Although I love to eat risotto I find making it a pain in the butt so this is a hack of a baked calasparra rice recipe from the latest Dish magazine (#72 June July 2017).

I believe this is a great no fuss recipe.
​It's that good old method of gently frying some onions, herbs & spice then plunking in the rest of the ingredients & the stock, bring it to the boil, turn it down to absolute low, pop a well fitting lid on, set the timer & leave it alone.

It works ! You may even get a crunchy layer on the bottom of the pan.
You can add anything you want to eat it with; we carnivores fried up bits of sausage mmmm

This was possibly the scariest thing I've done in a while !
It's not every day you take to your own embroidery with a staple gun, risking wonkiness & ruin !!*
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. . . but then it's not every day you really need to know whether or not what you've decide to do will work.
& even tho the 1st one worked I still procrastinated about doing the 2nd one simply because I was worried that the 1st one had somehow only worked by sheer good luck . . . 
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. . . turns out the 2nd one worked too.

There were 3 things I was evaluating.
Would I be able to evenly tension the fabric to get the lines lying taut, could i get 'nice' corners & which thickness frame would I prefer for this series

I am happy to report that the answer to the 2 technical questions is yes & yes
. . . I am undecided about which thickness I prefer.

what is this 'idea' that is swirling around annoyingly in my head ?!?

​i know it is to do with repair, hence the patch thing
i know it is to do with damaged environments
i know it is to do with plants & ecosystems
i know it has an international application
i know it has to do with plants indigenous to an area
i know it has to do with balance 

currently, it is manifesting as small cardboard circles used as the backing for warps of wool & wefts of muka
& that is all I know …