Heute bin ich exakt 30 Tage in Großbritannien! Kommt mir nicht so vor, eher länger. Ich hab so viel gesehen, erlebt und gelernt, so viel Englisch gesprochen wie nie zuvor, krass viele tolle Menschen getroffen, laut Google Maps (ungefähr!) 2000 km zwischen meinen einzelnen Station mit Bahn, Bus und Auto zurückgelegt, gelacht, geweint und bis jetzt 713 Fotos gemacht, in (fast) jeder Stadt eine walking tour mitgemacht, bisher ca. 423.54£ ausgegeben (entspricht ca. 536€, gut 240€ davon in der ersten Woche in London, 99ct in der gesamten letzten Woche), mich daran gewöhnt, dass die Autos hier links fahren (besonders dadurch, dass Cath mich oft mitnimmt, wenn sie etwas holen oder erledigen muss) und North Yorkshire einen ganz besonderen Akzent hat, in zwei Hostels, bei vier Couchsurfing- und bisher einem Wwoof-Host übernachtet, mein Reisetagebuch über den UK-Trip mit allerlei Dingen, aber vor allem mit Texten gefüllt, mit Familie und Freunden via Facebook, E-Mail, SMS und Telefonaten Kontakt und zu guter Letzt: euch mit diesem Blog auf dem Laufenden gehalten.
Mehr fällt mir grad nicht ein =)
Bald gibt's Fotos aus Newcastle!
Ach ja, eine Info noch, die einige schon mitbekommen haben, aber eben nicht alle:
Mittwoch, 12. September, Rückkehr nach Deutschland
Liebste Grüße,
Katrin
[day 30]
8/23/2012
8/20/2012
busy week
Heya!
This week will be packed with stuff to do:
We're having a Woolly Day tomorrow; visitors get the chance to watch a sheep clipping, we have plenty of woolly souvenirs (all hand-made from around here) and Low Row village has quite an interesting textile heritage to discover. Hopefully, the weather will be fine...
There's an Australian visitors group coming on Wednesday, I'm curious what they'll tell us if they're also dealing with livestock =)
Thursday will be the first day that I can start late since my arrival. Finally, some sleep in the morning (actually, I had more or less a day off today, just had to look after the animals in the morning as usual and at lunchtime because Cath was working and the visitors centre's closed on Mondays; I used my free time to get some rest =P) and not getting up at 6am or earlier (yes, Mum, last Friday I got up at 5.35am to feed animals =D).
I'll go on another day trip to Newcastle on Friday.
Yeah, and then my 5th week in the UK is over soon. I'm in contact with my second farm which is near Colchester; my arrival on September 2nd is settled, too.
We're having a few problems with some animals at the moment (well, actually we're ALWAYS having some problems here =D). The kittens recover from their beginning cat flu (the medicines we gave them twice a day finally took effect), two of them had bad eyes but that also is getting better. We had a little incident today: one of the dogs somehow managed to get off his chain and messed up our 4 weeks old chickens, one got bitten quite seriously; we treated the flesh wound but we don't know how it'll be in a few days. To me that poor thing seemed traumatized, didn't eat either. Let's hope the best!
Cath is clipping the sheep and Angora goats' bottoms because their fur got quite mucky. The weather conditions are perfect for flies laying eggs in those mucky strands so we better get rid of them!
The pigs (named Sausage and Bacon, ironically ^^' ) have diarrhoea; Cath suggested that they might have got to much food lately but is that even possible? Usually, pigs should be able to handle loads of food (at least that's what I'm convinced of =D). Maybe their nutrition was too onesided.
Okay, how do I manage to make a nice link between unappetising animal problems and a new recipe that I wanted to share with you? =D
Perhaps I tell you something about this recipe: it is very simple (usually it's the first one that kids try when their mums, dads or grandparents want to introduce them to baking) and obviously, as we can conclude from its name, Queen Victoria had a weakness for it.
Victoria Sandwiches
ingredients
# 4-4-4-2, that's some kind of formula which is easy to remember for kids; it means:
- 4 ounces of flour
- 4 ounces of butter
- 4 ounces of sugar
- 2 eggs
- btw, 1 ounce is about 28g and they use self-raising flour in the UK. Since we use mainly plain flour in Germany we have to add a teaspoon of baking powder!
preparation
mix it all together, cut the dough into whichever form you like and put it into the hot oven (165-170 degrees C) for approx. 25 minutes
serve with
whatever you like, be creative ;)
That's it for now!
Lots of Love,
Katrin
[day 27]
This week will be packed with stuff to do:
We're having a Woolly Day tomorrow; visitors get the chance to watch a sheep clipping, we have plenty of woolly souvenirs (all hand-made from around here) and Low Row village has quite an interesting textile heritage to discover. Hopefully, the weather will be fine...
There's an Australian visitors group coming on Wednesday, I'm curious what they'll tell us if they're also dealing with livestock =)
Thursday will be the first day that I can start late since my arrival. Finally, some sleep in the morning (actually, I had more or less a day off today, just had to look after the animals in the morning as usual and at lunchtime because Cath was working and the visitors centre's closed on Mondays; I used my free time to get some rest =P) and not getting up at 6am or earlier (yes, Mum, last Friday I got up at 5.35am to feed animals =D).
I'll go on another day trip to Newcastle on Friday.
Yeah, and then my 5th week in the UK is over soon. I'm in contact with my second farm which is near Colchester; my arrival on September 2nd is settled, too.
We're having a few problems with some animals at the moment (well, actually we're ALWAYS having some problems here =D). The kittens recover from their beginning cat flu (the medicines we gave them twice a day finally took effect), two of them had bad eyes but that also is getting better. We had a little incident today: one of the dogs somehow managed to get off his chain and messed up our 4 weeks old chickens, one got bitten quite seriously; we treated the flesh wound but we don't know how it'll be in a few days. To me that poor thing seemed traumatized, didn't eat either. Let's hope the best!
Cath is clipping the sheep and Angora goats' bottoms because their fur got quite mucky. The weather conditions are perfect for flies laying eggs in those mucky strands so we better get rid of them!
The pigs (named Sausage and Bacon, ironically ^^' ) have diarrhoea; Cath suggested that they might have got to much food lately but is that even possible? Usually, pigs should be able to handle loads of food (at least that's what I'm convinced of =D). Maybe their nutrition was too onesided.
Okay, how do I manage to make a nice link between unappetising animal problems and a new recipe that I wanted to share with you? =D
Perhaps I tell you something about this recipe: it is very simple (usually it's the first one that kids try when their mums, dads or grandparents want to introduce them to baking) and obviously, as we can conclude from its name, Queen Victoria had a weakness for it.
Victoria Sandwiches
ingredients
# 4-4-4-2, that's some kind of formula which is easy to remember for kids; it means:
- 4 ounces of flour
- 4 ounces of butter
- 4 ounces of sugar
- 2 eggs
- btw, 1 ounce is about 28g and they use self-raising flour in the UK. Since we use mainly plain flour in Germany we have to add a teaspoon of baking powder!
preparation
mix it all together, cut the dough into whichever form you like and put it into the hot oven (165-170 degrees C) for approx. 25 minutes
serve with
whatever you like, be creative ;)
That's it for now!
Lots of Love,
Katrin
[day 27]
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