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Alexander is certainly not worth shouting about
Today we've got a number of errands to run, the first being heading off to get some things from homebase. The main reason for this is that we bought a yoghurt maker off eBay, but didn't realise that it came with an american plug, so we need to go get a british plug to stick on the end of the wire so that it will work. In the event that we do get it to work we also need a few kitchen utensils according to the recipe book, such as wooden spoons and nylon sieves. We manage to get the plug, but fail on the other stuff so nip into town to get them.
We get what we want at one of the local department stores after being served by a very peculiar lady who wouldn't pick up our wooden spoons with her hands, and somewhat dumbfounded as to her aversion to wood we then head out and get Phil a Maccy D's.
It's not long after that and we are back home and the triop tank looks to be the right temperature to move the little blighters over so thats what I do - and after adjusting the force of the air filter (the triops don't like it too strong for obvious reasons) they settle in fairly well, probably wondering why the world doesn't look so green anymore.
Afterwards we then get on with using the yoghurt maker. It seems easy enough. Get some fresh milk, add some powdered milk to it, bring it all to the boil in a pan, cool to a certain temperature then add some starter yoghurt to the mix, then put it in pots and incubate said pots for 3 hours in the warm climate of the yoghurt maker and let the bacteria do their thing. I guess the test will be as and when we taste it, but so far its looking good.
We watch Alexander afterwards, and it's crap. It seems to me all the people in all the places that Alexander conquered (and Alexander himself) all seem to be speaking with an Irish accent, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the film is set several *thousand* miles from Ireland. Colin Farrell is certainly no Russel Crowe when it comes to these favoured epic sagas we are seeing rolled out of Hollywood at the moment.
Posted by Abi on the October 2, 2005 10:10 PM
So now you know where the Irish picke up their accent :)