I have changed the homepage on my website slightly. I was going to try to put some counters on the side bar of this WordPress blog but I just could not work out how to do that. I am moderately computer literate and I write my my own HTML code for my website, but WordPress is a mystery to me. Anyway, I have put two rolling totals onto the homepage. One is Fyrm Fouroux’s cumulative number of gigs in SL, to date. The other is the cumulative number of recipes John has cooked in First Life from the Julia Child books Mastering the Art of French Cooking. With regard to Julia’s books, I put some pics up about my first two recipes in yesterday’s blog. I have to tell you that I have, this evening, finished the bulk of my preparations for Potage Velouté aux Champignons (cream of mushroom soup). Does anyone know how to do French accents in WordPress? At present I am doing them in WORD for Windows, copying them, and then pasting them into my ‘newpost’ screen in WordPress. There must be an easier way. So, I got my Julia Child books on Wednesday or Tuesday and already I have almost done 3 recipes. Maybe I am getting hooked into the Julie idea. I don’t know. But I will tell you that my good friend Woody in SL said to me while we were chatting before my gig at Cascadia last night that he lived in the same town as Julia Child and sometimes would see her at the supermarket. How brilliant is that!!!
There was a big truck with a digger attachment in my street today scooping up some topsoil from my neighbour’s front garden. He wants to make a place to park his cars. I still take a childish delight in seeing big scoopy things grabbing up huge mouthfuls of dirt. Must be Freudian. Well, I will try to let you know how the Potage Velouté aux Champignons goes tomorrow. There is a technique involved that I have not tried before, so I am very excited about it. Oh, btw, I bought a few herbs and some lettuce at the garden centre this morning – me and my friend Tom (in First Life) go there for full English breakfast sometimes. I got a few lettuce plants too. I’m hoping to plant them out or put them in pots this weekend. And, before I go, I just want to tell you that the potatoes I planted a few weeks ago are starting to come up. Just a couple of rows, nothing too agribusiness. Ok. I picked up the DVD of The King’s Speech in the supermarket earlier today, so I think I will watch that. Just have to make sure I have my box of tissues to hand (well, I think it is ok for men to cry in films, even Englishmen – lol). Speak to you later, my dear blogophiles.
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