Det är nu officiellt kört. Alla mina pengar är slut och jag fick en räkning på drygt 700 kr (eller var det 900 kr?) med posten idag och jag har en annan på 200 kr och båda måste betalas snarast. Men jag har inga pengar! Jag vet inte vad jag ska göra! Förut kunde jag ta av fonderna om det var något som behövde betalas men fonderna är också slut. Jag kan få pengar tidigast om två veckor. Jag känner för att göra som han i Into the wild som bara klipper sina kreditkort, bränner sina saker och ger sig iväg för att bo ensam ute i skogen. Han gjorde det visserligen för att han ville uppleva frihet. Jag skulle göra det för det är det enda jag har råd med.
Att åka till Stockholm är nog helt uteslutet nu. Jag ville verkligen se terrakottaarmén men de pengarna behövs för mina räkningar. Jag hoppas bara att mamma kan tänka sig att låna mig mer pengar. Gudarna ska veta att hon inte har råd men ändå hjälper hon mig och lånar mig pengar. Jag vet inte vad jag skulle göra utan henne.
Jag broderar pärlor på klot till en bok jag började på i höstas och försöker tänka ut vad jag kan göra för att få pengar. Typ IDAG! Ludde har redan lovat att hjälpa mig om jag bestämmer mig för att råna en bank. Det är väldigt snällt av honom och det känns bra att ha någon med sig som stöd. Men att flytta ut i skogen känns lockande. Jag vet flera små ruiner som säkert kan användas som grund för en liten koja att bo i. Om ni inte hör från mig igen så vet ni i alla fall vad som hänt.
fredag 28 januari 2011
onsdag 26 januari 2011
The truth is out there. But so are the lies.
The deniers have fair wind on the internet
The lies about the Holocaust lives
(by Else Christensen)
A simple search on the internet leads to thousands of websites where the holocaust and the extermination of people during the Second World War are denied. It’s declared that there have never been any gas chambers and the number of dead is exaggerated. But even the deniers’ most hardy myths are easily destroyed with facts.
Just before his suicide in 1945 Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, maintained obstinately that the Jews of Europe died by natural causes in the concentration camps – by infectious disease.
Himmler’s words became the foundation on which the first holocaust deniers built their theories on. The Frenchman Paul Rassinier, one of the deniers’ pioneers, asserted in his book Le Passage de la Ligne (To pass over the line) from 1948 that it surely occurred a few isolated murders or gassings but that they where performed by extremists and where not Nazi politic. “Never at any point had the authorities concerned within the Third Reich any intentions to give order that – and nor did ever give any order that – the Jews where to get exterminated”, Rassinier asserts.
Since Rassiniers book was published the conspiracy theories has only grown stronger and stronger. All over the internet myths which try to deny the Nazis’ mass murders flourish. The conspiracy theories can look convincing but the truth is that they are contrary to all scientific and historic facts.
That the holocaust in fact did happen has been confirmed by testimonials from thousands of survivors, by SS-guards and not in the least by the hundreds of thousands official documents that the Nazis did not have time to destroy before the war was over.
One of the most widespread myths among the holocaust deniers is that the basement in the Birkenau crematory can not have been used as a gas chamber, since the doors went inwards and would not have been able to be opened if the room was filled of dead people. This argument however is built on the earliest architectural blueprints for Crematory II in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in which the doors actually was planned to be opened inwards. Later drawings, however, show with all desirable clarity that the door was changed so that it opened outwards. The change was made in close connection with the decision to build gas chamber in the crematory in 1943. But the holocaust deniers choose to disregard all later architectural drawings, just like they ignore for instance the fact that the Nazis ordered gas-proof doors for the crematory.
In the beginning it was only the most fanatic, or gullible, who listened to the deniers, but in the middle of 1970’s the followers started to change their tactic. The deniers of the new time used an academic way of writing, footnotes and references to acknowledged scholars and institutes. Many of them showed of academic titles, of which some – but not all – where fake. Now the argumentation consisted of complicated chemical and technical analyses, and different connections were based on, among other things, false documents – everything with the purpose to convince the reader that the extermination of the Jews never happened.
In the constantly growing internet the deniers has got ever increasing possibilities to spread their theories on a number websites. But the sites always bear the mark of the deniers: details which have been taken out of content to give a seemingly obvious support for false myths.
