The Babbling Bees

Weather talk

Autumn Leaf — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:06:35 +0000

Hi everyone,
just liked to talk to you about the weather! It is stormy here lots of wind and rain! In short the perfect time to do some reading or watch tv just a sweet day of relaxing and hearing the wind rattle at your windows! I have recently (last week) started on the Twilight book series. In a reading frenzy I have now begun to read Eclipse (part 3). I can only recommend that you at least try the series once! I was doubtful weather it was any good at first but after finishing 2 books in only a week I have to admit that they have a very addictive quality to them!
Here are some great weather pictures I’d like to share with you all found by searching the net again:

Safe travels,
Marius

Monthly Movie Recommendation: City Of Ember

Autumn Leaf — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:40:10 +0000

If you want to spent a nice evening with your family or just want to watch a decent movie on your own this is really a good choice for you.

The movie tells the story of 2 teenagers living in a underground city, not knowing about the world on the surface. The city has been created after a big disaster, to save the human race. During the movie the two get involved in a quest for an exit out of the City Of Ember.
In short this movie is a nice getaway from all the heavy movies currently being made.

Although this may be a movie for the young it is still fun to watch for the people that consider themselves grown up (if there is such a thing).

Yours,
Marius

Words of Wisdom, 15th of October 2009

lysannej — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:31:28 +0000

Here are today’s words of Wisdom, one of the reasons why I came back to post is quite plainly sketched in this quote. It is quite true, as the Words of Wisdom so often are:

“The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.”
Charles Reade

Go safely,
Lysanne

I’m back too!

lysannej — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:50:55 +0000

Hello All

finally a post from me too.
Dear me, I’ve been so very busy lately, and everytime when I thought I could breath again there were new things popping up to keep me busy!

I’ve managed to survive my first year of Uni… I didn’t pass it, so I’m working on that now alongside several second-year courses, so a heavy load of Uni-work to keep me busy at most times.
There were also several family-matters to overcome, and so far they look bright enough.

pff, what else… … strange actually how a live can be so busy and yet there is so little significant enough to be mentionned on here *frowns*

Anyway, I’ll try to be back a couple of times a week with the Words of Wisdom again.

Go safely,
Lysanne

Recipe: Pizza

Autumn Leaf — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:47:14 +0000

Hi everyone,

I recently got this recipe from my elder sister. It is a recipe for a delicious pizza. I would like to share it with you, also introducing a new kind of content we will be adding to this blog in the future. I would ask you to comment and let me know if these instructions are clear or not and of course whether or not you liked the recipe?

Pizza:

Dough:
- 500 gram flower
- a pinch of sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 small package of fresh yeast
- about 250 mL of lukewarm water
- a bit of oil for the baking sheet

Preheat your oven at the highest setting. For the dough, mix the flower sugar and salt in a bowl. Now crumble the yeast over the mix and then mix everything together. Slowly add the water and then knead the dough until you get a smooth dough (If you dough seems dry and you can’t seem to get it to hold together just add some more water).
Next cover the dough and put it for about 15 minutes in a warm place to let it rise.
Afterward knead the dough a bit and then spread it on an oiled backing sheet. Cover it again and let it rise for another 10 minutes.

Sauce:
- 2 tomatoes
- 200 ml sieved tomatoes
- 2 soup spoons of tomato paste
- 2 garlic cloves
- about 1 teaspoon of oregano or majoram

While waiting for the dough to rise put 2 tomatoes, sieved tomatoes, tomato paste and 2 peeled garlic cloves together and puree the mix. Now you can put the tomato sauce on the pizza dough and put on your desired toppings.
Last but not least bake the pizza on the lowest level of your oven rack for about 15 minutes at the highest setting.

I hope these instructions are helpful. I had to translate them from German so I am unsure about whether they are in proper English, though I am sure everyone should be able to make a delicious homemade pizza now!

Happy cooking,
Marius

Return

Autumn Leaf — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:59:56 +0000

Hello everyone,
As probably obvious to you we haven’t really been posting the last year or so. This is mainly because of a busy life and other interests and hobby’s.
We like to call it broadening our horizons.
With this announcement we wanted to tell you that we haven’t forgotten about this blog and that we will be posting again in the future.

Good luck to you all and we hope you will be checking in from time to time.

Yours,
The Babbling Bees

P.S.: We also enabled rating, when viewing a post you can now let us now what you think of it. Thank you.

Movie Recommendation for November some wise words and an apology.

Autumn Leaf — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:16:11 +0000

Hello reader,
I am sorry to say that I didn’t really come around to posting lately and neither has Lysanne. I will give you some Words Of Wisdom and a movie recommendation for the month of November.

Words Of Wisdom 21st of November

“The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving.”
by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think this quote really has so much truth that I felt obliged to post it for you here.

Movie Recommendation, November

The Bucket List (released in 2007 (US))

Jack Nicholson as Edward and Morgan Freeman as Carter in The Bucket List

This movie is about two elder men who learn to know that they have only a limited time left to live. They decide to make the best of it and do the things they always wanted to do. The main actors are Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson.

I wanted to give you this recommendation because this move really moved me and at times made me laugh. The story was just beautiful and had much to do with living, dreams and family. Something I think is just right for this blog, and fits with the kind of stuff we post here.

Well this was it for today, I hope you enjoyed it.

Farewell,
Marius

Words Of Wisdom, 9th of September

Autumn Leaf — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:13:41 +0000

Hi everyone,
Like Lysanne wrote we have some busy days and don’t really get around to writing much here. I have to travel about 3 hours a day now for my university so it is really time consuming.
Still I thought it would be necessary to put something up for you, so here are some Words Of Wisdom:

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This tells us that going forward is always necessary even if it sometimes look desperate, one can only go forward.

Safe Travels,
Marius

Words of Wisdom, 3rd of September

lysannej — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:20:29 +0000

Dear all,
another set of words of wisdom today. I read them this morning and found they might be the red-line leading us through our lives…or at least in a live of peace…. Maybe you want to think about it yourself because you find I’m just babbling nonsense, which might by the by very well be so.
So here you go, today’s Words of Wisdom:

“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”
A. J. Muste

Go safely, as always, and have a gorgeous day!

hugs,
Lysanne

Words of Wisdom, 2nd of September

lysannej — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:12:18 +0000

Oh Dear,
another weekend during which we abandonned and neglected you. I am so sorry. There is a reason though, not that it gave us the right to, but just so you can maybe understand. The Universities just started their classes again, and as a fresher you are being dazzled and numbed with so many information; new classes, new classmates, you are being shown the place over a 100 times and being told the same story even more than just a couple of 100 times. Then there is the fact that maybe the Uni is far away from home and you need to move out (as is my problem). You have your own little room now far away from home, suddenly need to arrange a lot more than just your breakfast, lunch and keeping your toom tidy. All this comes running straight to you and hits you with full force.
So please believe me when I say I am sorry and will try to do better and really be here daily.
As I have neglected your hunger for wisdom ( ) there are two sets of words here tonight.

The first one is, in my eyes, a very gentle and caring one. Help others whenever you can, or let them help themselves with what you know. Isn’t that a nice thing to try to do?

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
Margaret Fuller

The second one is a little review on ourselves. And if you are truly honest, don’t you think it is true?

“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I think I have babbled on enough for too, and considering I’m a busy little bee lately I suppose I do justice to the name of the blog

Have a great morning/afternoon/night wherever you are.

Go safely,
Lysanne