango: Pizza

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As a simple girl from London, I only got acquainted with pizza from the American films on the TV. I think Colombo was one of the inspirations. However, with time there were pizza locals opening everywhere in London, probably starting in the sixties, and I soon recognised their good side. My mum and dad never really knew what a pizza was and I am sure they never had one ready to eat at home.

There were places where you could order your pizza for delivery and soon the supermarkets were selling pizza pastry to make your own. I often did and a pizza evening meal with pastry was actually not so difficult Although it looks a bit amateur on the photo, I think this was one of my own self made pizzas with my own pastry. There seems to be a bit of a mixture covering the pastry, but you can work it out yourself. I believe there was some mozarella, artichoke, tomato and mushrooms covering the pastry. The edge of the pastry was a bit thick, but it was a beginners pizza.

Today I only buy the frozen pizza, as I now live alone with my son. He likes the pizza with sea food and I like the basic.

FOWC with Fandango: Pizza

RDP Friday: String

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There are all sorts of string. This string you can eat, known as sauer strings and they were quite sauer.

Otherwise we have quite a collection of various strings at home under the motto “they will become quite useful”. I suppose they do, but I do not remember ever finishing a ball of string. Their main use is usually tying various herbs together when cooking or binding meat and the large strings are for support of something in the garden. Otherwise they are all nicely kept in a drawer together.

RDP Friday: String

FOWC with Fandango: Girlfriend

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We met at school at the age of 11. Her origins were similar to mine, we were both cockneys from East London. She is four days older than me and we went through the complete school life together. We were split up after the first year in two different classes, but still in the same school and we remained good friends. We were keen fans of football and spent every Saturday afternoon in the season going to a match. We spent a few holidays together, but after school our ways divided. I went to Switzerland and she was still in London, England, but we stayed in contact.

Although I was in Switzerland, she paid a visit almost every year and when I visited my dad in England, I usually stayed at her house. My family and her family also became great friends and the contact was never lost. Today we still keep in touch, both now 77 years old mainly by computer. We have shared many ups and downs but we are still the best of friends.

FOWC with Fandango: Girlfriend

FOWC with Fandango: Equation

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I am sure if you knew a few lengths of the shadows. basically situated on triangles with at least one 90° angle, with the help of some trigonometry, you can discover all the other necessary measurements. At least that is what Pythagoras did for his living. The maths teachers at my school were convinced that we should all become children of Pythagoras. I remember the square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle was equal to the sum of the sides of the two adjacent sides, thanks to Danny Kaye and his song. However it really works, I had to do it enough at school.

As far as equations are concerned, I did five years of them in my maths lessons at school. I can still apply the idea, although at the age of 77 no longer as good as it was. The idea is to prove something with equating the same thing on both sides of the = if you know what I mean – of course not, we all have computers today.

FOWC with Fandango: Equation

RDP Wednesday: Dreamcatcher

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My cats had a hobby of dream catching. They slept 23 hours a day and spent the remaining hour eating and searching for somewhere to sleep. Perhaps they were gathering their dreams on the way.

Otherwise the expression and designs of dream catching seems to be something actuially unknown in our part of the world so we borrowed it from the states and I think it originated in the native Indian world. My first glance of a dream catcher was in a film and our markets here now and again show some dream catchers, although I have never seen a dream in one of these webs.

I suppose we all dream, I know I do. There are some dreams I am glad to forget but there are also dreams that are really good, but those are usually the ones that I usually tend to forget, a few minutes after waking afterwards. Perhaps I should get myself a dream catcher to help me to remember them. Perhaps I should try making my own.

RDP Wednesdasy: Dreamcatcher