Statement:
Zyklon B is a delousing agent and does not suffice to kill people with. If the Nazis really had decided to exterminate the Jews they would have used another gas.
Fact:
The terrifying truth is that Zyklon B actually seems to be more effective on humans than on the lice which it was supposed to extinguish. Humans die within 5 – 10 minutes after being gassed with a concentration of only 300 ppm (parts per million).
Lice, on the other hand, are cold-blooded animals with much lower metabolism and do not die until after several hours at an exposure of up till 16 000 ppm. Another advantage of Zyklon B was that the gas already was being used in the camps and therefore easily could be bought in without it arousing suspicions.
Statement:
The crematories were built to burn the people who died a natural death, for example during typhus epidemics. What some say are gas chambers are in fact just morgues.
Fact:
Many prisoners in the concentration camps did die of typhus and other contagious diseases but not so many as it would justify the number of crematory ovens that the Nazis installed in, among others, Auschwitz.
The rooms wish the deniers call morgues could also be warmed up, which would be totally unfitting if they where supposed to hold dead bodies. With the help of the heating system the gas chambers held a steady temperature of 26 – 27°C, the temperature in with Zyklon B is most effective.
Statement:
The Nazis can’t have used Zyklon B in the crematory buildings. The combination of the poisonous gas and the heat from the ovens would have caused violent explosions.
Fact:
It is true that big quantities of the gas Zyklon B in the air together with the heat of the ovens would have caused a violent explosion in the crematories. But scientific examinations shows that the great quantities of concentrated gas that was needed to kill people in the gas chambers was 200 times less than what was needed to cause an explosion. Even if the Nazis would have overdosed the gas substantially the quantities would still have been too small to cause an explosion.
Statement:
The number of Jews who died in the holocaust is greatly exaggerated. At the most 200 000 – 300 000 died – and that of natural causes.
Fact:
Scientists estimate that between 5, 5 and 6 million Jews was murdered in the holocaust. The myth that “only” 200 000 died is taken from the study “General Psychologus” written by an unknown author, Alexander Scronn. The name is most likely a pseudonym and the book was published in 1965 in Brazil – a land where a lot of German Nazis lived after the war. Scronn says that his numbers is based on facts from The International Red Cross.
Scronn’s statements have many times been denied by The Red Cross. Despite this, the deniers still use Alexander Scronn as a witness for the truth.
Statement:
One cremation takes one hour, so it would be impossible to burn 1. 1 million people during the three to four years in which the crematories in Auschwitz – Birkenau was in operation.
Facts:
This statement is a classis among deniers who consistently compares the Nazis’ burning of corpses with regular cremation. Normally the purpose is to give the relatives a fine and uniform ash after the dead, and because of that the oven must be turned off between every cremation so that the ashes from different corpses do not get mixed up.
The Nazis used methods wish mostly reminds of industrial mass burning. If the oven constantly is filled with new corpses it will reach considerably higher average temperature. Furthermore, a lot of the time goes to burn the torso. The Nazis new about this, and however horrible it may sound prisoners in the so called Sonderkommando were ordered to beat on the torso on the burning corpses with iron bars. The survivors have told how they stirred among the corpses. With that the cremation time in the ovens was prominently shortened.
Statement:
Hitler did not know about the holocaust, and the extermination was not the government’s idea.
Fact:
The statement that Hitler was not guilty of the holocaust was latest presented by the British, self-taught historian David Irving. But the hatred of the Jews was the foundation for Hitler’s whole politic: “When I come into power will the extermination of the Jews be my first and most important task”, said Hitler already in 1919 to the journalist Josef Hell.
During the war the executions and later also the gassings were strictly supervised and inspected by both Hitler and Himmler. As a rule the Führer gave all his orders orally and only to a few people at a time, and because of that there are no written orders with Hitler’s signature on them. But among others has Rudolf Höss, commandant on Auschwitz, in a testimony said that he before the mass extermination was called to a meeting with Himmler in Berlin. Himmler said to him: “The Führer has given the order of the final solution about the Jews. We, the SS, are to carry out that order. The existing extermination centres in east is not capable of accomplishing the planned big actions. I have therefore chosen Auschwitz for this purpose.”
Statement:
If prisoners had actually been gassed with Zyklon B there should have been clear marks of prussic acid on the walls. The scientists have found none.
