We had a quiet weekend as we were both tired. We walked from ours in to the local shopping centre, taking plenty of detours around the river. And stumbled across things that I've only ever seen here.
Monday 17 September 2012
Notes from Switzerland
Well, in case you were wondering, the Christmas season appears to have officially started. The cheerful orange-shirted staff in Migros were busy building a display with Christmas lebekuchen when we were in there on Saturday.
We had a quiet weekend as we were both tired. We walked from ours in to the local shopping centre, taking plenty of detours around the river. And stumbled across things that I've only ever seen here.
We had a quiet weekend as we were both tired. We walked from ours in to the local shopping centre, taking plenty of detours around the river. And stumbled across things that I've only ever seen here.
Tuesday 4 September 2012
Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins
I ordered new fans for my old Macbook Pro, which arrived very quickly from the US. Himself kindly installed them for me on Saturday, and while digging through the stuff I'd left on the laptop I found a flyer for last year's pumpkin festival at a farm on the other side of the lake - and just in time, because their next festival was on the following day! Here are the photos of the pumpkin festival, with its Olympic-themed pumpkin sculptures.
The fans work beautifully and the laptop is just as quiet and well, no warmer than it was when new although that's not saying much. Unfortunately, when I plugged it out for a moment to plug it into a different socket, it died on its arse. The battery says it's not charging (although the generic battery status indicator says it should be replaced soon but is still fine to use. Right).
The only other news is that I've signed up for my next two OU courses - another short course, about plants and all they do for us (and what we do to them) and a bigger one, made of two 15-unit courses on cardiac disease and cancer mashed together. Being on the transitional fee arrangements meant I paid £300 less for the longer course, although the short one was mysteriously £15 more than the previous ones.
This now means I'll have three weeks in October where both these new courses and my current vulcanology/seismology and alternative to oil courses are running, so that's lots of incentive to get the two current ones finished ahead of time... after that, I just have 20 units left on Level 1, so it'll be nuclear energy and forensic science and then on to Level 2 for more chemistry and biology.
The fans work beautifully and the laptop is just as quiet and well, no warmer than it was when new although that's not saying much. Unfortunately, when I plugged it out for a moment to plug it into a different socket, it died on its arse. The battery says it's not charging (although the generic battery status indicator says it should be replaced soon but is still fine to use. Right).
The only other news is that I've signed up for my next two OU courses - another short course, about plants and all they do for us (and what we do to them) and a bigger one, made of two 15-unit courses on cardiac disease and cancer mashed together. Being on the transitional fee arrangements meant I paid £300 less for the longer course, although the short one was mysteriously £15 more than the previous ones.
This now means I'll have three weeks in October where both these new courses and my current vulcanology/seismology and alternative to oil courses are running, so that's lots of incentive to get the two current ones finished ahead of time... after that, I just have 20 units left on Level 1, so it'll be nuclear energy and forensic science and then on to Level 2 for more chemistry and biology.
Monday 3 September 2012
Yay for recipes
Because they turn this:
Into this:
I normally make these without the glaze (and the little flowers, which are in the original recipe) but decided to try it this time as we were taking them as dessert. And kudos to himself for the idea to pop the cupcakes back into the warm oven to melt the glaze and get it to spread evenly. ^_^
Into this:
I normally make these without the glaze (and the little flowers, which are in the original recipe) but decided to try it this time as we were taking them as dessert. And kudos to himself for the idea to pop the cupcakes back into the warm oven to melt the glaze and get it to spread evenly. ^_^
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