all better now
A panic phonecall to a fellow Puddler in the next town who has a remarkably musical family produced a reply of "oh, hang on, I think I saw a small violin tailpiece on top of the piano the other day" and yes, there it was! Now obviously *everyone* just has that sort of thing dotted round don’t they 
So we hotfooted over and now have a tuned up violin to play and Aprilia spent a few hours playing whilst me and B gossiped, er, no, I mean discussed important camp related issues and home education!
Other good stuff today has been making carrot muffins using a normal muffin recipe with OJ instead of milk plus 2 blitzed carrots, there wsa going to be a bit of spice in there but I only remembered when they were in the oven! The toppign was "poorman’s orange curd" which tastes almost as good as the real thing! Take a 1/3 cup of powdered milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup OJ and stir with a wire whisk in a pan. ONce it’s all mixed up heat it up to a rolling boil (keep stiring) then add in 1/4 cup cornfour blended in a couple of tablespoons of water or milk. It thickens up fairly quickly as long as you have everything boiling first. It makes a good cake filler and topper and is good on toast too.
Tomorrow I am childless for a few hours so I’m planning on blitzing a bit more of the studying. Aiming to finish the essay, it needs just a little fine tuning in the light of tutor’s comments from the last one and in the light of realising I’d missed off something really important in one of my asthetic catagories (like there were two people who pondered a definition for the Picturesque and I’ve only mentioned one 
) After that I’m having another look at the exam topic sheet and starting off mind maps for all the topics to start filling in so I can make a better choice of topics once I’m ready to start revising. Still think it’s rather odd this idea of being given topics in advance so you don’t need to revise the whole course but hey, I can live with it!
