I’m not sure whether this is a hyperphantasic thing, or just being a writer thing. I tried to describe what it’s like to my husband when I’m trying focus on one thing to write. He finds it strange that I don’t do more of it, and that when I do I seem to get rather perplexed sometimes. So I broke it down as follows.
Its like having a multiple television channels all in my head, and there are episodes and films on each one, some of them short stories, some full length films. What’s frustrating is not being able to chose which channel it stops on, and not being able to keep it on that one. I explained it would be annoying if the remote control kept changing channel half way through a programme or after the first ten minutes. Well that’s my brain sometimes. I’ll get half the story, or the dramatic ending, then nothing for a while.
And when you specifically allocate time to write and sit down to access those stories, nothing. Blank screen as such. They aren’t there at my beck and call, only when they feel like it. So I can plan my creative time as much as I would like, unfortunately my creativity doesn’t always play ball. So I do my best and having a growing number of works in progress, hopefully they will pull themselves together and I can get my next book of short stories published. I have five written so far which feels like an achievement in itself, so I’ll try to build on that and get my internal remote in order and get it to settle on one story. If anything, I want to know where they go!
This is a variation on the oat, coconut and choc chip cookie, taking out the coconut and choc and using orange instead. I guess if you wanted orange and chocolate chip cookies, then leave the chips in 🙂
85g Granulated sugar
85g Demerera sugar
100g butter (at room temp)
300g Plain Flour / All purpose flour
1/2 tps salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 egg
125g oats (you may need to add more if the mixture is a bit wet)
1 Orange – grate a bit of rind when needed, then use the juice of the whole orange
2 tsp of orange extract
60g choc chips optional
Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth (ish), add the egg, orange rind, juice and extract and mix. Then add the flour, salt and baking soda & powder. It needs to start binding like a dough, so if it’s a bit sloppy, then add a bit more flour (I didn’t weigh mine before adding, so went from 250g to 300g in the ingredients, but a bit more may be needed).
Once it’s binding well, add the oats by hand. Then put on a baking sheet and flatten out with your hand to about 1 – 2cm depth. Then use a cookie/biscuit cutter to get your desired shape and size.
Put on a baking tray either greased or on baking paper, and cook for around 10 – 15 mins or until going brown at 180 degrees.
Spring is in the air today, it’s windy but has a feel of warmth to it finally. I found a caterpillar working his way through, and the muscari have started emerging 💜, with the calendula still going having held out all through winter. They seem to be good hardy addition to the garden.
What do you think of when you think of The Hive? Insects? A collective? Or maybe you go for the out there one and think of Resident Evil? I’ll explain how all those angles are correct and relevant.
We are often likened to insects. Our social structure and hierarchy involving a queen, which does seem a rather odd thing when they say men rule the world. Strange that they overlooked those women and others in power. Or did they? But it does appear that our societal structure is being pushed towards a very formal and ordered future. Why individualism and joy are hated quite so much, I don’t actually know other than they must be a threat to the overall system. Like a bug, or a glitch, that if left unchecked rages out of control and spreads, eventually crashing the system. I suspect they view us as the virus, capable of infecting their neat plan of us being drones and workers for their ‘ant farm’.
How far-fetched you might say, and indeed it may be. But I will be as far-fetched as needed from now on as things are escalating at a rather alarming pace. The squeeze they are putting on people from many angles is sinister, unyielding and relentless. And it is all manufactured by the powers that be. The real-life horrors being revealed daily to expose the corruption can’t keep up with the sheer volume of people, places, amounts, motives, conflicts of interest and other things being chucked at the senses daily. Accidental or not, they have made a complete shitshow out of society, and it may have always been on that path with this outcome as the desired result. It now makes a bit more sense why they may have wanted to flood the country with undocumented people from anywhere, because it destabilises the local communities who would ordinarily pull together and help each other through the tough times.
But they don’t want that. They want kindness gone, empathy gone, isolation being a theme, separated from your fellow man by way of fear and suspicion. Then they will bring in punishments for helping others without authorisation. Once everyone is hooked up to their social credit system, with monitored ‘money’ and authorised spend, they will know if you buy more, or something different. They will try any which way to stop people being able to fight for themselves and each other. So, what of the others in this country, the ones who are not from here but by whatever circumstances, find themselves here in the last few years. Some speculate that they will be moved to Canada and there is a general people relocation program occurring. Of which I do agree to a point, as I believe it is much easier to condition and reform, if you displace groups of people and remove/destroy their history, heritage and traditions. My idealistic mind would like to think that wherever people are from, if they find themselves here and needs must, they will fight with us. And that is me being fanciful and maybe watching too many movies where the back-up army appear as if from nowhere to join the ranks, giving the numbers needed to do what is needed.
But what if we could get some social cohesion, of understanding that we are all people and unless differences are put to one side and the similarities in us embraced for basic living, we may not be people any longer. And maybe we already aren’t, as we are currently viewed and treated as a commodity, as chattel, as property. But it would seem that we are a volatile and potentially dangerous commodity, that must be placated and controlled, so we can be ‘of use’. We are at the hands of opportunists. And if we put complete unknowns to one side, they are just people. Crazy, unhinged, disturbed people who happen to be in charge, because we continue to let them – voted for or not, if someone is no longer fit for the role, they must go. And if the role is no longer fit for purpose, then it must go too. They make no sense, lie all the time, steal from the pot, write laws to suit them as they go and people just accept that, it’s outrageous and it’s downright criminal.
They do seem rather hung up on creating augmented humans as well, and sucking us all into their weird meta-verse, so we can have ‘virtual’ lives, rather than real ones. Where we can be drones for their data, but not consuming much of the real resources that they would like to have all for themselves. They are a bit stuck though, as they haven’t quite perfected the machinery from scratch to do away with us completely, and robots aren’t quite good enough and have to be programmed still (as far as we know). So, what to do with us. There will be a time to fill before it is ready and operational, so they use that time to try and prepare us, to get people on board from the beginning so they won’t notice, add more people as you go, creasing out the glitches that arise – and by glitches, I mean people realising what is happening, people trying to unplug, or avoid it. Their goal is to “enhance human capabilities beyond the individual”. So, linking us all up to a central point? Turning us into something only functioning for the greater good rather than for the good of ourselves first? And that greater good is a standard set by people who don’t want humans being humans, and they do not like freedom of choice or individual thought, so I suspect they don’t actually know what the great good is for humanity. They want greater good for them, at the expense of us. And that is perhaps how we ended up being The Hive from resident evil. We worked above ground completely unaware of what they were up to beneath our feet. It never sat well with me that they claimed to have eradicated all these terrible things (viruses), yet kept them, safely in their possession, until needed. And possibly that is how those things really came to be, engineered for control from the start. They are creating a heartless, monitored, sterile society around us and if people don’t notice that and decide they want better, then towards it we will march…
Turns out the oat cookie recipe works with orange, just a bit more flour and oats needed to compensate for the orange juice – i’ll update and post the recipe later in case anyone wants to give them a go. Also decided to get some cherries and make cherry turnovers, as they are a favourite. I haven’t had a cherry turnover since the ‘Nobody likes a mouldy turnover‘ incident with the local bakery.
But it inspired me to start baking more at home, so it turned out to be a good thing.
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