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rtandon27

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

...Pizza for tea tonight, definitely.

All is right with the world when Friday night is pizza night chez GP!

xo RT

Greying_Pilgrim

Ha ha, thank you rtandon

Well, today is progressing well thus far. I did get soaked in a short rain shower, but managed to put the cover over BG, so they were dry as a bone-e-o, and to be fair, it was 'big spot' summer rain, and I had dried out by the time we reached the homestead

Pizza dough has been made - I tend to opt for a thin base now, so 300g of flour. I found in pregnancy that I just couldn't eat big wodges of 'deep pan' - although at times I was hungry enough to have eaten the whole thing! - and used Leanne Brown's pizza dough recipe more and more. It's become my default now, just as Richard Bertinet's was for the deep dish.

I picked up a couple of items of clothing from a charity shop for BG. It cost £2 in total. One item is from a supermercado - mrT and the other is a name I'd not heard of before. I still think that they are too pricey, although I suspect that one of the items is unused/unworn, so......

We went for oven chips from h3ron f00ds in the end. I looked at the tatties, which i really wanted to buy, as they were scottish produce (aberdeen) but they were a little past their best. Pippi would have planted them and got a good crop of spuds as a result .......... They weren't a variety that I had heard of before (find that happens alot with HF tatties - wonder if they are by-products of the processing industry, and therefore not varieties commonly grown by gardeners?), something like bureen or burren? Anyway, we shall have oven chips and we'll like em :rotfl:

Right, best get on with prepping 'us tea'. See y'all later.

Greying X

in_need_of_direction

When I was pregnant some thirty years ago, I used to crave toasted soda farls. Then that doughy feeling would cause me to be sick. I've managed to cope over the years.

liltdiddylilt

The awkward moment when you pop back on after an age.. and spot mentions of a BG and have not a clue what it is... and then discover GP and DHHHHHHHH have had a baby!!!!! Sqqqquuuueeeeeehhh.

Many congratulations on the nuptials and the package from the stork. Boy are you in for some fun! If you weren't greying before, you surely are now

Much love! xx

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

When I was pregnant some thirty years ago, I used to crave toasted soda farls. Then that doughy feeling would cause me to be sick. I've managed to cope over the years.

I don't know whether I was lucky, or hard done by, as I didn't have any cravings as such, just lurched from starving hungry to feeling full to bursting. Mind, the ravenous hunger was more a feature of the earlier months. Anyway, :wave:at INOD - thanks for popping in

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

If you weren't greying before, you surely are now

:rotfl::rotfl: Do you know me in real life Lilty???? :rotfl::rotfl: Lovely to see you - how's darling Jelly?

Well, we've had 'us tea'. Cheese and tomato basil pizza and oven chips



The basil was the YS'd one I got the other week - haven't managed to kill it yet! :j The tomatoes came from Yorkshire via the greengrocers. They were on the vine and I had 8 for 75p - they weren't the huge-est, but I've had tommies from that supplier before, and they taste like tomatoes, so :j I cut the pizza a bit differently, rather than try to cut through the tomatoes, which never works. I didn't burn the chips tonight :j

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

- listening to stories with 'audience participation'. It's only 'babble' but it's priceless babble...........

- automatic washing machines...... again :rotfl:

- finally getting the chance to catch up with the new R1ck St3in series whilst munching pizza..... :D

Thanks for popping by and commenting. Always appreciated. Greatly. By me

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Mmm, so it is all the *fault* of the 'over 60's', apparently, that we have voted to leave Europe. I wonder what the breakdown (by age) of the voting figures was in 1975 when the referendum was held to remain in the EEC..... did all the 'youngsters' drag the older population kicking and screaming into the unknown 'continental way'? by voting remain? After all, those 18+ year olds would have to be 59+ now.........

If the result had been 'stay', con-spirit-tists would have had a field day. It couldn't have been that folks wanted to stay part of the union - and put their 'X' in the appropriate box, it would have been 'fixed' somehow. *sigh* And would there have been political in-fighting? I rather suspect there would be. Party 'colour' is seemingly immaterial, there are simmering tensions on all sides. Is politics like football management now? Don't win after a few games, and you're out?

It's human nature I guess, but it seems increasingly that we all cry 'foul' if we don't get our way. If you place a bet and the team/horse/individual doesn't look like they're going to cut the mustard, you can change your mind before the end of the game/race/tournament. If no-one or no-thing can be second-placed anymore, how can decisions be made? How can the 'winner' appeal to everyone, if we stomp up to them and tell 'em - you weren't my choice.......