Fact:
Even if the theory is right, the statement is wrong for several reasons. First and foremost, the concentrations and quantities of gas that was used were way too small, and the time of exposure was too short. Normally the gas was in the gas chambers for only 20 – 30 minutes at the most – which, according to the experts, is not enough for it to leave deposits.
Furthermore, the members of the Sonderkommando – the Jews who worked in the crematories – have told how both walls and floors in the gas chambers were scrubbed thoroughly after every execution. The cleaning was necessary, because according to SS-men and the Sonderkommando the chambers where besmeared with among other things blood, urine and excrements. In the year of 1944 the Nazis blew up the gas chambers when they evacuated Auschwitz. Since then the ruins has been partly under water for many years and the remains of the gas have been washed away in greater extent than in for example the delousing rooms which the deniers often use as a comparison. Despite this has scientific examinations at several occasions confirmed that there is in fact traces of Zyklon B in the walls that are left of the gas chambers.
The memory dies slowly
Historians estimate that in the whole world there are to this day still 350 000 people left who survived the holocaust. The youngest of them are soon 70 years old and it is only a question of time before there won’t be anyone left who experienced the cruelty of the Nazis.
105-years old survivor Leopold Engleitner still writes books about his life and more and more victims who earlier lived anonymous lives now choose to tell their stories before it is too late. Their stories are immortalized in newspapers, books, movies and on the internet. Here the descriptions lay side by side with the myths of the deniers. While the survivors slowly disappear their children and children’s children found a worldwide network to keep the memories alive.
In several countries, among them Sweden, the victims of the holocaust are honoured every year with the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 27th of January – the date when the Russians liberated the people in Auschwitz.
Jag har bara översatt den här artikeln. Den ursprungliga texten är skriven av Else Christensen och kan hittas i tidningen Världens Historia nummer 2/2011 som publiseras a Bonnier Publications.
Världens historia: http://varldenshistoria.se/
Bonnier Publications: http://www.bonnierpublications.se/default.asp?page=77
The lies about the Holocaust lives
(by Else Christensen)
A simple search on the internet leads to thousands of websites where the holocaust and the extermination of people during the Second World War are denied. It’s declared that there have never been any gas chambers and the number of dead is exaggerated. But even the deniers’ most hardy myths are easily destroyed with facts.
Just before his suicide in 1945 Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, maintained obstinately that the Jews of Europe died by natural causes in the concentration camps – by infectious disease.
Himmler’s words became the foundation on which the first holocaust deniers built their theories on. The Frenchman Paul Rassinier, one of the deniers’ pioneers, asserted in his book Le Passage de la Ligne (To pass over the line) from 1948 that it surely occurred a few isolated murders or gassings but that they where performed by extremists and where not Nazi politic. “Never at any point had the authorities concerned within the Third Reich any intentions to give order that – and nor did ever give any order that – the Jews where to get exterminated”, Rassinier asserts.
Since Rassiniers book was published the conspiracy theories has only grown stronger and stronger. All over the internet myths which try to deny the Nazis’ mass murders flourish. The conspiracy theories can look convincing but the truth is that they are contrary to all scientific and historic facts.
That the holocaust in fact did happen has been confirmed by testimonials from thousands of survivors, by SS-guards and not in the least by the hundreds of thousands official documents that the Nazis did not have time to destroy before the war was over.
One of the most widespread myths among the holocaust deniers is that the basement in the Birkenau crematory can not have been used as a gas chamber, since the doors went inwards and would not have been able to be opened if the room was filled of dead people. This argument however is built on the earliest architectural blueprints for Crematory II in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in which the doors actually was planned to be opened inwards. Later drawings, however, show with all desirable clarity that the door was changed so that it opened outwards. The change was made in close connection with the decision to build gas chamber in the crematory in 1943. But the holocaust deniers choose to disregard all later architectural drawings, just like they ignore for instance the fact that the Nazis ordered gas-proof doors for the crematory.
In the beginning it was only the most fanatic, or gullible, who listened to the deniers, but in the middle of 1970’s the followers started to change their tactic. The deniers of the new time used an academic way of writing, footnotes and references to acknowledged scholars and institutes. Many of them showed of academic titles, of which some – but not all – where fake. Now the argumentation consisted of complicated chemical and technical analyses, and different connections were based on, among other things, false documents – everything with the purpose to convince the reader that the extermination of the Jews never happened.
In the constantly growing internet the deniers has got ever increasing possibilities to spread their theories on a number websites. But the sites always bear the mark of the deniers: details which have been taken out of content to give a seemingly obvious support for false myths.
