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Hate to gloat but I got a Mr W cauli for 60p😀

Greying_Pilgrim

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Hate to gloat but I got a Mr W cauli for 60p😀

Tsk! You can go off people you know......... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

I really thought that Scotland were going to do it in the rugger. I got the impression that they were waiting for France to flag in the 2nd half, and hadn't banked on the 'man mountain' substitutions that just stood in the way for 20+ minutes. Good game; apart from the 'handbag' spats though.

Tea last night was fush, chups & mushy peas. DH enjoyed it and I'm liking the relative prep/cooking simplicity of it as a meal. It - or a version of it - is here to stay as a meal option for the forseeable future. It will give us so much extra time on a Sunday.

Tea this evening is the equivalent of a 'bottom of the fridge' vegetable stew that I saw mentioned on 'The First Mess' - sorry, can't remember if it was the blog or instagram. Laura used lentils, but we've had a bit of a flurry of those over the weekend, so I am going to use some chickpeas - that I got out of the freezer to make hummus, but which have been out too long now, to go into an uncooked dish I think. Baby Greying is frightened by the food processor noise, so i have to pick and choose when I use it, which invariably defaults to after the washing up is done, after tea of an evening, when I've just run out of vim & vigour.

We need bananas - again! and the non-gardening parental gave BG some money 'for their piggy bank' so we'll pop that into the bank, as well, whilst we're up the high street.

Does anyone know what age you have to specify details about children on a home insurance policy?

Whilst I'm sure children play their part in a wide variety of claims per annum - L3g0 in the video recorder, anyone? - I'm wondering how soon BG's details have got to be on yet another data base of yet another company who may or may not use that data responsibly....... Alongside having the hard sell of 'accidental cover' - just in case. Dear insurance company, we've still as little stuff as we had last year. The overwhelming majority of BG's stuff is second-hand, our contents value does not need to go up three-fold over night....... *sigh*.

Thing is, I'm minded to stay with the insurers we are with. i'm with Cheery on this one, you can spend alot of time 'comparing' only to find that in terms of cover offered/premium charged, you existing company is the best offer on the table.

Right, best-shift-tail-feather, Monday morning-is-a-calling

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, we had a nice wander out in the sunshine to see how far it was Baby Greying is now considerably richer than their Ma in the 'cash-stashed' stakes Pity Mama has to sign for any withdrawals tho'...... :rotfl:

I picked up some bananas in M&$. And dealt with a member of staff who was devoid of all sense of humour...... I never know how to deal with folk like that, I really can't understand how folk have to be so po-faced about everything. As it was m&$ were not being terrribly 'customer-focused'/helpful, and I've a good mind to stomp in there tomorrow and show them how their lack of attention to detail is misleading people to think certain goods are cheaper than they are charging for them. Humpf!

Tea ended up being a triumph of serendipity doo-dah over utter despair At 5 to 5 I literally had my head in my hands, getting throughly confused over what I had to use up, versus how to make best use of the oven, versus what I said I was going to make, versus what I had time/free hands to make.......... I kid you not.

As it was, I ended up scrapping the meal that I was going to make, on the basis that I couldn't decide whether the chickpeas were just 'floury' (anyone who has cooked chickpeas will know what I mean), or whether they were 'furry' I decided not to risk them, and disposed of them Ach! to food waste! Then I decided that the dish that I was making to make use of the last 5 eggs that were YS'd and were notionally 'out of date' today, would become tonight's tea. I did the float test with the eggs, and they all passed, but it was apparent that they were 'old' and wouldn't really keep for much longer. Anyway, I fried up some veg; onion, garlic, celery, carrot, peppers. Added in a small pot of cooked rice (freezer), threw in herbs and spices, and stirred it all into the egg mix with a dollop of yoghurt. This went in the oven with several potatoes for baking, along with a couple of cauliflower 'steaks', from the remaining half of the cauli that I had. That all cooked away, whilst I made a cauli puree with the remaining 'loose' cauli florets - using butter, milk a bay leaf, salt and pepper - blitz. I diced some beetroot and set it in some balsamic, oil, salt, pepper and mint to marinate (Pugilese salad), and washed and dried some YS'd (M&$ yesterday) rocket. I plonked it all on a plate, made a 'swirl' with the cauli puree (you can't tell ), and sprinkled some crushed coriander seed over the beetroot. Picture here;



In a restaurant, 'cauliflower 2 ways' would have been served in a smaller portion, on a bigger plate, and the 'swirl' would have been more obvious! As it was, I'm feeding a working man, I'm not a trained chef, and I should have done this tomorrow - as I could have charged my DH £15 for a valentines 'dinner' :rotfl:
Ah well, tasted nice Used up various bits and bobs, and I didn't need to buy anything for tea Twill be cheese on toast tomorrow night...... :rotfl:

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

inspiration in the nick of time

a hand-crafted gift for BG - oh, so fine

a very small, but much appreciated, glass of red wine.

Ta for popping in and reading. Appreciated.

Greying X

angelpye

Wow! Impressed with the pics...now the big question...can I move in?

mcculloch29

Greying, re the home insurance, a claim is unlikely until BG starts toddling, at which point they become a lot more likely.
I still mourn for a long list of things DD managed to break between the age of 1 and 6 or so. This was over 30 years ago.

Trying to work out what sort of accident will cause a claim is really difficult, but if I had claimed for everything that DD did it would include things like 'bottle of Minadex picked up as mother put it down and poured over upholstered nursing chair'.
Or 'lava lamp smashed when child tugged cable and pulled it off the windowsill'.
Or ' Swarovski ornament broken just to see if it would break'.
Ot 'stone eaten out of antique emerald ring'
Or 'stone eaten out of antique topaz ring'.
Or 'gold bangle snapped'.
Or 'author signed bookplate ripped out of valuable book'.
Or 'car keys disposed of somewhere'.

If she ever comes up on the lottery I'll present her with a bill and pay off the mortgage.

Greying_Pilgrim

angelpye - if we were more organised, I could probably fit a few visitors in, as it is, I'm afraid we're full at the inn.......... :rotfl:

mcculloch29 wrote: »

If she ever comes up on the lottery I'll present her with a bill and pay off the mortgage.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Oh how i'm sure I will be muttering this many times in the future! So children have their details put on a policy straight away? It's just every damn organisation has to have your details from...... well, conception at this rate! There's no privacy anymore, not even for kiddies

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

:lovethougI hope you are well this Tuesday, 14th February. As are we

I'm afraid we are a marketeers nightmare, as we don't *do* valentines, so no cards, roses nor champers in this neck 'o t'woods I'm glad to report

However you spend today, I hope it is a brill day for you

I was thinking when I woke up that I may get away with not having to go up the high street today, as we didn't 'need' anything. We now 'need' 3 things! How does that happen? Still, if we are to safely navigtate the landing, we need a light bulb, so.......

I have no idea what is for tea. We'll have summat. I've the rocket to use up, plus beetroot, so..... a rocket and beetroot 'side' to our cheese on toast??? :rotfl:

Right, best vamoose and start me chores. BG has awoken with a definite 'boing' in their step......... It's going to be a roller-coaster of a day, i can tell :rotfl:

Greying X

hex2

Greying, we have never had to declare the children's actual details, just ticked a box to say resident under 16s. I've moved companies most years .

Upsidedown_Bear

Happy Valentine's Day lovely Greying and Pilgrimers :iloveyou: