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Still chilling out
One week of holiday to go, and the weather's been crap: cold and often wet. Today looks beautiful and sunny but is chilly, more like late autumn than summer. :/
7. Safer Internet Day - how careful are you about passwords? Do you use a password manager or just use the same one everywhere?
I use LastPass and also a method of my own combining some German with site name.
8. Have you ever made homemade soup? Care to share your favourite recipe?
Yes, but I don't have a recipe. It's just any vegetables I have including onions for flavour and potatoes for thickness. Boil up with some vege stock and/or seasoning of choice, and blitz a little with a hand-held blender so there's still some texture. Serve with optional cheese or spring onions or whatever you like depending on the soup.
9. National Pizza Day. Have you ever made one from scratch? What are your favourite toppings?
Well, I've made lots using either split pitas or bought bases (preferably thin), but that's not really from scratch. My mother did though; she was an amazing cook. I like Mrs Ball's hot chutney, tomatoes, capsicums (AKA bell peppers), cheese, black pepper, and occasionally (gasp!) pineapple! Hey, it goes well with savoury flavours.
10. Do you own an umbrella and do you hate using them?
Yes and yes. I always carried a fold-up one in Auckland because rain could hit at any time, but here I only have one with me if it's actually wet or about to be. It mightn't be very hot down here, but it's much drier and far less humid.
11. International Day of Women and Girls in Science - can you name a female scientist?
Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner, Ada Lovelace (if computing counts), Hedy Lamarr (yes, really!) and our own very cool Siouxsie Wiles.
7. Safer Internet Day - how careful are you about passwords? Do you use a password manager or just use the same one everywhere?
I use LastPass and also a method of my own combining some German with site name.
8. Have you ever made homemade soup? Care to share your favourite recipe?
Yes, but I don't have a recipe. It's just any vegetables I have including onions for flavour and potatoes for thickness. Boil up with some vege stock and/or seasoning of choice, and blitz a little with a hand-held blender so there's still some texture. Serve with optional cheese or spring onions or whatever you like depending on the soup.
9. National Pizza Day. Have you ever made one from scratch? What are your favourite toppings?
Well, I've made lots using either split pitas or bought bases (preferably thin), but that's not really from scratch. My mother did though; she was an amazing cook. I like Mrs Ball's hot chutney, tomatoes, capsicums (AKA bell peppers), cheese, black pepper, and occasionally (gasp!) pineapple! Hey, it goes well with savoury flavours.
10. Do you own an umbrella and do you hate using them?
Yes and yes. I always carried a fold-up one in Auckland because rain could hit at any time, but here I only have one with me if it's actually wet or about to be. It mightn't be very hot down here, but it's much drier and far less humid.
11. International Day of Women and Girls in Science - can you name a female scientist?
Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner, Ada Lovelace (if computing counts), Hedy Lamarr (yes, really!) and our own very cool Siouxsie Wiles.
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Yes to pineapple on pizza. It gives some flavours a definite lift.
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How could someone not own an umbrella? What places on the planet exist which are habitable enough for humans to live and yet also never rain? Okay, even as I asked that question, I several answers popped into my head, but still...
Living in Melbourne, there is, of course, a folding umbrella which lives in my bag, but my preferred umbrella is full-size with a wooden hook handle and each section is a different colour, making the whole thing a rainbow. So much fun to twirl.
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I have that umbrella, plus a storm one with vents, but they're too bulky to carry in case of rain. I keep one in the car and the other (rainbow) in the house. I also have a parasol for the sun which looks like big banana leaves.
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Oh, yeah, I don't use my rainbow umbrella unless it is already raining when I go out. Even though the hook handle means I can hook it over my arm when not using it, it is still awkward to carry.
That parasol sounds like fun.
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One would like to think that wouldn't be too challenging, but I have a nasty feeling that quite a few people might be stuck after Marie Curie. (Mind you, many of those people might be stuck after Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein if asked to name male scientists.)
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