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Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up.

I might do a comparison and get some flat peaches to try against my round ones. I agree, I've dismissed them as gimmicky, but I'll certainly give them another go. Thanks Beanie.

Well, what a time I have had with my chum. They are a good person through and through - know that I have said that, but with all the 'wrong uns' making the headlines all the time, let's hear it for decent folk!

I remembered to brush my hair :j I remembered to iron my top :j I felt like a bona-fide grown up :j :rotfl::rotfl:


Right, I've attended to everything else. Baby Greying is snoozing contentedly, so I'm away to make pizza dough

Greying X

joeyjimbles

Go Greying Go Greying
How lovely to have time with someone who makes you feel like that, I have such a friend and she is prized above rubies (or anything that I actually would prize).
I'm flagging today, DS2 had chronic and hopefully one off insomnia last night and I ended up spending most of the night with him, reading to him, listening to an old Harry Potter CD etc to help calm his mind. Of course he fell asleep at 4.30am to wake fully refreshed at 9.30am whereas I had fits and starts and am feeling woolly headed. I can't believe that I used to work a full time job on sleep deprivation, amazing what you can survive on and how much it sets you back when you are not used to it.

beanielou

Yes, with everything going on in the world it is sometimes easy to forget that there are actually indeed some very lovely people in the world who love & support each other.

*Robin*

Hi Greying, :hello:

My Out-Laws [DIL's parents] have some of those flat/doughnut peach trees in their garden (in Spain).
Picked ripe off the tree, the fruit is positively ambrosial - but if feeding to small children, Sis-out-Law says it's best to strip 'em and deposit in a bath or paddling pool - the kids! - before handing over fruit, because the juice goes everywhere!

Greying_Pilgrim

The Flat Peach Growers Union have just been on the blower to express their appreciation for our 'bigging up' of their product :D:D

We sure have started something, haven't we? Will there be any left instore for Greying to buy???? :D:D

Mind, will it be 'death by peaches' for Greying? If I don't blow up from eating too many, will I be crushed if they all topple from the fruit bowl?? :rotfl:

*Robin* - lovely to see you back on the boards and wonderful to hear that CD is continuing to enjoy life and gallop along into adventures

Right, DH has just come home. Time to take Baby Greying - who is delighting in kicking my hand away from the keyboard - to see daddy for cuddles, kisses and stories

Oh, and we have sweet potato fries (bought frozen) to try for the first time for tea

See y'all in a bitsky.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

The weekend and lie-ins are a concept Baby Greying is yet to master

Still, I get to see lovely sunrises and birds pottering about around the houses in the quietness, so its all good

We had black olive pizza with sweet potato fries and several onion rings last night. I have to say, jury's out on the SP fries. Don't know whether it was the particular brand stocked by h3ron f00ds, or whether I do actually prefer HM sweet potato wedges (with the skin left on), but these majored on the sweet and didn't really crisp up at all (sweet potatoes are softer than conventional potatoes, but these seemed very........ limp). The picture does it no justice either - it has overcompensated for how low the light levels were and everything looks washed out - 'us tea' really didn't look that insipid!



Dinner tonight will definitely feature curry and if I don't make dalcha with the courgettes, then I am a fool! :rotfl:

Right, I need a coffee.

Greying X

in_need_of_direction

The frozen sweet potato fries we get do crisp up to an extent we have never managed with hm ones.

Greying_Pilgrim

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

The frozen sweet potato fries we get do crisp up to an extent we have never managed with hm ones.

What brand are they hun?

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

I must be getting old.

I have become an inveterate letter writer - compliments and complaints.

I'm fed up of sh*te service, brush offs and laziness.

But most of all, I'm getting intolerant of B*ll$h*t.

I was fed up of receiving 'junk mail' from the postie. I hadn't realised that along with privatisation, their commitment to honour any HM 'No Junk Mail' signs went to the wall. To get them to stop (:think:) you had to sign up to officially not receive pizza leaflets, supermercado leaflets, sell your own home leaflets......... Lilty put me onto the contact details to fill out the form. It takes 6 weeks for the junk to stop.......... but stop, for a while, it did. Of course, you can't have it stopped forever, they only let you do it for 24 months at a time. I still have a portion of time left to run on my request.

The junk mail had started again in earnest. Posties freely admit they don't look to see who has opted out, and there is no way of a householder demonstrating that they have, to help the postie.......

I complained. I got fobbed off. I 'wasn't' opted out, but if I wanted to.... blah, blah, blah.

I stood my ground and pointed out that i jolly well had opted out and there was still time left on my request.

Apparently, my addy has miraculously appeared on the 'we dunna want the junk' list again.

*sigh*

All endeavours will be made to stop the junk. Very sorry. For any inconvenience caused.

*sigh*

:j:j:j:j:j

Greying X

joeyjimbles

Oh how irritating. I have a recycling bin just inside the door and just dump it in there, but I do agree it would be so much better if it didn't come through the letterbox in the first place. Maybe its because we live in a very small city, but I don't seem to get a great deal of it, maybe its because I am not above writing return to sender on any of those ones in an envelope with a vague address on and making them pay the postage.
Sweet potato fries - I make home-made oven wedges that crisp up to a point, but the only ones I've managed to make properly crisp are in hot oil on the hob which I usually do in a small deep wok.
Looking forward to this week's curry creation.