Definitely the new go to recipe for homemade cookies 🍪.
250g All purpose flour (plain flour in the UK)
1 tps baking soda
1tps baking powder
1/2 tps salt
100g granulated sugar
100g brown sugar
100g butter (at room temp)
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
100g oats
100g desiccated coconut
100g chocolate chips
Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the extract and egg, mix well.
Add the flour, salt and baking powder/soda.
Mix in the coconut, oats and chocolate chips by hand. Shape either into small balls and flatten slightly, or flatten out the mix and use a cookie cutter. I did some more today using that method, and without coconut and chocolate for some, as coconut is not to the entire households taste 😉
Bake at 180c for around 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool, then eat them!
It’s back! For a third year running I have kept this little orchid alive. It’s little ghost form looking sad again, but it makes me happy to see the petals open today.
An overview of things as I have observed them, taking into account small areas of concern which appear to be part of the bigger picture. Of which not everyone seems to be bothered by, but I wonder if they are unable to consider the consequences of where it leads. There is an article around that as well if interested.
But this one is to speculate on the things that are here now and approaching. The things that have been openly discussed, reported and seem to be coming our way whether we want them or not.
Social credit score system – do as they say or you will be punished
No car ownership – limits your travel options and ability to mobilise
Regulations on heating and food – keep you cold and hungry
End of life care – they get to decide if you are ‘past your prime’ by their standard
Drone surveillance – to watch and restrict what you do and where you go
Digital Currency – so they can monitor your money, and then ultimately control it for you
All of this is being swept in under the initial guise of a ‘pandemic’ and is neatly intertwined with their ‘climate change’ agenda. How convenient. But make no mistake, it is a complete overreach and is beyond anything I genuinely thought I would see in my lifetime. Yet, here we are, witnessing what can only be described as a takeover. Of our lives and our future. An interference on a whole new level that some are unable to fathom, are unwilling to see or worst still, are on board with the new regime.
It appears they are not content with disrupting everyone’s current life, causing issue and instability for families, friends, workplaces and taking over leisure, education, religion, travel and more. They want to go further. It appears to be a very sterile, controlled, joyless environment and society that is on the cards. Minimal contact with others, information only provided by authorised groups, your choices made for you, experiences controlled and restricted as with everything else. How more people aren’t concerned by that is a concern by itself. The reaction has not been proportionate to the event, at all.
Finally though, some people are showing the level of public concern we need to see in an organised and calm way. Canada. Also this shows me very clearly why they might like to take away vehicles from people, or make them electric, or add a kill switch. Very sure way to eliminate anything like this in the future. It does appear to be escalating though as the people in charge are starting to appear anything but calm. As if they are on the clock or something.
We also have a distraction and money maker looming with war being talked about, again. It’s hard to keep up with their created doom sometimes, there has been so much throughout my life already, but manufactured doom isn’t the same as an unforeseen event. We hear much talk of things being reset, and it has made me think of all the other events throughout history. The ones they chose to glorify and put the prefix of Great in front of it. When you start to really look at their version of the past, and how cleverly they fooled everyone into thinking it was true, you can see why they might think the future is in the bag.
As the old saying goes “whoever controls the past, controls the future”, and there are many other sayings, old wives tales and myths that should be reviewed and looked at from a different viewpoint. All is not as it seems.
This is one of my articles about Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia, and although it’s not the only thing influencing what people are into and whether they enjoy horror, it appears to be a big factor in the difference between myself and my husband and our interests (or lack thereof), in fiction and in particular, horror.
My other article Fiction is Pointless describes how we stumbled upon the difference and what it led to. But I speculate further into the area of horror fiction because I find it interesting and wonder whether it might help other people understand some of the mechanisms going on in mind which shape us. Personally, I had nightmares as a kid and was afraid of things I couldn’t see as well as the things I could. I was probably traumatized by films like any other kid, or so I thought, and watched a fair amount of horror where I could growing up in the 80’s – a time when censorship was moving through and they became sought after and a right of passage for a time.
I kept a lot of my fears to myself, just going through them quietly and possibly just presuming lots of people would be affected in the same way. Another article Hyperphantasia, a down side went into a more detailed look at one film in particular that chose to feature and repeat for me as a recurring issue, and one I couldn’t hide, so it became a family joke that I was scared of sharks. You may have guessed from that which film I’m talking about.
So when we discovered the difference that one of us doesn’t visualise in mind (Aphantasia), and one of us does (Hyperphantasia), I mentally went through it and imagined being someone without pictures in mind, without an internal monolgue or any kind of replay going on. Speculating on how that might affect my interactions, thought processes and general day to day life. The differences were massive, and maybe I shouldn’t have analysed it so much but it’s what I do, so no stone was left unturned as you might say. Then I wrote an entire book on it, steering away temporarily from my fictional writing to write my first non fiction book (link below).
I asked only a few questions to delve into the effect horror films may have had on someone with Aphantasia.
Q: So you have never had a nightmare?
A: No
Q: Were you ever afraid of the dark?
A: Why would I be afraid of the dark?
Q: Did the concept of anything or the tension in a film scare you?
A: Why would I be scared of something I can’t see?
There didn’t seem to be the need for many more questions on that, it was a logical response that summed it up perfectly. I won’t lie though, I was pretty shocked to know some people were like that, and more to the point, that I wasn’t. It’s taken me decades to manage my thoughts, the visualising and replay mechanisms without knowing what they were or why they were there. And once I did, it turned out I had been trying to understand them while also at the same time feeding them. I wish I had know many years ago about Hyperphantasia because I would have known to better filter my input, or understand sooner that what I read or watch, will stay with me, wanted or not.
There is still much to understand about what our brains are up to and how they may help or hinder us along the way, so the research continues…
A little dash of yellow appeared and within a day the daffodil was open. The calendula has been holding the garden up with a spot of colour all winter, now has some company. Looking forward to this year’s brightness already 💛
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