Fic progress

I've finally finished with the Masquerade (where the Phantom really plays a rather minor walk-on part in terms of the chapter :-p) and have now begun what I think is Chapter 9.

Hertha and Raoul are going to have a confrontation that wasn't planned, but I just don't think it's plausible that she would hold her tongue any longer after the amount of angst in the last chapter. ( Read more... )

I made a pie

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I bought some scrap chicken carcases at the market last week and spent a long time cutting as much of the remaining scrapings of meat off them as I could, before boiling up all the bones in my biggest saucepan to create five or six pints of stock. It set beautifully, and I had the idea of using the assorted shreds of chicken to make a chicken and ham pie -- or, in my case, a chicken and luncheon-meat pie, because I still had about a quarter of a tin of luncheon meat that I'd bought and frozen after I'd opened it. So I consulted "Good Food on a Budget", which has a general section on raised pies, and successfully constructed one :-)

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