Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Topsy turvy start to the day already today, and it's not even 7.30 yet (as I type)

Anyhoo, have spent money already this am, so don't let me try to claim for a NSD, ok? Sharon is 'in white' :rotfl: on the front of the TV listings magazine if anyone is interested

Also, if your MrT has a world foods aisle, and you are a muncher of lentils, they have their special offer on the 2kg packs of red lentils - 2 for £4, which is quite a good price. The brand on offer is Indus, which again, is quite a good brand.

Dinner is currently in a question mark cloud, as I'm not sure what state the cooking facilities will be at Greying Towers, so I'm inclined to shut the door and not think too much about it...... :rotfl:

Right, best vamoose and do summat

Thank you so much for popping by, reading and asking questions - if I can answer I will, and if I can't, then I'm sure a fellow MSE'r will help you out, so ask away

See y'all later.

Greying

Karmacat

Wish I had a big Tesco near me! There's an Express, but they don't stock the ordinary size packs of lentils, let alone lovely 2kg stuff, grr.

I just love your phrasing, Greying, you're way up there with Pippi - "a question mark cloud", I love it :j

rtandon27

Wondering if you could take the product number off Tesc@ Groceries website and ask them to order it in for you? Our little express store has been most accomodating with special requests - not sure if it's because they are in direct competition with a much larger W@itrose?

NoOneAround

Hi GP,
I want to start posting pictures like you do to brighten up my pages!!!!


It won't let you just copy and paste though , looks like you need to have some where on the web?


Glorious day outside today, need to move my desk out there

liltdiddylilt

NoOneAround wrote: »

Hi GP,
I want to start posting pictures like you do to brighten up my pages!!!!
It won't let you just copy and paste though , looks like you need to have some where on the web?

Hi NOA - you can use a website called tinypic to upload pics without having an account. You just upload them there and choose the file size. I usually go with the website/email one, but there is a specific 'message board' size which is bigger.

Then once uploaded you can choose to copy the link for 'Forums and Message Boards' complete with [IMG]coding HTH Lilt x[/img]

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear, I'm way behind, but I just HAD to comment on your epic post from a few days ago Greying!

I laughed as I read it because I'm pretty much where you were a year ago - house getting me down, too much stuff, grass greener somewhere else (somewhere with a garden and chickens, no doubt...). We've very slowly started getting rid of stuff and getting people in, but oh! it's so slow! And yes, we've been let down, and it's so draining, that endless process of getting people to agree to do stuff, then they don't, and you have to chase and rearrange, then they don't turn up and you have to find somewhere else...

Still, your post gave me hope that we WILL make progress, and even if you won't move by 30th Nov, you will still be MUCH closer than you were last year :j I read somewhere once - "a year from now you will be so glad you started today" and I try to keep that in mind - little steps add up to big steps eventually...

And I was so excited to see you mention Ron Finley! I'd never heard of him before, but ages ago I booked a spot at a talk tonight about urban agriculture as part of a local festival - and it's actually him speaking! :rotfl: :rotfl: Sounds like he's actually quite famous I'm looking forward to it even more now! :j :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Ay up Karma - I had a cartoonish picture of myself standing in front of an open fridge door with nothing but question marks over my head. As is was, we had 'cobble' for us tea Lovely, as ever to *see* ya - ta everso for your support

rtandon - you are right, mrT's ought to be bending over backwards to accommodate shoppers at the mo, with or without a humungous mrW in the vicinity

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Thank you so much for popping by, reading and asking questions - if I can answer I will, and if I can't, then I'm sure a fellow MSE'r will help you out, so ask away

Ha ha, no sooner did I write this, than you lovely MSE'rs are showing your wonderful natures and helping each other out. NoOneAround - I use Ph0t0bucket for my pics, but I can't recommend it as a hosting site - you get plagued with ads and it's often such a faff to upload, adjust and get the pic size you need. However, lilty has recommended you another site and I think there is flickr too? Plus if you have fAcebook or a blog, you can upload from there? Pippi would be able to shed light on that process, it's more than beyond moi I'm afraid Does anyone know if you put your pics in a *cloud* whether you can download them to elsewhere by an IMG code? Again, beyond my technical grasp, but something I just thought of.