Statement:
Zyklon B is a delousing agent and does not suffice to kill people with. If the Nazis really had decided to exterminate the Jews they would have used another gas.
Fact:
The terrifying truth is that Zyklon B actually seems to be more effective on humans than on the lice which it was supposed to extinguish. Humans die within 5 – 10 minutes after being gassed with a concentration of only 300 ppm (parts per million).
Lice, on the other hand, are cold-blooded animals with much lower metabolism and do not die until after several hours at an exposure of up till 16 000 ppm. Another advantage of Zyklon B was that the gas already was being used in the camps and therefore easily could be bought in without it arousing suspicions.
Statement:
The crematories were built to burn the people who died a natural death, for example during typhus epidemics. What some say are gas chambers are in fact just morgues.
Fact:
Many prisoners in the concentration camps did die of typhus and other contagious diseases but not so many as it would justify the number of crematory ovens that the Nazis installed in, among others, Auschwitz.
The rooms wish the deniers call morgues could also be warmed up, which would be totally unfitting if they where supposed to hold dead bodies. With the help of the heating system the gas chambers held a steady temperature of 26 – 27°C, the temperature in with Zyklon B is most effective.
Statement:
The Nazis can’t have used Zyklon B in the crematory buildings. The combination of the poisonous gas and the heat from the ovens would have caused violent explosions.
Fact:
It is true that big quantities of the gas Zyklon B in the air together with the heat of the ovens would have caused a violent explosion in the crematories. But scientific examinations shows that the great quantities of concentrated gas that was needed to kill people in the gas chambers was 200 times less than what was needed to cause an explosion. Even if the Nazis would have overdosed the gas substantially the quantities would still have been too small to cause an explosion.
Statement:
The number of Jews who died in the holocaust is greatly exaggerated. At the most 200 000 – 300 000 died – and that of natural causes.
Fact:
Scientists estimate that between 5, 5 and 6 million Jews was murdered in the holocaust. The myth that “only” 200 000 died is taken from the study “General Psychologus” written by an unknown author, Alexander Scronn. The name is most likely a pseudonym and the book was published in 1965 in Brazil – a land where a lot of German Nazis lived after the war. Scronn says that his numbers is based on facts from The International Red Cross.
Scronn’s statements have many times been denied by The Red Cross. Despite this, the deniers still use Alexander Scronn as a witness for the truth.
Statement:
One cremation takes one hour, so it would be impossible to burn 1. 1 million people during the three to four years in which the crematories in Auschwitz – Birkenau was in operation.
Facts:
This statement is a classis among deniers who consistently compares the Nazis’ burning of corpses with regular cremation. Normally the purpose is to give the relatives a fine and uniform ash after the dead, and because of that the oven must be turned off between every cremation so that the ashes from different corpses do not get mixed up.
The Nazis used methods wish mostly reminds of industrial mass burning. If the oven constantly is filled with new corpses it will reach considerably higher average temperature. Furthermore, a lot of the time goes to burn the torso. The Nazis new about this, and however horrible it may sound prisoners in the so called Sonderkommando were ordered to beat on the torso on the burning corpses with iron bars. The survivors have told how they stirred among the corpses. With that the cremation time in the ovens was prominently shortened.
Statement:
Hitler did not know about the holocaust, and the extermination was not the government’s idea.
Fact:
The statement that Hitler was not guilty of the holocaust was latest presented by the British, self-taught historian David Irving. But the hatred of the Jews was the foundation for Hitler’s whole politic: “When I come into power will the extermination of the Jews be my first and most important task”, said Hitler already in 1919 to the journalist Josef Hell.
During the war the executions and later also the gassings were strictly supervised and inspected by both Hitler and Himmler. As a rule the Führer gave all his orders orally and only to a few people at a time, and because of that there are no written orders with Hitler’s signature on them. But among others has Rudolf Höss, commandant on Auschwitz, in a testimony said that he before the mass extermination was called to a meeting with Himmler in Berlin. Himmler said to him: “The Führer has given the order of the final solution about the Jews. We, the SS, are to carry out that order. The existing extermination centres in east is not capable of accomplishing the planned big actions. I have therefore chosen Auschwitz for this purpose.”
Statement:
If prisoners had actually been gassed with Zyklon B there should have been clear marks of prussic acid on the walls. The scientists have found none.
