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redofromstart

all fine thanks for asking @Alchemilla just garden and work busy.  

Lots of house progress, plastering etc
3 months free k*ndle unlitd hurrah, all the junk I can read
like most people spending is up, grateful I have room in my budget for this and appreciate I am lucky

sashybo

Thanks for mentioning the k*ndle unltd, checked my account and I now also have 3 months free to read junk. 😂 I usually read a lot of paranormal nonsense but it's enjoyable nonsense and completely guilt free as I haven't had to pay for it! Hooray! 🎉 

redofromstart

Bad regency romances for me @sashybo - I will happily wallow in trash reading for a few months.  There is the odd bit of interesting employment law stuff to read as well (Daniel Barnett) and the Lisa Newport 'Project Fab' book on colour and clothes that I want to read having done a couple of her 'style' courses.

A lucky trip to the co-op this afternoon netted a few packs of quarter pounders for pennies. They will be used as cheese burgers (wrapped in baking paper in the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese a la Takeaway secret), meat balls, broken down for bolognese sauce or lasagne.  Full points to the co-op, GF padding so I am happy.   Plenty of packets left for other shoppers.  

I have some sausage meat out to defrost (leftover from Christmas cancelled visits) which will make stuffing and sausage pie for lunchtime snacking in the week.   I also cobbled together a pork belly/chorizo/butter bean stew using the instant pot yesterday which is now in tubs for pinging. They prefer the chicken/chick pea  version but this used up the pork and dried butter beans. 

Might make some jam tarts to use up last seasons jam while the oven is on.  I think it is a river cottage comment that you can keep jam for years but it loses flavour as a result and I have some elderly bramble jelly lurking and this would free up the jar without waste.  Might make the boys some chocolate rice crispie cakes too if they are lucky.  Pennies to be popular.  

redofromstart

I hadn't checked the store cupboard and only just had 8oz plain flour.  Made up with a 4oz mix of mainly butter and a little lard (old school!) and an elderly egg which is more forgiving than water.  I can't make edible pastry or shortbread using my hot hands so whizzed in the processer, and then mixed with a table spoon of water and a butter knife to bring it together.  Stuffing mix made up, sausage meat mashed in.  One open topped sausage and stuffing pie (in a cheap enamel camping plate) and a dozen jam tarts in the oven.  The last jar of jam used, so worth me making a few each year.  Must remember to add a pack of sugar to the next food delivery as well as more flour. 

 I make the rather wasteful 'jelly' rather than jam.  You stew the washed fruit with plain water, and ideally some cooking apples for the pectin, and then measure the sieved juice before adding sugar and boiling to soft set.  Waste of fruit maybe, but no seeds.

Flowers on my 'red cherry' tomatoes (greenhouse), and tiny baby runner beans starting.  I love the smell of greenhouse tomatoes even if I am rubbish at watering them so they get blossom end rot.

Sun_Addict

I love the smell of tomato plants. Takes me back to my grandma and grandad’s house in a beautiful village in Bedford. 

Seasidegal58

I've just checked on your diary after being off the boards for a while.. I hope everything is going ok at home and that you're spending some time in your garden surrounded by your feline friends,😺

redofromstart

Good to see you posting @Seasidegal58, yes mostly in the garden and not a lot of free time. Too hot to do anything outside today other than read in a deck chair.  

That said 'we' did some plastering earlier before it got too hot.  

Munching on sun warmed home grown raspberries and blueberries too.  Just needs a nice cold glass of wine but trying to stick to Dry July as we need to fund some scaffolding next. 

Seasidegal58

Thanks redo!😺
I hope you're getting plenty of reading done in your deck chair as this heatwave is set to last!🌞

Alchemilla

We did dry July...well some of June and some of July!

EssexHebridean

It's definitely "Dry" here - nothing to do with alcohol - just the overall temperatures!