Party time ahead!

[wiseheart]

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.


400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.



Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It's a funny thing with mothers and Data - mine loves him, too, although she generally isn't interested in science fiction.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'd surely be a regular customer!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

*one of the easy ways to tell in American things who is going to be evil is anyone speaking with a British accent*

Really? Is there an actual reason for it, or do Americans just envy you Brits for your accent? Not that I'd be able to make a difference, mind you... I'm happy enough to actually understand the words when it comes to spoken English.

Sinclair is simply wonderful, particularly because he's so very different from those moustache-twirling sci-fi heroes. I never bought the Catherine Sakai romance, though. They two of them had zero chemistry. The red-headed freighter captain from the pilot was a much better match for him.

Lennier was a very loveable character - the way he ended up went directly against what we'd seen of him before, I find. And Lyta could have been really interesting, had they developed her the way she would have deserved. She was so new and naive and inexperienced in the pilot, and we never got to see how she actually became the woman she was in the middle and at the end of the series.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Character? What character? Neither of the main heroes had any character by the end of the series, save perhaps Vir and Garibaldi.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I actually enjoyed writing the Advent calendars very much... as long as people could be arsed to read it. After that, I just lost all joy in it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know it from serious sources that there are people who actually *like* Túrin! Go figure!

When I read the - ungodly long and unnecessarily detailed - story about him, I was cheering on Mím, Saeros, the outlaws, the dragon... every single one who might have the chance to kill him. Alas, no such luck.

Now Tuor - that was a Man of my own taste!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) A good year would be nice, after the last one. But as Mum says, as long as we still have our health, we can actually deal with everything.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked the apple pie. Despite what Hobbits might say, "water hot" isn't the only "noble thing" out there. Nor are mushrooms. There's always apple pie to consider.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Tell me how it turned out. ;)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have a suspicion that Randall Munroe (the artist/author) would be very disappointed if people understood all of his comic strips. He seems quite geeky and like he enjoys making people go in search of more information.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have very rarely seen any Star Trek DVD boxes in shops here either. Indeed all of mine where bought through on-line retailers such as Amazon, or in the case of the last few DS9 boxes, eBay. I had the first four seasons in the hard plastic boxes they came out in originally, and then I didn't buy the rest straight away because I hadn't had the time to watch the ones I already had. When I wanted to buy the fifth season, I found that Paramount had started selling them in a new 'slim line' packaging, made of cardboard that looked very different to the ones I already had. The first few seasons are still reasonably easy to get hold of on-line in the original packaging, but the later ones seem very rare. Since I really liked the look of the hard plastic boxes and I wanted all of DS9 in the same type of packaging I had to buy the last few seasons second-hand.

Do I understand correctly that online retailers like Amazon don't deliver to Hungary? That must be very frustrating!

I expect there to be some really horrible episodes of the animated series; as you say there were certainly a few of those in the original series as well (and TNG if we are honest!). Still dedicated collector/fan wants to find out for herself...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have come across Milka Dessert -- it sounds quite tempting! I may have to see if my friend who works for Kraft knows how to get hold of some of them; a quick search of Sainsbury's website (my main supermarket) suggests they don't sell it.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Really? Is there an actual reason for it, or do Americans just envy you Brits for your accent? Not that I'd be able to make a difference, mind you... I'm happy enough to actually understand the words when it comes to spoken English.
I have no idea whether there is a real reason, but the only one I've heard suggested is that Americans want to identify with the good guys and thus they should sound American... but I'm not sure if I believe it. I find on most things subtitles are such a help - I find it hard to hear a lot of dialogue in things as most actors don't seem to speak clearly - and that's with it being in a language I speak natively! This is one of the reasons why I watch more things on dvd than tv. I remember bemusing people at school by suggesting that for French that instead of having English subtitles they should give us it with French subtitles (as well as dialogue) as I reckoned that it was the way to learn more...

Sinclair is simply wonderful, particularly because he's so very different from those moustache-twirling sci-fi heroes. I never bought the Catherine Sakai romance, though. They two of them had zero chemistry. The red-headed freighter captain from the pilot was a much better match for him.
I quite liked Catherine Sakai, although it annoyed me that suddenly they were going to get married. I liked the way that the relationship up to that point hadn't been a typical tv romance. The woman from the pilot annoyed me because of the remark about frictionless sheets (really, really bad science) and for some reason it appeared to me as the character being stupid rather than the show - I have no idea why.

Lennier was a very loveable character - the way he ended up went directly against what we'd seen of him before, I find.
Yes! I could believe it if there had been anything done to try and make it work with his character, but there wasn't and so it just seemed nonsensical.


And Lyta could have been really interesting, had they developed her the way she would have deserved. She was so new and naive and inexperienced in the pilot, and we never got to see how she actually became the woman she was in the middle and at the end of the series.
That makes sense. I think that is part of why I have problems with her, she has clearly changed so much in between her first two appearances and it never really explained, thus making it less like character development and more like ignoring existing canon to make the character work in the new situation. I guess it is partly because we never see her interacting with anyone she knew well (or more than a passing acquaintance) before she changed, but then there wasn't really anyone around that could. It would have worked with a scene with Talia (but with problems given her alternative personality).
Thinking of how that might work, I think I might actually have to write that Talia lives au... :) Or at least start planning it... It will probably be fun to write, just such a long project to start.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

You know I think maybe Data was created as a character for mothers to love. My friend K's mother loves Data, too, while my friend K does not.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sadly, too true. :(

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>he enjoys making people go in search of more information.<<

A day when one learns something new is never wasted.

I've bookmarked the site for future fun reads.

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

>>I was cheering on Mím, Saeros, the outlaws, the dragon... every single one who might have the chance to kill him. Alas, no such luck.<<

LMAO! Well, I'll admit it would take a very special kind of patience to like him.

Tuor - yes, a whole other ballgame. And it's not as if he didn't go through a rough time, too.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Aside from what he suffered *before* getting to Gondolin, can you imagine what it must have been, being the son-in-law of Turgon?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it is true. After Tosh and Owen and Ianto were killed off, there was simply no-one to watch the series for. CoE was no longer Torchwood anyway.

I'm willing to give a chance a series I used to like... but not forever. Life is too short to watch bad TV.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

*Do I understand correctly that online retailers like Amazon don't deliver to Hungary? That must be very frustrating!*

Oh, they do deliver, if it's ordered from somewhere else. They just don't accept our national currency. And yeah, it *is* furstrating. I'd be more than willing to pay. but they won't let me.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think it's his child-like naiveté that appeals to mothers. Of course, mothers don't know that he had a thing with Tasha, once upon a time... which speaks of very bad taste, if you ask me. But he was inexperienced, the poor dear.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! Let's party, then!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Go for it! I need something else than just Marcus/Neroon smut to read. Not that there would be anything wrong with Marcus/Neroon smut, mind you (even though I actually don't like Marcus), but a girl needs some variety in her fannish life.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The more frustrating, considering how interesting the main characters started off. Somewhere along the way something must have gone terribly wrong.

Cute icon, BTW.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And this is comment 250, unless I'm mistaken. Not bad for only 3 days. Now on to more FLCs, so that we might make to Page 3!