The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

beanielou

Have a good week

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

beanielou wrote: »

Have a good week

Thanks lovely, you do a spiffing job of being this thread's v own cheerleader

The baby has been bathed, tea has been scoffed, new words uttered :smileyhea and stories read for the umpteenth time Pretty good, all round

Tea was lentil bolognese. Don't nobody tell BG, but their despicable mumma put whizzed up carrots in the tommy sauce again Clearly it must have tasted ok, as BG ate it all up, with the design off the plate....... :rotfl:

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

teamwork

a family favourite for tea - makes my life easier dishing up 3 portions of the same thing.........

that snow and ice didn't linger, making way for glorious sunshine - wish the wind wudda gone too, but you can't have it all........

Ta for popping in, chatting and cheering us on. Appreciated. Greatly.

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Isn't it (marginally) easier to get out of bed, when it is so LIGHT of a morning :j With all the inclement weather, I haven't been noticing how much the days have been extending - but they have, and it's wonderful :j

We shall need to get up and about and move today - get some exercise - oooh, my thread morphed into a blur song......... :rotfl:

Tea is going to be soup, probs butterbean and thyme - which is a Lindsey Bareham soup, for which there appears to be no link on t'interweb, unfortunately

A mum-chum is popping in to say howdy, so that is something to look forward to, today

Other than ^ I can't think of owt else :money: to wiffle on about, so I best vamoose, I guess.

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Mmm, bean soup I am full of cold and yesterday tried to make myself some onion soup. Sadly, with soup, the more tasty the ingredients, the more bland I manage to make them, and yet again Mr Cheery had to be called in to rescue it (he is Soup Rescuer Extraordinaire in our house )

The sunshine has indeed been glorious :j Since we moved we have been getting up earlier and earlier - I regularly wake before 6 now :eek: The sun rises into the bedroom window and it feels good to be woken by it. This morning I was up the top of the drive in my dressing gown digging the wheelie bin out of the snow before 7am :rotfl: Oh the glamour! :rotfl:

Have a good time with your chum :j

beanielou

Have a good time with your friend

WannabeFree

I was so excited to see it being 'daylight' before 6am this morning Small things :rotfl:

It makes the day seem much easier when its bright.

Have a lovely day

x

rtandon27

:hello:

Hello GP - hope all is well & that you've been out and about enjoying spring!

beanielou

Hope all is well in your world Grayling.

WannabeFree

Another popping in hoping all is well

x

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Thanks for all your lovely posts.

All hale, hearty and happy here at the Towers

Been a lot on, is all - all itty-bitty stuff, nowt major. Just getting my brain-cell pulled in all sorts of directions at the mo. And actually, far from money-saving, we've been money-spending, or putting things in train to spend money, so............

We're all out of grocery money. I've not been writing it down this month - and whilst it's not gone to pot really as a result, I know I've bought things with grocery money that strictly should have been 'leisure' spending, but you have the money in your purse at the time.......I've been ordering things off the worldwide wunder-web, but someone helped me with that - and I just paid them for the ordered goods - so at least there will be no unpleasant credit card bills associated with those purchases.

We've had a mix of meals. Some have worked....... we had black olive pizza and oven chips on Friday. Thursday was 'best ever tofu burgers' with brown rice, steamed brocolli and beetroot/apple salad and a chipotle chilli yoghurt mayo drizzle. The 'burgers' were OK. I suppose I'm not trying to recreate a 'meat' taste - so whilst I found the taste interesting - and the recipe relatively straightforward - I'm not sure it is the best way (for me) to prepare tofu. I think I like citrus marinades better. BUT, having said that, I'd make it again - I would probably use marmite OR soy sauce - both made it a wee bit salty.......... I suppose it won't be my 'goto' marinade for tofu. But good enough. I think we had black-eye bean chilli with rice on Wednesday and Tuesday was a fudge - and we definitely didn't have soup! We had cardboard box fish, oven chips and mushy peas tonight, because we............ WENT OUT TODAY :j:j:j We took advantage of the good weather forecast and the remainder of our NT membership and had day out in the sunshine Complete with a garden to run around in, a play area to play in and a lovely sunny spot to munch our picnic lunch in :j

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

sunshine

a family day out

simple pleasures to reconnect with what matters

Ta for popping in. Appreciated.

Greying X