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June 13 2010
Oh, what a beautiful day!
Well, I’ve been sitting here this past week, composing this blog entry, with the rain chucking down from heavy grey clouds, but last Saturday WAS beautiful, thank goodness. Why ‘Thank goodness?’ you may ask. I’ll tell you. It was the day of the Meadows Festival!!! Last year I blogged about this special event here. This year all four of us managed to go. We had planned to take packed lunches, as there’s rarely anything suitable for us to eat there, but this year we were just too pressed for time…
There are lots of stalls at the Meadows Festival.
John was thrilled to find a plant one right at the start. But that meant him lugging lots of plants around… Johnny and Jane enjoyed book and CD stalls and made a few purchases and I was looking for interesting things for the house, as well as books, of course. I was thrilled to find a wicker basket full of magazines including special treats for me: Country Homes and Gardens and Period Living magazines, which were selling at 6 for £1!
I bought 18, which John carried for me…
I also found a present for Sylvia’s birthday, which was VERY HEAVY. That’s all I can say at the moment, of course… I carried that…
I was NOT tempted to buy this book! Can you guess which one? Honestly! This was NOT going to be an addition to my recipe book shelves… ‘Almost vegetarian’, indeed! Oops, gave the game away there, didn’t I? Oh, well, I wasn’t offering any prizes for the correct answer…
I DID buy a bumblebee badge to add to the collection on my bag…
… but decided to give these a miss! I mean, revolting, or what?
We had high hopes of something to eat when we saw this place…
but although I loved the decor (very ‘me’!)…
… because of some misunderstanding between John and me, we both thought there was nothing suitable. This turned out for the best, though, as you will see, if you read on… (Are you excited? I like to keep the suspense going…)
Just past the cafe we met, and made friends with, this gorgeous wee fellow. His name’s Alfie and he was VERY ‘dog-nappable’! We could just see him fitting into our household nicely. Sadly, but understandably, his owner wanted to hang onto him, however…
A couple of days before, Trudi, from Scottish Vegans, had written to me on Facebook to ask if we were going to be at the Festival and had given me her mobile number. Of course, I forgot to take a note of it with me. (You’re not surprised?) I was wishing we could phone up Molly, the cleverest of our cats, to ask her to check Facebook for me, but she wouldn’t have been able to pick up the receiver. This lack of opposable thumbs can be a problem… However, after wandering around peering at the faces of total strangers I thought might be Trudi (I’d met her only once before) I suddenly remembered that Jane can go on-line with her fancy, new, 21st birthday phone! She logged onto my Facebook messages and there was Trudi’s number! I phoned her and we met up with her and her daughter and baby son. The wonders of modern technology!
By this time we were about to leave, as we all needed sustenance, but Trudi very kindly invited us round to her flat, which was only about five minutes walk away. There we had hummus and salad sandwiches, washed down with mugs of tea. Trudi said she couldn’t see vegans going hungry! Thank you, again, Trudi! It was very much appreciated!
Johnny then set off for a demo, against real fur sporrans, with Ethical Voice for Animals (EVA) and John, Jane and I, heavily laden, staggered off for the train home to Dunblane.
After a VERY warm welcome from the pooches, John and I settled down in the garden. He had a new gardening magazine (do you see Molly in the background? Apparently she’d been out all day anyway, so wouldn’t have been in to answer the phone even if she’d HAD opposable thumbs)…
…the sun was blazing down and I relaxed on the swing seat and browsed in my new housey mags. Bliss!
When Johnny came home, I made one of our favourite meals: Italian marinated tofu (from Vegan With a Vengeance) with potatoes, broccoli, green beans, peas and gravy made from the marinade. Mmmmm…..
Yup! It was a beautiful day!
Today’s smoothie: orange juice, apples, apricots, half a bag of mixed green leafies, lettuce, alfalfa and a wee piece of kombu. Delicious!
Today’s title: from ‘Oh, what a beautiful mornin’!’, Oklahoma, Rogers and Hammerstein
May 28 2010
Beauty and the Feast
Here’s the beauty…
…and here’s one of the items that featured in the feast…
You’ll have worked out what the occasion was? Our baby girl’s 21st birthday!
What can I say about our wee girl? Well, at about 4ft 10ins, she IS wee! That, added to her sweet young face, has people thinking she is much younger than she is. She is not pleased about this! I tell her it’s hereditary!!!
She is, and has always been, the much loved wee sister of her big brother, Johnny,
(though the occasional spat is not unknown!) and they share many interests. She is very shy with strangers, but feisty and funny with people she knows well. Added to that, with her family she is very, very loving, kind and caring. She was, of course, home educated until she started university. It’s hard to believe that she’ll graduate in just over a month!
Johnny calls her a ‘geek chick’! In her last year at university she became involved in doing the lighting at the uni drama group, which she taught herself; she can work out how anything technical works without recourse to a manual; and she loves science fiction and fantasy. She also writes fantasy adventure books, which, now that her studies are over, she hopes to get ready for an agent. She is rarely seen without her iPod plugged into her ears. She has always loved reading and never goes anywhere without a few books in her bag…
Jane (or Jenny, as she’s known to family and old friends) has always been a very girly girl. Here’s a memory book page I made when she was younger:
When she was tiny, she loved dolls and pink clothes and cute wee animals. Now she squeaks over babies and, after a period when she would wear nothing but black, despite not actually being a Goth, still loves pink clothes and cute wee animals!
She is my darling daughter and I love her more than words can say!
So, on to the feast! Jane had asked for a strawberry birthday cake and who was I to deny her that? However, in my usual dotty way, I forgot that the syrup from the tinned strawberries would add a lot of sweetness and so I added the normal amount of sugar. (I tell a lie. I actually added a wee bit extra sugar because of a dotty mistake that would take too long to explain…). So when the birthday girl licked the bowl, she declared that it was very sweet indeed and suggested that I might make lemon icing to counteract this. So I did. Boy was that icing lemony! It brought tears to my eyes when I tested it! But it turned out to be a great combination and the sweetness and the watery-eye-ness complemented each other very nicely.
Yes, I did remember the candles this time, but our local shop didn’t have any ‘twos’, so it was back to the old-fashioned kind and ‘tens and units’.
Jane had her final exams at university on the two days following her birthday, so there were no high jinks with similarly harassed uni friends. Instead we had a family birthday lunch the day before with her Nana and her Auntie Syl …
I had ordered Sosmix, at Jane’s request, but it didn’t arrive in time, so we had chilli en croute instead, with potato salad made with Plamil mayonnaise; chopped salad (John’s special: spring onion, celery, red pepper and cucumber chopped up small); green leafy salad; tomato and basil rolls; trifle and the aforementioned cake…
… and on the day itself, she and I went to Glasgow and had lunch at Stereo, a vegan restaurant. Then we went to see Meet Me in St Louis at the cinema. It was so great seeing it on the big screen! My only problem was worrying about the lights coming on when there were still tears dripping off my chin!
OK! Let’s get down to recipes! What would you like? Will we start with the strawberry cake? And then follow that with the chilli en croute? And maybe the trifle? OK, then… But you’re a bit demanding, aren’t you? Sheesh!
Strawberrry Cake
Ingredients:
250g self raising flour
125g sugar
1 tin of strawberries
1½ teaspoons egg replacer
125g margarine
¾ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
Water
Method:
Set oven to Gas Mark 5/375F/190C
Mix egg replacer with the juice/syrup from the tin, made up, with water, to 200g. Put aside.
Mix together all the other ingredients and the egg replacer mixture.
Divide between two round cake tins.
Bake for 35 minutes.
When cool, sandwich with icing and ice the top. I used stacks of icing sugar, a large dollop of margarine and enough lemon juice to choke a whale. But I’m afraid that’s the most accurate measurements you’re ever going to get with my icing. I’m an instinctive icing maker!
Chilli en croute
Ingredients:
1 large onion
1 red pepper
250g mushrooms
500g passata
1 carton organic kidney beans
1 teaspoon Very Lazy Chilli
1 teaspoon molasses
Method:
Fry the onion, mushrooms and pepper together. I like to do them with the gas on full, stirring constantly until they’re getting nice and soft. Smells good, too!
Add the rest of the ingredients, bring to a simmer and leave to cook for about half an hour. Preferably make it the day before you’re going to eat it to let the flavours develop.
Unfold some ready-roll puff pastry and cut it into two strips. Spoon some chilli down the centre of each, cut slits all the way down each side, and then cross the strips over on the top.
Bake at Gas Mark 8/450F/230C for about half an hour.
Trifle
The day before you want it, bake a chocolate cake, using the recipe I’ve already given you in my blog post about John (Penny has a Darling Lamb). Cut half off one of the layers and put it aside. Enjoy what’s left…
The next day, using your fingers, break up the piece of chocolate cake until it’s like bread-crumbs and then make up one of these
with the liquid from a tin of summer fruits made up to three quarters of a pint and brought to the boil in a saucepan. Mix in the jelly and stir. Leave to set.
Then make up another jelly, as before, but stirring in the two tins of drained summer fruits. Pour it over the solidified bottom layer. Leave to set.
Spoon most of a tub of Swedish Glace vanilla ice-cream over the top and grate some chocolate over it. I used Organica rice milk chocolate. Mmmm….
As you can see, I also made up a separate custard. You know all about that… And if you don’t, you haven’t been following my blog properly!
And that’s it! Jane is now catching up with all the books she’s been wanting to read and the films she’s been wanting to see, but couldn’t because of her studying. And it’s off to the job centre in a couple of days!
So that’s the last of my birthday blogs! From now on it’ll be back to ordinary musings again… I’ll try to be more diligent! OU essays allowing…
Well, for goodness sake! That boy will hijack anybody’s blog post! I do apologise!
Today’s title: Beauty and the Beast – traditional folk tale
Today’s fruit salad: orange juice; apples; kiwi fruit; bananas; grapes.
April 13 2010
Penny has a darling Lamb
No, unlike my sister, Sylvia, I DON’T have a rescue male sheep. Here’s my Lamb here (in sleepy mood!):
John, my husband, known to me as Lambie!
John celebrated his 50th birthday last month,
so what better time to immortalise him in a blog entry? (Well, a better time would have been earlier than this, but I’ve been writing essays… And acting as his secretary… Something’s gotta give! But he wanted me to get on with it as he said it was a strain being on his best behaviour for so long, in case I said something nasty about him! So, here we go…)
You’ll have noticed the candles? Yes, true to form, I forgot to check the candle situation beforehand…
When John and I first got together, I was part of the junior management in the Civil Service office where we both worked and he was (and still is!) 13 years younger than me and a member of the clerical staff. Although he was very clever, he hadn’t gone to university, as his father had been ill and the family needed John’s income. I knew he was very shy… What I didn’t know was that he fancied me! (Yes, dear readers, I was slim but curvy and quite fanciable in those days. Luckily he thinks I’m now curvier and even more fanciable, a piece of rose-tinted-bespectacled-ness, but I’m not complaining!)
One evening, at an office ‘do’ for some people who were leaving, we found ourselves sitting next to each other. I was recently separated and in no rush to get home, so when he told me that he hadn’t brought his car, had missed the last train home and didn’t have enough money for a taxi (!!!), I offered him a lift. We talked for hours, both on the journey and after I stopped near his house. We liked the same books and films and most of the same music. He loved the 60s and was very impressed that I’d seen the Beatles live! We supported the same causes. We had the same sense of humour. I was a Quaker at that time and he knew Quakers were pacifists, not just pictures on a cereal box! This time I was the one who was impressed! A couple of days later we walked my dog, Sammy, together. A couple of days after that I took him to an Amnesty International meeting. Soon after that he moved in with me!
Earlier that year, John had seen an advert for the Open University in the Radio Times and had started studying. He had also given up smoking, thank goodness, or this love story wouldn’t have happened! Since then he has completed his BA honours degree with the OU, a Masters degree in Education at Stirling University and a diploma in Philosophy at Glasgow University. He was promoted in the Civil Service and then, a few years later, decided to change career and become a teacher. He has become head of his department, a lecturer with the Open University and, one day a week, he trains student teachers at Stirling University. And he’s the principal exam setter and marker in Scotland for one of his subjects. He’s done all his studying while working fulltime and looking after me and our babies. In fact, he sat his first Open University exam the day before Johnny was due to make his appearance. He expected to be called out of the exam room at any moment, but our boy waited!
He is an adoring husband and father, which is nice, because we’re pretty fond of him, t
oo!
John loves his allotment where he grows lots of vegan-organic fruit and vegetables but so that he could bring stuff on nearer to home, the extended family clubbed together to buy him a greenhouse for the garden. John is NOT handy, but here he is, pleased as Punch, after having built it up all by himself! He says it’s the best 50th Birthday present he’s ever had!
He is and has been devoted to all our cats and dogs, past and present, but his favourite companion animal of all time is … Bobby!
John is a thoroughly modern male, but feels that it’s his duty to be the main bread winner, since I’ve raised and home educated the offspring and looked after our home. He works very hard for us all and is loving, kind and considerate. He’s also great company and VERY funny! He makes us all laugh A LOT!
Happy (very belated!) birthday, Lambie!
Oh, sorry, did you want the chocolate cake recipe? OK! Here it is! I adapted it many years ago from a muffin recipe sent to me by an American omni friend. It has graced most of our birthday celebrations since then!
Penny’s chocolate cake:
Ingredients:
130g margarine
130g sugar
1 ½ teaspoons egg replacer
26g cocoa powder
224g self raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt
166ml soya milk
Method:
Set oven to Gas mark 5/375F/190C
Whisk the egg replacer into the soya milk and put to one side. Mix together all the other ingredients and then add the liquid last.
Because this recipe uses margarine instead of oil, the mixture is stiff, so I prefer to start it off in the mixer, as I get a very sore arm otherwise – but it can all be done by hand.
Once everything’s mixed through, I get a silicone spatula and wallop it about in the bowl a goodish bit, to get plenty of air in there, to make the cake nice and light.
Divide the mixture between two round cake tins, lined with baking parchment (I use round cake tin liners from Lakeland) and bake for 35 minutes, until the top is cracked and a skewer comes out clean.
Cool in the cakes in the liners.
Once they’re cold, spread jam on the bottom one (blackcurrant jam is nice and sharp and contrasts well with the sweetness of the cake) and then sandwich the cakes together with ‘butter’ icing. Slather more icing on top.
Now, I’m afraid you’re on your own with the ‘butter’ icing, but you know how to make it, don’t you? I never measure it; I just chuck together margarine, icing sugar and cocoa in vast quantities and blend them together. I’m sure you’ll manage…
Well, for goodness’ sake! How on earth did that picture slip in here? Sorry about that….
Today’s smoothie (Yes! It’s smoothie time again, folks!): orange juice; kale; rocket; lettuce; apricots; apples; broccoli stalk; celery. Mmmmmm……
Todays’ title: I won’t insult your intelligence!
February 18 2010
Sundae Wednesday! Happy (Birth)day!
You remember Rhona, don’t you? My rescue roasting tin? Well Rhona’s talents don’t stop at granola baking.
Here she is filled with a yummy mixture of the following: a sprinkling of olive oil; chopped onions; some cloves of garlic, left whole; chunks of carrots, sweet potato, butternut squash, red and yellow pepper; some mangetout, broken in half; a mixture of half and half olive oil and maple syrup, with a wee spot of salt. She’s about to do duty in the oven at Gas Mark 8/450F/230C for an hour.
When the hour was almost up, we heated some tortilla wraps and smothered them in hummus or Tofutti Cream Cheese, according to taste (Jane had one of each) and then we filled them with the roasted vegetables and rolled them up.
Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So good!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m planning on making these OFTEN!
‘But wait!’ I hear you say. ‘What’s that got to do with Sundae Wednesday Happy (Birth)day?’ And the answer is, ‘Nothing at all! That bit comes next.’
Read on…
It was my birthday last Wednesday (10th February) and I had forgotten to buy the jellies for the trifle. This trifle is the standard pudding for birthday teas in our family. Here’s how I make it…
In a trifle bowl I make up one-and-a-half strength jelly with half a (usually chocolate) sandwich cake layer crumbled into it and leave it to set. I then mix up another one-and-a-half strength jelly with some tinned ‘fruits of the forest’ mixed in. Then I top it all with a huge mound of vanilla Swedish Glace ice cream. And I sometimes grate some chocolate over it. Recently I’ve also been making a big bowl of vanilla custard. Here’s how I make the custard…
First, I heat up most of a pint of soya milk with about a tablespoon of margarine and two tablespoons of sugar. In the measuring jug, I mix together the rest of the milk and two tablespoons of custard powder. Then I stir the custard mix into the pan and whisk as fast as my aching muscles will allow until it’s all thick and bubbly. It’s then put in a bowl and allowed to cool.
I’m sorry. I was SURE I had a photo of a trifle I made before, but just can’t find it anywhere. I must organise my photos SOON!
I would actually like to have the custard on top of the jelly as part of the trifle, but Jane, who’s a creature of habit, loves the trifle the way I traditionally made it, without the custard, so she doesn’t want me to change a winning formula. She does sometimes have some custard with it, though…
Also, a note on tablespoons… We’re not talking wee measuring spoons here. This is the type of chap you want for this recipe.
Available at any charity shop near you… (If you live in Scotland, that is. I can’t speak for other parts of the world…)
Anyway, back to 10th February 2010, 63 years since my birth on a cold, snowy day in Glasgow… And no jelly… As far as trifle was concerned, I was snookered…
So, first I thought of just having the custard and ice cream.
Then I thought of my favourite pudding in the whole, wide world: chocolate custard and ice cream. I could eat bucket-loads of this, with or without a sliced banana on top, if my weight weren’t such a problem. I make the custard as above, but with two tablespoons of cocoa powder added to the custard powder mix. OK, so there are probably several days’ calories in a small bowlful…
Then, however, I had such a good idea that if I’d been a cartoon drawing a wee light-bulb would have appeared over my head. CHOCOLATE NUT SUNDAES!!! Now, I’d never made these before, but necessity is the mother of invention. Here’s what I did.
I made half a pint of chocolate custard, but as I didn’t have custard powder I used vanilla rice milk and cornflour. I also made some chocolate sauce thus:
84g margarine
90g golden syrup
About 30g cocoa powder (more or less, depending on how strong you want it)
I melted the margarine and sugar together and then added the cocoa, all over a low heat.
Then, in our two sundae dishes plus two tall mugs and a pint beer mug, I layered ice cream, chocolate custard, chopped nuts, ice cream, chocolate sauce, chopped nuts and so on to the top.
It was SO GOOD! Unfortunately the camera didn’t like photographing it with flash and it was too dark to get a good picture without the flash, so you’ll just have to make do with this one and imagine its chocolate-y goodness, because I’m afraid that not even for you was I going to keep it till the next day, to take a photo in daylight!
So, what could have been a disappointment on the pudding front was turned to unmitigated delight! I’ll be making these again! But not too often… Just for birthdays…
I must tell you about the wonderful home-made birthday card I received from the offspring. Last year they themed my card around my new Vita-Mix; this year it was themed around my new studies and it featured a cartoon bear, created by Johnny, who stars in most of his home-made cards. There was a chart showing grades for ‘sweetness’; ‘compassion’; ‘inspirational qualities’; ‘sense of humour’; ‘chef skills’ and ‘devotion to family’ and I was awarded the top grade of ‘excellent’ for all of them! I’ll be honest with you. The tears were streaming down my cheeks, sentimental old fool that I am! There was a lot more sweet and loving stuff in it, too… (sniff)
And here, just to finish with a nice picture, are two people who also tick all the boxes (though not exactly the same ones as me!): Tom and Mimi… (What do you mean, ‘Oh, not HIM again!’???)
Today’s title: Sunday, Monday, Happy Days – theme song from the series Happy Days. John suggested Sundae Girl by Blondie, but I’m not going to pander to his adolescent fantasies about Debbie Harry…
Today’s soup: onions; red lentils; chunks of carrot, turnip (Swede/rutabaga), leeks, celery; passata and water all pressure cooked together, with some salt added at the end. Mmmm… Perfect for a cold winter’s day!
January 31 2010
10
I’ve been nominated by the lovely Vegan Fox for an Honest Scrap award. Thank you Vegan Fox! Now I have to thank her, which I’ve just done, list ten honest things about myself ,which I’m about to do, and link to ten blogs I feel embody the spirit of Honest Scrap and which I find brilliant in design and/or concept. That last one is the trickiest. Apart from the fact that I’m not too sure what the first bit means, I love lots of blogs and would hate to hurt anyone’s feelings by missing them out… So if you’re not listed here it doesn’t mean I don’t love your blog, OK?
Right… Here’s the list…
1. I’m terrified of daddy-long-legs (also known as crane flies), even though I know they can’t hurt me. When John and I first lived together, daddy-long-legs used to often get into our bedroom. I would cower under the quilt screaming, ‘Get rid of it! Don’t kill it! Get rid of it! Don’t kill it!’ and My Hero would catch them in his hands and put them outside. (He still does this with the enormous spiders that scare the s**t out of Jane and me.) To be honest (and that’s what this list is all about!), I’m not a big fan of insects in general. (It’s OK. I know spiders aren’t insects!) Even though we have a wildlife-friendly garden, I’d really rather not see them appreciating it.
2. I’ve been vegan for nearly 21 years, since just before Jane was born, and was vegetarian for 19 years before that.
3. John is 13 years younger than me. We met properly when I gave him a lift home from an office ‘do’. He was 23 and I was 36. He was single and I was separated. We’ve been together for twenty-six and a half years and will celebrate 25 years of happy marriage this December. Johnny was the guest of honour at our wedding!
4. I’m paranoid about travelling anywhere. It didn’t bother me until I had my babies, but I totally and utterly adore my offspring, and it’s reciprocated, so I always dread anything happening to me.
5. Although I love all the cats, Tom is my favourite. He’s the perfect combination of monstrosity and lovingness! 
6. I’m a (probably rather annoying) stickler for correct grammar and punctuation and regularly shout at people on the TV and radio. I proofread everything I write myself about four times and am mortified if I let a mistake slip through the net.
7. My family complains that I bake more for stalls than for them. (So yesterday, at their request, I made spicy muffins. The recipe is below.)
8. When friends send me e-mails that I’m supposed to ‘pass on to ten strong women I love’ etc., I never, EVER, do… I don’t want ten of my friends to feel obliged to do the same. This is different, though, somehow…
9. I can’t deal with the concept of ‘moderation’ and could eat a whole tub of chocolate Swedish Glace ice cream in one sitting. Since I need to lose weight, I daren’t even have a taste of it.
10. I get very annoyed when I hold the door open for people and they just sail through, often without even looking at me. I say, ‘THANK YOU!’ very loudly and glare at them.
Here are my favourite blogs. I love lots of others, though, and found it very hard to stick to ten…
I know! I cheated! That’s eleven! But I couldn’t leave any of them out!
And now here’s the recipe for those spicy muffins. I adapted it from a lacto-ovo one I got from an American friend many years ago and it’s a big favourite here. It’s not the most beautiful muffin, so I didn’t bother to take a photo, but it tastes wonderful!
Ingredients:
125g margarine + 50g margarine
125g sugar
1 ½ teaspoons egg replacer
255g self raising flour
85g sultanas
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt
260 ml rice milk (or preferred non-dairy milk)
Method
Preheat oven to Gas Mark 5/375F/190C
Line 12 muffin cases.
Whisk egg replacer into milk with a fork.
Mix together all the ingredients (using the 125g of marg)
Distribute among the muffin cases. I use an ice-cream scoop for this, the kind with a wee lever thingy that sweeps across.
Bake for 30 minutes.
Melt the 50g marg in a saucepan. Take your jar of cinnamon sugar off the shelf. (Wait a minute! You do have a jar of cinnamon sugar, don’t you? If not, you’ll want to prepare one now! I keep one filled with ground cinnamon and sugar to the ratio of 1:2. It’s great for when you get the urge for cinnamon toast…)
Where were we? Oh, yes…
Brush the melted margarine lavishly over the tops of the muffins and then sprinkle them with the cinnamon sugar. You don’t have to wait till they’re cool. You won’t want to. Eat them while still warm, by a roaring fire. In fact, I don’t think it’s actually legal to eat them any other way!
Today’s title: 10 – film starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek
Today’s smoothie: I know! I said it would be soups in the winter, but in my attempts to lose weight (see above) I’m having a fruit smoothie for breakfast every day, so… Banana, orange juice, kiwi fruit. Oh! That wasn’t very interesting was it? OK, I’ll return to soups next time…
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