tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71594294422772369572024-03-13T01:13:02.522+00:00nice kind of blueGARDEN |∆| COLLECT |∆| DESIGN |∆| looking for the pretty in everyday |∆| I hope you ENJOY my BLOGPolly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.comBlogger423125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-24957665993518947332020-06-29T16:58:00.000+01:002020-06-29T16:58:10.778+01:00ceramics<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gl-LeU5r9kM/XvoM_aewIqI/AAAAAAAAFvY/UYE9L8nEnMQqB-k9Q_uHQrCJAwaBEp65QCK4BGAsYHg/s1416/nicekindofblue_1409.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="700" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gl-LeU5r9kM/XvoM_aewIqI/AAAAAAAAFvY/UYE9L8nEnMQqB-k9Q_uHQrCJAwaBEp65QCK4BGAsYHg/d/nicekindofblue_1409.jpg" /></a></div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial"><br /></font></div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial">I've made a new Instagram account, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/polly_appleton_studio/?hl=en">polly_appleton_studio</a> to showcase my ceramic work, I thought it would be nice to gather together some of my favourite pieces in one place, rather like an album or portfolio.</font><div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial">It's been about 4 years since I signed up to an evening pottery class and I've been enjoying the feel of shaping and moulding clay with my hands ever since. I love the process. I love that clay is so natural, so pliable. I love planning what to make, how I'll create it and how I'll treat that piece, what glaze I'll apply and how it might look. I build everything by hand, sometimes using a coil technique with long sausages of clay joined together, sometimes I use slabs (rolled flat sheets, like pastry) and sometimes I just feel the clay in my hands and shape it, pushing, pulling, squishing, and sticking to create the form I'm after. My pieces tend to vary, from practical useful objects to playful sculpture. </font></div><div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial">D and I started our ceramic journey at the same time, it's really nice to share a hobby and grow as potters together. Though his work is very different to mine, he throws all his pieces on a wheel, making beautiful pots and bowls, you can see them <a href="https://www.instagram.com/md._.studio/?hl=en">here</a>. He recently built </font><span style="color: #9e9e9e; font-family: arial;">a little Raku kiln which we've been having fun with, I've been documenting our experiments with Raku on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17864733097850899/?hl=en">Instagram stories for my new account</a>.</span></div>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-59055667624805929842020-06-06T12:24:00.000+01:002020-06-06T12:24:16.478+01:00the importance of food<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><ul><li><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x1XtWEpVwdM/XttwGhlb_wI/AAAAAAAAFto/9-k86X3H6rg4JK5YygtoayxlacibFWilQCK4BGAsYHg/s1417/nicekindofblue_1408.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="700" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x1XtWEpVwdM/XttwGhlb_wI/AAAAAAAAFto/9-k86X3H6rg4JK5YygtoayxlacibFWilQCK4BGAsYHg/d/nicekindofblue_1408.jpg" /></a></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">We are still in lockdown, though not quite so locked down as we were, restrictions are gradually being lifted here in the UK, D is no longer furloughed and back at work. I'm still working from home, but for us we are still happily taking things slowly. Not venturing far, the occasional bike ride around the local roads and bridleways. The last time I visited an actual shop was something like 12 weeks ago. Of course we are still shopping for food, just in different ways. We have organic fruit and vegetables delivered weekly from <a href="https://www.cofco.co.uk/">Cofco</a>, if you are local to Cambridge I can't recommend them enough. We cook from scratch so we've been sourcing grains, pulses, flour and some dairy online from small producers as well as picking a few bits here are there in the garden. We now know exactly where our food is coming from and I think we'll continue this way of shopping in future, the choice is amazing. </font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">garden salad of salsify leaves, chives, and walnuts</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">D's sourdough bread</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">homemade soya yoghurt</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2"><a href="https://www.dorsetblue.com/">Dorset Vinny</a> open sandwich with sprouted mung beans and alfalfa</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">garden salad of lettuce, spinach, chard, courgette, chives, celery leaf, sprouts, pansy flowers</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">growing a SCOBY</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">vegan mushroom and rice burgers cooked on the barbeque</font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">lunchtime platter, more Dorset Vinny, sprouts and <a href="https://www.netherendfarmbutter.co.uk/shop-direct/butter-rolls-250g">Netherend Farm butter</a></font></li><li><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">my homebaked super seedy bread</font></li></ul><div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="2">None of the links in this post are sponsored, just producers I love. I should also add a favourite for grains and pulses, again fairly local to us is <a href="https://hodmedods.co.uk/">Hodmodods</a> and for the most delicious craft beer I recommend another local <a href="https://www.turpinsbrewery.co.uk/">Turpins Brewery</a>. </font></div></div></div>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-27020125208387410942020-05-09T12:15:00.000+01:002020-05-09T12:15:23.935+01:00locked in our garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been in lockdown for 48 days now, and in those 48 days I've been out just a handful of times, a few runs, an early morning cycle and once in the car to collect shopping for my parents. Even those few outings I found a little stressful. You'd think living in a small village in the Cambridgeshire countryside you wouldn't see a sole but everyone is out walking and that means social distancing on narrow paths, so lots of waiting about for people to pass, I just found it all a bit frustrating. We don't really need to go out, we're fortunate to have enough space to move about and we're exercising with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ">Joe Wicks</a> in our lounge.