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lnr ([personal profile] lnr) wrote2004-10-24 10:31 pm

Pleasant day

Up moderately early for a Sunday. Cut rjk's hair before lunch, spend most of the afternoon reading the next in the Chalet School. Mike came round for a cuppa, and ended up with coffee-tea since he answered "yes" when asked which he preferred. It turned out this wasn't in fact what he preferred at all, and in the end I drank it. Then Mike and I spent the tail end of the afternoon making more toffee. This is an entertaining experience which involves consuming far too much half-cooked sugar in the meantime. It was ready to pour out to set at just the same time dinner was. After dinner all three of us pottered over to the Carlton to see Sue off. A very entertainingly silly evening, of which I hope we will soon be seeing lots of low-res photos from Simon's phone. It's been nice to have her around for a couple of weeks, and sad to say goodbye again so soon. But hey, there's always LJ and irc. Home now because we're tired, will try and get an early night. Looking forward to dinner out tomorrow.

[identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com 2004-10-24 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
So toffee != coffee-tea?
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[personal profile] deborah_c 2004-10-24 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Beware of shrapnel... :-)
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[identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com 2004-10-24 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I can bring a jigsaw if you prefer. The trick will be keeping the blade cool.

Ask EWX (or SBP, he does a lot of DIY) if a woodworking or HS metal blade is best.

[identity profile] acronym.livejournal.com 2004-10-24 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What you *want* is a rotary diamond saw. (It works on feldspars, so I think it wouldn't have a problem with toffee.)
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[identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com 2004-10-25 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking more in terms of cutting out pleasing shapes than disparaging our hostess' culinary genius.

[identity profile] acronym.livejournal.com 2004-10-25 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Disparaging? There speaks a man who's never encountered McCowan's Highland Toffee.

I have very, very fond memories of it, but the *only* sensible way of eating it was to suck the end of the bar until it was softened enough to bite through; even then it'd have a good go at pulling your teeth out to the roots. (That did actually happen, once, with one of my milk-teeth.)
I think it'd have defeated the diamond saw, too; I reckon that it must have vaguely mystical properties of structural rigidity.

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[identity profile] pjc50.livejournal.com 2004-10-25 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
IJLS "hammer drills"