With nine visitors with learning difficulties and our normal Wednesday six, we had a lively day as everyone decided there were no strangers, just friends they hadn’t met.
Today’s pizza count was only 14, but I had to prepare all the dough myself, ready for topping (it’s a long story featuring a glitch in timing). Actually I made dough for 18, but we only used enough for 12, and took my two emergency gluten-free bases out of the freezer. I used the extra dough, with a selection of olives and fresh-picked rosemary to make a loaf. It’s quite good, though the flour is just cheap flour, rather than strong white. I didn’t take a picture, just made a cheese sandwich. It was good.
My arthritis is now playing up, as kneading the dough for 18 pizzas is not quite what the doctor ordered. Strange how when you’re young and healthy you don’t look at a pile of pizza dough as a challenge. How things change.
The keets are looking perky, and several of them are exhibiting a tendency to have a go at flying. The grey one is actually developing a taste for showbiz by the look of things and Julia says it’s almost impossible to put your hand in the pen without it throwing itself at you for selection.
The woodpecker came back to the feeder, the sun shone, a mistle thrush did its stormcock act in a tree top and all in all it was the sort of day that makes it all worthwhile.
Things that went badly – checking up on allergies. Things that went well – emergency gluten-free pizza bases, new friendships, Gemma’s felted teddy bear (made with alpaca wool).
Cute felt project! I tried felt rolling once about a year ago. Loved the creative part of it. Discovered the rolling part was worse for arthritic hands than kneading bread dough (for which I use my mixer for all but the last minute these days).
I’ve avoided most of the felting, though not the bit where you stab yourself with the needle – I can do that. We ought to start a club for people with arthritic hands, seems like we have two members already!
I love the teddy bear! I envy you your Mistle Thrush!
Even I liked the teddy bear and I’m notoriously hard hearted. 😉
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Ah! What we once did without a thought. 🙂
Indeed…