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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 25/03/2025

So I'm up late (01-55) in my office, which doubles as a spare bedroom so there’s a shower-room attached. Suddenly there’s one hell of a BANG in there, and within seconds I'm breathing more Roger & Gallet eau-de-cologne than air. (1/6)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 10/02/2025

mind-palate.com/three-pulse-... Something I cooked up for World Pulses Day. It's very good, and from the look of things there'll be enough for a couple of days after, too...

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Three-Pulse Dhal (for "World Pulses Day") - The Mind Palate

A simple lentil curry from store-cupboard ingredients

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 25/01/2025

Daube of salmon for @diane.dianeduane.com, "meat feast" pizza for me, bottle of Pinot Grigio, trickle charge electricity for everything else.

Daube of Irish salmon, chips, parsley sauce, wedge of lemon, Before.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 20/01/2025

The muffin-baking yesterday evening was a great success so I'm having a couple, toasted, for my supper. The pics are Mind Palate "glamour shots", and though mine look rather less photogenic, they do have rather more butter. Also some raspberry jam. Yum.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 18/01/2025

I've even worked out how it happened, Coarse gravel from outside got caught in my boot cleats and, when I made a sharp turn while unpacking groceries, the gravel acted like ball-bearings against the tiled kitchen floor. (1/3)

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 18/01/2025

Thanks once again for all the good wishes etc., especially those to @diane.dianeduane.com who did NOT need that experience last night.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 18/01/2025

Now the fun part, taking off the (counts) nine ECG stickies applied to me in the ambulance. I don't manscape, so this is Going To Be Fun... For (ouch) a given (eek)value (ow) of (yike) fun... 8-0

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 18/01/2025

Brief heads-up rather than heads-down-ouch before bed. Clean bill of health including skull interior (yes, there really is a brain in there. I sometimes wondered). Heartfelt thanks from @diane.dianeduane.com & me to all who helped with the cab fare and what looks like a week-plus of painkillers.

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Here Be Dragons @sharag234.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Are you secretly Death @littendraws27.bsky.social ?

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 31/10/2024

I filled the bird-feeders earlier this afternoon and got an unexpected visitor. The Great Spotted Woodpecker, once considered extinct in Ireland, is making a comeback. However, they must still be quite rare, since the last time I saw one was just after Christmas 2021.

(Photo 1) A Great Spotted Woodpecker takes peanuts from a back-garden bird feeder. The woodpecker's plumage is dramatic black-and-white with a red rump, while the spots which give the bird its name are visible on its folded wings.

(Photo 2) A Great Spotted Woodpecker takes peanuts from a back-garden bird feeder. The woodpecker's plumage is dramatic black-and-white with a red rump, while the spots which give the bird its name are visible on its folded wings.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 20/10/2024

This is, more or less, my birthday cake - a curd tart made with Philly cheese, tvarog - think drained cottage cheese - and chopped crystallised ginger. The "cream" is more Philly, whisked smooth and dusted with allspice. YUM.

A historical-recipe cheesecake or "curd tart" made with Philadelphia cream cheese, tvarog (Central European cottage cheese) and chopped crystallised ginger. The top is beautifully golden, the curd is granular rather than smooth, the accompanying "cream" is more Philly whisked smooth and dusted with allspice (cinnamon would be equally good, IMO) and the cutlery is deliberately "period" for the look of things. It is, needless to say, delicious.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 23/09/2024

Just out of the oven. Per loaf: 500g flour, 7g each salt & dried yeast, 250ml warm water, 30ml oil. Make dough, rise, knock back, transfer to loaf tin, rise, 200° oven / 20 mins, 180° / 10 mins (this dark crust got 220° / 30 mins), remove, turn out, cool on rack, done. Full details link in next 1/2

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 18/09/2024

"Do you like the colour of the sky?" Well, this looked quite nice. Taken over our west-facing hedge this evening in Co. Wicklow, Ireland at 20:14 (8:14 PM) on 18th September 2024 with an HTC 11+ smartphone, using native photo app at default setting.

An Irish evening sky in mid-September, with a black silhouette hedge as the horizon and the sky colour above darkening upwards from skimmed-milk blue-white to a deep indigo blue.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 09/09/2024

A final addition to the char siu pork thread by @diane.dianeduane.com. Line the roasting tin with foil or be prepared to do some serious chiselling and scraping with a metal spatula. The pork glows like urushi lacquer, but the marinade bakes on like lava. As I have discovered... :-P

A cropped image of home-made char siu pork, showing a beautiful red glaze of marinade on the meat and a blackened encrustation of marinade on the roasting tin. Wish I'd lined it with foil...

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 31/08/2024

@diane.dianeduane.com has had a cold for the past few days. Last night / this morning I started getting a runny nose & scratchy throat, so we got out the test kit To Be Sure. Pleased to see (and say) it really IS just a cold.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 17/04/2024

@diane.dianeduane.com put the more elaborate original version of our basic bread recipe on #breadsky. Here's the simplified version which gets made (by me, usually!) every 2-3 days. It's extremely reliable. www.tumblr.com/petermorwood...

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Home-made bread again, and after 5 months of regular use I can confirm that those Pullman loaf tins - 450 g / 1 lb size, one steel, one aluminium, excellent non-stick on both - were a first-class buy…

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 08/02/2024

Sky TV is doing a "Middle Earth" channel run, and I've just watched - no, was in the same room as - "The Battle of 5 Armies". 🚾 More padding than a draft excluder, to less purpose. My commentary finally sent @diane.dianeduane.com to the kitchen for a lemon so I could chew it and sweeten my mood. 😬

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 07/02/2024

It might, just might, be time to get some sort of storage case for my fountain pens. Also, perhaps, to have some sort of cull.

Twenty-three (23) fountain pens of various kinds: CultPens, Helix, J. Herbin, Kaweco, Lamy, Osmiroid, Parker, Pilot, Platignum and a couple of cheap-and-cheerful anonymous.

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Peter Morwood @peter.petermorwood.com · 07/02/2024

Okay, that's the profile pic sorted (ish). Now what?🤨

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