The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Greying_Pilgrim

Good afternoon :hello:

I'll admit to being in a bit of a grumpy mood today Nowt wrong. I'm assuming it's just the regular business, which means it'll pass as quickly as it descended.

It hasn't helped that I've seen a house to rent, which would suit us down to the ground, and I know that there is no point even asking for a viewing - we're not getting anywhere with this flipping place. We'll just land ourselves in a whole heap of debt grrr.

BG and I ventured into Greying Town this morning to pick up a few bits and pieces and have a toddle about. I got a BNS from mrA for 80p (75p/kilo), and some red lentils. I would have bought some of their avocados - four for £1.80 - well, that was last week's price. This week they are four for £2. So they remained on the shelf. I let BG have another toddle on the way back from mrA, but they wanted to push the perambulator and managed to fall over. No, they did not have their puddle suit on. Yes, they did have their 'best' coat on. Yes, it is now in the wash......... :rotfl: Sigh.

Tea tonight will be pea soup. I have a load of frozen peas, so it seems like a reasonable choice.

Right, I'm going to toddle off and do something constructive. Shake meself outta this funk

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Right, so I always feel better when I'm doing something, moving forward, taking action. So in the interim, I've booked an appt. to go and see if an institution can help us - I'm now thinking that they can't (nice to have a chat with someone to make you see things in different perspectives), but we'll definitely keep the appt. and go and have another chat. I've got a tradesperson (apparently) going to call me back. And I've booked an engineer to do something for us later this week :j

None of this will save money, and indeed, will involve spending money. But still. In a zig-zaggy type of fashion, progress is being made!

Greying X

beanielou

Boo to the house

maddiemay

Shame about the house Greying, but yea to any progress ziggy zaggy or otherwise.

pinkypig

Hope you're feeling brighter Greying and good on ya for getting stuck in. I know exactly what you mean, I always feel better for doing stuff, especially when I don't feel like doing it!

I just popped in to tell you that I thought of you today as (thanks to you cos I'd never heard of her ) I spotted and grabbed a Rose Elliot cookery book in a Cs. It looks fab and I'm really !looking forward to having good read of it at the weekend.

PP xx

beanielou

Hope all is well.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon :hello:

How are well all? Great, I hope

pinkypig - RE is definitely a founder member of the veggie cooks field. I don't know which of her books you got - may be her complete vegetarian? Some of her older books are a bit dated. But many of her recipes are still relevant, good, tasty and the majority of them won't break the bank. And I certainly have RE recipes that I haven't found elsewhere until the internet food/recipe/blogging expansion. She really did lead the field in publishing a wide variety of vegetarian recipes and cooking tips. I have her 'bean book', which was only published in the 1980's, but some of the recipes, are just......... Well, you have to bear in mind that we were still buying olive oil in little bottles from the chemists in those days, and as for using garlic....... I still recall growing up with a (reused) coffee jar of red lentils, sitting in our pantry from one year to the next. If we had cottage pie with lentils in it was a big deal, a treat!!! :rotfl: I now get through a minimum of 1kg of red lentils a month....... :rotfl: Times change, as do tastes, but RE should provide you with some worthy recipes, that may become familial favourites

We've been kept busy lately.

We've had our boiler serviced. £100 plus vat :eek: I'm rather glad I chose to save our alcohol budget towards this expense, and I'm delighted that it's been so easy to do without, as it's used up any savings I have made :eek: That glass of prosecco on Easter weekend betta taste good - it'll have been earnt! :rotfl:

I had to chase the other tradesperson, as they didn't automatically ring me back (surprise, surprise). But they are now booked in to give us a quote - having given a ball-park figure, which is what seems to be the going rate for the work. So, given that we don't have any 'special circumstances' that suddenly add another 50% to the bill <rolls eyes smiley>, we may yet get another piece of the jigsaw completed. But I'm not counting me chuckens.........................

Our meals have been all over the place, not particularly oozing with healthy ingredients (not enough fresh veg), nor interesting. I've been too tired and distracted by things going on in RL to be ars3d to think about teas. I'm hoping I can shake myself out of it, and get back to cooking nice things. Sleep has been OK - as long as I've not been allowing myself to worry about things - and I'm still friends with valerie tea of an evening

I see a local building society has started taking FB donations. I think I'm going to switch to donating in there. They have a small box (sigh - get a big one and ask folks to give generously!), but hopefully they have better arrangements for getting it to the FB. The one I have been supporting hadn't delivered stuff from the last time I donated - which is (due to various circumstances), the best part of a month ago What's the point?

Can't think of owt else :money:to witter on about - so best vamoose.

Ta fer popping by. Appreciated.

Greying X

rtandon27

:wave:

Good to 'see' you GP!

...and relieved to know you are keeping yourself our of trouble!;)

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 wrote: »

...and relieved to know you are keeping yourself our of trouble!

I dunno if I owned up to that.......... :rotfl:

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, I didn't even bother watching the end of the England/France rugger match. Pfft!

I was prepping tea, and switched the radio on for the Liza T show. Could tell from the song that was on, she was away. I don't know who the stand in was, but within moments of the song finishing they managed to utter an insulting comment about women - so I switched off. Everyday sexism yet again on the BBC...... I would have no qualms, no qualms what-so-ever getting rid of the TV licence and therefore the TV, if it were soley up to me.

Tea this evening was chickpea curry (kinda made up), lentil dhal and basmati rice. Not the most interesting of meals, but I made the curry and the dhal kinda from scratch, which is an improvement on meals that we have had this week, so I'm taking the win :rotfl:

I managed to do some sorting and tidying this arvo - as DH was back to look after BG - but as BG surprised usboth by having a big, long snooze, it wasn't so onerous for DH It did mean that I could get on though, knowing BG was safe and looked after

I have also made a batch of 7 (6 big and 2 'halves') mushroom & chickpea 'sausage' rolls. It has used up the last pack of puff pastry - bought goodness knows when - from the freezer and will provide a bit of snap, should we go out wandering anywhere tomoz I don't want cards, I don't want flowers, I just wanna hang out with my 2 favouritest peeps on the planet and have fun, and make memories together

There is one mushroom and chickpea sausage left............ :rotfl:

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

making a clutter pile - as it equals making progress

making tea from scratch - as it equals a shifting mindset

making for the off switch - because equality matters.

Ta for popping in, appreciated. Greatly.

Greying X