Fact:
Even if the theory is right, the statement is wrong for several reasons. First and foremost, the concentrations and quantities of gas that was used were way too small, and the time of exposure was too short. Normally the gas was in the gas chambers for only 20 – 30 minutes at the most – which, according to the experts, is not enough for it to leave deposits.
Furthermore, the members of the Sonderkommando – the Jews who worked in the crematories – have told how both walls and floors in the gas chambers were scrubbed thoroughly after every execution. The cleaning was necessary, because according to SS-men and the Sonderkommando the chambers where besmeared with among other things blood, urine and excrements. In the year of 1944 the Nazis blew up the gas chambers when they evacuated Auschwitz. Since then the ruins has been partly under water for many years and the remains of the gas have been washed away in greater extent than in for example the delousing rooms which the deniers often use as a comparison. Despite this has scientific examinations at several occasions confirmed that there is in fact traces of Zyklon B in the walls that are left of the gas chambers.
The memory dies slowly
Historians estimate that in the whole world there are to this day still 350 000 people left who survived the holocaust. The youngest of them are soon 70 years old and it is only a question of time before there won’t be anyone left who experienced the cruelty of the Nazis.
105-years old survivor Leopold Engleitner still writes books about his life and more and more victims who earlier lived anonymous lives now choose to tell their stories before it is too late. Their stories are immortalized in newspapers, books, movies and on the internet. Here the descriptions lay side by side with the myths of the deniers. While the survivors slowly disappear their children and children’s children found a worldwide network to keep the memories alive.
In several countries, among them Sweden, the victims of the holocaust are honoured every year with the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 27th of January – the date when the Russians liberated the people in Auschwitz.
Jag har bara översatt den här artikeln. Den ursprungliga texten är skriven av Else Christensen och kan hittas i tidningen Världens Historia nummer 2/2011 som publiseras a Bonnier Publications.
Världens historia: http://varldenshistoria.se/
Bonnier Publications: http://www.bonnierpublications.se/default.asp?page=77
Recept på djävulsmuffins
Här kommer då receptet på djävulsmuffins som finns på sidan 101 i boken "500 muffins".
"Dessa muffins är farligt fylliga, saftiga och urläckra!
Blir 18 muffins
Till muffinsen:
3 3/4 dl vetemjöl
1 tsk bakpulver
3 1/4 dl ljust farinsocker
225 g osaltat smör, rumstempererat
2 ägg (vitan och gulan separerade)
100 g choklad, smält
1 tsk vaniljessens
1 dl mjölk
Till glasyren:
115 g osaltat smör, rumstempererat
1 msk mjölk
115 g mörk choklad, smält
1 tsk vaniljessens
1 1/2 dl florsocker, siktat
Förvärm ugnen till 175 *C. Placera 18 pappersformar i fördjupningarna på muffinsplåtar. Sikta samman mjöl och bakpulver och ställ åt sidan. Vispa i en medelstor skål samman socker och smör. Tillsätt äggulor och vispa väl. Tillsätt smält choklad och vaniljessens, blanda väl. Tillsätt omväxlande mjöl och mjölk och vispa väl mellan varje gång. Vispa äggvitor i en medelstor skål tills små toppar formas och vänd försiktigt ner äggvitan i smeten.
Skeda smeten i formarna. Grädda i 20 minuter. Ta ut plåtarna och låt svalna i 5 minuter. Ta sedan upp muffinsen och låt svalna på galler. För att göra glasyren, vispa smör i en medelstor skål. Vispa ner mjölk till slät konsistens. Rör ner choklad och vaniljessens. Vispa ner florsocker till en tjock, krämig smet. Bred glasyr över muffinsen. Förvara utan flasyr i en lufttät burk i upp till 2 dagar eller i frys i upp till 3 månader.
Varianter:
Kaffeglaserade djävulsmuffins
Följ grundreceptet. För att göra glasyren, blanda 1 tsk varmt kaffe med 2 msk snabbkaffepulver och rör om väl. Låt svalna. Rör ner det svala kaffet i chokladglasyren.
Djävulsmuffins med vit choklad
Följ grundreceptet. För att göra glasyren, ersätt chokladen med 100 g vit choklad.
Hasselnöts- och chokladglaserade djävulsmuffins
Följ grundreceptet. För att göra glasyren, tillsätt 100 g hackade rostade hasselnötter när övriga ingredienser har blandats."
