Tales from The Shire

PurpleFairy26

Boo to the bonus, especially when it was for a previous completed year. Fingers crossed he gets it later Here is the recipe to the choux buns I made

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/fruit-filled-choux-buns-caramel-sauce

sorry I don't know how to do it with a word like you do (can you enlighten me?) 

I would definitely recommend 👍

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Cheery_Daff said:

Sorry to hear about Mr F's bonus Fortune. How unfair, when clearly he's already earned it and it had already been promised

Also agree it's very unfair about the cake too. I've not been eating even half the !!!!!! I usually eat (see my conversation about Mr Cheery giving me FOUR chocolate buttons at a time) but have I lost anything at all? No! Shocking. 

Is it still FOUR now it's properly Easter Cheery? 😁😁😁

Fortune x

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beanielou said:

Boo to the bonus 

It's disappointing Beanie but life could be a lot worse for us.  Just counting our blessings at the moment.  Financially we can recover, it's health that's the most important thing right now.

Fortune x

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woodfired said:

Sorry to hear about Mr F's payrise and bonus Fortune.  It's very difficult at the moment and I think barely anyone in the private sector will be untouched in some way.  I said the same to my Mum last night as we surveyed the 3 fields full of last year's lambs that should have been sold over the last few weeks.  Despite apparent food shortages, the price has dropped to almost half what it was 4 weeks ago and Dad is struggling to find a market for them at all at the moment.  Meanwhile, their mothers are producing dozens of lambs a day in the neighbouring fields......
Your garden sounds fab and a welcome distraction at the moment.  We too have been counting our blessings as we work in the garden and on the house, thankful for a lovely home and garden when others may not be so lucky.  Chin up, we'll get through this. x

That's awful Woodfired.  Farming is so important for us all right now.  I think food is going to become scarcer and more expensive going forward and we'll need to rely more upon home grown produce.  I do hope things pick up for you all.

Fortune x

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PurpleFairy26 said:

Boo to the bonus, especially when it was for a previous completed year. Fingers crossed he gets it later Here is the recipe to the choux buns I made

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/fruit-filled-choux-buns-caramel-sauce

sorry I don't know how to do it with a word like you do (can you enlighten me?) 

I would definitely recommend 👍

Very delicious!

To make a word a link.  Go to the recipe page and copy the URL at the top.  Go to your post and highlight the words you want to make a link.  Press the little chain icon at the top of the post (like a figure eight on a slant).  Remove the https that appears in the box (otherwise you'll repeat it).  Paste the URL in the box.  Press 'OK'.  You're all done.

Fortune x

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Memory Loss

I can't remember what I've been doing since my last post 😮  The days are all blending delightfully into one.  A little gardening, a little housework, a little cooking, a little baking.

We've tried to make this weekend a bit more of a 'holiday' and give ourselves a break from the 'norm'.  I spent a lovely morning yesterday video calling friends and family from the patio followed by an afternoon of hammock testing 😉  We had a fish and chip supper from the freezer with a glass of prosecco and some of Mr F's easter egg.  Then watched a film on Amaz0n.  It did feel like a day off.

Lunches have been salads - Blue Cheese & Grapes with Caramalised Pecans and Halloumi with Orange & Mint.  I'm hoping they will help to offset the cake as we're still working our way through the last one 🤣  I re-started C25K this morning - there's only 8 minutes of actually running in the first session but that's 8 more than I would have done otherwise.

Mr F is cracking on with the gardening jobs on his list.  I've done a little weeding and planted some tomato seeds - you don't get many of those to the pound do you! 😮 I think there were only 6 in the packet I bought!  Can you grow tomatoes from the seeds of shop bought?  I might give it a try.

I'm not intending to do much more today.  I might go out on slug patrol this evening if it's not raining - the blighters are nibbling my radishes.

Hope you're all enjoying your Easter.

Fortune x

greent

I've grown tomatoes from shop-bought ones (the squishy ones ) - they've never been the most bountiful plants, but I figure they're free seeds, so almost a bonus

PurpleFairy26

Thanks for the advice on the link. I’ll give it a whirl. Think it’s important to differentiate between days otherwise its all just a blur 😊 my friend who is retired (to a warm country) told me this a couple of years ago. As she said otherwise it’s easy to treat every day like a weekend, which isn’t always good for ones liver or waistline! 

brizzlegirl

I am using OOD tomato seeds as nine left in usual shops...no joy as yet but salad leaves doing ok, their BB date was 2014 😀

Going to try for a relaxing week here too, have booked some leave and plan to do a few tidying and sorting jobs  

x

brizzlegirl

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