Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Wednesday2000

Toast and marmite and a cup of coffee for breakfast.

Cauliflower cheeze with steamed veggies, mashed potatoes and Linda McCartney sausages for dinner.

Probably bean soup for lunch along with fresh fruit. I have Pink Lady apples and oranges.

It was cold coming home last night, but it doesn't seem as cold today. I will probably use my hot water bottle when it gets dark later this afternoon. Lots of green tea and herbal tea during the day.

FerienChatter

Coffee along with cake, orange juice, slices of ham and cheese, is usually my breakfast.. quick stuff..busy day to come!

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A nice feet up afternoon ahead today, too damp to cycle so clear conscience. I am thinking ahead to christmas and do need a few treats for myself in the house, otherwise it becomes a long boring time. I bought a dvd, ashes to ashes and treated myself to life on mars. I know I will enjoy them. I already have a couple of small bottles of wine in, so will need a couple of edible treats but I am going to be fussy and not overbuy

PasturesNew

Lunch ended up being the last 12 chips from the bag + kebab meat. Served in a small "individual pie" bowl. I made a quick chilli sauce for that. Well tasty.

wort

Yesterday lunch had a lovely celery and vegetable soup with gluten free bread, sat outside the cafe during our walk, it was getting nippy as we got back though, when the sun went in.
Enjoyed the salmon and dauphinoise pots with broccoli and peas.
Just back from work ,so a banana on the way home with a nked bar. Just eating a ham tomato and onion sandwich now. Tea will be a jacket potato with the half tin of beans from the other day and cheese, tomato and onion. With vanilla yogurt and pineapple, think that will be the last of the pineapple, for afters.
My conservatory has put on just over 10 years ago and cost around 7500.00 last year we had a lightweight roof fitted, took out the original doors into the kitchen and added insulation to the walls and plastered , so now we have only 1 wall of windows the others are plastered up to the top window s.had down lights put in the roof and it cost around 5000.
It now flows much better, as there is no threshold strip to step over and we continued the laminate through.

wort

My storage is all upstairs really, there are 2 normal bedrooms and a box room, all have wardrobes in, the box room is used as dressing room ,it's in here I put my airer up, and do my very little ironing! As the ironing board just slides down the side of the wardrobes. I always go straight upstairs when I come in to put my coat , shoes and bag away. Since kondo I hate to have things lying around, I find I can't settle until things are put away.

moneyistooshorttomention

kittie wrote: »

horrific price money, my dd had hers refurbished as cheaply as possible and that was 16k. Brand new maybe 25-40k

I'm mentally bargaining on £10,000 - hence on the "whenever I can" list. I guess there's a world of variation between using "those" names - ie the well-known "national" Big Two that charge the earth (who I'm definitely not going to use) on the one hand. On the other hand - you can tell how "casual" some arrangements are here - that a friend here had a builder in booked for one job and he's done that, and summat else and summat else, etc and then just suggested to her she might like a small conservatory sorta add-on to her house. She agreed - without knowing how much it would be in advance:eek: and he's been making it up from Person A's throwout doubleglazed windows and Person B's throwout summat else and some concrete block walling (rather than "proper walls" as I call it - ie brick) and it's all being charged for as one job lot. She's pleased with it and I would be pretty gobsmacked at the price of the conservatory alone coming out of the bill he's quoted her - never mind the rest of the work.

But I do want a "proper" and everything new/not recycled one and don't like (trans. = I loathe) concrete block walling - so I know mine will cost a lot more than hers.

My worst case analysis of cost is £20,000. Eek!

moneyistooshorttomention

It's a CBA day again today - brought about by having to spend a total of over 1 day this week on sodders re tradespeople re-doing "work that's already been done" on my "finished house".

I find work on my house such a downer even when due and having to do it when it isnt due (as it's supposed to have been sorted:mad:) is definitely CBA-inducing territory.

So a pick-at-food day and I've just had yesterday's leftover roasted vegetables with a bit of nutritional yeast scattered on top. Now having yesterday's leftover amaranth steamed to warm up, with suitable sweet type flavourings and the last of the coconut milk poured over the top = nice.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. New to the county, don't know anybody. I plan to let the architect do all the project management etc and advise on best builders, to minimise c0ck ups on that,.

Very good idea, let the architect do the management, costs more but pays off in spades. My daughter's hubby did just that, mind you their "refurb" was more rebuild, massive house now, starting from a dormer bungalow [he is a GP so plenty of dosh].
There were problems, like expensive parquet floor uneven, sorted by the PM. The beauty is one "tradesmen" can't spin BS to another, they both know it is BS so they don't even start it

I have never regretted my conservatory, I opted for full length glass, standing on a short "footing" a couple of bricks high, used local [cowboy] builder, but because the windows and roof are standard sizes even he could not fail to make them fit. He did manage to get door not to shut properly, and lost duplicate keys to the one of small windows:mad: All now sorted after a few years of me tinkering, and finding missing keys once I moved the carpet

It was dentist this morning, so just a cuppa

Popped into Morries on way back home
Found some YS sausage rolls, big mistake, they are BBQ ones, vile, looks like bin fodder. Try something new you said, bah humbug

I also found a sort of nut roast, https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Carrot-Sweet-Potato--Kale-Loaf/371151011?from=shop&tags=%7C105651%7C104162%7C168443&parentContainer=%7C104162%7C168443

Will give a go for Christmas, should be at least two portions in there, and always room in the bin alongside the BBQ sos rolls

Lunch was last of the LO savoury mince, bit light on the mince now, more like beefy soup, but just enough with a couple of slices of bread

Dinner is repeat of HM chips, with LO crumbed cod fillet, just the ticket on what's now a damp and miserable day outside

Farway

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

It's a CBA day again today - brought about by having to spend a total of over 1 day this week on sodders re tradespeople re-doing "work that's already been done" on my "finished house".

I find work on my house such a downer even when due and having to do it when it isnt due (as it's supposed to have been sorted:mad:) is definitely CBA-inducing territory.
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Was this the fridge socket problem?