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LJ hasn't loaded for me all day, and now I'm fed up and very lonely and bored. With LJ, I have stuff to do and people to talk to. Without it? The internet is all but pointless, and I can't talk to anyone. I can amuse myself for about ten minutes or so and then I need to go away and sigh again and maybe dust something or lie down.

In the meantime, since LJ is apparently working for everybody else in the world except me, this should crosspost so you know why I'm ignoring you until LJ lets me back in. (It came back very briefly twice during the day, so I'm hopeful it will. But I can't report anything because I can't get in to report it.)

:-(

I am now going off to make sugarless scones (it's a thing I do), and try not to panic about it. I have a book. It doesn't seem to be giving me too much of a headache yet, so hey. There's that, I suppose. And I can write a bit maybe if I don't get too depressed about having nowhere to post it ever again. Luckily, my family phoned for five minutes just now before I died of isolation. (Can you do that in only one day? Probably not.)

Also also the doctor's mislabelled my blood test on Thursday and I have to go and give them some more on Monday. (I can't complain; they've never done anything like this before. But i would rather not have my two big outings for the week both being things where people stick needles in me.)

(I may be feeling sorry for myself now. This is what happens when people cruelly take LJ away from me.)

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I hate that cut-off feeling.

There are scone recipes with sugar? Huh. I like them non-sweet (and hot with butter).

*nods* It's worse when you already are cut off in lots of other ways, too. You don't need to be pressed up against the window, looking in from a distance at the internet, too. Still, at least I can talk to some nice people on Dreamwidth in the meantime! \o/

There are scone recipes with sugar?

Traditional scones are sweet over here, and I suppose English scones are traditional scones, really. You get cheese scones (and variations on cheese scones), but making them randomly without sugar and with (half) wholemeal flour is a thing that gets me strange looks. I make them because it was a thing I did back when I had to go without yeast (and thus bread) for a while, and they're quite nice occasionally.

But, yeah, your ultimate traditional scone is the West Country one served with jam and clotted cream! (I hate clotted cream, but proper scones are rather nice with raspberry jam.)

They serve them with jam and cream (whipped) here too, but they're still not sweet themselves. I've made lovely wholemeal scones. In fact I'm feeling it's time to do so again even though they don't rise as well as plain flour ones.

Hee, I'm happy to have inspired some scone-making!