Get a grip woman!

greent

I've just grated 6 courgettes and shoved the result in the freezer - great in chilli/ bolog/ even cottage pie  

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I confess I use them grated in cakes but I usually chop them into quarters lengthways and then into 2cm long pieces that are perfect for soup. I still have four (roasted one in my roast veg curry last night), with more to pick today!

After an afternoon and evening of relatively heavy rain the sun is shining this morning. Yay! Hopefully at last the paths can be de-weeded. It involves a spray - one of the exceptions we make to not using chemicals - we use one insect spray (in the evenings, when pollinators have gone to bed) and one weed treatment (fighting the battle against bindweed (3 sorts), ground elder, oxalis corniculata, nettles and brambles) we need a bit of a boost when there are thistles coming up in the gravel!

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Really enjoying our virtual (so far) book club book this month but each time I sit to read I feel a bit guilty so the rain yesterday and the day before have really helped and I am over half way through.

We popped out to the van yesterday and tested the shower drains. On our weekend away the water was pouring out underneath on both sides of the van - one side was because we had left the grey water drain open onto the field (whistles) but the other was from the bathroom washbasin, where the flow might be too fast for the pipes (it is a half-kitchen sink, with the associated waste). DH confessed that he had not really tested the shower before all that effort. Very concerned that we might have to rip up the floor but it was OK. He does need to check his plumbing (and the boxing in is attached in such a way that he can remove it to do so). We also tested a wooden venetian blind for size and it is perfect. Having removed all the curtains we were overlooked through the side cab windows. The introduction of a blind across the bulkhead at night will completely screen off the cab from the habitation area. I am about to order some cam buckles to attached to some webbing straps so we can secure the blind in its retracted state when travelling. 

DH's plan for the replacement of the glass hob has worked. You may recall the current hob is wider than any domino hob on the market and after years (literally!) of looking, I found a former display direct replacement, which DH tipped a wine bottle over onto (barely a month after installing it), causing a big chip and two huge cracks rendering it almost unusable and certainly dangerous and unhygienic. Well he did a CAD drawing of what we needed and contacted a local stainless steel fabricator who made up a brushed steel replacement for the glass and it is now installed and working. I almost feel we should advertise it. We can't be the only people. It cost less than the glass one too!

Money wise we have spent more than our income this month by some measure. The less said about that the better. Probably just as well we are not going abroad this summer.

trix-a-belle

that sounds highly successful for the hob replacement! and much more sturdy if DH decides to knock things about again but i'd really hope he doesn't waste the vino
& sounds like the weekend was a good test run 

Suffolk_lass

Thanks Trix, I thought people might want to see it so here goes

Karmacat

Wow!  That's glorious.  And so slimline!   I'm not sure if thats in the van or not, since you've been looking for ages ... but I love that layout, its just great.

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Karmacat said:

Wow!  That's glorious.  And so slimline!   I'm not sure if thats in the van or not, since you've been looking for ages ... but I love that layout, its just great.

No, not the van, that is our house kitchen. I have a list of things to update our kitchen saved on a well-known DIY Store account, ready for the next significant project (but not quite yet or he will think overload! DH made a major adjustment to the register plate on top of our Aga and it popped back down. Not bent by the gales, just blown up on top of a copper pipe! What a result!

rtandon27

Oh SL it's lovely!  Thanks for sharing the pic - I was wracking my brain trying to imagine how you would cook on an steel hob - now that I see it, that's the surround and the hobs are separate 😳😏

trix-a-belle

ooh thats dinky! thanks for the pic, I hope the edges are smoothed off.
i'm seriously debating painting my kitchen cupboard doors to cover some minor dinks, it will be a slow plan (as everything with me is) but its now on a list somewhere to contemplate

XSpender

Thanks for sharing the pic of your new hob.  In my mind it was at least 4 rings!

I have had a glass electric hob for the last 14 years (in 2 different houses) and still miss the gas one I had before that.