Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Ever have days where you have done a days work before you start? :rotfl:

Aiming for NSD today - need one

Dinner this evening will be from my 'Workers Wednesday' list as I managed to make it last night - hope I haven't built up a wealth of excitement - it's quite ordinary really

The video of Tatsuru Rai, master soba noodle maker can be found HERE if you can watch it - the first 10 minutes or so are the main thing (although it is a little slow to start with). Absolutely amazing, and the sound is just....... Wish I could form dough into a square and then a rectangle so easily though

Right, gotta dash.

Thank you for popping in, reading and commenting. Always appreciated. Always.

See y'all later.

Greying

Shortie

Moring Greying x

Oooohhh yes, and I'm having one now, lol. I let someone get to me in work yesterday and I festered and festered over it. I thought a night's sleep would fix my head but while I'm not so on edge about it, I'm clearly still naffed off. Can I go an hibernated in bed for today please?

And yes, thankyou for the reminder about the old diary of just getting something done when things aren't right - I hadn't really seen the 'moral' of that diary in truth but now I do :-D

So yes, you're right I need to just do something about it and hoping we can start to make in roads into the savings ready for a change of mortgage. Then and only then can I look in earnest and changing jobs (I can imagine it won't go down well with mortgage co's if I've only just changed jobs as I go to apply)

NoOneAround

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

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]

Thank you Lilt - will give that a go - sounds straight forward enough especially as you don't need an account ....:beer:
x

NoOneAround

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Good Evening :hello:

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 :DGreying

Thank you GP, so I won't try PHo...B :beer:
I do have FB but would be concerned about traceability and remaining anonymous as still about situation and still keeping up the pretences in the real world, but actually wish the people on here, who are so amazing, were the real world.... I have no idea why I just wrote that because you are all the real world, what I meant was here and now in substance ...
and also am not being fair to those substance_ially around me as they do not know so how can they be supportive? Not making a lot of sense today so I will just go sit quietly in the corner
x
Have a lovely day...........

wishus

Morning everyone!
I listened to the Food Programme the other day - that was a wonderful story!

I'd been having a really good week - lots of positive thinking followed up by positive action. Then my OH drops a bombshell with a confession last night - he's not been paying off as much of the debt as we had planned to with the money I've been giving him because socially he feels he has to keep up with other people when we go out and that "men count each others' pints", so can't fall back or he'll lose face. And apparently, because I drink more slowly, he has to pick up what would be 'my rounds'. This will be mostly at the weekend events I go to for networking and drumming up business, as well as seeing our friends. Because friends are there it's good to have him along and I appreciate his support, but it's true, when I go alone I don't even spend a quarter of what we do together - and that's just my spend.

It made me feel annoyed and very sad, but very glad he has been able to admit the truth and be honest, as we can now work on doing something about it.

Downside: my signature is now meaningless
Upside: I have a cunning plan - or at least some ways I can think about getting round this situation.

I find it really helpful that there is always brilliant, positive thinking here on this thread. We shall overcome!!:)

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

shortie - that is pants that a colleague made you feel like that - I know what you mean though

NoOneAround - I know exactly what you mean. Why aren't MSE'rs our next door neighbours, or colleagues or friends. Whilst I know that there must be some MSE'rs where I live - else why did our ASdA sell out of stuff really quick when weezl and chums were developing 'Cheap Family Recipes' but I don't think that anyone who I actually have dealings with on a daily basis is an MSE'er

wishus - I feel your pain - still, as you say, better out in the open and honest I wonder if your friends would secretly wish that everyone 'bought their own' - you know, like everyone breathes a great sigh of relief when you take the initiative over Chrimbo and say, 'shall we just buy for the kids this year?' Hope your cunning plan comes to fruition.

What a day!

I got my NSD though :j

Progress is being made at Greying Towers Tiny hiccup today that means work will spill into tomorrow, but we're making headway :j

I didn't forget that it was the last 'Worker's Wednesday' of the month What I didn't explain properly, when I set out my challenges, was that the idea for 'Workers' meals, came directly from Meera Sodha's cook book, 'Made in India'. She has a dish called, 'Workers Curry', which is, in fact, channa masala - and I knew that Leanne Brown had done a recipe for it, hence an idea was born, and the curry was the first WW dish

Tonight, I stayed a little closer to home, and paid homage to that classic British staple - 'Hotpot'. You will know that I regularly make Anjum Anand's 'Lemony Spinach Hotpot', but I saw a similar version on the net that had actually done the scalloped potato topping - and I thought what a brilliant updating of the dish So, I made my version using Anjum's Lemony Spinach Hotpot (sorry, still no recipe to be found anywhere on the web ) as the filling and to take the idea of scalloped potatoes and garam masala topping from the other blog. The result was;



I served it with a portion of YS'd romanesco cauliflower from m&$ and some carrot batons. I'd never eaten romanesco cauli before, and I liked it Lovely colour on the plate too I'd make this version of the hotpot again, although it is labour intensive - I precooked the potatoes, as I can't abide 'crunchy' hotpot :rotfl: But it did taste loverly.... :rotfl:And whilst 'Betty' probably wouldn't have approved, I think it was a good fusion of flavours - pity we didn't have a glass of milk stout to go with it :rotfl:

So, today I am grateful for these 3 things;

people who do a good job, just because

for having pre-prepared dinner - I didn't think it was a good idea late last night, but I did tonight

for teamwork that meant that clearing up and dinner preparation could happen simultaneously

Thank you so much for popping by, reading and joining in. I greatly appreciate it

See y'all later, there may be further photos of 'us tea'.........

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Arrgh, DP was moithering - I forgot to put the link in for the potato topped version of the hotpot that inspired me. It is very similar to Anjum's but not the same. Find it HERE

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

And followed by........

Quintessentially British, Blackberry and Apple Crumble with Custard;



... and as the Blackberries were foraged (2013) and the apples kindly donated, I think Betty, Minnie, and even Ena, would agree it were..... alright

Greying

liltdiddylilt

The mortifying moment when you look at a plate of food and cannot identify a vegetable on it. :o:o:o:o

I am a COUNTRY Gal and I knew not what the cauliflower were :huh: So terribly ashamed! I thought it looked a bit like picalilli which obviously is pickled cauli, amongst other things, but seriously... I felt like those city kids you see on TV programmes that don't know pork comes from a pig! :rotfl:

Thank you for the explanation GP, dinner looks yum, especially the crumble! Warming on this chilly and slightly damp Septobers day. x

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

lilt - worry not - I *think* that romanesco cauli are a relatively new product in Britain, you know like stripey tomatoes or golden beetroot. Folk growing their own have had access to this stuff for yonks, but the supermercados are finally waking up, but charging a pretty premium for 'em too! Hence why I only got it coz it was YS'd. But I like it, nice cross between a sort of broccoli and cauli taste, with a more interesting shape

Agghhh, gotta dash round this morning. Still in a state of flux due to works about Greying Towers, so can't settle or get to anything

Aiming for a NSD

Dinner this evening is soup - anything *with* it, will be a bonus :rotfl:

Right, must dash, loads to shift - including my tail-feather

Thanks for popping by, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Edit: Totally forgot to mention in last night's post that the 'lemony spinach hotpot' part of the dish was frozen leftovers from the last time we had it. I couldn't have made it all from scratch, with the limited time available on Tuesday night. I like cooking from scratch, but know my limitations, most of the time, and particularly at the moment

Greying