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OLIVE STICKS

Recipe is as follows but I will just make with 200g flour and 125ml water and other bits halved

  • 450g bread flour
  • 2 tsp dried instant yeast
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 300ml warm water
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 80g green or black olives (halved)
  • 80g cheddar cheese (cut into small cubes)
  • Extra olive oil for greasing
  • Extra flour for dusting
  • Semolina flour for dusting (optional) 
  • Options, ground pepper/sun dried toms/garlic (just for flavour/thyme/ smoked paprika pinch.

I added all the options !- excellent dipped in tzatziki .

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FARCE

It gets more ridiculous by the minute. Dorries for PM? Jenkyns for any Education Minister, Schapps for PM, Sunak to sort out economy. Please stop it – it is beyond parody. Give us a general election now that it is generally agreed that Brexit has been the biggest fuck up since WW1. Oh how I laughed when Portillo lost his seat (I quite like his TV shows on the railways now!) but this time I think I would need to adjust sleep pattern so I could stay up all night to watch the rats being voted out.

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PANIC

I live in a rural village in North Somerset. My garden is full of insect friendly flowers. Weather sunny. Few insects. What the fuc* is going on?

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CLIMATE ALERT

Portugal declares state of emergency as temperatures soar. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/04/spain-and-portugal-suffering-driest-climate-for-1200-years-research-shows

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CHAOS

My word for today. Johnson remains for the present – he does not own a house or a car as he has been sponging off the public purse for so long. How long people will put up with this farce is debatable. BJBJ is hoping until the autumn at least, by which time some event may rescue him – although I think the number of resignations tells a story.

Meanwhile the workforce in the UK has shrunk by 1.2% since the pandemic – more than population change; UK trade falling behind France and Germany; Taxes rising; Inflation approaching 10%; R&D lagging behind France and Germany; Bottom of G7 economic growth; public freedoms eroded; international status plummeting except in Ukraine; NHS underfunded; public sector workers underfunded; strikes increasing; cost of living rising; bankers bonus payments and directors pay rising; child poverty increasing. WELL DONE THIS TORY GOVERNMENT AND ALL WHO SUPPORTED IT (until some found a conscience to late to really matter – the damage is done.

And all the indicators of climate change are INCREASING whilst BJBJ sweats on his own future – hopefully still housed at Her Majesties Pleasure!

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GARDEN – 8 July 2022

First tomato starting to blush – hopefully by Monday the stream should start. Raspberries and Loganberries are also making a break for freedom. Temperatures are above 20C for next week at least so that should help the harvest.

Front garden is a happy chaos. Cornflowers, chicory flowers, marigold, vetch, Californian poppy, evening primrose, night scented stock, nasturtium, fennel, sage flowers, different types of lavender in flower, but few bees, butterflies, etc. All growing alongside the 30 pots of thymes and mints, oregano and verbena and golden verbena. All growing in chaos – no colour co-ordination, many self seeded and growing as nature intended (apart from the pots to keep mints under control.

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COOKING

I have just been given a couple of packs of tomatoes (8x big ones), and 12 X limes and 4x oranges by Matt at the shop. Tomatoes are big so I think sauce or ketchup with mint and herbs?. I had started some cookies with dates and lemon. I reckon coconut flour and coconut oil. Then lime icing? Fairly simple? Maybe some nuts on top?

Then the recipe from kitchen garden mag (thanks Holly and Mart) for blueberry and oat scones.

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PLANES

So BJ Johnson uses a plane for a short holiday in Cornwall which the public pays for both economically and environmentally. Climate crisis and the planet are of no concern to his ego – with the hot air he spouts he should have gone by balloon.

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COVID

Covid has not gone away. Estimated 1 in 30 had Covid in week ending 24 June. Variants BA4 and BA5 seem to be more transmissible and hospitalisations due to Covid are on the rise. When will the Health Secretary announce the governments policy? regarding hospitals – I am sure BJ.Johnson repeated the claim about 40+ new hospitals earlier this year in PMQT? It now appears the number may reach 6. It was never a sensible, planed or realistic number – which is why he cannot plead Covid, Ukraine or Donald Duck as an excuse – so he will continue with the lie.