The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Greying_Pilgrim

Well. I do talk a load of tosh, don't I?

I mindlessly made myself another cup of coffee :mad: I was aiming for the teabags! And I don't really like tea! But needed something hot to accompany my fruit cake - which, by my own admission, came out a bit dry Anyhoo, I promise I am quitting at 2 cups!

I didn't go for a long walk :mad:

I did end up going up the high street on a fruitless mission So I got some exercise in, at least And I bought stamps And BG got fussed over in a couple of shops for being a smiley so-and-so

I did remember to get the left over spinach & chickpea hot pot out of the freezer and will combine it with brown rice and owt else I can lay my hands on, and top it off with an omlette.

Oh, and I did get one of those calls purporting to be a 'security check' - probably on a PC - I didn't listen any further, and just replaced the hand-set.

So it's all been going on. Not entirely sure where :money: fits into all that, but I bought things that were needed. No fripperies, so.......

Right, best get tuit. Sure there is a chore in need of completion, somewhere.

Greying X

beanielou

In mt experience & I have been a volunteer for most of all my adult life most organisations could not continue to run without their volunteers.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Tea has been munched. It ended up being the l/o spinach & chickpea hotpot, brown basmati rice, steamed (frozen) brocolli and a one-egg omlette to top. Nowt new bought, tasty and filling. Win

BG has been enthralling today. It really interests me what little people 'play' like and with what. Naturally, BG has a high proportion of household oddities, as opposed to glossy magazine 'must-have' toys, but I don't think that they would necessarily play any 'better' with 'proper' toys. They were having so much fun with an old baking powder container, a wooden spoon and a building block. All manner of things were passing through their imagination. Free entertainment for Ma too!...... :rotfl: Oh, and a new favourite activity is to 'help' unpack the shopping. They ran back and forth with 8 tins and didn't tire of the game :rotfl::D

Perhaps I'm easily pleased :think::rotfl:

Today i am grateful for these 3 things;

progress on an outstanding issue

for my good health

for nice interactions, with, and because of, BG :smileyhea

Ta for popping in. Appreciated. Greatly.

Greying X

beanielou

Glad that you have had a good day

greenbee

It's lovely when they start being creative. Much better to let them loose with a few old tins and tubs and blocks and let them use their imagination.

Tidying up and putting away games are great. As is learning to love helping. Over the weekend my nephew & niece were given responsibility for laying the table. They loved it. their parents were stunned when they arrived to discover their children happily laying the table and discussing who was going to sit where and what they needed. And they then cleared up afterwards.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Oh greenbee, I heartily concur with those kind of activities for little ones I don't know if it is my age, or whether I would have felt the same if I had been blessed with children at a much younger age, but I can't help thinking of us now, and in the future, as 'Team' Greying. We will all need to do 'our bit' towards having a functioning family life. And I don't mean expecting to BG to be hewing the logs, drawing the water and washing our clothes in the creek at 3am on a school day either! But just getting into the swing of family life - through play and fun Remind me of my bright-eyed optimism when they are a teenager......... :rotfl:

Right, exercise (a walk) is on the cards today. Pizza probably for tea. I was going to make a mozarella one and got some from mrAl on Wednesday, but I think on reflection I'll keep those for a lentil, beetroot and mozza salad, and maybe do black olive pizza again, or maybe just stick with good auld cheese and tomato. Which reminds me, I must make some pizza topping sauce today! Wedges will be from the (clean) dirty tatties in the fridge.

I've a birthday card to get for a younger member of the wider Greying clan. I'd seen an appropriate card a few weeks ago, in a shop that we rarely ever go to. Why on earth do I never learn to buy these things when I see them!!! Then I've got to work out how best to deliver it to them - I've left it a bit close to the wire - despite knowing when their birthday is for the last XX years! Anyone else find that you think about things several weeks in advance, and think, 'oh I must....' and then it's like life fast-forwards and you're there all too soon! Just me? Oh

Right, my coffee cup is drained, and it is the ONLY one I'm having today! I did stick to just 2 cups yesterday, but as that is one more than I intended, it's nowt to shout about

Best shift-a-tail-feather and get on.

Greying X

rtandon27

Morning GP - nosey query for the day - is coffee rationing November's challenge? Xox RT

(in otherwords - can we all join in? - it has been a while since we had a collective challenge chez GP)

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 wrote: »

Morning GP - nosey query for the day - is coffee rationing November's challenge? Xox RT

(in otherwords - can we all join in? - it has been a while since we had a collective challenge chez GP)

Hello lovely,

erm, no it isn't a 'formal' challenge per se. I did do it (with varying degrees of success) as part of my tri-harder trimester, and it was just that muddywhitechicken is challenging herself, and has as one aspect 'one cup of coffee a day'. Course, she's doing it right and making sure that one cup is a decent one! :T But I realised I was falling back into bad habits of drinking (mindlessly) several cups of coffee a day, and just got inspired to (try) reverting back to one cup a day.

By all means 'join in' - but it is mwc who is our leader and inspirer

I tell you rtandon - today is going to be THE day I only have one cup of coffee! And as I've already had it, it'll be a looooonnnnnngggggg one :rotfl:

Greying X

in_need_of_direction

I'm quite good with buying things. It's when I order or reserve items, esp at Christmas, that they fall off my to do list to the extent that I have been known to forget to pick them up.

beanielou

No, most definatly not just you.