Plum Duff

I used some of my left-over white rolls to make a Plum Duff (from the modern National Trust cookbook of Traditional Puddings, so not strictly speaking vintage).


( Doesn't taste like Christmas pudding )

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I wrote a couple of paragraphs of beginning for my Harry Potter flashfic, attempting to establish (and explain) the setting in a standalone way, and posted it to AO3 under the title of Appraisal -- having forgotten until the last moment that I was going to need a title at all!

Turning a collar

I unpicked the collar of my new (second-hand) shirt in order to 'turn' it; what I hadn't realised was that this process is designed to work on a dress shirt with the buttonhole on a separate collar stand, and this one is a soft single-piece collar. What this article, for instance, doesn't tell you is that if you unpick "the whole collar along the seam where it attaches to the top of the shirt" and reverse it left to right, the button and button-hole will end up on the opposite side to all the other buttons on the shirt. Which isn't just an aesthetic issue, but means that you physically can't do it up because the top of the shirt then needs to overlap in the opposite direction; the button needs to be on the underneath, and it finds itself on the top!

( Swapping a button and buttonhole )