Moon and Venus.

I noticed this in the pre-dawn light the other day. It's great to be able to get shots like this hand held with very little effort, though it is over exposed but that's normal when shooting the moon with non-manual exposure.
You can't see them but Mercury and minor planet Pluto are hiding in the background.

Zenodorus Orbiculatus

It's the black spider with white markings. Spied it on the handrail of our front stairs the other day.
She has her eye on that other spider and will soon jump on it, dinner I suspect. I even managed to cypher what breed it was fairly quickly thanks to the wonder of the internet.
Like most things here it's fairly harmless to us so I just leave them be, if spiders kill flies and mosquitoes why would I harm them, they're my friend.

I've beaten another one.

I've now outlasted Humphrey Bogart. He's the third Male best actor Oscar winner I've limped past, though his demise was very likely linked to smoking being universal in his day, possibly even being suggested by his doctor. Being a non-smoker myself is a mixed bag, the plus for me is still being alive, the minus for the government is missing out on the abundant taxes I would have paid, taxes that more than compensate for the health cost.

Cute.

Spotted on my way to buy some coolant for Cubby.

Custard pancakes.

I've been doing more experimenting, this time with using a spoonful of custard powder in my pancake mix.
It gives a rather yellow tint to them and a hint of flavour, but the jury is still out on whether it's a goer or not, I may play with the idea for a bit longer.

A tomato soup trick that works.

If you follow the directions on a tin of tomato soup, you end up with a taste that's forgettable. If you decide on the option half tin of milk they often write on the tin it becomes pretty good, 3/4 of a tin is better. But I experimented with some cream a few months ago and it came up a treat, now I keep an eye out for whenever cream is reduced to an affordable price like this. This time I also added the last spoon of Philadelphia cheese I had but that was a fail so forget that bit. Use a bit of water to clean the tin and splash that into the soup.

The Heinz was on special, usually the brand doesn't matter much, and it doesn't matter if you grab reduced salt, you have to put in salt anyway for taste so you'd just add a bit more to a reduced salt can.
I toast up some bread to use as croutons, it's also a good way of using up older bread.
I hope I've helped someone.

This is a head scratcher.

Sea salt naturally contains iodine, why would they market iodised sea salt? at least it's only 1 cent dearer.
Maybe the people who buy this wouldn't know, again it's good marketing, boosting the price of a product that's normally fairly cheap.