…because it’s been a time of so many visual reminders of how screwed up our world is at the moment.

The fact that people with no criminal record can be banned from entering the CBD of the city that they live in, is just plain wrong, in my opinon.  Read the rest…

Did some baking yesterday. Check out this banana bread, oooh yeah!

It smells and tastes as good as it looks!

This is the first banan bread I’ve eaten since a very bad experience at the Last Drop Cafe in Dulwich Hill during the great banana shortage of 2006… My faith has been restored in the good ‘ol banana bread. It’s particularly good toasted under the grill, with a generous spread of butter, and cup of coffee… mmmmmm.

Takes about 15 minutes of prep and 55 minutes to cook.

You need:

Cake Tin (about 20cm x 8cm x 5cm or something…)

Self Raising flour x 1 3/4 cups

Brown sugar x 3/4 cup

Walnuts x 1 cup (crush them up in the packet)

Butter x 125 grams - that’s about half a block of cooking butter (melted in the microwave for about 40 sec. on high)

Eggs x 2 or 3 (lightly beaten)

Salt x 1/4 teaspoon

Vanilla extract x 1 teaspoon

And 3 or 4 mashed bananas (preferably old brown bananas).

1. Preheat oven to 155 degrees celsius. Grease your cake tin with some butter.
2. Mix the flour, sugar, salt, and nuts together in a mixing bowl.
3. In a seperate mixing bowl mash the bananas, mix in the lightly beaten eggs, melted butter, and vanilla.
4. Fold* the banana mix into the dry ingredients (don’t over mix)
5. Put into the oven for about 55 minutes (or until golden brown).

*Fold - A simple but crucial technique used when combining a light and airy ingredient into a heavier ingredient or mixture in such a way as each ingredient maintains its original volume.  This technique must be done quickly but gently and stop ‘folding’ as soon as the ingredients are blended.  Start by placing one quarter of the lighter mixture on top of the heavier mixture.  With a rubber spatula cut down vertically through the two mixtures, sweep across the bottom, up the nearest side of the bowl, and over the top of the mixtures (go in clockwise direction).  Rotate the bowl a quarter turn counter-clockwise and repeat the down-across-up-over motion.

BTW - I ripped off that bit about the fold from another website… just in case you think I’m a serious cook.

I just finished scrubbing the bathroom, I figure that’s a good 10 points towards being husband of the year!!

Part the way through the job I needed to wee, stay with me, there’s a reason I tell you this…

A great philosopher by the name of Martin Oldfield once explained to me that he liked to do things while he needed to wee, he wouldn’t go to the bathroom but just hold on. He did this because of how quickly he found he worked because the sooner he finished the sooner he could go!

Therefore I held on, and got the job done in half the time.

Got this out on video last week and stayed up late and watched it by my self… well at least for half of it… Fi’s not a real big Will Ferrel fan.

I just have to say that this is quite a retarded film (more rediculous than Anchorman) but I laughed my head off. It was great.

It’s worth just watching for the “Grace” scene which is about 20 minutes into the movie. Very funny.

I just finished writing an assignment, because I’m such a slacker that I couldn’t get it finished until 15 minutes before it’s due.

In honour of that, I would like to dedicate this song to all my fellow time wasters: