go get:

3 fresh eggs
3 ounces of self-raising flour
3 ounces of sugar
Damson or Davidsons Plum Jam.
2 large tins of beans
sheet of paper
more sugar

Memorise instructions...
Or print out and stick up in kitchen before starting...
Speed is of the essence

1. Prepare a baking dish/pan thing, I normally put the butter wrapper on it to stop the mix sticking.
2. Switch on the oven to a medium-ish to hot-ish heat.
3. Seperate the egg-whites from the yolks and beat them till they are fantastically white and frothy.
4. Add yolks and beat them into the whites.
5. Add the sugar, along with more beatings.
6. Now - calm down a bit and CAREFULLY fold in the flour. This needs to be done deftly, thats means quickly and gently.
7. As soon as the flour is mixed in - pour it into the tray and stick it in the pre-heated oven.
8. Look at clock, note time.
9. Ok, you have twenty minutes-ish depending on your oven.
   1. Clean up a bit, wipe down a nice big space on your workbench, table, floor... whatever.
   2. Get out a nice big pot of jam, and a few big tins of beans
   3. Lay down a sheet of paper, (baking paper is best, newsprint tends to leave decorative grey mirror writing on your roll)
   4. Sprinkle a heap of sugar onto paper.
   5. Make a cup of tea
10. Got any time left? Do not be tempted to check the oven until your twenty minutes are up (unless black smoke is coming out)
11. Drink tea
12. Check oven, roll should spring back to the touch.
13. When ready take out and immediately lay roll onto sugared paper.
14. Quickly cut off edges, feed to any stray kids, or save for special treat later.
15. Quickly spread copious amounts of jam
16. Quickly Roll it up, use tins of beans and jam jar to hold it in posi till it stays there.
17. Turn off oven, tidy up.

Take your newly created Swiss Roll into cupboard and secretly eat it all.

Do all your shopping on January 23, 2007 and Woolworths will donate its entire supermarkets profits from all Australia Woolworths & Safeway supermarkets, for the day to the Country Women's Association and research into sustainable farming practices. Seems like a pretty good PR stunt by Edelman. Should probably be encouraged ay?

27/03/2007 - Update:
This PR stunt was roundly howled down by the farmers and the Greens as not enough. Which on reading up on the different points of view I can see it is true enough. This is very sad for us consumers as there is very little choice here in Australia when it comes to shopping ethically. Especially when living in a regional area.
...Oh well better go plant some more vegies...

Some handy bandy freeware Zoom software for Richard to use....

Emrys just got the hang of swimming...

See the vid on youtube

Since my kids saw that picture they now keep examining our dogs arse for holy images of jesus. They are soooo religious.

If I ever go back to pomland I'll live in Penwith and go to the Lafrowda festival and the Gorseth. Maybe the Grand Bard will let me wear one of those mad tea towels set off with a natty copper pot. I'll also take a small boat, maybe a canoe, around Lands End. Then I'll walk around a lot and drink, as well... but I promise I won't sing. Chances are I'll stay right here. Its good ere.

On getting back from the UK a month or so ago we were full of beans to sort out our house. So now we are living in this jumbled shell of a home. The floors are ripped up, we have a new hole in the wall and all our belongings are crammed into one room. So now I have to sit at my computer bumping my elbows against bookshelves, filing cabinets, boxes of lightsabers, racks of magazines and CD's, rolled up carpets and all the other of lifes detritus. All of this is covered in a fine layer of dust, myself included, whenever Cheri and the kids go out Jason whips out the grinder and starts creating more. While I sit with my headphones on trying to develop an elegant programming solution to some problem or other. Normally just as the clouds begin to clear and I feel myself entering that zen like state of communication between my keyboard and brain, the grinding stops and the kids appear to ask me to, "look at my zombie walk" or "how do I spell hyaenadon" We are also in the process of buying two small flats down the road, with the idea of renting them out, or letting friends stay their or using one as an office, or something...

(from left...) Ebony, Liam, Evan, Tiana and Emrys (...to right) dressed to score lollies! Scott took that about an hour or so ago and did some fancy infra-red thingy to Donna's phone and she infra-redded it to mine.....eeee technology its amayyzingh.

I'm just trying blosxom and zenphoto out on my new bur.st account. If you're interested I've uploaded all the photos I took whilst travelling round the UK in August/September.

_Since_getting_back_ we have ripped up the tiles and lino throughout the house and are going to get it all sanded back next week. I've nearly finished my home-brew beer and will have to chuck on another brew.

A long time ago I admitted all and in case you wondered, Cinzano is probably the most disgusting drink in the world, apart from magic mushroom tea which makes you want to heave. I should add that I partook a very long time ago and do not suggest you try this at home as it is probably illegal and almost certainly does things to your brain, probably permanently. I am now a reformed character and drink only coffee, tea and the odd beer (admittedly home-brewed, sorry). If I'd known playing with blosxom would cause me to make such incriminating admissions I would have never tried it out. A bit like the school kid who was expelled for wearing a PHP t-shirt, the teachers thought PHP was a drug and the kid looked a bit like a junkie. Course it turned out PHP is a programming language and the kid was a geek.