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Hanging out and learning about baking

December 2, 2012 By Ellen

Hot new baking tips I gathered this week: If you want strongly coloured icing, spend money on the best colours you can find. To make an iced cake easier. Freeze a Madeira sponge and ice it while half defrosted. If your cake won’t rise, maybe the baking power isn’t fresh. Too much baking powder can […]

Google + hangouts: Much easier than they look.

November 26, 2012 By Ellen

Where to start a hangout A cunning disguise The new kid on the block, Google +, has actually been around a while. Long enough to know better anyway. Google + is a social networking system (It’s not just a site, although if it was it would be much simpler to get to grips with). It belongs […]

Laundry lament – a song for Bosch

July 7, 2010 By Ellen

Yoohoo. Helloo. Mr Google. Anyone there?(Taps fingers and sighs) Oi Google, over here.Ah, there you are. Now come in and bring your Alerts thingy, the one for Bosch because I’m talking about my 18-month-old Bosch Exxcel tumble dryer… or rather its door handle.Now Google, you don’t mind if I call you that, do you? Make […]