Diary of a Poor Person aged 46 1/2

mrscmr

well its only a few days till the first anniversary of this diary... cant believe it has almost been a year! i often wonder what i would have done without this way of talking to myself, getting advice, support, a shoulder to cry on.

you are all part of my progress

thank you!

mrscmr

well what are we all doing today?

several things are good about today:

sunny
blue sky
off out to friends for sunday late lunch in a short while

have contributed to meal by making lemon meringue pie which i would give an 8 /10 mark and 18 yorshire puds which i have yet to score as not sure.. i think they will get a 9/10.

now i must confess .. i am probably the worst cook in world. it stresses me to the point of tears, makes me feel inadequate and feeble. when ccooking i know that things are ready when they are burnt... yeah yeah.. see my problem?

i always promised my self a proper cookery course.. hmmm think this will never happen.

i envy those who can cook - have been watching lorraine and ainslie on gmtv and he makes it look easy..

chivers1977

Hi MrsCMR

Just made a mistake and went to Sainsburys before lunch. Big mistake - £100 trolley later including loads of goodies AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! The remaining £50 shopping budget just got blown!!!

Hope you enjoyed your lunch. It is blue sky here but soooooooo cold!

too_much_debt

Hope you had a nice lunch with your friend. I love Lemon Meringue pie.

I hate cooking, doing it at school put me off, I'm not good at practical things as it is (was always better using my brain than my hands). Anyway, at school we used to get an hour and 20 minutes to do a main meal, the people who hadn't bought their ingredients used to sit down the other end of the long class, one end had the cookers etc and the other tables. The teacher used to leave us to it and was always down the end with the kids who weren't cooking and who were not behaving.

I remember one day, shouting at the top of my voice 'I can't do it!!' this after having asked the teacher for help a few times.

So now I don't cook very often, I might do a chicken casserole or cook a joint of meat, but the meat always ends up tough and chewy, I don't know why, maybe our cooker is no good as it's not always been like that.

My mum is a good cook, she had the chance once to go to Catering College but as her dad died when she was 12 and she had 3 younger brothers she chose to go and get a job instead to help my Nan out with money.

Anyway, hope you have had a good day. Roll on tomorrow, will hopefully get a call about my Endowment, I want to sell it ASAP.

too_much_debt

That has reminded me, when my brother did cooking, he did a shepherds pie once, when he bought it home the potato was on the bottom and the mince on the top. Don't think he liked cooking much either.

hypno06

too_much_debt wrote: »

That has reminded, me, when my brother did cooking, he did a shepherds pie once, when he bought it home the potato was on the bottom and the mince on the top. Don't think he liked cooking much either.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

beanielou

too_much_debt wrote: »

That has reminded me, when my brother did cooking, he did a shepherds pie once, when he bought it home the potato was on the bottom and the mince on the top. Don't think he liked cooking much either.

That made me larf:rotfl::rotfl:

mrscmr

hilarious...! had a lovely afternoon / evening.. now i think im going to step away from the keyboard for the rest of the evening........

i repeat STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD!

till tomorrow... i bid u all good night xxx

too_much_debt

Have a nice evening mrscmr - dancing on ice is on now so might go and watch that in a minute.

Will catch up with you tomorrow.

In_my_dreams

Glad you had a good afternoon with friends, always fantastic remedy to life's problems Have a lovely evening without the computer!