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Bean’s birthday

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It was Bean’s birthday this weekend and we were in Leicester. We went to Twycross Zoo for the day on Saturday, where Bean saw Santa and lots of animals.

  
  

When we got back to the old fogeys’ home, uncle Stu, uncle Michael, auntie Minal, Jeminie and Sonal came over for dinner and fireworks. Was a good evening :) The train cake was well received. We were up until the wee hours of Saturday decorating the thing, but it was worth it.

All pictures here:
http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/ben_birthday_2011/

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[Recipe] Chewy chocolate chip cookies

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Ingredients

125g butter, softened
100g light brown soft sugar
125g caster sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
225g self-raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
200g chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4.

2. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.

3. Sift in the flour and salt, then the chocolate chips.

4. Roll into walnut-sized balls.

5. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting – the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges.

6. Take out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack. These are great warm, and they also store well, if they don’t all get eaten straight away!

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All women are nuts

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Katy finally convinced me to watch “She’s just not that into you”. I admit that it was a fun movie, but it just reaffirms my deep conviction that all women are nuts.

Case and point: I hadn’t bought Katy flowers in a long time, so I decided to do so when we went shopping at Tesco. We’d been thinking of doing the Toffee Popcorn Bark for a while and I finally got organised and did it. Katy had mentioned earlier in the day that she wanted a big glass of wine (because it’s been a trying week with Bean), so we opened a bottle of Bordeau.

After all of this, she comes out with this gem:

Flowers, chocolate and wine, all in one day. Are you having an affair?

I love my wife, but she’s a woman, and therefore nuts.

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