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Good morning read.cash friends... I wrote my 1st 2 articles last week, BIG BIG Thanks to anyone that read them and upvoted!! I haven't had much time since to write more, 2 small kids that need my time too, hoping I'll get one up today... Mad market out there at the minute, everytime I check my investments something new surprises me!! Hope you all have a lovely day 🤩🤩🤩

Think Flapjacks!! So onto Article 2 and I said I’d be true to me… so food it is!!! I’m not going to broad spectrum this one. I’ll be quite precise in a family tradition and love of ours that is Flapjacks…. Yes, you heard me right…. Oat laiden Flapjacks…. Now I will divulge my recipe for them, but you’ll need to read on a little further first….. First things first, we always had them in our house. They’re a great energy food, not only because of the sugar content but the oat factor as well. They’re a quick handy snack to grab on the go with a homemade takeaway coffee. They’re a good one when the kids are Hangry (hungry angry) and they need a little pick me up but really the main food is going to take a little longer than their last energy levels and hanger will. So, pop one out of the tin, give those little mites a snack and let them loose in the garden. Everyone in my family, and I mean EVERYONE!!, is a lover of the family recipe flapjacks. We may (or may not lol) have inherited a sweet tooth from the matriarch of the family whom we believe had glucose running through her veins rather than blood 😊 So these ones are a real hit! I’ve made them over the years, and I know the recipe is the same, but everyone keeps coming back to me saying mine are the best and they absolutely loved them. Even friends who’ve had them maybe once or twice. I’ve bought innumerable ones over the years too. Chocolate topped ones, yoghurt topped ones, others with nuts and some with raisins, tried them all (usually when too lazy to have made them myself but also tired and in need of energy). A really good flapjack is truly hard to come by…. Similar could be said for a scone I guess too but the topic we’re on is flapjacks, scones are a discussion for another day 😊 Right so onto the recipe, note this is from a family members head so not copied from a book!   Ingredients: 8 oz / 225g Sugar (preferably Caster but whatever you can get your hands on) 8 oz / 225g Margerine (truthfully, I use good salted butter, but if you’re not too inclined to butter use margarine) 1 Egg Golden Syrup (use to taste, but I would typically use approx. the whole of a 454g tin – but again use to taste, it’s very sweet but bear in mind this helps bind the mixture with the egg) Oat flakes (this is something you need to watch with your eye on the quantity)   Instructions: Preheat the over to 180 degrees Celsius / 355 degrees Fahrenheit. Melt all of the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a Large pan. Melt it until the you can no longer see grains of sugar and it has in effect turned to a sugar syrup in the mix and the 3 items have melted together. Once melted, turn the heat on the hob down to 1 or very low. You only want the heat under the pan to keep the pan warm, so the sugary mix doesn’t start to crystallise. Then begin to add the oats and mix through the sugary mixture. I tell you this one would build the muscles in your arms! Keep adding oats until you think they are starting to look like there is no sugary mix to coat anymore of them. Then add the egg and mix throughout the oaty mixture. You may need to add a few more oats after the egg if you think the mixture starts to look too wet again. The amount of oats that you will add will come down to personal taste after having made this recipe a few times. Get an oven tin or dish (I’ll leave the size up to you, it’ll really just depend on how thick you want to make them, but historically I’ve always gone for about Brownie thickness). Rub the sides and bottom of tin with a thin layer of butter, this will help to stop the sugary mix sticking to the tin or dish. Pour the mixture into the tin and then using a spoon spread it out evenly across the tin. You will need to then find a means of compacting the mixture down. I would normally use a potato masher (see pic of mine in the header above) to do this but you could use the bottom of a strong glass or anything really. You just want to push them together firmly. You can now pop them in your hot oven. They can take as little as 10 minutes or as much as 20 minutes. I know that they are already golden, but they will be ready when they look like the oats have puffed a bit and the top is a golden roasted colour. Remove from the oven once you’re happy that they’re cooked. The most IMPORTANT tip… get a knife and cut them into squares or rectangles, or any shape you like really, so that you can take them out easily once they cool. Otherwise you may struggle with actually cutting later and they may crumble on you.   Other Tips: You can add anything you like to these that is of your taste – nuts, raisins, chocolate, fruit (dried is probably best)… let your imagination go wild!! 😊   All I can say on this now is Happy Eating folks!! If you do get the time to make them let me know what you thought and if you need any pointers I’m more than happy to reply to comments 😊   Disclaimer – I’m not a professional chef and this recipe did not come from a cookbook – this is one passed to me by a family member and the method is how I would normally bake them.

Me, Myself and My Family... The path to a brighter future So I finally joined read.cash Yay!!!!!! I’ve been an avid Noiser for a while now and kept toying with the idea of whether I’d start a read.cash account and whether I’d be able to write or what would I even write about… what would be interesting to people to read. Although I’m sure that’s where everyone starts! So I’ve decided to go with my gut and write what I’m feeling each time to stay true to myself . I’m hoping inspiration comes and I can think of a nice little series to write about or story to create, or something like that, but for now I’ll write randomly because I don’t want to keep "putting it off until I’m divinely inspired” as who knows when that’ll happen 😊 I have at least started my account though and I can see that people write about a diverse amount of things and that people are not limited to a particular topic or train of thought. So Here I am, I may write about animals or Artists or my College Days or being an Accountant, who knows time will tell!!! To start a brief intro of me…… I’m a Mum first and foremost, next I’m a wife, then an accountant, a novice crypto lover, a daughter, a granddaughter, a niece, the list could go on forever. I’m a mum first and foremost - of 2 beautiful little boys who amaze me every day. I can promise I won’t write a lot about these 2 little fellas. I might share with you the odd thing that made me giggle or the story of why I use this Username, but I don’t want my family to be the life of my articles. Family is for family right 😊  I want to do this for my own interest but at the end of the day it’s for a better future for my boys…. So thus ends the procrastination of whether I write or not.   I’m a wife to a loving, adventurous husband. He’ll probably feature a bit more than my boys. This is me writing for me and to share my thoughts and knowledge. I’m an Accountant … we are funny and adventurous, contrary to belief lol! I don’t consider this one my long-term career but it’s a stop gap for the intermediate 20 years or so lol! Thankfully I'm a good ways into the 20 now!! I will probably share accountancy study or MS Excel stories… purely because I love numbers and I ADORE MS Excel (sad I know lol!!). Unfortunately the day job has to stay for now to pay the bills, here’s hoping for a brighter future and more time with my boys!!! I’m a daughter to the most amazing grandparents to my 2 handsome little boys. If Granny allows me I might do an interview with her as she launches her new artist website and she ventures out to try make an income from her love of painting and art. I hope she will because I’ve never seen an artist that goes into so much precise detail in paintings, that can get every little thing down on such a tiny canvas… watch this space for this one!! I’m still wondering what my first article might be…..stories of Art or Animals, stories of Travel or TV, stories of Crypto or Spare Change, who knows but I do hope you’ll check in from time to time and check out what I write 😊 Thanks a million for taking the time to read this half bio, half “Hi”… Have a lovely day!