It’s Wednesday – which means that I write about those crazy (but lovable) Danes! 😀
The post is about Danish Liberation Day. And Star Wars. And you can read it over at my blog desk at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
http://blogs.denmark.dk/diane/2011/05/04/may-fourth/
Have a wonderful Wednesday! 🙂
I haven’t downloaded too many apps to my new smartphone (an android, HTC Desire). I’m trying to keep it nice and simple this time around… But here are two that I use daily. And being a canny Scot, I can assure you – before you run off to download them – that they’re absolutely free! 😛
(available for both Android and iTunes)
It probably hasn’t escaped your notice, dear Blog Reader, that I’m a flybaby… ;D Which means that I keep my home clean and cosy, my life organised and my head carefree using the Flylady programme (also free!).
I use the Chore Checklist app to store my Morning and Before Bed Routines on my phone. Right at my fingertips. No more excuses! This isn’t a fancy app by any means. It does what it says on the box. And as we flybabies often get carried away with the ‘planning’ (um, overthinking?!) – instead of getting on with the ‘doing’ part – that’s actually not a bad thing…
(only seems to be available for Android, but maybe you can find something similar in the iTunes store?)
I love surfing the web for food inspiration. But I don’t often get around to making what I see because it’s a fiddly process to get the recipe from the website to my kitchen… I either have to print it out, send a copy to my e-mail or use the browser in my phone. ‘My Cookbook’ has come to my rescue! You can import recipes from the major foodie websites (food.com, bbcgoodfood.com, etc) straight to the app using the ‘share’ tool in your phone’s browser.
When you open the app, simply find the recipe you want and select exactly what you want to view…a summary, the ingredients or the ‘how to’ directions. It can even read the recipe aloud for you – brilliant! Very useful if your eyesight isn’t quite what it used to be (hello, fellow over-40s!) or if you’ve got young kids ‘helping you’! ;D

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| A few goodies we made for Easter Sunday lunch |
That’s it, off you run – go play in the android market (or the iTunes store).
Have a terrific Tuesday! 🙂
I can’t believe four weeks have already passed since I started working on the garden. This year I wanted to get a head start and came up with a list that I was going to attack one baby step at a time – Flylady style. (My complete to-do list is here Down the Garden Path).
Last time I posted it was still chilly outside so I was working on jobs like cleaning the deck – see Join the Garden Party (Week One). Since then, I’ve given the lawn it’s first and second mowing – or ‘lawnmothering’ as I like to call it! 😀
DD9 has planted a few seeds, using the cheat’s version from Ikea… We’re hoping to see lots of sweet peas, evening sunflowers and bog standard sunflowers popping their little heads up in the very near future. And hopefully we should be able to plant them out in the garden by the end of this month.
The sun and heat made a sudden return to Denmark two weeks ago. Meaning there was also a sudden return of weeds along our fence on the pavement – eek! But one 15 minute session with a little trowel and a pair of purple gardening gloves and – voilà – we’re already looking better!
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| We have three of these green wheelie bins for garden refuse.
The council empties them once a fortnight. |
And after all that hard work, I finally got my ‘reward’. A 15 minute stint with my favourite weapon of choice…my gas-driven weed burner. Yeargh! ;D
What’s next? Hmm, tune in next week for an update… And if it’s lovely and sunny where you are, why don’t you relax outside and enjoy your efforts with one of these?
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| The ‘recipe’ is here |
Bottoms up!
Have a marvelous Monday! 🙂
