Scones and Stress

I decided to try and make scones yesterday, which pretty much turned out
to be a comedy of errors. They were from my healthy baking book, and
were supposed to be Honey, Sunflower and Ginger Scones ... however
that's not quite how they turned out.

First, I checked the recipe, and realised that I didn't have the
required cookie cutter, or baking parchment, or the right flour. Quick
trip to the supermarket and that was sorted. Then - in my usual
dappiness - I was well into measuring stuff out before I got to carrots
(yes, there really are carrots in this recipe) and realised that I
didn't have enough of them. Elementary mistake. Quick trip round to
the boys next door to liberate a carrot from their fridge.

Next, I'm completely baffled by the food processor (which isn't mine,
but my flatmates). Does one use the the dough mixing thingy, or the
choppy blades? Which is after it's taken me a good 10 mins to find the
clever little storage compartment that hides both of the above! I chose
the mixing attachment.

After finally getting all the ingredients in the bowl, it then takes me
another 5 mins at least to work out how to switch the damn thing on. I
can tell you that by this point I'm regretting the whole endeavour!
Eventually, I work out that you have the clip the lid of the mixing bowl
right round until it clicks a second time, and finally we have lift off!
Now - how many is a "good few pulses"?????

Then realise, that unless I swap to the choppy blades, my sunflower
seeds are going to be left whole, so swap blades.

I'm left with a mess of "dough" that is ridiculously sticky, and
immediately coats my hands when I lift it out ..... surely this can't be
right, can it?

Recipe says roll it out to 4 cm's thick and cut out the first 8 scones.
Errrrrr ..... if I roll it to that thickness, I'm going to get one
scone! Something's gone very wrong, I think.

Settle for rolling out to a much thinner depth and cutting out the 10
scones the recipe calls for. Put them in the oven with much trepidation,
and 17 mins later, there's something that at least smells like ginger
scones, even if they're a little on pygmy side of normal scone
dimensions!

Thankfully, they actually tasted ok, but I definitely need to practice
this one a bit I think!!

Later that night - just as I'm switching off lights to head to bed, I
discovered that the freezer door was open, and must have been that way
for at least 3 hours .... d'oh!!!

This morning has kicked off with stress, stress and more stress - I'm
covering someone elses work while they're on holiday, and it turns out
to be the morning when everyone is late with the info I need, and the
colour printers are broken! Arrrrrrgh! Cue me, running round up and
down the office, and through to the neighbouring one to sort out
numbers, find alternative printers, and finally speed-walk across campus
to take the late reports over to the site's exec meeting. Not the best
start to the week!!