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Saturday snippets 21st July 2012

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Jax Blunt
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{reading} Dragonsblood (Dragons of Pern)by Todd McCaffrey. Read some majorly negative reviews on goodreads, but I thought it was rather nice to have a new Pern novel with something resembling a plot and some actual characters instead of cardboard cut outs.

{listening} beautiful south, carry on up the charts. May be the definition of easy listening.

{tidying} the hall.

{baking} banana bread with chocolate chips. And get this, I adapted a recipe. All by my lonesome!

250g plain flour

tsp baking powder,

50g caster sugar

75g brown sugar

tsp honey

2 eggs

3 (mashed) bananas

50g ultra cheap dark chocolate cut into chips.

Mix everything together, shove in loaf tin, bake at 160 degrees C for 45 minutes or until knife slid into cake comes out clean. Eat with a cuppa.

{enjoying} sunshine. And cake.

{grateful for} good friends sharing advice and support. You know who you are.

{considering} linkies. And giveaways. Thoughts? Would you link? Is a giveaway too much?

{capturing} moments. Little moments of happiness, to cherish.

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8 responses to “Saturday snippets 21st July 2012”

  1. Melaina25 avatar
    Melaina25

    Hope you liked the recipe! Sorry I’m pants and everything is in American measures!

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    1. Jax avatar
      Jax

      Didn’t have everything in to try your recipe yet, so used it to adapt the one I’ve been using 🙂

      Reply
  2. Midlife Singlemum avatar
    Midlife Singlemum

    I love a good linky. Sadly, mine hasn’t taken off and I’m lucky if I get one linked post these days. On the other hand, if you end up with a Silent Sunday success story you’ll be a slave to the blog. Something in between. It’s not so easy to comeup with something. A one off carnival is easier I think and I’d love to do one of those one day.

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  3. Another Goldfish avatar
    Another Goldfish

    I can’t say I’ve had much luck with linkys, though with Step Down Sunday that’s not really the point. I tend to consider the SDS linky outreach. It doesn’t really matter if anyone adds a link, hopefully the fact it is there encourages people to think about their own lives. (It may fail at that too, but that’s a different issue.)
    I’ve recently started the Shiny Somethings, which I never intended to have a linky for. I figured people could just share their posts in the comments, but then someone asked me to add one. It still doesn’t get many links, but it’s no real trouble to arrange. I have considered changing the code to a blog hop/carnival so more people would get back links, but I’m not sure if that would interest people (or the person who wanted the linky) or not.

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  4. Hannah F avatar
    Hannah F

    I am very excited that I have just worked out how to link to Midlife Singlemum’s blog! So yes, Jax, go ahead and do a linky while I’m feeling like a technical genius and I’ll join in, as long as I have anything to say, of course;-)

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  5. Emily (@amummytoo) avatar
    Emily (@amummytoo)

    I love banana bread. Having read this, I think I’m going to have to make some.

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  6. Actually Mummy... avatar
    Actually Mummy…

    Yum! I have 3 nasty bananas sitting in my fridge that will be utterly transformed by this recipe! 🙂

    Reply
    1. Jax avatar
      Jax

      Do hope you enjoy 🙂

      Reply

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