Milann's life keeps getting in the way.......

Onebrokelady

Glad to hear your throat is getting better. I really need to clean out my kitchen cupboards but I keep putting it off 😀

milann

It was the moving dust bits that made me do it OBL…..not seen any more so hopefully that’ll be it 👍 

So ive emptied the 3 drawers….also a corner wall cupboard and the cupboard with my cups in. Ive thrown lots of stuff out…..I expected to see signs of weevils in my dried produce cupboard……not a sign. Everything is in sealed plastic boxes 🤔🤔🤔🤔mystery where the bits in the big dish came from. At least it’s in the process of being sorted now. 1 side of the kitchen with the most cupboards is virtually done……just got to remember where everything goes and put it back now 😳😳😳😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

milann

So everything is back in its rightful place in the kitchen. The best thing we bought when we did the kitchen was a mini step ladder……..which has been in its packaging until ds put it up for me a few weeks back. The cupboards are so high -  much easier than the chair I usually use, i am suitably shattered. I still have 1 cupboard to do on that side of the kitchen but I’d had enough….nothing will need washing though as it’s my tin cupboard……and dh spice boxes - which he said he will sort and label…….he’s been going to do it since we had the kitchen done last year.
I found the source of my creeping dust - weevils - from a bag of gramm flour dh uses occasionally. Everything else is in plastic tubs but that isn’t……when I opened the bag 😳😵‍💫😳🤢😳😵‍💫. Hopefully I’ve seen the last of them now but I’ll keep an eager eye out 😉

Sun_Addict

I’ve got a bag of gram flour I only use occasionally, not in a container, I sprinkled a bit on my sweet potato wedges tonight without checking it for weevils so may have inadvertently eaten one like a bush tucker trial in I’m a Celebrity🤢 🤣

milann

Added protein SA 😂😂…….no good for a veggie though 😳😂😂 

I’m so pleased I found the root of the problem…..

badmemory

It can happen in a sealed tub too.  The "eggs" seem to be in the flour when you buy it.  I had them once & now examine flour before I use it.

WinterWarrior

I agree @badmemory, we’ve had weevils, so I started decanting new bags into sealed Tupperware. Left one for a while and I swear it was like an ant farm when I looked in 🤢 I put it down to the damp Scottish atmosphere as it’s so much worse here than in my last house…or maybe I’ve been unlucky. I daren’t keep flour in now if I’m not using it straight away. 

Sun_Addict

It must be weevil season as someone on the BBC Good Food FB group has just posted about them. Some good suggestions in the responses. I must admit I was very vigilant using some already opened polenta tonight, scouring it for signs of life 🤣 Blooming things 😡

milann

So far so good. I haven’t seen anything crawling today. 😳. I’m scrutinising every spec of dust or crumb i see 🤞😂
Somebody has turned a tap on my nose this evening …..not sure if the remnants of the bad throat or something new. Whatever it is I wish it would ‘do one’. I’ve finished the antibiotics so will see how it goes….
I got up this morning and emptied the fridge and freezer…..both are cleaned and sorted to an inch of their lives…..and woe betide anyone who messes them up 😉 mmmmmm how many pork chops do you need for 2 people living in a house…..think they must have been on offer and both me and dh bought some and just threw them in there 🤔 I need to be more organised and get a grip on things. 
This afternoon we went to a local caravan shop to look at buying new sleeping bags in readiness for the arrival of the motorhome. They were packed in sealed bags and you couldn’t feel the fabric. I wasn’t paying the money they wanted as I can’t stand ‘squeaky’ padding in material…..and I couldn’t tell…..once the bags were opened I wouldn’t like to try and get it back in if I had to take it back…. I’ll use the old one we have. The caravan shop is just around the corner from a friend so we called in there and dh treated us to tea in her local pub. Twas very nice…..nothing fancy - scampi and chips but it was red hot and tasty. My friends son has just got rid of his caravan and sent us a box of caravan bits…..it’s  still in the back of the car so no idea what we have. One thing we did buy was a couple of glasses- which will do for wine 😉👍or any other drink. We’re keeping equipment to a minimum so a couple of glasses will do 👍 it was on the way home my nose started running…..and it’s not stopped 😡

Ive done everything on my lists except pay my cc so I’m quite impressed with myself.
So - I’ve cleaned most of the cupboards on one side of the kitchen, 1 to go, I’ve  defrosted the fridge and freezer and I know what we have got in there. I’ve washed and changed my bed. All is going to plan 👍
Tomorrow 
breakfast - cereal with berries and banana
I should be meeting a friend for dinner but that depends how this runny nose develops - we cancelled last week so I’m hoping I can make it.
Then I’m going to chill as I’m shattered.
Tea will be the rice and something from the freezer I’ve been threatening all week.

Saturday - we’ve been invited to go bowling with my brother and his family….. I’m hoping to go but depends how I feel.

Sunday - I’m being treated to see The Drifters 😁😀 a birthday present from my friend.

So a good weekend planned 😁👍

RelievedSheff

We use proper bedding on the van rather than sleeping bags.