The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Eager_Elephant

Hi GP

I know I don't post much but I love looking at your photos so I have been racking my brains about how you can still post photos....

In the past I have used PB but having checked a parking forum I use who ask people to upload photos all the time I see they recommend TinyPic or ImageShack and not PB.

Could you give one of those a go?

Here is a link to their instructions on posting photos/images just in case you need it)

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks EE - I will have a ganders and a thunk. Another one that was mentioned on a thread that was moaning about pbucket slowness was 1mgur, so I'll have a ganders at that too.

We went out for a jolly little trip today. Purposely for a short walk, just in case BG was out of sorts, but in a different part of the county - actually, we may just have slipped over a border, but we didn't have to show passports, so........ - and somewhere we had not been to before. We heard plenty of blissful birdsong, we saw plenty of buzzards, and one sitting quietly in the top of a tree - isn't amazing how they just take off and glide silently away..... We also heard a woodpecker, second time this year :j We then went to a country park to eat our snap. The world and his wife and their dogs were there, and we didn't make it out of the car - little bit reluctant with so many unleashed dogs - so won't rush back there again, but had we known the area better, we could have parked in a much quieter spot a bit further along. You live and learn.

Picked up a few bits and pieces from mrAl on the way back. I thought that the cauliflowers looked a reasonable size for 45p (not our local mrAl) and I bought a pack of the leeks for 45p, which I thought was a reasonable price indeed. i rarely shop in mrAl myself, DH usually gets tasked with picking up bits and pieces. I have to say, I did think it had gone a bit pricey. I accept it may just be perception on my part, but several things, did seem to be a similar price to that which you would pay in the 'big 4'. I bought some of their 'wholenut' peanut butter for £1.29. Mmmmmm, it still has palm oil in it, and I'm not overly struck on it. Probably something that I wouldn't bother with again.

Baby Greying and DH retired to the land of nod on our return home, so I got the food processor out (not a noise that BG particularly cares for) and made some falafel mix and some hummus with some chickpeas that I had cooked and frozen. The falafel will be used in a buddha bowl, later in the week. The hummus will be scoffed on an ad-hoc basis!

Tea this evening was fish fingers, chips and mushy peas with HM tartare sauce and tommy katsup The fish fingers were £3.75 for 60 from h3ron, and were cod. We happily eat pollock fish fingers, but at just over 6p each, these were actually cheaper than the pollock version.

I came on to say - before I waffled off in a different direction - that I realise that I have failed D.I.S.M.A.L.L.Y at my 12 week challenge. I got thwarted by stupid things, like an inability to buy curtains off a website, lost track of weight gain/loss because our stupid 'posh' branded (waitwotchas) scales 'eats' button batteries, and then BG got poorly, so my this week my attention has not been on anything else but them. I'm not proud and I feel I've failed. But what I will do is stop, review and have a look at challenging myself to do a couple of things, well, and in a short time frame. If I achieve them, then I'll look at perhaps being a bit more ambitious again. I do underestimate (constantly) how much caring for a baby thwarts my ability to accomplish things though. And I didn't get the version of baby that sleeps peacefully for several hours, consistently, in the day, day in day out, week in week out :doh:So I'm limited in what I can do, and where I can do it, unfortunately.

Right, time I was off to Bedfordshire.

I'm grateful for many things today, but; sunshine, talking things through and mother nature are probably the front runners.

Ta for popping by. Appreciated. Greatly.

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

And what a cracker it promises to be.

Saw a lovely view of the full moon from the bedroom a couple of hours ago. It was behind thin cloud, so looked glowing and yet in soft focus - or do I need to get my eyes tested? (Yes, I do, but the moon was definitely behind cloud too!). I was serenaded by a blackbird, whilst I was stood there, holding Baby Greying - does life get any richer?

A few chores on the horizon today and I'm going to try to make up the falafels from the mix if BG is in compliant mood - they are so far

Tea this evening will be a leek and mushroom pie, with assorted veg. The pastry is some of the ready roll puff pastry, 3 for £1 from H3ron that I've had in the freezer since before chrimbo. The leeks are mrAl S6 and the mushrooms were from there too - produce of the UK, the 'essentials' box, which proudly boasts that it 'now includes wonky mushrooms'. Given that they are on a par with mrA smartieprice mushrooms, pricewise (21.2p per 100g versus mrA 21.5p per 100g), I'm not getting the brag.........

Right, best get shifting. We're coffeed and breakfasted, so no excuses!

Greying X

Moneywhizz

Not sure if you shop at Tesco but they are selling meridian peanut butter for £1 until the 15th March. It is pure peanut butter with nothing added and is very tasty! I'm going to stock up today.

EssexHebridean

I'm ignoring all references to peanut butter on the grounds that it is a temptation I simply don't need!

Extremely glad to hear that BG is on the road back to full boingeyness - good news indeed.

Two things while I think, off the back of your over-the-weekend posts.

Take a look at 7DayShop for button batteries at an extremely good price - or at least they used to be.
Flickr might be worth trying for photo hosting. There is the option to make it entirely private, rather like PB, and I believe you can also post directly into forums etc. Beware of imageshack - on a forum I'm involved with our header pic was hosted there - after a set time it expires and you have to sign up to a full account to retrieve things, seemingly.

Verbatim

Sounds like a lovely weekend despite the dogs GO.

Verbatim

Whoops! That was supposed to be GP.

apple_muncher

I also had a non-sleeping baby - was lucky to get 25-45 mins maybe twice a day. Then, when you get some rest and sleep, you make ambitious over-reaching plans. I still do that now!

You have not failed at all! It's the last week of my 12-week plan and some aspects score a big fat zero. However, I think that my most successful area has been the well-being one as week by week I have tried to look after my mental health. Time for me to cook up another 12-weeker, and given that I am not rested and refreshed, then it may be realistic.

in_need_of_direction

My first one slept up to 18 hours a day even at age two. In his 30s, he has reverted to that. Imagine my shock when baby no 2 would only do 6 hours at a time at night. Imagine my GPs shock when I raised this as an issue at her 3 month check up.

mcculloch29

Just a quickie, GP, my Her0n had 500g JusRol puff pastry blocks at 3 for a quid. Gluten free ones too. I'm going to freeze mine, once I've played freezer Tetris.