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Sunday 22nd February 2026 – WHAT A NICE … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… way to start the day today. By the time that I came back in here to start work after breakfast, it was 11:15. That’s about two and a half hours later than usual, and if every Sunday could be like that, it would be wonderful.<\/p>\n

Mind you, it wasn’t an early finish last night. By the time that I’d completed everything that needed completing, it was once more just coming up to 23:30, and I would have loved to have been in bed an hour or so earlier. But simply, I don’t know where the time goes these days.<\/p>\n

Anyway, once in bed, I was asleep quite quickly. However, it was something of a mobile night. I definitely remember waking up briefly a couple of times, although it wasn’t for long and I can’t really remember all that much about it.<\/p>\n

One thing that I do remember, though, is that when Isabelle the Nurse turned up, I was fast asleep with my head under the covers. And while I was submerged at that end, she unsubmerged me at the other end to deal with my feet and legs.<\/p>\n

After she left, I curled up again and went back to sleep. However, round about 09:30 I was found sitting on the edge of my bed. Much as I would like to, I can’t spend all day lying in my stinking pit. I have to make a start sometime.<\/p>\n

After a visit to the bathroom, I went into the kitchen. First task was to bake the croissants that I’d prepared yesterday. And this new technique seems to have worked. The presentation was so much better today, and they looked like real croissants.<\/p>\n

So a couple of those along with my porridge and hot black coffee, and I was well away. It really was a nice breakfast.<\/p>\n

While I was eating, I was reading some more of MAIDEN CASTLE EXCAVATIONS AND FIELD SURVEY 1985-6<\/a> by Niall Sharples.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I mentioned that this section about pottery was going to be a very long job. And I was right, too. Today, we’ve been discussing the lugs that appeared on different kinds of Neolithic pottery \u2013 just the lugs. This book is going to be a very long read.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I had a listen to the dictaphone to find out where I’d been during the night. <\/p>\n

\nI’d heard a report that in the near future they would be bringing out a new version of the Berlingo. It was going to be a long wheelbase type of thing with more room inside. That became immediately more interesting to me because I would have liked to have had something like that at some point. I thought that if it was long-wheelbase, it would still be suitable for sleeping in if necessary when I was out on the road. I tried to find out more about it but apparently it was not being distributed for quite a while yet and that was disappointing news because I had a feeling that I was going to be needing a new vehicle fairly rapidly and this would probably have been ideal for what I wanted.<\/div>\n

Back in the late 1990s, I needed a car in a hurry after the Mercedes went the Way of the West. With nothing better on the horizon, a friend at work sold me an old Volkswagen Passat diesel estate. Only just a few weeks later, Citro\u00ebn announced the end of the run of C15 diesel vans, and they were selling them off at just \u20ac4995 plus VAT. One of those would have been perfect for what I wanted at the time.<\/p>\n

\nThere was also something going on about the Epstein affair. People had suddenly realised that the one important person, the former wife of Epstein, had not yet been arrested despite her name appearing in the files on numerous occasions. The official reason given was that although her name appears in the files, there’s no allegation of any wrong-doing and no-one has made a complaint against her. In that case, as far as the police go, there’s nothing to investigate until something is discovered in the files that implicates her in a crime.<\/div>\n

With all of the revelations of the Epstein files and the aftermath, I’m just wondering when my name is going to appear in them. Everyone else’s has, for one reason or another, and I’m feeling left out. <\/p>\n

As for the subject matter of the dreams, there was something the other day about AFKAP \u2013 the Andrew Formerly Known As Prince \u2013 and I imagine that that particular dream was in some way related to the revelations in the files.<\/p>\n

When I’d finished the dictaphone notes, we had a footfest, with all of the highlights of the matches from the JD Cymru League over the weekend. And the unbeaten run of Connah’s Quay Nomads came to a shuddering halt as they were beaten by Y Barri 1-0.<\/p>\n

And things are going from bad to worse for Penybont. With yet another player dismissed from the field, they crashed 3-1 away at Colwyn Bay. For a team that a few months ago was a comfortable second in the league, they’ve only won once since 21st November, and that game was against struggling Llanelli, where they scraped a narrow 1-0 win. <\/p>\n

The next game was Stranraer v Spartans in Scotland. And at last, after a run of I don’t know how many draws, they managed to win. Mind you, it took A WONDER GOAL DEEP IN INJURY TIME<\/a> by Aaron Quigg to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n

A little later, after a little relaxation, I spent a couple of hours revising my Welsh ready for Tuesday, and then it was baking time.<\/p>\n

No bread today, though \u2013 I took half a loaf out of the freezer ready for next week because I was going to bake a cake and didn’t have the time for everything.<\/p>\n

For reasons that shall become apparent in early course, I really fancied a strong ginger cake. As well as that, Rosemary had found an obscure recipe that suggested that desiccated coconut and ground almonds were a suitable substitute for sugar when baking.<\/p>\n

That sounded absolutely excellent, so I ground a couple of handfuls of almonds and added a cup of desiccated coconut instead of one cup of sugar in my oil cake and used coconut oil instead of the vegetable oil. With enough ginger to sink a ship, I mixed up all of the ingredients and poured the mixture into the baking tray.<\/p>\n

After I’d made my pizza base, I started to make the layering cream for the cake. I’d found a good recipe with butter, icing sugar, coconut yoghurt (I mixed soya yoghurt with coconut oil), maple syrup and spices. I whipped it all up and put it in the fridge to stiffen.<\/p>\n

But this filling and the consistency of the sauce looked excellent to me, and I was thinking that I could adapt it to almost any kind of filling, especially chocolate. I shall have to make further plans.<\/p>\n

While I was assembling the pizza, I had the cake baking and it was done to a turn \u2013 maybe a little too much on top and not enough on the bottom \u2013 and I wish that I knew how to deal with that because it’s not the first time that it’s happened.<\/p>\n

When it was ready, I took it out of the oven and put the pizza in. That was done to a turn fifteen minutes later, and as usual, I ate half of it, with the other half for tomorrow after dialysis.<\/p>\n

Once I’d finished and tidied up everything, I cut my cake in half and went to put the layering mix in the middle in order to make a sandwich cake with the two halves. However, it wasn’t cooled enough and it began to melt the layering mix.<\/p>\n

Next time that I make a sandwich cake, I shall have to stick it in the fridge for several hours to make sure that it’s properly and thoroughly cold. One thing, though, and that is that I’m certainly learning a lot as I go on, and that’s the whole point of doing it.<\/p>\n

But right now, I’m going to finish everything off and go to bed ready for dialysis tomorrow … "I don’t think" – ed<\/em> …<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about baking a cake … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … it reminds me of Zero and her mother when Zero was at a young and impressionable age.
\nThey had been baking a cake together and were relaxing in the living room when the timer sounded in the kitchen.
\n"Be a dear and go and see if the cake is ready"<\/em><\/strong> said Zero’s mother.
\n"How do I do that?"<\/em><\/strong> asked Zero.
\n"Take one of the meat skewers from the cutlery tray, poke it into the cake a few times and see if it comes out clean."<\/em><\/strong>
\nSo off trotted Zero into the kitchen.
\nTen minutes later, Zero came back in. "Yes, mum, it’s cooked."<\/em><\/strong>
\n"So what took you so long?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Well, the skewer came out so clean that I stuck the rest of the dirty cutlery from lunchtime in the cake too."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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