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KajiKita

redofromstart said:

I like them - watched the bbc versions mid teens so a nostalgic pleasure.

I’m like that about some old children’s books. Wind in the Willows is an interesting re-read from an adult perspective!

KK

EssexHebridean

I've never read Wind in the Willows - didn't get on with it as a child and have never ventured back! 

redofromstart

I don't think I have ever read it actually, vaguely remember an animated version on TV.  I was generally absorbed in enid blyton/chalet school/diana wynne jones.  

Free delivery (no min spend) on suttons seeds this weekend (code on topcashback) so I have invested in veg seed - 8 packs for £7.71 delivered (celeriac, kohl rabi, parsnips, sweetcorn, chard, microgreens, stir fry greens, and broad beans).  I also weeded the polytunnel and sowed some toms/peppers/chillis/courgettes.  Mrs Brady Old Lady is already complaining that they are taking up her favourite window ledge.

Picked up on an offer duck crown (morrisons) yesterday which will make a nice change for sunday lunch.  There will be no leftovers so a sausage pie bulked out with stuffing will do lunches for the next few days.  Elderly potatoes and cream to make some kind of potato gratin.  I am hoping I can find some green veg lurking in the freezer as I dropped the last bag of peas, and everything in the fridge was festering.  Cross with myself about that though - trying really hard not to waste things.  Leftover pastry will be used to make sad cakes, with some cubes of the now OOD marzipan in with the sultanas.  

WinterWarrior

I have never heard of sad cakes, but I love marzipan. When I was a teen a local bakery made Russian slices on a Thursday with leftovers and we would walk down to get one in the school holidays…if they had marzipan in you’d hit the jackpot 😋

doingitanyway

redofromstart said:

Free delivery (no min spend) on suttons seeds this weekend (code on topcashback) so I have invested in veg seed - 8 packs for £7.71 delivered (celeriac, kohl rabi, parsnips, sweetcorn, chard, microgreens, stir fry greens, and broad beans).  I also weeded the polytunnel and sowed some toms/peppers/chillis/courgettes.  Mrs Brady Old Lady is already complaining that they are taking up her favourite window ledge.

Your veggies are exactly the veggies I want to grow when I finally have a flipping house with little garden.  Enjoy your seeds, plants and bounty 

EssexHebridean

I am positively itching to grow sweetcorn again - so our quest for a house with garden has to actual include "garden big enough to grow..."  As for courgettes - you'll be over-run, you know that already...  

redofromstart

Yes it is the classic thing of grow far too many courgettes.  I have planted two, which I may regret, two seeds in each pot.  6 tomatoes because those I could eat until I was sick, in the lovely smell in the greenhouse.

Pay day shuffle.  We bought the boys (18 and 19, students) a car to practice in ahead of tests, and to drive to uni after they pass.  I feel slightly ill thinking about how much we have used out of the savings, even though it is less than was budgeted and saved for for years.  People are starving, I know, they ring and tell me regularly (work), and it is genuinely heart breaking.

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

 I feel slightly ill thinking about how much we have used out of the savings, even though it is less than was budgeted and saved for for years.  People are starving, I know, they ring and tell me regularly (work), and it is genuinely heart breaking.

I feel this guilt periodically too, but …. 

- we are not being a burden on the state,
- our taxes help to support others (I wish they went further but hey 🤷‍♀️), 
- living without and giving all our monies away so we suffer as much as others just adds to the suffering
- we give where and how we can - I am always looking out for people who need an ear, some encouragement, a bit of guidance (only ever offered, not obliged! 😂😉), buying the Big Issue direct from sellers etc. 
and I suspect that you are the same?

KK

redofromstart

I agree KK, just sometimes the guilt gets to me

my toms have germinated, hurrah. I couldn't book any days off over Easter but hopefully I will get my potatoes in and some more seed planted. 

Hoping for a light touch month, but already 1 MOT, car tax at 290, a warranty maintaining service and recall and extra charges on just about every DD. Ouch

redofromstart

I finally checked the stupid market prices and there are good loss leader prices to be had this weekend if I play freezer jenga. 

Loving the new potatoes at the moment. I gave first earlies to plant as well. So worth the effort and a few £ in wilkos