Lycka till. :)
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard
"Dessa muffins är farligt fylliga, saftiga och urläckra!
Blir 18 muffins
Till muffinsen:
3 3/4 dl vetemjöl
1 tsk bakpulver
3 1/4 dl ljust farinsocker
225 g osaltat smör, rumstempererat
2 ägg (vitan och gulan separerade)
100 g choklad, smält
1 tsk vaniljessens
1 dl mjölk
Till glasyren:
115 g osaltat smör, rumstempererat
1 msk mjölk
115 g mörk choklad, smält
1 tsk vaniljessens
1 1/2 dl florsocker, siktat
Förvärm ugnen till 175 *C. Placera 18 pappersformar i fördjupningarna på muffinsplåtar. Sikta samman mjöl och bakpulver och ställ åt sidan. Vispa i en medelstor skål samman socker och smör. Tillsätt äggulor och vispa väl. Tillsätt smält choklad och vaniljessens, blanda väl. Tillsätt omväxlande mjöl och mjölk och vispa väl mellan varje gång. Vispa äggvitor i en medelstor skål tills små toppar formas och vänd försiktigt ner äggvitan i smeten.
Skeda smeten i formarna. Grädda i 20 minuter. Ta ut plåtarna och låt svalna i 5 minuter. Ta sedan upp muffinsen och låt svalna på galler. För att göra glasyren, vispa smör i en medelstor skål. Vispa ner mjölk till slät konsistens. Rör ner choklad och vaniljessens. Vispa ner florsocker till en tjock, krämig smet. Bred glasyr över muffinsen. Förvara utan flasyr i en lufttät burk i upp till 2 dagar eller i frys i upp till 3 månader.
Varianter:
Kaffeglaserade djävulsmuffins
Följ grundreceptet. För att göra glasyren, blanda 1 tsk varmt kaffe med 2 msk snabbkaffepulver och rör om väl. Låt svalna. Rör ner det svala kaffet i chokladglasyren.
Djävulsmuffins med vit choklad
Följ grundreceptet. För att göra glasyren, ersätt chokladen med 100 g vit choklad.
Hasselnöts- och chokladglaserade djävulsmuffins
Följ grundreceptet. För att göra glasyren, tillsätt 100 g hackade rostade hasselnötter när övriga ingredienser har blandats."
Lycka till. :)
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard
Min sista födelsedagspresent
Min sista födelsedagspresent kom med posten idag. Det var CD:n "Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1" av ett engelskt band som heter The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing. Jag är så glad att den äntligen har kommit. De är jätteroliga. Oskar har kämpat i månader för att försöka få hit en skiva. Han har pratat med måde cdon.com och MediaMarkt utan resultat. Till slut var det Amazon som räddade situationen. Jag lyssnar på skivan nu och den är så bra. Jag har hört att de gav ut skivan i tre olika format. CD, LP och vaxcylinder. Att ha den som vaxcylinder skulle varit så coolt men jag antar att den kostar en del och jag skulle ju inte ha någon möjlighet att spela den. Haha! Men det är fortfarande rätt häftigt.
Och det snöar idag vilket är lite irriterande. Jag älskar vintern men när det väl har börjat smälta så vill jag inte att det ändrar sig och kommer tillbaka. Men det snöar så lite så det är nog ingen fara.
"Now, the Victorian engineer Robert Stephenson should not be confused with the Victorian engineer Robert Stevenson."
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Steph(v)enson
Och det snöar idag vilket är lite irriterande. Jag älskar vintern men när det väl har börjat smälta så vill jag inte att det ändrar sig och kommer tillbaka. Men det snöar så lite så det är nog ingen fara.
"Now, the Victorian engineer Robert Stephenson should not be confused with the Victorian engineer Robert Stevenson."
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Steph(v)enson
fredag 21 januari 2011
Muffins!
Jag har ägnat typ hela dagen åt att baka muffins eftersom vi ska ha huv-fest för Elsa ikväll. Jag har gjort både djävulsmuffins (som är chokladmuffins med choklad i och choklad på) och hallonmuffins. Jag har provat hallonmuffinsen och de var jättegoda. Djävulsmuffinsarna har jag gjort förut (trots att receptet är a pain in the butt) så de blev nog bra, särskilt som jag faktiskt följde receptet den här gången. :p
Charlie var moraliskt stöd men valde att inte hjälpa till så mycket.
Första plåten djävulsuffins i ugnen.
Färdiggräddade men utan garneringen.
Färdiggräddade men utan garneringen.
Nämnde jag att smeten till hallonmuffinsen egentligen är hjärnsubstans?
Alla muffins färdiga.
Jag åt upp hallonmuffinsen. :D
Hoppas bara att de andra gillar dem också. :)
"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."
- John Jay Chapman
torsdag 20 januari 2011
Min stökiga verkstad
Imorgon kommer det hit kompisar till oss för att fira Elsas födelsedag lite sent så jag måste ägna dagen (eller åtminstone en del av den) till att städa. Hela huset behöver väl städas men särskilt mitt rum och min verkstad. Rummet tänker jag strunta i eftersom jag inte behöver släppa in någon där men jag tror att åtminstonde en av våra kompisar är intresserad av att se min verkstad så jag måste försöka städa den nu.
Men innan så tog jag bilder på hur det ser ut där. Dels för att jag vet folk som ville se hur det ser ut och dels för att då kan jag ha före- och efterbilder när jag är färdig. :)
Så här ser det alltså ut. Som ni ser så är det i behov av städning. Ska jag kanske berätta vad saker är. Från vänster har vi en kattbur, ett elektriskt element (tro mig det behövs!) en gammal pappsax översållad med saker, ett väldigt smutsigt fönster, en IKEA-stol, ett bord jag köpt på second hand att ha som arbetsbänk, en gammal press (troligen blompress från början), en STOR packe papp i lite olika tjocklekar, på den en hemmabyggd press, min ask med visitkort och en liten hatt jag gjort.
Nästa bild! Tagen från det andra hållet.
Från vänster har vi samma STORA packe med papp, och samma hemmabygda press (tillverkad av min morfar kan tilläggas), en kompostbur full med klot, en gammal batiktavla som jag inte har någon aning om var den kommer ifrån (den har liksom alltid funnits), dörren ut till tvättstugan, två gamla gympapåsar (det finns en till bakom den första) fyllda med småbitar av skinn och klot, en bokhylla med mer klot och papper, en mindre uppsjö av papprör som jag är övertygad kan vara bra att ha till någonting någon gång.
Så nu vet ni hur det ser ut. Är det trångt? Ja! Är det stökigt? Ja! Får ni jättegärna komma och hälsa på om ni har lust? JA!!!
Nu ska jag gå och städa. Förhoppningsvis kan jag lägga upp bilder på en nystädad verkstad sedan. :)
"Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean."
- Laurence J. Peter
onsdag 19 januari 2011
Bacon och musikaler
Har jag nämn hur dålig jag är på att blogga? Hm jo, det är faktiskt sant. Jag läste just igenom alla inlägg på Leksandsgården D och insåg att de bloggar mycket oftare än jag. Men å andra sidan så är de sex stycken (eller är det fler?) medan jag är själv. Jag insåg dock att jag kanske inte behöver skriva en uppsatts varje gång jag gör ett inlägg. Problemet är väl bara att jag har så svårt att inte ta med alla onödiga detaljer så fort jag skriver eller berättar något (är inte det samma sak förresten?). Jag bestämmer mig härmed för att försöka skriva kortare men oftare.
Jag kan till exempel tala om att jag nu lyssnar på soundtracket till Oklahoma!, en musikal från 1955. Den är inte riktigt lika bra som Seven Brides for Seven Brothers som gjordes året innan men den är fortfarande jättebra. Musikaler gör mig alltid på bra humör.
Jag har även börjat en ny blogg där jag tänker försöka lägga upp sånt som har med mina böcker att göra. Om du är intresserad så kan du läsa den här: http://greendragonbooks.blogspot.com/
Nu ska jag göra pastaröra. :) Bacon och MYCKET ost. :D
"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz
Jag kan till exempel tala om att jag nu lyssnar på soundtracket till Oklahoma!, en musikal från 1955. Den är inte riktigt lika bra som Seven Brides for Seven Brothers som gjordes året innan men den är fortfarande jättebra. Musikaler gör mig alltid på bra humör.
Jag har även börjat en ny blogg där jag tänker försöka lägga upp sånt som har med mina böcker att göra. Om du är intresserad så kan du läsa den här: http://greendragonbooks.blogspot.com/
Nu ska jag göra pastaröra. :) Bacon och MYCKET ost. :D
"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz
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