Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, that's exciting :j I was meant to have a half day Friday a couple of weeks ago but landed up in bed poorly! Might book one for next week instead

rtandon27

Happy Half Day Pips! I'm sure an afternoon at home will do you a world of good!:D

I'm working from home today - can't remember the last time I managed to do that! Nothing like home clothes, slippers, freshly washed hair and NO COMMUTE!

So in the spirit of that dreaded flylady - kitchen blitz (part 1) has been completed & living room blitz done as well! Recycling out, bird feeders filled & now 1.5 hours earlier than usual am sitting with the laptop sorting out work e-mails!

:j:j:j

Nothing like a quiet day to gee up the motivation factor!:T

Methinks a freezer stocktake is in order at some point today - we have a month to make our way through it before my mom comes from across the pond for Easter!

Pippilongstocking

im working from home today but for wombles
so a day off from the garden. stove is on soup is on done a 15 min declutter of the kitchen and a wash is on.

Teleconference (on hold at the mo someone is wittering on about something important but not to my team) and i'm dripping wet from the shower - must retreive a very quiet brekkie.

kettles on who's with me.

RT our blitzes must be synced!! Home working rocks.

Waves to cheery and beanie too.

Quiet cuppa anyone? yoghurt and reduced tinned cherries for brekkie too.

rtandon27

with you for a cuppa - mine's green tea - trying to stay off caffeine for these weeks leading up to easter!

my brekkie was a bit more, well, bitty - dired berries, seed bar, 2 pieces of cheese & some leftover sweet & sour chick & rice from the freezer!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bottom drawer of freezer done - unexpected finds included 1.5 kg chicken thighs & two lots of slice courgette - it's supposed to be the cheese drawer but obviously we ate through a lot of the cheese & filled it with other goodies instead!

four more drawers to go...

(nothing like a boring telecon to bring tears to your eyes - my first of the day is in 10 minutes - I get to deal with a SOB for 1/2 hour! - sigh - I much prefer things to people...)

EssexHebridean

Morning all...well, afternoon techically, but I've not had lunch yet so it's still AM to me!

Breakfasts sound good all round - Stripes I'm going to make you jealous....dinner tonight will involved tatties, onions, bacon, cream & Raclette cheese.....in the words of someone who is now rather beyond the pale "Can you tell what it is yet?!" :rotfl:

Great work on freezer sorting RT and can't argue with finding surprise chicken, either! :T

Cheery_Daff

Not sure about chicken for breakfast mind you!

Home made bread and marmite for me Forgot to bug porridge and shoving some bread in the machine seemed preferable to going out again last night :rotfl: Wish I'd remembered jam though, much prefer a sweet breakfast!

Lunch is a shoddy (but tasty) packet pasta and sauce Normally bring home made leftovers but, er, we had cheapo pizza and ate both of them last night :rotfl:

Oooh, saw a snowdrop in a garden this morning pippi - noticed for the first time ever that it had a little sad mouth but no eyes :eek: is this normal for snowdrops? Have a spotted a grumpy snowdrop having a snooze with its eyes shut?? :rotfl: or is that just a normal snowdrop and I never noticed before?!

Pippilongstocking

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Morning all...well, afternoon techically, but I've not had lunch yet so it's still AM to me!

Breakfasts sound good all round - Stripes I'm going to make you jealous....dinner tonight will involved tatties, onions, bacon, cream & Raclette cheese.....in the words of someone who is now rather beyond the pale "Can you tell what it is yet?!" :rotfl:

Great work on freezer sorting RT and can't argue with finding surprise chicken, either! :T

I may unfriend you. But that might be a disproportionate reaction.

However I did send you cheese !!!!!! at xmas so maybe I wont.

YUM

Chicken surprise works for me everytime too.

!!!!!!! website keeps booting me out or freezing me.

:eek: home working supposed to more zen than this I'm sure.

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Not sure about chicken for breakfast mind you!

Home made bread and marmite for me Forgot to bug porridge and shoving some bread in the machine seemed preferable to going out again last night :rotfl: Wish I'd remembered jam though, much prefer a sweet breakfast!

Lunch is a shoddy (but tasty) packet pasta and sauce Normally bring home made leftovers but, er, we had cheapo pizza and ate both of them last night :rotfl:

Oooh, saw a snowdrop in a garden this morning pippi - noticed for the first time ever that it had a little sad mouth but no eyes :eek: is this normal for snowdrops? Have a spotted a grumpy snowdrop having a snooze with its eyes shut?? :rotfl: or is that just a normal snowdrop and I never noticed before?!

Oh dear lass they don't normally look grumpy, erm just that one but you might have a point maybe they ARE sleeping.

Lunch sounds yum - I like a good packet pasta I have no class about food :rotfl:

I had tinned cherries given to me and thought - eh - but most delish with yog and I do like some free food.

I'm hoping it was buying porridge and NOT bug porridge.

:rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

with you for a cuppa - mine's green tea - trying to stay off caffeine for these weeks leading up to easter!

my brekkie was a bit more, well, bitty - dired berries, seed bar, 2 pieces of cheese & some leftover sweet & sour chick & rice from the freezer!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bottom drawer of freezer done - unexpected finds included 1.5 kg chicken thighs & two lots of slice courgette - it's supposed to be the cheese drawer but obviously we ate through a lot of the cheese & filled it with other goodies instead!

four more drawers to go...

(nothing like a boring telecon to bring tears to your eyes - my first of the day is in 10 minutes - I get to deal with a SOB for 1/2 hour! - sigh - I much prefer things to people...)

TRG has such rock and roll breakfasts all the time so you've kept good company!

Well done on the freezer finds. I did find a discombubulated chicken (clearly roasted, robbed of breasts and hastily shoved in a bag in the freezer.........clearly one I left for later eh.) Poor thing, no ceremony in my life sometimes.

I hope you find more cheese in your drawers and yes that's ridiculus to even imagine that.

:P

As to conference folks - bleurgh. Books, plants, people in that order for me - although online people I find are far nicer.

Espesh here.

Eggs ready to boil for lunches next week - you see you've all got me all organised without even knowing it.

rtandon27

...peer pressure...:D:D:D

...you've got me to organize my lunches too...

...3 out of 5 days will be rye bread, liverwurst & swedish pickles (gerkins)...

...one day I've got a work lunch & the other will be a rummage through the freezer for some left overs...

On the subject of the freezer - drawer 4 - the soup fixings drawer yielded some surprises - more chicken:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - this time 400g chunks - and two unopened packages of whole wheat sandwich thins...

Drawer 3 - the fruit and veg drawer - has way too many frozen bananas - time for some banana bread - more chicken - 500g chicken breast fillets & 250 g lamb stewing pieces (clearly these are not fruit or veg);):rotfl:

2 more drawers to have a look at - but almost time for another telcon which I feel will be as dismal as the earlier one - things don't talk back - people do - and they have feelings which means you can't always be straightforward - SIGH - Books are my favorite too - followed by plants & animals - inanimate objects - and then maybe just maybe people (present company of the lovely MSE ladies excluded of course)