Imagine you are baking some chocolate brownies, using an old-fashioned pair of weighing scales, the kind that are like this photo:
To measure the sugar, for instance, you place the weight on one side, and the other scale pan shoots up. To bring it into balance, you need to pour the exact amount of sugar onto the other scale pan, till the point where both pans are balanced.
You’ ll probably know that in baking, it’ s really important to get the quantities right, that is, the balance of the different ingredients in relation to each other. Just last week, someone proudly told me they had been baking chocolate brownies (my favourite) and that they had cut back on the [read more]
Shining my light more…
also posted in Jane's Blog
Yesterday I went with my husband to get the results of his scan — the upshot is that the cancer cells don’t appear to have grown, which is good news. You can read more about his journey at the inner and outer levels of this here.
Now he has to have a major operation sometime in February, and he is also going to be taking Mistletoe treatment (available on the NHS up here) starting next week.
What does all this mean for me and RichThinkers? I am slowly coming to the realisation that because I will be accompanying him to the Birmingham/Coventry area for his operation and recovery, that my attention needs to be primarily focused on him and his [read more]