Having been the proud owners of a Wii for about half a day and having racked up about one whole of hour of gameplay we had our first WiiAccident. I thought it would be Paul who would be first to fling the Wii across the table knocking over a wine glass, but no, it was me. Soon after we cleared up it was our favourite new Christmas baubles that copped it! We basically need a bigger house.
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Christmas in Amsterdam
Ah how lovely, Christmas was all pretty and silly - we even went to watch the iceskaters in Museumplein on Christmas Eve. More 'obviouschristmasflickrpictures' are here. My favorite gift was the "Stiletto Radio" from my sister.
I've been tagged!
Tijs tagged me so here's 5 pointless things not many people know about me....
1. I don't know what to buy Paul for Christmas but I really want us to "rescue" a dog (not sure what from).
2. I used to play netball in the Bedfordshire county netball team.
3. I once 'babysat" for a girl called Samsara in a South London Housing Estate whose mother once looked after David Bowie's dog.
4. I'm not sure that "expat shops" are a good thing. Buying custard creams is not so appealing.
5. I used to have very long blonde hair extensions, wear a lot more eyeliner, and wear my underwear ontop of my outerwear (apparently). That was a long, long time ago.
And the hardest part of this is that other than Tijs, James, Robert & Boris who are already tagged I found it quite hard to find friends with blogs. I suppose this means I know some genuine non-geek people. (Apart from these lovely people: Katharina, Nadya, Andy, Michael, Sara). UPDATE: also tagging Breyten, who I should have tagged to begin with!)
Lemon Shorties
Apparently it was the done thing in the seventies to read, take notice of and try out recipes to spice up Christmas in the "Good House Keeping Institute" Cookbook, and or magazine. So one year my Mother made Lemon Shorties for Christmas, perhaps mince pies alone seemed rather dull that year!
Since then Christmas isn't Christmas for me without Lemon Shorties - a sort of mince pie for people who hate mince pies. Replace the mincemeat concept with a delicious creamy sugary lemon filling and dust with icing.
As this year I'll be in Amsterdam for Christmas and am not going to see my Mum until January I didn't want to miss out on a Lemon Shortie or two so asked her to send me the recipe. She's now getting quite good at using her scanner but still she's not so hot on attaching files to emails (or finding where files are, or knowing how to reorder lists of sent items by date, or.. or...). So several fraught "the email disappeared" conversations later, here is the delightfully tatty recipe. Thanks Mum!
Don't forget the doily!
Tags: lemonshorties, recipe, christmasfood, ihatemincepies.
Chic Geeks drink wine in Amsterdam
On saturday we had a Software Social BBQ in honor of the geeky-yet-very-sociable software community in Amsterdam. It was pretty nice, with a range of our software social friends all making delicious food, taking devilish pictures, and drinking lovely wine by Stormhoek. (Well, if it's cool in California, right!)
A particularly good time was had by all extra special thanks to Stormhoek for sending us some bottles.
