The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

VJsmum

Been to the fruit farm, was quite busy considering it was drizzly rain.

Bought some jamming strawberries and raspberries and picked a couple of small punnets of each. And I picked my bumper crop of gooseberries - all 6oz of them but it is my first ever crop so I am proud. So far today I've made about 10lb strawberry jam, a lemon drizzle cake, a loaf of bread, a goosegog crumble and a strawberry crumble. I have also prepped strawbs and rasps for the freezer for another session of jam making. :T

Sitting down now with a cuppa, and a piece of coca cola cake with rasps and cream. There's a chicken in the oven for tea.

Phew, I am cream crackered

A tablespoon of honey with a teaspoon of cinnamon will see off a cold quickly

stiltwalker

Hello everyone and welcome to all newbies and delurkers. GQ good to see you back, glad you had a good time. Ginny have a good time on your holibobs.

Back home now after a lovely weekend with my parents.

The meal at l'Enclume was amazing!!!!! 21 courses then we had the cheese board and port after that (as if we'd not had enough already). It came as a succession of tiny, perfect, complex and at times bizarre, plates of loveliness. They only use ingredients from the UK (mainly from Cumbria) and lots of it is from their own farm or foraged. Had this stunning icecream on one of the puddings (yes there were 6 little pudding courses!) that was a pineapple weed icecream with little tiny fronds of the pineapple weed leaf (looked a bit fennel ish) and it really did taste just like pineapple! There was also a mushroom and truffle dish with mushrooms that tasted like chicken! There were also 2 courses that had cooked radishes on which were stunning - I will definitely have to get more creative with radishes, there is so much more than salad for them. I could rave about it all day!!!! but safe to say that it was a wonderful birthday treat for us and so nice to get out for such a posh evening with DH.

Off to sort the kids tea now, suffice it to say that sadly it will not be up to last nights standard but I'm sure I can knock up something that will do!

Catch you all later - hugs X

Popperwell

That sounds lovely AOT, when I say something has gone wrong on my travels I sound an old grump:pnot meant to(as in problems with the bus service)

Like today...the service details said if I left my town at 9.30am I could connect with a bus in Darlington at 10.01am or 10.08am...Neither was true...one does not run on Sun/the other runs at twelve minutes to the hour. So I had to hang around for nearly an hour. If Traveline can't get the infomation right what chance do we have?

i've already fallen asleep since coming home. I really must bake bread again...seeing the choice today makes me more determined.

Images to appear on the blog/possibly here...my friend looks after me;)I was sat in the Castle Gardens eating a big chocolate brownie with a view of the Castle...feel like I've been adopted:)

Going to have a look out later, a little pub quiz, game of bingo and nothing stronger than tonic water...

nuttyp

Hi everyone, thankyou all for your support. I work within a company that does have license rules to follow, one of them is no alcohol on the premises. Failure to enforce can result in criminal proceedings.

I have spoken to my manager and I have his full support. Things are happening furture up the chain. I am on holiday for the next week, not going any where but will no doubt be catching up on lots of jobs. Tomorrow I am going out for the day to lincoln with my mum and my girls. We share the cost of the day, I drive, mum gets us a snack for lunch and my other daughter buys the car park ticket.

Ginny where in Lincolnshire and you heading?? I hope you enjoy yourself

Stiltwalker, omg 21 courses!!! It sounds amazing.

Fuddle glad your feeling better, nearly end of term so you can spend some quality time with your girls.

Lynn, thankyou for your kind words of support. Whenever you post its always full of gracious and kind encouragement. Reassurance is something we all need at sometime or other.

Popperwell its nice to hear of your adventures.

Once again, thankyou everyone. Have a lovely evening x

Popperwell

Remind me to take ear plugs if I get to the airshow next weekend:p

That trip to Lincoln sounds great NuttyP Good for the soul.

ginnyknit

Well that was certainly a meal to remember Stilty, what an experience. Were you full at the end of it though?

Ok who mentioned coke a cola cake ??? never heard of it but it brings together 2 of my favourite ingredients:D - cake and coke!

nuttyp we are going to a tiny village on the way to Skegness. It has little cottages in a terrace and a fishing lake a few yards away from the door so I can set OH up and he can wander back and forth, snoozing or fishing. We take most of the food but usually treat ourselves to the odd meal out and found a nice diner on the Skeggie road. Its really more of a place to get away from everything and if OH is upto it we can go out for a short road trip.

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POPS you've given me the best giggle of the day, read back post no 1770 and you've invented a very useful new word that I will have in my head whenever I'm waiting at a bus stop and the bus is not on time 'unformation' describes it perfectly, I think that is one to be adopted into a modern dictionary, thank you so much, you are very clever. Glad you had a nice day today despite the unformation about the busses, Cheers Lyn xxx.

stiltwalker

ginnyknit wrote: »

Well that was certainly a meal to remember Stilty, what an experience. Were you full at the end of it though?

Ok who mentioned coke a cola cake ??? never heard of it but it brings together 2 of my favourite ingredients:D - cake and coke!

nuttyp we are going to a tiny village on the way to Skegness. It has little cottages in a terrace and a fishing lake a few yards away from the door so I can set OH up and he can wander back and forth, snoozing or fishing. We take most of the food but usually treat ourselves to the odd meal out and found a nice diner on the Skeggie road. Its really more of a place to get away from everything and if OH is upto it we can go out for a short road trip.

Oh, most definitely full Ginny! I ate at a 1 star place some 15 years ago and we ended up at the pub afterwards eating crisps and drinking beer as the food had been good but the portions so tiny (only 5 courses!!) we were still hungry. Totally different experience this time - the portions were still tiny, but there were so many courses that by the time we'd got to the end of them we were pleasantly stuffed.

My Dad's first headship was in Boston so we lived there from when I was 2 1/2 to 7 1/2 so I know Skeggy well, except I couldn't say it so it has always been called Degmess in our house. We famously dug holes on the beach on boxing day as my parents insisted on going out somewhere on Boxing day - by eck it were cold!

shegar

SUNSHINE...Denise , so sorry to hear about your diagnosis of SLE lupus, I did have that feeling day or two ago and was hoping it wasnt that.........

It seems more common now and more wide spread, hopefully that could mean more research too..........

Very warm again today, im having to water the garden every night as things are flagging in the heat.........................

Ive just pottered about today, done washing , cleaning etc and a bit of gardening but that was about all id planned to do on a peaceful sunday.........

Hubby go into care home tomorrow for a week , which will give me a bit of time to do a few things that I want to do, like take the dogs for a bit longer walk, knowing that I dont have to rush back home to check on him, cant leave him alone for no longer than 20 mins, so its " me" time next week.......

Ive read all the posts up to date , but for the life of me I cant remember when I try to do a little post for each post ....:o, memory as never been great , have to reply to one post at a time........Thats definately age related prob.........

Oh yea STILTWALKER... 21 courses, wow , ive never heard of that before........

Im going to bed soon, tv is sh*te as usual , got to be up at 5.30 in the morn .................So catch you all tomorrow....Sheila....

nuttyp

good old skeggy!!! locally known as skeggy vegas lol because of the arcades. We have spent a happy day and week there. If we go into skeg we head for fox's pantry along the main street in towards the clock tower.

I hope you have a wonderful time, it talks of being nice and sunny this week.