Traditional British cake, as taught to me by my mother.

Ingredients

Cake
175g self raising flour (all purpose can be used, but to make it self raising, add a pinch of salt and approximately half a teaspoon to a teaspoon of baking powder)
1 tsp baking powder
175g golden caster sugar
3 eggs (on the largish side)
175g butter (soft. leave it out of the refrigerator for an hour or so)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Filling
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Susi

Another post with stuff I forgot to add to the previous post because I'm silly.

Anyways. At the moment of posting this I'm eighteen years old. I have a strange habit of talking a lot about hats and the weather. I can speak French and German as well as English but I need more practise with both of them. I'm learning Russian at the moment.

Привет! Как дела? Я хорошо...

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Well I have a blog now. So expect exciting posts. I guess I should explain the categories here in greater detail.

England: Things about England, basically. Perhaps some politics but also cultural things. I have grandiose visions for this.

Writing: Perhaps since nearly no one visits the Literature forum I shall post my writings here . Expect some poetry, some stream of conscious. Fiction only, basically.

Art: Photography and paintings. All my own stuff....

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The aim of this essay is to provoke some thoughts on the nature of democracy. It was inpired by an article entitled Are we good enough for democracy? by Jonathan Wolff.



Wolff evaluates one possible way of refuting an argument against democracy, made by Plato in The Republic. Plato says that we should at least expect just and efficient legislation from a government, and he goes on to argue that democracy is not part of the answer to this requirement;...

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