Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Karmacat

Love the thought of you watching those birds ... very much in tune with the blog you linked to. And as you say, none of us know whats around the corner.

kem10

I spent rather a while today staring out the window at a fat robin red breast. He was hiding beneath the feeder waiting for other birds to knock bits off for him to grab - lazy or genius?!

I'm glad you had a nice day and that blog was lovely to read at the end of the day. A nice *contented sigh* feeling to take to bed with me!

kissjenn

Soup looks loverly.

I agree that it would be wonderful to identify the birds by their song. Only birds I've identified so far this year are Mr and Mrs Grouse (I think) brought through the cat flap in 5 parts by boy kitten yesterday. Everytime I confiscated a bit he ran off and go me some more. He's been in the huff all night and most of the day due to me stealing his trophies!!

Girl kitten brought home a branch instead and has been making twigs all day. When she starts basket weaving I'll take pictures :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Karma - most days I love that it is all *shiny and new* to discover, but then sometimes we all get wrapped up in the *chase*, only to find that in the grand plan, it matters not one jot. I'll never reach perfection, but I can try for *better*.

kem10 wrote: »

I spent rather a while today staring out the window at a fat robin red breast. He was hiding beneath the feeder waiting for other birds to knock bits off for him to grab - lazy or genius?!

And doesn't that just point to some sort of *learned behaviour* - some sort of evolution? Either way - he's lunch sorted :rotfl:

kissjenn wrote: »

Only birds I've identified so far this year are Mr and Mrs Grouse (I think) brought through the cat flap in 5 parts by boy kitten yesterday. Everytime I confiscated a bit he ran off and go me some more. He's been in the huff all night and most of the day due to me stealing his trophies!!

Girl kitten brought home a branch instead and has been making twigs all day. When she starts basket weaving I'll take pictures :rotfl:

_pale_ oh lawks! Pet owners really get tested by their charges don't they - very :rotfl:when it's someone else's charge, but not too sure I'd be best pleased Add all that to your *up a ladder in PJ's* escapades :rotfl:You're a good 'un kissjen

So, Friday already - where'd the week go?

Pizza and HM wedges for dinner tonight. I've some mrt valoo mozzarella, so we may well go for a neopolitan touch

I've also made some bread dough (put in the fridge overnight) so I'll make some baps too. Plus I've got some yoghurt now, so I may well have a go at making the alternative 'broonie' recipe that I now have.

Today should be NSD, so I hope to be *reporting in* with it this evening - much like a tom cat and his prized catch :rotfl:

Have a good day - I'm intending too - my friend is coming round later this afternoon to offer some perspective on what *needs* to be done to the house in rental/maintenance terms. I've made welsh cakes to bribe...... :rotfl:

Thank you for popping in, reading and commenting. I continue to appreciate it. Greatly.

See y'all later.

Greying

Karmacat

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Karma - most days I love that it is all *shiny and new* to discover, but then sometimes we all get wrapped up in the *chase*, only to find that in the grand plan, it matters not one jot. I'll never reach perfection, but I can try for *better*.

Thats deep _pale_ (its early, my day is upside down!) true, too :j

Today should be NSD, so I hope to be *reporting in* with it this evening - much like a tom cat and his prized catch :rotfl:

Fantastic :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Have a good day - I'm intending too - my friend is coming round later this afternoon to offer some perspective on what *needs* to be done to the house in rental/maintenance terms. I've made welsh cakes to bribe...... :rotfl:

Also fantastic :j I'd better wake up and get going, or all I'll see is your dust trail :eek:

cocalls

Lovely pictures of grub as always GP (also some great receipes on the other blog you mentioned thank you for that)

I too was bird watching yesterday saw two kingfishers on my lunchtime walk along the canal they are so beautiful and always so rare to even see one.

(my forays into wine making went ok luckily-someone said it just tasted like blossom hill which i reckon is quite good considering it was only .33p/bottle to make)

Pippilongstocking

Ey up.

Very sorry to hear the news GP of your friends partner. Very cruel when folks are so young. Taking time to drop round your thoughts I'm sure were much appreciated.

Good luck today with welsh cake bribery. My MIL is welsh and makes a fine version (once for me without fruit which were lovely).

I hope the weekend finds the plans made for the house continue to be actioned by himself and yourself.

I love watching wee birds (as you know) we have none of the 'normal' birds here, although we've had a robin on the bird table (this one actually gets his own supper). Kissjen I know I shouldn't giggle but seeing our old cat Mrs Norris dragging a full size pheasant though the rough grass onto the door step made my heart stop it was at least as big as her. She also brought home the tiniest firecrest once (which broke my heart, utterly unmarked) we kept it to show the children in a box in the freezer, seemed utterly sensible until a visitor tried to put a tub of ice cream in there too.

