MG - The Matrix Re-wired

groatie_queen

I went to a dream group for years, and one school of thought is that everything in the dream represents an aspect of ourselves/our lives. MG - Does the man's personality represent qualities you admire/would like to increase even more in yourself - as you are all these things already? Is the "theatre" your business and blog - ie your stage to the world, the place you entertain, make people think and enthrall them? The river - opportunity flowing forward into the future? The name - making your Mark?

Only you can know how these elements resonate for you, and what they symbolise.

No dreams for me last night, or more accurately none I can remember!

Memory_Girl

OMG!!!! What have I started:rotfl::rotfl: Glad to know I'm not the only one who has vivid dreams.

I'm going with GQ's interpretation BTW - cos it makes sense in a "logical" kind of way.

................ but there is a part of me slightly convinced this Mark is a real chappie. Wil keep my eyes peeled and report back if I find him:D

MG

Horace

Just discovered that my chum who sent the hamper of goodies omitted a jar of homemade beetroot chutney and a jar of homemade plum jam. Must admit that since she has been living over in a tiny hamlet outside Wisbech, she has become an earth mother - cooking fabby food, growing fabby food and keeping bees.

Had to smile in Tatco's this morning - when buying my little bits, the bill came to £5.94 so I handed over £6 in LVs not being too bothered by the change (my purse was empty of cash) - the nice manager gave me one of my vouchers back (£1) and put the 94p through as a miscellaneous Tesco supply so that I didnt have to pay it. I didnt need much and what I have will last me a goodly while - at least until the New Year.

I made a small amount of flapjacks yesterday that I baked in Mosky - I used the museli that my chum makes which contains sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, oats, chopped apricots and dried cranberries - yummy. I have ordinary porridge oats in my store but thought that I would try this museli.

I am soooo glad that I found the Matrix because I have learnt to make do and mend, I am also cooking more and trying my hand at baking.:cool:

tellmeitsfriday

A week's shopping for £6! Wow!!!!

Share your secrets x

Memory_Girl

I was concocting my Peking Duck marinade when I caught this Horace - I love that our version of "Make Do and Mend" is not about doing without, but instead finding out how to have a great lifestyle on the little pennies we have whilst working towards our dream lives.

Good Food, Good Chat, Good Friends

Its not a bad place to hang out

MG

Horace

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

A week's shopping for £6! Wow!!!!

Share your secrets x

Here goes: 2ltr bottle of cravendale £1.88 (it expires on 9 Jan)
2lbs granulated white sugar - Silver Spoon (as it is made in UK) 92p
1 large tin of spam £1.50
half doz free range eggs (plain box) 89p
1 bag of mixed veggies (swede, spud, carrot) reduced to 75p

I had to go past the whoopsie shelf to see what they had - the veggies are currently in the slow cooker being made into soup, I will add leek later and then blitz it all.

I keep my sugar in an airtight box in the pantry and keep a sugar jar in the kitchen. I use a scoop (picked up free when I ran a kitchen in cancer studies - it came with the catering packs of hot chocolate) to scoop sugar from large airtight box to sugar jar that way I can eke it out. I can make a 3kg box of washing powder last for 12 months or more by using another scoop - this one from a catering pack of dishwasher powder again from an old job. It is one scoop or even 1.5 scoops per wash.

I must admit that I prefer to buy Silver Spoon Sugar because it is grown and produced in the UK and I think we should support our British farmers.

Boxing Day dinner will be lamb shank (one remains in freezer) and I will use the remaining stock from the last time I cooked lamb shank again from the freezer. Veggies will be frozen cabbage and mash - I will make the mash using fresh spud that I will bake first and then scoop out the flesh, the skins will be used to make stuffed skins with cheese & bacon & leek. I will also cook my mini christmas pudd and serve that with either custard from the store cupboard or dream topping also from the store cupboard.

clairewop

Helloooooo

Well mince pies are done

christmas cupcakes are in the oven, and a friend of mine is coming down later to decorate the cake

Memory_Girl

My A Food order has just arrived - woohooo!!! £157 worth of stuff for £20. Love this company.

Lemon dressing
Lemon juice
Sesame oil
Popadoms (loads and loads)
Borlotti beans
Risotto rice
3 types of couscous
2 types of Nandos rubs

All of our favourite bits n pieces - and wallet firmly shut until Easter

MG

scaredy_cat

groatie_queen wrote: »

I went to a dream group for years, and one school of thought is that everything in the dream represents an aspect of ourselves/our lives. MG - Does the man's personality represent qualities you admire/would like to increase even more in yourself - as you are all these things already? Is the "theatre" your business and blog - ie your stage to the world, the place you entertain, make people think and enthrall them? The river - opportunity flowing forward into the future? The name - making your Mark?

Only you can know how these elements resonate for you, and what they symbolise.

No dreams for me last night, or more accurately none I can remember!

with dreams, there are 2 main thoughts - Freudian where the objects/events/people in the dreams are symbols which have another meaning entirely (mainly in a sexual context according to Freud!)

Jungian - where the dreams are signs which only mean something to the dreamer and therefore only there dreamer can interpret them.

I rarely remember my rem dreams, and only bits of my lucid dreams.

jc2703

I have just had the yummiest dinner!

My christmas food shop has just been delivered and because this past week the kids have ended up getting fed at MIL or SIL as DH was working, I have been eating SW meals I made for the freezer and as I result I had loads of veg left from last week. So I cooked and mashed the swede, then put 2 chopped courgettes, a yellow pepper, half a red pepper, an onion and a carrot in the oven with a spray of frylight - just had a plateful with lots of black pepper and it was absolutely delicious! also as its all 'free' food in the SW sense it makes me feel much less guilty about the 2 glasses of wine I've had

Leek & potato soup on for the kids lunch tomorrow and enough roast veg & swede for my lunch