Brewsterware

This recipe for rolled pavlova comes from my Aunt in New Zealand

Ingredients:

Eight tablespoons of sugar
Four egg whites
One desertspoon of cornflour
One teaspoon of vanilla essence
One teaspoon of vinegar

Beat the egg whites until stiff and gradually add six tablespoons of sugar. Add the vanilla essence and vinegar. The mixture should have soft peaks:

Fold in the remaining two tablespoons of sugar and spread the mixture evenly on a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper. My baking sheet is approximately six by twelve inches. Bake for about twelve to sixteen minutes at 180oC. When you take it out of the oven it should look something like this:

Leave this to cool. Whip up some cream, and fold in some summer fruit being careful to not let any fall into any open mouths. Here’s some I made earlier 🙂

Spread this mixture over the baked pavlova:

Roll this into a swiss roll – the pavlova will easily come away from the paper. Here is what it should look like:

HEY!!! Who’s eaten my pavlova!!!!

Well, after two turbulant flights I am finally back in the UK – it’s good to be back 🙂 Not just to see Levinia, but also to get away from the terrible lift type music that was all over the hotel that I stayed in.

My main host, Mike, suggested changing the screen refresh rate on my second monitor as this has been refusing to display anything for the last two months. However, when I got home to try this out it is miraculasly displaying my extended desktop 🙂

There is still a problem though 🙁 This second screen is only displaying a portion of the extended desktop…

Had a blast this evening in downtown Greenville with some of the guys from MIS, even though Chris Elrod tried to through pizza over me twice! The place we went to even had cider which is pretty rare in the US.

I’ve uploaded a few more photos to my Greenville album as well.

Well, I’m still in Greenvile – Work asked me to stay another week to help upgrade the EDI software that we use, so how could I refuse 🙂

I was hoping to upload some of the photos that I had taken so far this evening, but I stupidly forgot the USB cable for the phone I have which is why the all new Greenville album is pretty bare at the moment. I’ll try and upload some more tomorrow.

I’m off for dinner…..

On 1 April 1976, Patrick Moore announced that a ‘unique astronomical event’ was going to occur at 9.47 am. As Pluto passed behind Jupiter a ‘gravitational alignment’ would reduce the Earth’s gravity for a few moments. Anyone who jumped into the air at 9.47 would experience a strange floating sensation.

Hundreds of people did experience the sensation, or at least thought they did. The BBC was flooded with calls from people claiming to have floated. One woman said that she and 11 friends had been wafted from their chairs and orbited around the woman.

As you may have guessed from the date at the beginning this was a wonderful April Fool trick.

What it does demonstrate however is the power of suggestion and expectation and also the influential power of people in authority.

Here are some more fun april fools jokes (some of which caught me out):

ShoeMoney station shuts down
Matt Cutts gets hacked
Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing