A proper cup of coffee in a proper coffee cup.
Last night at Sewing I knitted one of these:
http://www.magknits.com/warm04/patterns/java.htm
Mine is like the third one, the smallest white cup on the right. It is burgundy plain wool with a fluffy Faux Fur border at the top and bottom. I have to block it and sew on the handle but it is so easy, so cute and so quick. I could knit lots of them. Mind you, Aunty Captain Mrs Archer will only need one, though I will be forced to knit two as or three as I believe in surpluses!!! She sometimes buys coffee or hot chocolate on the way to school. I have knitted only a little more of the Fibonacci jumper. I am using it as a reward : I must do some house work for 10-15 minutes ( or until I am puffed, whichever comes first) and then I may knit!!!
I noticed in the comments on another blog an ‘interesting’ comment about spelling and homophones. I try to type up my post in Word and then spell check and copy and paste into the blog. It is so easy to overlook things. When I was at school I taught the children to look for spelling errors in their writing by reading their work backwards. The same with LSCCWC and editing spelling – check each letter in reverse order against the correct spelling. This makes it much easier as the brain has the tendency to cloze : we see what we think is there, not what actually is. I am nothing if not a pedant . I collect books about language, spelling and words, but I am not perfect. You can’t expect everyone to be an excellent writer, in the same way you can’t expect everyone to be an Olympic gold medal winner. This is part of the problem with education : those away from the coal face expect that every single child will achieve 100% ,or close to, in every Learning Area. This is not possible. Every one has differing abilities and some people will NEVER be good spellers, or mathematicians. It is illogical to assume everyone will be good at everything. We don’t expect everyone will run a sub 4 minute mile ( sorry, there isn’t a metric paradigm), do we? If you could see the state of this before I have spell checked !! I am such a poor typist that some words are unintelligible. We didn’t learn typing at school. I took French, German and Advanced Maths!!!
Ok, there endeth the lesson for today. I have one shark’s tooth, two elephant eyes and a surfboard fin to do and the cushions just need sewing together on the machine!!Huzzah!!!
Lemon Sour Cream Cake
250 g butter
2 tspn grated lemon rind
440 g caster sugar
6 eggs
300 g plain flour
35 g self raising flour
200 g carton sour cream
Grease and line a 27 cm round tin and preheat oven to 170 C ( 150 ff).
Cream butter, rind and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Stir in half the cream and half the sifted flours, then the rest. Stir till smooth. Bake for about 90 minutes. Stand for 5 minutes in tin the cool on a rack. Dust with icing sugar, and serve with a dollop of cream and lemon curd!!!
http://www.magknits.com/warm04/patterns/java.htm
Mine is like the third one, the smallest white cup on the right. It is burgundy plain wool with a fluffy Faux Fur border at the top and bottom. I have to block it and sew on the handle but it is so easy, so cute and so quick. I could knit lots of them. Mind you, Aunty Captain Mrs Archer will only need one, though I will be forced to knit two as or three as I believe in surpluses!!! She sometimes buys coffee or hot chocolate on the way to school. I have knitted only a little more of the Fibonacci jumper. I am using it as a reward : I must do some house work for 10-15 minutes ( or until I am puffed, whichever comes first) and then I may knit!!!
I noticed in the comments on another blog an ‘interesting’ comment about spelling and homophones. I try to type up my post in Word and then spell check and copy and paste into the blog. It is so easy to overlook things. When I was at school I taught the children to look for spelling errors in their writing by reading their work backwards. The same with LSCCWC and editing spelling – check each letter in reverse order against the correct spelling. This makes it much easier as the brain has the tendency to cloze : we see what we think is there, not what actually is. I am nothing if not a pedant . I collect books about language, spelling and words, but I am not perfect. You can’t expect everyone to be an excellent writer, in the same way you can’t expect everyone to be an Olympic gold medal winner. This is part of the problem with education : those away from the coal face expect that every single child will achieve 100% ,or close to, in every Learning Area. This is not possible. Every one has differing abilities and some people will NEVER be good spellers, or mathematicians. It is illogical to assume everyone will be good at everything. We don’t expect everyone will run a sub 4 minute mile ( sorry, there isn’t a metric paradigm), do we? If you could see the state of this before I have spell checked !! I am such a poor typist that some words are unintelligible. We didn’t learn typing at school. I took French, German and Advanced Maths!!!
Ok, there endeth the lesson for today. I have one shark’s tooth, two elephant eyes and a surfboard fin to do and the cushions just need sewing together on the machine!!Huzzah!!!
Lemon Sour Cream Cake
250 g butter
2 tspn grated lemon rind
440 g caster sugar
6 eggs
300 g plain flour
35 g self raising flour
200 g carton sour cream
Grease and line a 27 cm round tin and preheat oven to 170 C ( 150 ff).
Cream butter, rind and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Stir in half the cream and half the sifted flours, then the rest. Stir till smooth. Bake for about 90 minutes. Stand for 5 minutes in tin the cool on a rack. Dust with icing sugar, and serve with a dollop of cream and lemon curd!!!
posted by 2paw @ 5/12/2005 11:34:00 am
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