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Ingredients:
6 tbs white sugar
2 tbs golden syrup
2 tsp water
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method:
Place sugar, golden syrup and water in a heavy saucepan and stir over a gentle heat until the sugar is dissolved.  Forget to immediately bring to the boil. Swear.
Bring to the boil and boil for seven minutes. Fail to turn heat down when temperature gets too high. Three and a half minutes into boiling, note that honeycomb is turning dark brown and issuing unpleasant-smelling smoke. Swear again. In panic turn heat right down and pour small amount of water into mixture.
Watch in dismay as honeycomb deflates. Remove from the heat and quickly add the bicarbonate of soda.
At this point the mixture is supposed to froth. Swear as mixture begins to set before bicarbonate of soda is fully mixed through.
Stir quickly and pour into a greased 28×18cm lamington tin.
Stare in dismay at the realisation that honeycomb has set on stirring spoon and saucepan. Boil water and pour onto spoon and saucepan and scrub until honeycomb melts and can be removed.
Taste honeycomb. Decide it’s not too bad. Remind yourself that this is why Mum banned you from cooking when she is not home. Turn on fans to disperse remainder of smoke.

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Oh, and I’ve finally added the blurry photos to this post here.

Ernest Digweed, a retired schoolmaster from Portsmouth, who died in 1976, left 26,000 pounds in the care of the Public Trustee with the following instructions:

‘if during these 80 years, the Lord Jesus Christ shall come to reign on earth, then the Public Trustee upon obtaining proof which shall satisfy them of His identity shall pay to the Lord Jesus Christ all the property which they hold on his behalf.’

If by 2056 the Lord has not appeared to claim the bequest the whole amount will revert to the State.

~’The Man Who Ate Bluebottles and Other Great British Eccentrics,’ Catherine Caufield,1981. Routledge  & Kegan Paul Ltd, London.

You’re probably wondering why I haven’t updated for a while. Two reasons: one, my grandfather died, which was naturally rather downing, and two, I’ve been working like hell to find a job. So yah. No time.

I thought, however, that I’d share a few things with you. First of all, a site named goats.com a while back featured a march that purported to be supporting the election of Voldemort for President. (‘Republicans for Voldemort’ read the bumper stickers - you can still buy them on the web site. One of them is pictured above.)

Right.

Second, someone else got into the spirit of things during local election time when he decided to spoof all the signs for local candidates by creating his very own, nicely-done Draco Malfoy election sign, complete with Slytherin crest. (‘Put a snake in office.’ Personally, I thought that the snakes were already there.) You can find his documentation of this and photographs on his blog, here.

 I just thought that this was worth sharing. Seeya soon, all.