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[pensnest]

I have had a very kitchen-based weekend. I made paella for lunch on Saturday, which turned out well. In the wok, it looked like not very much, but in fact it made mighty bowlfuls for three (BIL is staying). In the evening I did sourdough pancakes with bacon and maple syrup (nom!) and mixed a half-sized wholemeal sourdough loaf which proved overnight. My starter is doing okay! (Can anyone advise on the proper care and feeding of The Starter? Do you just tip in flour, tip in water, and leave it? Do you shake it? Stir it? Something else?)

Today, I cooked the sourdough loaf, made lunch for four (pork parcels from the butcher, roast potatoes, cabbage, apple sauce and gravy) and a chocolate orange cake from a mix, with Fanta, for pudding. As I mistimed my start somewhat, I felt extremely accomplished to have got all this done within an hour. The Betty Crocker cake with Fanta and some home-made orange buttercream was very good, and the sourdough loaf very tasty, better than last weekend's white loaf, and with a less impenetrable crust!

I've also been on a couple of brief walks in the vicinity, delivering new polo shirts to fellow chorus members. We're having an online tutoring session with Avalon, lovely ex-LABBS quartet champions, who have the Cutest Baritone Ever, next Sunday, and we are going to be colour-coded by part.

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[pensnest]

It will be interesting to see how it works out. *So* strange, singing alone when we are supposed to be singing together.