It's not always about 'winning' or 'losing'. Sometimes it it just about stepping up to the plate and participating. I read a good quote somewhere during this referendum, - and I'm in danger of not being able to repeat it accurately, but it was along the lines of; how *powerful* the right to vote can be - hence why it is disallowed in so many parts of the world.....A very sobering thought I feel. We participated, we may or may not have liked the outcome of the process, now we work with what we've got. Because at least we (for the most part) had the option to participate.

If I had a crystal ball, would I look to see what the future holds for Baby Greying? Actually, probably not. Every generation of parent, the world over, seems to have things to worry about for the future of their child/children (and themselves!), War, terror, disease/illnesses, weather events, recession.... running out from behind an ice-cream van or attracting the attention of the school yard bull-E. I can only protect BG from so many storms, and perhaps as importantly, how to weather storms.....Because storms, in life, are inevitable.

What will be will be. Whether I 'X'ed for it or not.

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Well, it's the weekend, and we're currently having a slow start.

I shouldn't have to do any baking, as the cake tin is still with provender, although i guess that may change by the end of the weekend

I've got 31 'choices' of meals for July now, so I'd better start drawing up my shopping list and a possible 'running order'. I'm very embarrased to admit that it feels daunting to go back to having a plan for what's fer tea. Mad isn't it, after I've done it for so long. And, after all, it isn't like the alternative works, is it? *sigh* (at mine own stoopidity).

It was lovely to watch the R1ck St3in prog last night. He was in Bordeaux. Mmmm, all the food....... OK, so I wouldn't have eaten half of it, being veggie, but it certainly looked appetising And the methods of cooking - a big pan of chips, roasting in duck fat, directly on the log on the open fire! Elfin safe-T?? :rotfl:The smell of cooking would definitely have drawn hungry customers in........ And as for the market he visited ....... *sigh* Bundles of fresh herbs... can you imagine having them to cook with? I buy coriander like that, when i'm able to go to the next big city along, I could buy mint and methi (fenugreek) too, but only in the asian supermarket, not from the covered nor street market.

There will need to be a couple of bills to be paid this arvo, and DH is keen to go to the library to get more books.... repetition clearly is grating...... :rotfl:

I need to do some more tidying. proper tidying. I had to resort to just shifting stuff before our visitor arrived the other day, and it doesn't sit well with me

Right best shift my tail-feather, daylight is burning.

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Greying gets to laugh at own stoopidity...(again) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I bought 2 bits of clothing for BG, from a charity shop yesterday, one was cherokee (tescimos) and one was 'jac baby' - which I had not heard of before. But the item was unused (I think) and the quality good, plus nice design, suitable size etc. I have just goggled, and it appears that it is a '£stretcher' brand....... thank goodness I only paid 75p for it! :rotfl:

Mmm charitee shop pricing.....................

Greying X

greenbee

but on the positive side GP, at least you avoided going into either of those places to make your purchases... I find if I go in I lose hours of my life for no discernable benefit.

We have rain. I was trying to mow the lawn (which has had two weeks of warm and wet to enjoy itself unchallenged) before I head off tomorrow. But the mower was sulking, so I failed. I now need to go and buy tights, as I wasn't organised enough to order them online. I hate shopping even more than packing...

in_need_of_direction

I hate tights!

Greying_Pilgrim

greenbee wrote: »

but on the positive side GP, at least you avoided going into either of those places to make your purchases... I find if I go in I lose hours of my life for no discernable benefit.

:rotfl: True hun! So true And you're right, I've used tescimos twice in recent weeks to 'use up time' in between appointments. The only plus side was that I had the time to seek out the 'frozen avocados' you mentioned. And knock me over with a feather, our store stocks them! I couldn't buy them there and then, because I was not going straight home to put them in the freezer, but they are on the shopping list for July, and I'm going to try out a couple of dishes with them. I found ours at the end of the frozen veg aisles, in between broc/cauli mixes and the bags of ice cubes. I had difficulty finding them initially, and did resort to looking in the frozen fruit section!

I hope you have safe, yet enjoyable travels Boo to the long grass and sulky mower - nothing worse than unco-operative 'labour saving' devices, eh? At least you get to show off your 'running toned' legs in those tights greenbee - I wear trousers and socks for a reason!

eta - me too INOD - me too!

Greying X