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There are some great, simple, no-fail recipes for cakes, bagels, pastries, scrolls and slices in Baba Schwartz’s book: The lost art of baking with yeast.

Here are my first attempts at chocolate scrolls, cinnamon scrolls, boiled bagels (New York style), Gerbaud slice and mini chocolate kugelhoupf.

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And now for something a bit softer than that hypnotic pinwheel …

Much more relaxing.

Instructions:

1. Stare at the centre of the image for at least 10 seconds

2. Look at something else.

3. Enjoy!

4. Please don’t do this if you are driving a car.

Via TED via speigl.org via verylowsodium:

A few more for @zmkc’s collection

This is what Tasmania looked like in December:

Tasmania – like New Zealand, only tastier!

I feel bad about not joining in the spirit of Movember this year and failing to raise any money for prostate cancer or depression, so next year I shall redeem myself with Cocktober.

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”
- H. Lecter

Apparently Ian’s Shoelace Site – one of the original links in the robskee.com sidebar – is the world’s number 1 shoelace-related web site. Not bad for a local. He was recently profiled in the Moorabool Leader newspaper. The article also links to a video showing how to tie the world’s fastest shoelace knot: the Ian knot.

People in our neighbourhood are very politically switched on. Within days of the federal election being called, the placards began to appear:

Obviously these people are somewhat sheltered from the gusty winds of politics and, what’s more, they don’t care who knows it.

Mmmmm…