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NaJoPoMo 2016 TC - 1 and 2 November
Posted Nov 2, 2016
OK - so here it is. I didn't write a journal yesterday because it was a public holiday here in Germany. I hope I'm excused.
No idea who wins, or where you tell people you're participating, or anything.
But I shall this year (A) Just do the one thread because people complain so much about the threads appearing every day and (B) Try and keep to interesting things about where I live because my life is rather boring at the moment.
So - I shall again attempt to explain where I live to someone who has never been here before.
Today I can tell you that German workmen are not the efficient, hard working types that they are reputed to be.
Firstly, they probably aren't German. They could be Polish or Irish, Turkish, Russian or any kind of African.
Last week they had the pavement up on the side of our road opposite to us. Our electricity still comes from overhead cables and they are preparing to run the electricity supply underground.
They had just about finished on Friday when my husband says he heard a terrible row coming from the crowd of workmen gathered opposite. It seemed that the foreman was yelling at them that they had forgotten something. They had to take up the pavement again and work continued on into Saturday, putting right whatever they had done wrong.
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I wonder
Posted Oct 26, 2016
if there'll be a NaJoPoMo this year and
if people are going to start anagramising their names for Halloween.
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Druthers
Posted Oct 4, 2016
http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/2016/10/03/druthers
This is a really useful word. Sometimes the "word of the day" just makes me go 
- that's part of my every day vocabulary, but sometimes they come up with gems like this.
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Yay holidays!
Posted Sep 4, 2016
We're sitting in the airport ready to fly,like Daniel, to Spain. It's been unbearably hot these past couple of weeks, but it is finally raining here now (in Stuttgart). The weather down there is still hot, though. I hope not too hot!
We will be seeing Gibraltar and I am particularly interested to see Cordoba, although GB wasn't terribly enamoured of it when she was there a couple of years ago.
I shall be phoning my mother daily as my sister is away,too, at a Jazz Festival in Donegal.
Things were really dire at work with people quitting, being on holiday and off ill. I left so much undone, but we were clear that something would have to give and sometimes you have to resign yourself to the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day and the system shuts down at a quarter to eleven.
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Hmmmm ... Polenta
Posted Aug 6, 2016
Whilst planning my week's food, I thought I'd have a look at some of the recipes on the Guide. So I did something I don't think I've ever done - I clicked on "Life", and followed the links to the food department.
There is an entry on polenta A304219. I love polenta, and always have some in the pantry, but I can never work out the correct proportions of polenta to water to get the right consistency. Thinking that I would find the definitive, tried and tested version here - I was extremely disappointed.
I shall try out the various recipes I have over the next few weeks (please, don't expect me to feed my husband polenta every day just for H2G2's sake, nice as it is) and then amend the entry accordingly. There is a recipe in one of the threads attached, but I have several others, too, in magazines, books and on packets of the stuff, not to mention the ones found on the web, but the proportions vary between 250 g polenta to 1 litre of water and 500 g polenta to 1 litre of water.
So - watch this space. Or rather, watch the fish on the bike. And if anyone else wants to join me in some test cooking, I would be grateful. Also - let me know your favourite ways of serving it and what you serve it with (Only things you've actually eaten, please) I know how I like it, but am happy to include other recipes, even spicy ones. 
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