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Sketchbook

Over the past 8 months I’ve been a little more deliberate in my sketching, trying to tap back into my first creative love of pencil drawing and watercolour.

I just uploaded a few of the outcomes to a new Flickr set called ‘sketchbook‘. Click here to take a look.

Speedos

I saw this picture and it reminded me of some friends (Luke and Cal) in South Africa who pioneer modern day speedo wearing outside of Eastern Europe.

Picture by Zoe Barker.

Frisbee Inventor Dies

According to The Guardian, the inventor of the Frisbee (originally known as the ‘Pluto Platter’) has died at the age of 90. Farewell to a man who was responsible for a lot of fun…

(Photo: Camil Tulcan)

Blueberry Pancakes

Blueberry Pancakes

Last Monday we celebrated 6 months of being married. I made some Blueberry Pancakes for breakfast before we took a drive to the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Here’s the recipe for the pancakes:

Ingredients:

  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 Free Range egg
  • 300ml milk
  • 1 knob butter
  • 150g pack blueberries
  • A little butter for cooking
  • Maple syrup

Directions:

  1. Mix together the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt in a large bowl.
  2. Beat the egg with the milk, make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and whisk in the milk to make a thick smooth batter.
  3. Beat in the melted butter, and gently stir in half the blueberries.
  4. Heat a teaspoon of oil or small knob of butter in a large non-stick frying pan.
  5. Drop a large tablespoonful of the batter per pancake into the pan to make pancakes about 7.5cm across. Make three or four pancakes at a time.
  6. Cook for about 3 minutes over a medium heat until small bubbles appear on the surface of each pancake, then turn and cook another 2-3 minutes until golden.
  7. Keep the pancakes warm in the oven (100 degrees C) while you use up the rest of the batter.
  8. Serve with maple syrup and the rest of the blueberries.

(Recipe slightly adapted from the BBC Good Food site.)

The Stolen Orphans of Haiti

According to CNN, traffickers are taking advantage of the current instability in Haiti to take children and organs out of the country. Many children have been orphaned and the massive displacement of people, in makeshift dwellings, make them extremely vulnerable:

Haiti is trying to locate displaced children and register them so they can either be reunited with other family members or put up for adoption, Bellerive said.
But, he said, illegal child trafficking is “one of the biggest problems that we have.”
Many groups appear to be legitimate, “but a lot of organizations — they come and they say there were children on the streets. They’re going to bring them to the [United] States,” he said.

(source: CNN.com and @STOPTHETRAFFIK, photo: United Nations)

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