scatterpig

I’ve welcomed a new camera into the family :) It’s really becoming quite the collection, one of these days I’ll share a photo of each of them and my favourite photo they have taken.

I am really looking forward to seeing what I can produce with the Zenit, I’ve seen some wonderful results on flickr, and also read some scathing reviews of this old soviet powerhorse.

If I make it into the Buddha Birthday Celebration at Southbank this weekend, I’ll take him along. There’ll be a lot of colour and activity that will be great to capture on film as well as digitally… actually Holga would be better, but three cameras is overkill :)

I suspect I wont be able to eat another one of these till next year. I had to eat the irregularly sized ones before giving them to John, it was a hard job but really, you simple can’t give someone a gift of misshapen biscuits…

The recipe I modified this year was very simple and produced a tasty and slightly chewy biscuit.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup rolled oats (not the fast cooking oats)
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 125g butter
• 2.5 tbs golden syrup (nearly 3 tbs)
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method:

• Preheat oven to 160°C (320°F).
• Sift the flour and mix well with the oats, coconut and brown sugar.
• Melt the butter with the golden syrup and 2.5 tbs of water, and then add the teaspoon of bicarb. Stir so it goes all frothy, add straight away to the dry mixture and mix well.
• Using a tablespoon of mixture per biscuit, roll into balls and then flatten with a fork.
• Bake for 10min and leave them to cool slightly and harden before taking them off the tray (they will squish & fall apart if you don’t)

I got this item listing does not exist page last night after following an incorrect link – I don’t know if etsy is updating their error messages, but I haven’t seen this before. It’s so cute! Very sweet :)

I love that the Domestic Scientist made this cake for her own birthday, and without using any fondant (which I find fairly revolting). It just looks so good, I think she did a fantastic job :) I would love to have this as my birthday cake!

VIA

Did you experiment with pinhole photography today? Unfortunately my experiences ended with the construction of my own camera… a fridge full of 120 and not one roll of 35mm film in sight, sigh.

I can’t wait to see what images result from this light leaking little box, especially the night images will be something different that’s for sure!

I used these instructions and pattern for my camera, but you should take a look at some of the fun & colourful templates over on corbis, I especially like the Photos Of Your Mother :)