steam ovens and apologies for MINT MONT BLANC

When I am baking I have discovered that the steam oven has a setting called professional baking..I made a cake yesterday and today a lemon loaf and C said.. you put the item into the steam without preheating. So I did. The steam come on immediately for a while and then the heat begins. apparently the steam aids in the rising of the item.. obviously would be great for bread making. Anyow.. so far the items have emerged cooked and fine. Interesting eh?

School gates

School playground with pol larded. Trees

One small church

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This is the only church in the village and you can hear the bells calling the faithful several times during sundayand early I the morning most days

This is the small tower on top of the children's school

Mint Blanc

Usually there is a cloud covering the top of mint Blanc but not yesterday

Thursday. A week to day

This doorway we pass daily 4 times at least and over head it dates 1839It was a beautiful day yesterday so went for a long walkw with dog and my iPad so that I could take some photos of some of the buildings with dates imprinted over head, I did not go up to the farms on the mountain where I know the dates begini the 1700 s

But still there r some that r interesting,

Ciara making a date for the afternoon

monday

rain.. torrents of rain.. so wet that C actually picked the girls up from school at noon.. fed the extra children and then C and I went out to SHOP for new flooring for her study and the bedroom I am occupying Made potato latkes for supper for the children with bacon and broccoli and shepherd pie for adutls.. it really apparently should be called cottage pie as it does not contain lamb but was made with left over beef. hence cottage pie. Upon looking up the recipes there were several articles written about the origin of the terms. I also wrote to Ken Follett today, not that he will come to a smart stand still and say.. my heavens.. but I was upset when he referred to a character in his book The Winter of the World , a women, being a Rhodes Scholar.. Women were not allowed, or should I say eligible to apply for the Rhodes Scholarship until 1977… I hate it when facts which are easily checked are allowed to slip.. is that the job of the editor? I know from personal experience that Women were not eligible as a very very good friend worked very hard in order to qualify, had top marks.. was good at sports etc.. and when she sent in her application was told.. no women need apply. This was in the '50s. And his book is set in the 30s and 40st.