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still working, so Monday to Friday I'm at my desk, but there are now light evenings and whole weekends without the interruption of all those things we used to do (go to the gym, go to the delhi, go to London, to Cambridge, art galleries, the garden centre, catching up with friends) we are still doing it all, just online without the travel. The only thing we're missing out on is haircuts (it's been 11 weeks now), sorry <a href="https://www.miemani.co.uk/">Cristian</a> I think despite your warnings not to, I'm going to have to tackle my fringe soon!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What it means is loads of extra time in the garden. The vegetable garden is the looking the best it </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ever has. We actually seem to have things under control, it's tidy, things are growing and they aren't weeds. I sat down yesterday with a pen, paper, </span><a href="https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9780241360002-allotment-month-by-month/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this book</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and tried to figure out how we were going to fit it all in. I've a house full of plants we've raised from seed. We've five main beds, one for the raspberries and rhubarb, another for herbs, then three others we rotate yearly (though two now have permanent areas for asparagus and fruit bushes). The bed with the potatoes and root veg is pretty full already but I can see potential for more sowings especially once the potatoes have been earthed up. The bed for the courgettes, tomatoes, peppers, sweetcorn, cucumbers and beans is where it's going to be a real squeeze. And then there's the third where the brassicas live, which is currently quietest of all, with just a few rows planted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As well as time in the vegetable garden we've been able to keep the rest of the garden under a little more control. We're moving, dividing and propagating plants for the bank under the apple trees, which will hopefully keep the weeds at bay. We're adding more structure to the soil in the woodland so it retains water better and allows us to grow a little more without the constant need to water. We're reseeding grass where the chickens and ducks have been. It's good having the time to do but also to think about things, how we'd like them to be and working to achieve it. I'm loving this slower pace of life, in my little bubble where everything feels safe, our garden is flourishing and we've the time to enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't posted here for a long time, actually a really, really long time. It takes a pandemic to bring me back to the surface of the blogosphere. Speaking of which I hope you are well, and keeping safe and sane. The reason I'm here now is simply that there seems time again, I'm not entirely sure what happened, life just seemed to speed up to an insane speed where I was just rushing from one thing to another, without time to digest, which is kind of what I used to do here I guess. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my initial pandemic anxiety, I seem to have settled into this new way, I'm not missing my commute for sure, I feel happy to be home. I'm keeping up with friends albeit in a different way, but it's actually really nice, I feel friendships are strong. It's the hugs I miss, anyone who knows me will know I'm quite a huggy person, so that's weird. I really miss hugging my mum and dad, even though I can kind of feel it in a big virtual hug, it not the same. I'm lucky, life is treating me well, and of course we have the garden, it's the new divide these days, those with, those without and I'm one of the lucky ones. And I'm so thankful. Thankful for the garden, and the new time I have (not commuting) to spend in it, doing the things I've been wanting to do for so long. Having the time to grow those seedlings, to tend them, to keep them watered. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nicekindofblue/">Instagram</a> feed seems to be featuring more and more skies, I can't stop myself from looking up. Same but different, it never ceases to inspire. </span>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-21768168209188608992016-09-13T13:48:00.000+01:002016-09-16T20:15:08.163+01:00seed cracker recipe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I tasted a really good <b>seed cracker</b> during our holiday in Norway [when I find time I'll post some pictures of that] ever since it has been playing on my mind. I searched Ocado, my local health food store and a few other places but didn't find anything quite like what I'd sampled in Norway. So I decided to make my own. I did a bit of Googling, got some ideas then did my own thing. Pleased with the way my mega healthy, easy to make, crackers turned out I thought I'd share how I made them here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Place 1/2 teaspoon of bouillon powder in a bowl, add 200ml of boiling water and dissolve the powder. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Add all the seeds and stir until mixed evenly. Push the mix down and level it in the bowl, cover and leave to soak for half an hour or so. Divide the mix between two lined baking trays and place in the oven at a cool 50C. After about an hour score the seed with a knife and place back in the oven. Leave for another couple of hours and check the seed. At this point mine was dry on top but still a little damp underneath. Carefully flip the seedcake over and pop back in the oven for another hour or so to dry. Simply snap the crackers along the score lines and they are ready to eat, or store in an airtight container.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I find it's the linseed and chia seed that hold these together, they go a little gloopy, so you'll need some of these. But you can mix up the other seed, try sesame, or poppy seeds in the mix too. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bowl for the table</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tiny egg</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">creamy coloured dipped bowl</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apollo and Daphne pillowcase my mum made (fabric designed by Duncan Grant)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">faded tulips</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">floor tiles at work</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">coffee and jelly snakes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mouse catching some sun</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">more things I made at pottery class</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sunlight in the bedroom</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the kitchen</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">our weekly choice <a href="https://www.cofco.co.uk/">organic box</a> means yummy lunches</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seven Dials, the place I head for the best lunchtime falafel</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">looking up whilst waiting for the train</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mouser bought a slug indoors and it found my glass of beer</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">houseplants including my experimental hanging orchid</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some of my pieces prior to glazing at pottery class</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waiting for that train again</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ever since childhood I've found something quite magical about a woodland walk. Well this is ours, not a real woodland perhaps, just a few trees, but it has the feel, to me at least, of childhood woodland walks, of a magical place to explore. Each year I plant more bulbs and last year we added a few rhododendron to divide the area and make a proper little walk, so eventually as they grow you won't look back and see where you just came from!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look back to see this area of our garden in 2013 <a href="http://www.nicekindofblue.com/2013/02/snowdrops-galanthus.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reading <i>Life in the Treetops</i>, by <a href="http://canopymeg.com/">Margaret Lowman</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made a little mountain at pottery</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contrasting foliage, Embankment gardens</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a few minutes to nip round the garden the other morning and take a few photographs. I wanted to document some improvements we've been making. We are lucky to have a beautiful flint wall running the length of our garden, lucky until a section came tumbling down last year! Fortunately we were able to employ a really skilled guy to repair it (not the section shown here by the way) and when he'd finished the big repair he made good any other little bits while we set to work removing a tonne of ivy that had crept and crawled it's way over most of the wall. So now it's revealed in all it's beautiful flint glory. We're currently busy putting in a wooden edge to hold all those bark chippings up that bank under the apple trees and keep them from spilling down onto the lawn. I'm also sharing a shady little corner, that's getting quite pretty as the hellebores flourish. </span>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-16825300912061343782016-02-20T18:50:00.000+00:002016-02-20T18:50:22.157+00:00our ducks and their garden<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6mZIBUwIu3s/VsiklNbVOSI/AAAAAAAAFfY/evhO4NsYJRw/s1600/nicekindofblue_1376.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6mZIBUwIu3s/VsiklNbVOSI/AAAAAAAAFfY/evhO4NsYJRw/s1600/nicekindofblue_1376.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you've been reading this blog a while you'll remember <a href="http://www.nicekindofblue.com/2012/09/introducing-pie.html">Tit and Pie</a>, our adorable ducks. If not that's Pie in the foreground and Tit at the back, she's extra special to us as we <a href="http://www.nicekindofblue.com/2012/06/28-days-later.html">hatched her</a> ourselves in a homemade incubator. Tit's had a tough start to the year, she lost the sight in one eye. We're not sure how it happened but she sustained an injury to the eye which caused an infection. Fortunately she's a strong duck and with the help of some wonderful vets, antibiotics and painkillers she's on the mend. </span>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-72709546876633086482016-02-15T08:33:00.000+00:002016-02-15T08:33:17.129+00:00pottery class<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">snow, Aarhus</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dogs at Lumiere, London by <a href="http://www.deepamannkler.com/lumiere.php">Deepa Mann-Kler</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">found a nice egg in the charity shop</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">been wrapping presents</span></li>
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Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-32889728565898090252015-12-03T20:56:00.000+00:002015-12-03T23:07:56.974+00:00I really love magazines<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not the glossy gossip kind they sell in the newsagent but the type you have to hunt out: either through small independent bookstores, the Internet or somewhere unexpected. I love searching them out in bookstores: eagerly picking them up, peeking inside to sense if they appeal as much as the jacket might lead me to believe. On the Internet I'm more likely to search by subject then judge by the cover if this is a magazine for me. <br><br>In my mind magazines need to be beautiful. I want a magazine with good looks, well designed, exceptional photography or illustration. I want them to be styled and to be stylish. They need to feel good too: nice paper, pages you want to turn, they need to be interesting, to make sense, to be well written. It's hard to find a magazine that has it all, but there are some really goodies out there, you have to seek them out and once you do you'll be eagerly anticipating the next issue.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br><a href="http://www.theplant.info/">The Plant</a><br><br><a href="http://www.apartamentomagazine.com/">Apartamento</a><br><br><a href="http://www.neptun.is/">Neptún</a><br><br><a href="http://moderndesignreview.com/">Modern Design Review</a><br><br><a href="http://www.cosstores.com/gb/Magazine">Cos Stores Magazine</a><br><br><a href="http://brownbook.me/">Brownbook</a></span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These images, taken only a week or so ago, paint a very different picture to our garden today. Over the past weekend we experienced the first frost of winter, cruelly and abruptly putting an end to this delightful colour. It's nice to look back just a short distance in time and remember these rich, bright hues as we head onward into the winter months.</span>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159429442277236957.post-80520052378114413222015-11-25T09:00:00.000+00:002015-11-25T09:00:05.689+00:00autumn/fall colour in our garden III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following on from my last post I share more of the autumn colours filling the garden; which <a href="http://www.nicekindofblue.com/2014/06/introducing-chicken-and-pingu.html" target="_blank">chicken</a> happens to tone with so well!</span>Polly (nice kind of blue)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01574999166601884867noreply@blogger.com0