Some visitors have NO sense of humour when I said we were saving it until we had enough for supper. (She wasn't a veggie either, just not plugged into our rather quaint isles humour.)

It was for purely identification and nature sharing purposes I assure you all. Like we use to have at school - didn't you all have 'nature tables' - I think they're pretty much banned now due to Elf and Safely.

I'll shut up now.

Hope the weekend is grand and you have some quality time with DP.

PS I'd also like to see rice pudding in a white plate with banana's when you get the notion

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Golly, my head is fit to explode! My friend has not long left, and I have got so much to think about and, and, and........... DP has just got in and is not terribly enthused with the ideas of my friend, but then he wouldn't be, so I wasn't going to win with that scenario. If my friend had said 'rip it up and start again', fault would be found........

What this all means is that I can't do a proper post tonight - I need to get ideas and thoughts down on paper and do some thinking and maybe some more talking with DP. Phew!

Anyway, clunk, thump, clunk, thump, clunk..... I can drag in another NSD claim today :j Edging towards double figures.... whoop!

Dinner is going to be pizza and wedges, but I'm waaay behind schedule. Thank goodness that we are 'dry' this January, I don't need a glass 'o red tonight - need to keep a clear focus!

Karma, cocalls and Pippi - thank you so much for commenting - I have read them, but will come back to respond properly tomorrow, along with (hopefully) a pic of dinner.

Until then, for these 3 things I am grateful today;

for possibility - and it's sister.......hope

for friends that do favours - for their knowledge, support and above all, encouragement.

for thank you notes - we got one today..... erm, thanking us for our..... thank you note :rotfl: - but we were both still thrilled to receive it

Thank you so much for popping by today, for reading and commenting and sticking with me on this journey! I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

greenbee

He's a man GP. You have to make him think that all the things you need to do were originally HIS idea...

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Karma - thank you so much for your supportive post yesterday - not too sure that I leave a dust trail when I get going - but it did make me chuckle - thank you

cocalls - oh yes to the rarity of kingfishers, I've only ever seen 2 once and they were in flight, so it was a very limited experience, but wonderous non-the-less. Well done with the wine - does this mean you are going to continue [STRIKE]production[/STRIKE] brewing your own?

Pippi - I rather suspect that 'nature tables' are non-existant in schools these days, due to elfin safety. Mind you, it is getting extremely rare to catch an elf now that they too have rights....... :rotfl:Good lord, the amount of 'stuff' that we or the teacher used to bring into class to 'look and share'. Plus the nature 'rambles' that we went on - picking up dead animal bones, poisonous plants, walking through nettle thickets.......

Oi!!! Are you in cahoots with DP????? Rice pudding with bananas indeed!!! DP would 'loveme4eva' if I served a dish of that up!! :rotfl:

greenbee - lovely to *see* you - did you have a good break? Busy I think....... Ah, DP will come around to things. It does tend to be his default response, and we won't necessarily carry out my friend's recommendations to the letter, but the ideas are a simplification of what we had on our list. From my perspective, they have given us the green light to start contacting trades etc to really get this thing moving.

Right, so when we eventually got around to eating it, dinner last night was nice. It was mozzarella pizza with HM fries - I'm not too sure what to call them, as they weren't wedges as such. Basically, I hit a patch in the tattie sack that had small potatoes, so I gathered them all up and cut them into chunks so that they would cook uniformly. I was thinking as I was dishing up why I make HM pizza. After all, let's face it, the soopermarkits have got all levels of pizza pretty well covered. I know some people make them so that they know what ingredients have gone into them, but I actually quite like making pizza, and it is cheaper to make at home. You know that I make a large rectangular pizza, which yields 8 slices, I've just done a quick calc, and I reckon that last night's pizza, excluding cooking costs, was about £1.84 in ingredient costs - or 23p per slice. That's not too bad is it? I mean, even if you had to double the cost per slice to include electricity (probably over the top) you'd still be paying less than £4 for a big pizza. Anyway, enough justification wiffle - let's get the pic up already! :rotfl:



Oh, and I don't know whether it is of any interest, but I did make some wholemeal (well half and half with strong white bread flour) baps. I don't think mr Paul is going to congratulate me on the uniformity of my shaping any time soon.......



So, I'll be back in a mo, with witterings for today..... :rotfl:

Greying