lilt - ta for your help mucho appreciated dear gal

Cheery - thank you It's lovely to *see* you and you write such lovely posts. And your point about the *draining-ness* of it all......Oh, that. that. that. that. How much energy have we wasted waiting on Dave, or Steve, or Kev, or Dan, or Stu? *sigh* And of course, you are absolutely right, we are closer than we were a year ago, and if we'd not started at all? Well, doesn't bear thinking about. Ha ha to Ron Finley - I forgot to ask you on your thread last night if you were in anyway participating in the U of Sheff's festival (is it called free thinking or something?) I know that it isn't your U, but when I heard that food production was to be discussed and Ron was going (it was mentioned on the R4 piece), I thought of your community allotment. Oh, and if you have 10 minutes or so spare, have a look on the R4 website for the podcast of last Sunday's Food Programme - there is an accompanying video of a Master Japanese soba noodle maker. My goodness, you and Mr Cheery will love the percussive rhythm of his work. Absolutely amazing - wish I could roll my pizza dough out like that

Gosh, exhausted doesn't come into it tonight

Our workmen are very clean, tidy and considerate, and yet you still have to clean up before you can use anything And move entire rooms around so that they can work unfettered, and then move them all back so that they can work unfettered on a different part tomorrow.......

Dinner ended up being some of the leftover Masala that I made the other week from Jack Monroe's recipe. I whipped up a pot of lentil dhal (rushing, I added in too much turmeric but thankfully it was edible ) and I microwaved a baked potato to have with it. All I could manage by the time we'd finished. I didn't take a pic - but actually, it looked ok. Tasted fine. I've now got to find some umpf from somewhere as I've got to prep our meal for tomorrow night, as apparently there is a chance the work will go on tomorrow and it might be a late finish.

So, I'm going to love you and leave you. Tonight, I am grateful for these 3 things;

for what I forget, other people remember, and what they forget, I remember - makes for team work and getting the job done :rotfl:

for help and kindness shown to others

for my freezer, YS'd potatoes and valoo crisps - not necessarily in that order

Thank you so much for popping by, reading and joining in. Mucho appreciated.

Must go, the stove is calling......

See y'all later.

Greying

satchmo1

Hi GP, I'm sorry I was off-line for a few days, but I'm delighted to report in, and say that we're all moved-in and apart from a study bulging with un-unpacked boxes and boxes and boxes, the place looks remarkably organised (just don't ask me which kitchen cupboard a food item is in).


I'm feeling smug that I passed off a pretty boring Bolognese sauce that got a "yuk" rating last week as a tasty cottage pie that got a "yum" rating tonight.

Greying_Pilgrim

satchmo1 wrote: »

I'm feeling smug that I passed off a pretty boring Bolognese sauce that got a "yuk" rating last week as a tasty cottage pie that got a "yum" rating tonight.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: :T:T:T

Love it!

Greying

Cheery_Daff

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Good Evening :hello:


Cheery - thank you It's lovely to *see* you and you write such lovely posts. And your point about the *draining-ness* of it all......Oh, that. that. that. that. How much energy have we wasted waiting on Dave, or Steve, or Kev, or Dan, or Stu? *sigh* And of course, you are absolutely right, we are closer than we were a year ago, and if we'd not started at all? Well, doesn't bear thinking about. Ha ha to Ron Finley - I forgot to ask you on your thread last night if you were in anyway participating in the U of Sheff's festival (is it called free thinking or something?) I know that it isn't your U, but when I heard that food production was to be discussed and Ron was going (it was mentioned on the R4 piece), I thought of your community allotment. Oh, and if you have 10 minutes or so spare, have a look on the R4 website for the podcast of last Sunday's Food Programme - there is an accompanying video of a Master Japanese soba noodle maker. My goodness, you and Mr Cheery will love the percussive rhythm of his work. Absolutely amazing - wish I could roll my pizza dough out like that

Aw, thank you

It's the Festival of the Mind - I've not signed up for anything else but maybe I should do! :j Last year Mr Cheery and his band played in the spiegeltent - (some pics here, not of the band, but of beautiful spiegeltents!) Must investigate the programme to see if there's anything else I fancy

Will investigate pizza dough man, thank you

:hello: to everyone else