Living on next to nought - is that the key?

mrsinvisible

happy Easter everyone, breaks a chocolate egg and ........inhales deeply, then puts it back on the shelf, for later. Don't you just love the 'thunk ' of breaking chocolate?
Fave cous has a campervan (called Frank) cos, to be frank with you, it was the only name that suited him. They use him loads at weekends, and she says he is easier to control than her DH.
I have finally cleared the debris from the 'tree-chop-fest' and will start to re-design and stock the damaged areas as soon as the remaining bit of fence is completed. (mainly reclaimed shrubs and split perennials but some cash had to be released too--ouch).
Enjoy the amble with snap, you deserve a lovely day.

Munchin

Happy Easter Greying & thank you for your diary

rtandon27

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Happy Easter Greying & All!!!!!

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kackleful

Happy Easter GP, hope you had a lovely Picnic? So glad I found your fab Diary!

beanielou

Have a happy Sunday GP & friends

little_sweetie

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

It's we who need to thank you. You're both an inspiration and a support.

Hear, hear, I wholeheartedly second that comment :kisses3:

Happy Easter Sunday, Greying, and friends. Enjoy your walk. I do hope it's not as wet and windy as we have it here at the moment :shocked: We were supposed to be having a Barbie here tomorrow with the family but methinks the sausages will be cooked in the kitchen...again....:cool:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Ha! Just wrote out a long post and promptly lost it....... The universe moves in mysterious ways. Perhaps I just needed to write it, and no-one needed to read it. I'm hoping that it proves cathartic anyhows........

Thank you lovely people for popping in and for leaving such good wishes for Easter day Very much appreciated. I hope that the weather didn't stop you from doing anything that you had planned.

I can now legitimately say that we have seen the first swallows of summer :j We saw a group of half a dozen yesterday - absolutely no question, they flew low over us (we were in the car), and were easily identifiable with their white bellies.

We had a NSD yesterday, so I must update my total. I'll be aiming for the same today

The meal planner is all over the place and I need to sort it out, and establish what we're now having and when I've some days off this week, with and without DP so it has the potential to get well out of whack if I don't sort out a system forthwith

Right, well, I've been here long enough so I'd better get a wiggle on. New week and all that.......

See y'all later.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

I must admit to being a tad confused. I realise that I failed 'O' level Geography when I was at school, but I thought that as I'd grown older, I'd quite got the grasp of it, and actually can read, interpret and understand a map these days. Something I never thought I could as a junior version of myself. However, my knowledge has just been called into question...... I have just been watching the Great British Menu - featuring contestants representing the 'South-West'. Um, er, since when have Berkshire and Oxfordshire constituted the South West? T'other chap just about got in as he's from Bristol...... but the other 2???? :rotfl:And I'm sorry, but eating out of roughly cut cans and handling boiling glass bottles - elfin safety nightmare. And Toffee apples for war veterans? - hope an emergency dentist is to hand.......

Can claim a NSD today. Didn't leave the homestead

Have more or less worked through my grump. Had a good long conversation with DP today and found that we are on the same page - perhaps more than ever. The changes that we have undergone - especially since the start of the year - are actually quite dramatic. I'm not sure if we'd even realise how much we've shed/changed. I think that we've certainly begun to simplify our lives. It's working for us, but it does throw up a great deal of disparity between us and others. Whilst I'm happy with the direction we're aiming in, I've no desire to try to 'convert' others. But it does throw up the dilemma as to whether you move yourself, voluntarily, out of their social circle or whether you adopt a different persona when around them (difficult and frankly against my principles of integrity). There are possibly other 'ways', but I'm not sure that I can come up with anymore at the moment. I suppose it depends on whether the friendship/acquaintance is worth keeping, or whether it has perhaps run its natural course.

Still, thank goodness I have MSE to come to. It is stunning how like-minds have gravitated into the forums on MSE - how many times have you read a post, on any of the threads and found yourself nodding and saying, 'Yeeess!'

Dinner this evening was a new to me recipe. I got it out of 'Pulse' by Jenny Chandler. A book that dreaming told us about. But the actual original recipe was from Sally Butcher's book; Veggiestan.

So I made Mung Bean Casserole, and served it with a small dollop of rice;



I liked this recipe very much. It was spiced, but in the middle eastern sense, rather than spicy 'hot' curry/Asian flavours. It did remind me of Anjum Anand's 'Lemony Spinach Hotpot', but was sufficiently different. I will make this recipe again

I liked the fact that the dish was brightly coloured - not something that the pic shows very well, but it looked fresh and bright, and invited you to eat it.

If you'd like to have a go at the recipe, then have a look HERE The blog author admits to tinkering with Sally's recipe a bit, and I think that Jenny must have too - as the recipe is slightly different again to that that I followed. However, the only difference I would do, from the blog recipe, is that I used a (large) fresh green chilli, rather than chilli powder. I like using green chillies - they have a nice fruity/zesty zip. Oh, and I hope I'm not being patronising - but as it is a Aussie blog, you'll of course know what they call capsicums, we call bell peppers. I used 2 - red and yellow - in my dish, as they were left over after using the green one in the Jambalaya dish.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

leftovers for lunch - we had more time to chat

that we're planning a *reward* walk version II for Team Greying - we've still done enough to warrant it

that we're still remembering to notice, embrace and be thankful for; the *small* stuff

Thank you all very much for continuing to pop in and support me. I really do hope that the weather was kind for the activities that you had planned today. We actually just *stood* in the sunshine this afternoon - really sad, and we must have looked so silly, but golly, it was good to feel the warmth, really, really good. Plus it was warmer outside than inside the house :rotfl:

See y'all later.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

It will be a spend day today, we'll be needing milk and bananas and the TV guide.

Dinner this evening is once again, courtesy of Sally Butcher and 'Veggiestan' - not bad considering I've not got the book It's the Afghan Carrot Hotpot recipe that muddywhitechicken directed us too.

Right, best get DP's snap packed up and get a wiggle on I guess.

See y'all in a bit.

Greying

mrsinvisible

Dearest GP, I was told, more years ago then I care to number, that people come into your life for 'A Reason, A Season, A lifetime' and you will know which it is.
You have come a long way, you say, well, you have encouraged some of us to travel with you, and to learn to travel lightly, for these, I thank you, and am enjoying the trip!