The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

UncannyScot

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

BG getting to pet some animals...... and then handing them back to the owners :j - it's too soon for the kitty/puppy/budgie/fish/parrot convo! :rotfl:

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Greying X

I never had a convo with my folks about pets, I was basically told, "Yer gittin a dug!" :j :rotfl:
Thankfully, I had both cats and dugs

rtandon27

^^^^^
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

When the assorted relations show up with the littlies, I sit them on the inside staircase to look out the window at our "pets" feeding at the bird feeder & explain to them how 'lucky' our pets are to be able to come & go as they please.

Keeps the bubbas occupied for hours and we occasionally hear a squeal of glee which promptly scares off said pets!:rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon :hello:


Ha ha, Cheery - how come you haven't had someone from the local WI around for a cuppa? They need to recruit vital young lasses like you!

UncannyScot wrote: »

I never had a convo with my folks about pets, I was basically told, "Yer gittin a dug!" :j :rotfl:
Thankfully, I had both cats and dugs

I'm not against BG having a pet UCS, it's just not the right time at the mo - too much is up in the air. Plus at the moment even if they expressed a preference, it would have changed 2 minutes later, so we'd end up getting them a guinea pig when they wanted a python! :rotfl: I am pleased that they are getting exposure to animals though, and they seem to have a deal of empathy and compassion around animals - which is important on so many development levels, and not limited to being respectful and kind to animals in their own right. It adds to the picture that it's not all about us......


I've a touch of the blues today. No idea why. Nowt is wrong. And they are just that - the blues. Perhaps it's coz I'm marginally under the weather. Got a silly virus thing that has been a sore throat for a few days, really painful, and then it shifted to feeling like I'd swallowed the contents of a vaccum cleaner - all dry and horrible, and now I've got a really tight cough. It's sort of limiting itself - but I'm sure I would feel a deal better for a good auld hack - get it out and on the mend! It's keeping me awake at night - trying not to cough, so I don't know if I'm tired from that, or something else. Never mind. Nowt in the grand scheme of things.


I wandered over to mrA today to get some tinned tatties for tea. Forgot to get a cucumber whilst I was there though :doh: Too busy being wowed by the thruppence ha'penny that they'd shaved off their YS'd stuff........... I did pick up a bag of rocket from HB. Not seen it there before - 49p a bag. Cheaper than mrL (when not on offer) I think..........BG and I took our sangers for a walk again Still makes me smile that food tastes so different outside - even though it was precisely what you would eat inside......... :rotfl: We didn't have cake today. I think BG was a tadge disappointed But we don't have cake everyday anyway, so I don't want to start any hares running.


Right, best shuffle orf. Get summat else done.


Ta for popping by.



Greying X

rtandon27

Sorry to hear you are under the weather luv - try & sleep it off if you can! Nothing worse than feeling down!

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

...We didn't have cake today. I think BG was a tadge disappointed...

Send BG to mine! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

They can join OH in the virtuous eating of cake with :eek:vegetables:eek: in it! OH declared he's counting his slice of 'quickbread' as one of his 5 a day :rotfl: If he HAS to eat carrots & courgettes then that's the only way he wants them!

(Personally methinks he's regressed to a 3-year old!)

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:


rtandon - BG loves birds. we don't have feeders, but we do like to watch the birds. At the mo, most birds are 'black birds', (I blame Julia Donaldson's 'Chack' ), but we did have 2 robins overseeing our picnic lunch today - which was nice I would be sceptical of getting courgette into BG via cake..... I have a sneaking suspicion they would spot the green a mile off..... :rotfl: However, I have been pleasantly surprised that BG eats the fruit cocktail cake, as (:shhh: don't tell 'em - they dunna like; pear, peach, pineapple......... ).


