Living on next to nought - is that the key?

beanielou

Greying pilgrim~Hurrah for good friends.
A wee bit wobbly & fell again yesterday.

Shovel_Lad

beanielou wrote: »

Greying pilgrim~Hurrah for good friends.
A wee bit wobbly & fell again yesterday.

Hope you are alright beanie and I agree - hurrah for good friends

Greying_Pilgrim

beanielou wrote: »

A wee bit wobbly & fell again yesterday.

Oh, Beanie - what can I say? Take care you. I hope you are OK.

Greying

Piquant_2

beanielou wrote: »

Greying pilgrim~Hurrah for good friends.
A wee bit wobbly & fell again yesterday.

Hurrah too for good friends, in and out of the box:j

Not hurrah for falling over beanie, not a good idea at all, hope you're okay now and not too battered and bruised.

Piq x

Piquant_2

I love your diary GP. I look forward to reading it everyday. Got a fair bit on a the moment so don't get the chance to post as often as I'd like, but I am still here lurking in the background. I suppose it could be misconstrued as stalking you

Greying_Pilgrim

Piquant wrote: »

I love your diary GP. I look forward to reading it everyday. Got a fair bit on a the moment so don't get the chance to post as often as I'd like, but I am still here lurking in the background. I suppose it could be misconstrued as stalking you

Piq - you do so make me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Blooming h*ck have you got a lot on at the moment - And you've time to keep up with my witterings????

I do like the sound of your new job though. I think I would channel my inner Henry Blofeld (TMS Cricket commentator) though if I worked there. I would call everyone 'my dear old thing' and discuss pigeons, seagulls and buses on the Loughborough Road :rotfl::rotfl:

Thank you so much for dropping in - I appreciate it. Fingers crossed for Saturday :D

Greying

Piquant_2

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Piq - you do so make me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Blooming h*ck have you got a lot on at the moment - And you've time to keep up with my witterings????

I do like the sound of your new job though. I think I would channel my inner Henry Blofeld (TMS Cricket commentator) though if I worked there. I would call everyone 'my dear old thing' and discuss pigeons, seagulls and buses on the Loughborough Road :rotfl::rotfl:

Thank you so much for dropping in - I appreciate it. Fingers crossed for Saturday :D

Greying

Most of the time I refer to them as 'boys' they love it and go all giggly :rotfl: It's far easier than trying to remember which Ron, Ernie, Fred or Derek they actually are. I've promised them homemade biscuits on my next day shift should keep them all sweet :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Piquant wrote: »

I've promised them homemade biscuits on my next day shift should keep them all sweet :rotfl:

For goodness sakes don't make them Twinks hobnobs - they'll get their grandkids to go0gle for the recipe and :eek:

:rotfl:

Greying - who is now outta here and off to Bedfordshire

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Today has started out very wet - hope it brightens as the day goes on.

I should be able to claim a NSD today - but that is starting to be as much about lack of pennies in my purse as any virtuous goodliness in moneysaving :money::rotfl::rotfl:Still, a NSD will help

I've not thought about what is for dinner yet. I don't think we'll have what is on the planner, as there are one or two things that need using up - and I'm keen to avoid food waste at all cost

Right, I'd better get on and start making things happen.

Thank you so very much for taking time in your day to pop by, read and comment on this thread. I really appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, it's been a funny old day. Bit of an anti-climax with all that has been going on this week. Somewhat 'pedestrian' - no stress, no tantrums, no hoop jumping........ Ah well, probably just what was needed

Today was however a NSD :j

I forgot to say, I made yoghurt again this morning too. Long over due, I've been going without for my breakfast this week - not good. I managed to use the milk that I had decanted from the previous carton - it wasn't off (thank goodness) and the starter was from the tiny bit of yoghurt that I bought last week :eek: (some of which had been decanted into 1tbsp portions and frozen for starters for future yoghurt batches) Which again, thankfully hadn't gone green or anything.

I made a double batch again, as I intend (I know I said this last week) to strain some and make it into a ricotta/cream cheese for a dinner dish one night next week. I didn't get round to it this week, but necessity is the mother of invention for the rest of the month, so 'Get to it Greying' is the mantra from now on

Dinner this evening was a curry buffet. We had Madhur Jaffrey's Red Lentil and Courgette Dalcha - recipe HERE, a red kidney bean curry which is a Rose Elliot recipe and boiled basmati rice. We are now stuffed! With the dalcha, it is amazing how such simple ingredients come together to form such a tasty dish - although I would say that it is the bay leaves that make the dish. Also I used lemon rather than lime, as that is what I had. I'll see if I can find the RE bean curry recipe, but it is out of her 'Bean Book'. In some ways it shows just how far we have come with food since the late 1970's/80's when the book was published, as it is very conservative in comparison with recipes for thai green curry and rogan josh etc etc recipes that we have access to today. But it made a good and 'different' accompaniment to the dalcha - and it is cheap :money:

Ooooo, you know I just said I was stuffed, well DP has just bought 1/2 a cupcake over to me with a cuppa. Now this is sweet, because a work colleague brought in buns to work, and rather than scoff it there and then, DP brought it home to share with me :smileyhea It is chocolate, with (fresh) raspberries. It has chocolate icing and sprinkles on top, and tastes.......mmmm, very sweet - far too sweet for me, but never mind that, it is the thought that counts - both of the colleague that brought them into work and to DP for sharing. But chocolate and raspberries - top combination :T

Ha, I was just going to start writing my 'gratefuls' for the day and I get presented with a free bun segment :rotfl:what's not to like? Actually, I was going to diverge away from my normal '3 things' this evening anyway. It's not that I don't have a list of 'gratefuls'...... as ever I do. But I was struck yet again this evening by the power (for good) of the MSE forums.

When I first started this diary, one of the first people to pitch in with support and kind words was please-let-me-be-lucky - whom many of you may 'know' far better than me. Well, PLMBL shared some very sad news on her thread today. And it's testament to this site that people share all sorts of things, sometimes with strangers, sometimes things that they cannot share in RL or sometimes we get to know along with their friends and family in RL. Sometimes it is fantastic news, other times it is the worse news imaginable, for them, for their family.

And yet, what happens? MSE'rs come in with support. Be it good news, bad news or the worst news. Sometimes we get to jump up and down with giddy excitement, sometimes we get to say' 'I've experienced that too, I know how you feel', sometimes there is nothing we can say - but we just show our love and support anyway. MSE'rs hold out a hand in support.

It reminds me of an extract from a Pablo Neruda poem (Canto Xll From the Heights of Macchu Picchu);

'Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.'


THANK YOU MSE'rs.

See y'all soon.

Greying