Some things.

So I tried my hand at making macaroons with GWTBS (Girl With The Broken Smile, your name is LONG) a few days ago, and as you can see in her post, they turned out...




...not so good.

 They tasted amazing though. I shall try my hand at making them again today!

Anyway, I made this post primarily to talk about one thing:


 

North and South.
If you didn't realise.

 North and South is the BBC adaptation of a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, an it is amazing. The adaptation was by the same woman who did the BBC Emma adaptation, which I thought was wonderful, but this kind of blew it out of the water. Mostly because of Richard Armitage. He acts so well in this, you can feel the love. Gah! I've been watching the last scene on repeat basically for the last few days.

I think it will remind a lot people of Pride and Prejudice, but here, the characters have to grow and change much more so, and it makes the characters so much more real (Not that I don't love Pride and Prejudice or anything).

For anyone wanting to watch it, it's up on Youtube. It's a four part series. It maybe a little slow at the start, but stick with it and you fall in love...

Some pictures:

Sigh...

I love period dramas.

Hello.

I made this blog around the end of last year.


I stopped posting early this year.


The main reason for the very, very long break was this pesky little thing called VCE (it's a very useful link to those not from Australia). It's the last year of schooling for me and is very, very important. Very.


So, being swamped by all the work and pressure and stress an...
Well, you get the picture.


I stopped posting.


I deleted all my previous posts as they were, to me anyway, from a different era. Lot's changed over the past year or so and I've changed too, which I thought lent itself to a new start. Any old Followers are completely free to un-Follow me. And follow me if I somehow become very interesting again.


MY RECENT HISTORY:


It has been a few weeks since exams and mostly I've been relaxing. A few of my friends have gone overseas, so I feel a little weird without them here. I've gone out a little, but I'm mostly saving myself up for January because that's when all my friends come back and I hope that whatever that has been going on between me and my parents will have blown over.


Also I had my wisdom teeth taken out. So that put a dent in my social life, with all the massive swelling and pain going on. That would be the short story. I'll write more on it later, News at 10.


How I've been relaxing? Oh, thought you'd never ask!


Watching:

• Community. Fucking. Hilarious. One of the best comedies I've seen in a while and completely blows Glee out of the water (Sorry Gleeks!). [Note: I have been completely, absolutely royally fucked over by Glee. I will not forgive it and Mathew Morrison's stupid rapping. No more Rapping. Not even on the ads. I'll talk more about this later]
• Modern Family. I love this show so much. SO MUCH. I just want to take it home and cuddle it and just aahhh! It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside, you know?
• Raising Hope. Ditto.
• Nikita. Maggie Q is badass. BADASS. When I grow up, I want to be HER.
• Supernatural. I've kind of fallen out of Supernatural. Not that I don't love this season (I do) but I haven't been as active in the fandom, so that's probably why.
• The Walking Dead. OMGZOMBIES!
• Merlin. But, oh, but, OH! What happened to you, my love? No seriously WHAT HAPPENED? Admittedly it has gotten a lot better in the l.a.st few episodes, but still. There has been not enough MERLIN!
• The Vampire Diaries. Okay, so when I started watching this series, I thought, "Oh, yeah. Just another guilty pleasure". But now? It consumes me. Ooh boy, it consumes me. SO good.

Reading

• J.R.R. Tolkein. LOTR, again. I love it. Bow down to the grandfather of modern fantasy.
• Terry Pratchett. Lords and Ladies and Feet of Clay in particular.
• Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. As of right now, I am reading Good Omens. So WONDEFUL.
• Neil Gaiman. Neverwhere and his Journal. Also trying to get my hands on The Sandman, have only heard good things, or maybe... have only heard good omens.
• James A. Owen. The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. Where all the famous writers (of fantasy and etc.) in our universe (C.S. Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Jules Verne, The Grimm Brothers, Mary Shelley etc.) are a long list of caretakers of a guide to another realm where awesome things happen, and so when they retire they write books about their adventures under the guise of fiction. There are also dragon-ships. So yeah. Very. Very. AWESOME. [These books are at the time of World War One with J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis as the main caretakers for the time being, but I realised that if they were set now, J.K. Rowling would be a caretaker and HARRY POTTER WOULD BE REAL!!!! This has to happen sometime. Soon.]
• Suzanne Collins. Re-reading The Hunger Games. Distilled, Pure Awesomeness packed into a trilogy, now in a bookshop near you!
• J.K. Rowling. Re-reading Harry Potter. Duh.
• Reading Mark Reads: The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. (Which he is now Re-Reading. Like moi!)
• And other miscellaneous stuff.

NEAR FUTURE, I Will:

1. Blog More.
2. Cook More.
3. Blog About Number 2.
4. Eat More. Eat Less. [Note: This sounds dodgy, I meant: NO BOREDOM EATING. OR DEPRESSED EATING. OR STRESSED EATING. etc.]
5. Exercise More.
6. Laugh More.
7. Get Depressed Less.
8. Repeat Number 7 as Many Times as Necessary.
9. Refer Back to Number 7.
10. Remember Number 4.

On the Cook More Front, I made Roast Chicken with Crunchy Roast Potatoes. My Dad loved it, he told me several times. The Crunchy roast potatoes were dressed in semolina (a tip from the Goddess of Cooking, Nigella Lawson) before rolled in a little hot oil (another tip,. it must be hot) before roasting. They tasted heavenly.


I am planning to make some Macaroons soon, hopefully with a helper. Wish me luck. They are the bane of pastry chefs, and who am I but a lowly amateur...

Hope they turn out well.