5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Broomstick

Evening everyone.

Five pleasures for Wednesday:

1. I'm another person who had a lie in (with my book and a cuppa) this morning. Only thing to do with weather like today! Am very much looking forward to the sunshine that is forecast for our neck of the woods tomorrow daytime.:D

2. The first NSD of the year.

3. My mum rang me this morning and then again at tea time. She was feeling too poorly to have us round but I think she enjoyed the chats and I did too. I suspect cabin fever has struck. We'll try for a visit again in a day or two's time.

4. Made DSs eggy bread with wilted spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers and grated cheese on top for supper - it's a standard favourite in our house. I've now gone wheat free again in a plan to get my weight back down so I made myself an omelette with the same veggies in it. Absolutely gorgeous.

5. Am really enjoying having a mega clean kitchen that is getting more and more sorted out. I know that it will be MS too because I will be very much more on top of using up food and reducing waste.

Sweet dreams

Bx

ampersand

1. Just back from Compline. It's right for me.
2. ..but meant not quite npd. It just wasn't safe to walk tonight. nsd though, so 100% for the whole of 2014:-)
3. Both bowls of hyacinths mostly out, Barbie pink and white. Perfume is knock-out gorgeous to come in to.
4. Fri/Sat/Sun>London/Brighton sorted out, paid via Mr T vouchers. Research most of day,coming together.
5. Dum spiro spero, dum spero vivo -
http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/01/01/1786008-90-ans-trouve-amour-passant-annonce-jardin.html#xtor=EPR-1

n.b.'malice' is a false friend:English = 'mischief, arch'

How is your sister, ccp?
Glad to see your post bagpuss.
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Research and journey tie in with v.v.v.interesting auction Lot from Nov., which turned up this related[Offenbach/cancan/l'enfer/pre-War/Nancy Spain]fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lIfgWIg8o

This would have been right up her street. Love those mancancanners too!
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Is this no. 1 for tomorrow? Early Easter? merci bop:-)

Thu
8°C
7°C
Sunny

Broomstick

Ampersand, when do you have to plant hyacinth bulbs to get them to flower round about Christmas time? I know I bought some the other day but I'd like to do some from scratch as presents next Xmas and, if I find out now, I can write it on the new calendar and it might stand a chance of happening in the autumn. How forward-planning is that?! :eek:

Thanks
B x

ampersand

Those ones were a v.g. Scotsdales[ask dd]]bogof, not even a month ago[Dec week-dated coupon]
For a vase+water, they're available Aug/Sept onwards. I often miss out because out of UK then.
Look here too:
http://www.hyacinthvases.org.uk/how_to_force_hyacinths.htm
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I'm adding another HUGE pleasure, OS, new S, every S you can think of-
have managed to avoid every single JAM, WHO and cumberbatch[really yecch! him - voice only, in Cabin Pressure excepted].

Frith

In a bit of a quandary here. MrN's chimney (about 2 metres from my end wall) has been damaged in the storms. The television aerial is now at a jaunty angle and this was (is) attached to the top courses of bricks on the chimney with metal banding.


The top 2 courses of bricks are now not attached to the rest of the chimney but are just perched on top. You can see they are half off the edge of the rest of the chimney (like half a brick's width overhang!) and a good gust of wind will bring them and the aerial down into the alleyway, into the road (houses back straight onto the narrow pavement) or onto someone's head.


Quandary is this - shall I say something? He won't ever do anything about it. Should I inform highways who will phone him and ask him and then he might?? Three panels of his fence are lying in my garden and the downpipe from his gutter fell down about 2 years ago so the rain pours down onto the pavement so you have to walk in the road to avoid it. Hmmmmm.


Anyway, pleasures for today!


1) A lie in!


2) Veg box company sent 2 veg boxes (my fault) so now have a red cabbage, 2 celeriacs (!), leeks, 2 x potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, peppers, onions, a tonne of kale, a squash, some other bits I can't remember and a lot of fruit to use up. :-/


3) Went swimming with sons and my brother.


4) Mum gave me a 2014 calendar as she had received lots of free ones.


5) Made a pizza for tea.


6) Enjoyed all watching Harry Potter just now.

Tealady_2

Frith - the celeriac is good as a base for soup and also makes a nice celeriac mash. Please don't ask for a recipe for soup though as I am a very much make it up as you go along type of cook, sorry.

Frith

Thanks, Tealady! I am using the tonne of kale from the boxes for soup tomorrow along with Stilton Mountain. Do you think the celeriac would be OK in a casserole? I'm going to make a chicken casserole for tea tomorrow (with dumplings) and was going to put as many veg in there as possible!


Mushrooms on toast for breakfast (again...) as I've been sent 2 bags of those and they are the one and only food sons won't eat!

Broomstick

Thanks Ampersand. I've saved the link and I'll put the reminder in for August!

Frith, I'd go with soup as well. That's what I'm doing with the one that I've got waiting to be used. I know that people have also mentioned mashing it with other veg eg spuds or carrots to have like plain old mashed potato. My mum makes a really nice salad by peeling and grating it and tossing it in vinaigrette dressing. One celeriac makes rather a lot of salad though! Abel&Cole do a good recipes section and the celeriac recipes are plentiful:
http://www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipehome.aspx?so=2&text=celeriac&vo=false&p=1

Do you have freezer space to cook double quantities of everything and freeze the spare?

B x

DundeeDoll

I miss scotsdales ampers it is such a lovely shop.
Guess bop's not talking to me still after another luton win
I have some kale to use up sparrer hadnt thought of soup
Quick 5 cos i need to sleep.
1) fabby new year with my friend and her brother
2) xoh picked me up - decided to accept offer as weather foul, had a bag and bus service not running today. It's a long walk...
3) made kedgeree then watched tudor kitchen while polishing off cherry liquers from hamper. I am firm believer in 12 days of xmas to finish up xmas nosh. Diet restarts 6th
4) have done my budget spreadsheet for 2014. Today was 1st nsd
5) have knitted 1st square for dr who blanket. http://holynarfcrafts.wikispaces.com/Doctor+Who+The+Angels+Have+The+Blue+Box+Dishcloth dk 5mm needles blue from wool stash, It's 8 inches square so going to need quite a few.

Chickenopolis

Frith- I would write a letter to Mr. N and keep a copy yourself explaining the 2 year drain pipe issues, fence panels and the chimney . If something were to happen (heaven forbid) he can't then say he didn't know or it must have just happened .. btw made celeriac and parsnip bake yesterday .. lovely with meat xx