消防队和比萨午餐

15/11
火警又响了。时间是傍晚6点40分。我给靖恒穿上了棉衣，外套，袜子和鞋子，才抱他（‘着火’了嘛）走下楼。等了半个小时，只看到在宿舍部门值班的人员走来，不像上次，有消防车和救火员。我和靖恒都好失望。没想到，接着就来了三辆！还有第四辆没有转近来，也许是看到已经够了吧。。。大伙儿都不约而同的笑起来。这回真让靖恒看个够了！

The fire alarm rang again for the 4th time since I came. 6.40pm. It's going to be cold and we might have to wait for sometime. Higher chance of catching a cold than getting burned I presume. So, I took my time to wrap up Ethan and myself before carrying him downstairs. He's excited to go out and to see the firemen again. Alas, after waiting for half an hour, only the man at the accommodation office came. We couldn't hide our disappointment that this time, no firemen came. Well, we shouldn't have doubted the great British system. Very soon after, three fire engines turned almost simultaneously into our street. I think the firemen themselves were rather confused. A fourth fire engine peeped in and decided not to turn in. Everyone laughed, and Ethan had a great time.

17/11
今天决定做比萨，因为建明买了黄梨，还买了掺好材料的面粉。我备好放在上面的料后，便轮到建明做比萨饼皮。由于我在忙着输入一些资料进电脑，没有陪靖恒玩，久而久之，他跑到建明那儿缠他。结果，做比萨变成了三个人的事。那也好，可以让他了解一下煮东西的过程。

制成品：

我吃我的pizza。

We decided to make pizza today. We had gotten quite a lot of ingredients from the stores, like ready-mixed pizza flour, pineapple, ham, mozzarella cheese and mature cheese left overs, tomato puree, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, canned salmon (which we only used a little in the end because there were just too much stuff), last bit of courgette, onion, garlic, mushroom, green pepper, sweetcorn, spinach...

While Jianming was making the dough, I was busy at the computer, so Ethan drifted to the kitchen, and a chef was in the making. He really seemed rather serious at it. However, he did ask to eat it at every stage - when the dough was standing to rise, when we finished putting the toppings, when the pizzas were in the oven, when they were just out - trying my patience in exlaining why we could not eat yet.

(Incidentally, I was typing out some recipes for kids doing the cooking.)