DH did very well with my 'war & peace-esque' shopping list. I didn't want much, but i did need him to get me 3 tins of corned beef for the FB donation. I had to give him specific instructions for the brand and price point that he was looking for in mrL, and then added further instructions that the tins were NOT to be dented and they MUST all have their opening key intact! Poor lamb - I can't be easy to live with :rotfl: Anyhoo, 3 pristine tins were delivered home earlier



Well, tea was a spectacular failure - not the meal itself, it was lush. But DH's face when he saw the sardines....... I fully-expected divorce-papers. Although to be fair, with feeling a tadge under the weather, my response would have been, 'fine - I'll hold the door open for you, ta-ra' :rotfl:Which I think he possibly picked up on, and graciously ate one sardine of the 3 on his plate.........


I'd tried JM's Lemon baked sardines (using tinned sardines). Whilst I'm not a huge lover of sardines, I have certainly eaten more since I've been pregnant/had BG than I possibly had for many years prior. Although they were a staple at home, and we HAD to eat them. I baked the sardines for about 15 minutes at 180 degrees - Jack said 30 mins at 190 degrees, but I think 15 was fine (then left them in the oven) I cooked mine with red onions thinly sliced in addition to the lemons. I served the sardines with; wild rocket, beetroot and apple salad, steamed green beans and the Meat-Free Monday Potato salad. I made a lemon caper vinagrette to drizzle over. I think the beetroot salad was earthy enough to counter the oily fish - the lemon vinagrette cut through it too, and the potato salad provided a nice starchy 'bed' for it all. Had I put it in chi-chi moulds and made a fancy drizzle with me dressing, it would have been £25 in a restaurant bish-bash-bosh! But as it was, DH ate around the edges and there was food waste I won't be making roasted lemony sardines again - although I think it did make them taste very nice - as it's too extravagant to have the oven on for one portion, and I can't think of any friends that would thank me for serving them tinned sardines! :rotfl:


So, Tin Can Cook scores on the doors stay at 2 keeper recipes and one 'idea' keeper for our house-hold.


Today I am grateful for these 3 things;


getting out and about


cherished moments with my child - no money needed

plans to hook up with chums for a playdate


Ta for popping in. Appreciated.


Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:




Went the day well?



Did for us. Mucho mucho to be thankful for, much to be grateful for and a shed load to go :j fer


I got the last piece of the 'jigsaw' of my FB donation today. Glad it's all sorted. I managed to get 18 meat 'items' for £20.05. I don't mean 'items' in a derogatory sense, i mean, that there are meat 'pies', 'slicing' meat (think for sangers) and tinned meat that could make a 'light meal'. I'm quite pleased that by putting in a bit of shoe-leather and research, I've managed to get good 'bang for buck' and got brands for good prices, and got brands offering 'XX% FREE' for the same price as a smaller tins elsewhere. Thanks to sign-posting and advice from MSE'rs which helped tremendously too :T As a veggie, I'm actually quite pleased that I got 18 tins....... but...... honestly, it's not much is it? Whilst it will add to a shopping bag full for a recipient, it's not going to feed a fam. for 3 days is it? And yet £20 *gone*. Had I just shopped willy-nilly, it probaly would have been 10 tins, or 12, or maybe 13, but.....................


BG and I took lunch to the municipal park Nice weather, fab company, and great people watching opportunities I took the left-over salad from last night's tea - but not the sardines...........



Tea tonight was veg bake, baked tatties, gifted HG beans :j and baked beans (in lieu of sauce/gravy). full and there is bake left over to freeze for an end of the month tea


Today i am grateful for;


good company

good weather

a mission accomplished :cool:


Ta for popping in. Appreciated.


Greying X

beanielou

Well done on a mission accomplished.
That is a fantastic donation

Greying_Pilgrim

beanielou wrote: »

Well done on a mission accomplished.
That is a fantastic donation

Thanks beanie It just doesn't look alot for the money is all It's gonna be a week or two until it gets to the FB, but I'm glad I've got it all bought and sorted - I think i did best I could with offers/available budget And ultimately, I hope it helps



Greying X

beanielou

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Thanks beanie It just doesn't look alot for the money is all It's gonna be a week or two until it gets to the FB, but I'm glad I've got it all bought and sorted - I think i did best I could with offers/available budget And ultimately, I hope it helps



Greying X

It will be very well received.
It is not out of date nor half used.
Thank you. X

Cheery_Daff

Excellent work lovely Greying :kisses3:

What does today bring?