Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks RT I love the gadgets too, but I love the **look** rather than the work I'm just not a kitchen work type person :rotfl:
Scrimpess - oh yes, Lakeland! Though even there, I don't buy much - maybe *especially* there :rotfl: They definitely corner the market in "gadgets you never knew you needed", they're not into multi-functioning. There's a big Lakeland in the city on the sea just by me, and I can easily spend an hour in there, when I do eventually pitch up!

Never used a spiralizer - I got a very good quality pasta making machine from freegle, and after 2 years, I'd never used it, so I put it back on freegle. I bought an enormous great food processor - a duplicate wedding gift, I was told - on ebay, had it 4 years, never used it (partly because I was ill, but you catch my meaning!) and that was one of the things I took to the charity shop earlier this year. I'm liking the sound of HM soups in the slow cooker, thats my aim.

I may finally have found a way of using a sizeable amount of flour at once - I have way too much for my current way of cooking, I only want to cook savoury stuff, but I still can't actively "cook". So I found a flatbread recipe my mum had saved for me, from a newspaper, and gave it a go - very plain batter plus herbs and spices, letting it stand for a couple of hours, and putting it in the oven in a well-protected bowl. I'd use slightly less flour, cut it up into blobs and use it as sort of dumplings, with baked beans or something. Each time I do it is two servings, that's ideal. Very happy with that.

Karmacat

Afternoon all this still counts as my morning, by the way

I managed the trip to Wisley yesterday: closed my eyes a bit on the trip out, which meant shutting down the conversation. Luckily, the lovely woman sitting next to me on the coach completely understood. I was in agony with my back - well, the lower half of my body, really! - plus a killer headache, by the end, and still had 90 minutes to wait. Gah ... and then the woman next to me starting chatting, and I'd drunk enough water, and had 2 paracetmol, suddenly felt human again ... such a relief!

Trip back was very smooth, except Wisley needs to sort out the whole coach access (can't believe this is a new installation, feels like the 1950s), hey ho.

Wisley itself is magnificent. Let me say that again. Magnificent

I had something to eat, went to bed for 12 hours, and I'm taking things really slowly. All good

Karmacat

Sitting here all day while the washing machine and the dishwasher do their thing all I've done is answered an email from TV licensing that I'm taking a break from live tv, so I've unplugged my aerial.

Karmacat

Afternoon all the sky looks very grumpy here, but it's Town Day, a little local extravaganza in the council park, I need to buy some veg anyway, so I'll pop over there first. And I'll try to do things as cheaply as possible: fortunately Iceland is right there

teapot2

Enjoy your local extravaganza, blue skies here today though they have been very grumpy the past few days

Karmacat

Thanks teapot! One of the funniest things I saw was a little bulldozer, parked where they were about to do a motorcycle display. They had the arm and the scoop switched on, and they were letting toddlers sit in the driving seat, while the real driver hung off the edge, and the kids could move the bits and bobs around to their hearts content

Then I saw everyone else doing similar: ambulance, fire brigade, police, air force cadets and ex-army. Never seen anything like it!

Got very tired, though, so I didn't go to Iceland - I'll get a supermarket shop delivered for Tuesday.


ETA - just been out to put the washing out - it's a little task that can be done easily, and in fact *has* to be done :rotfl: and found a big disadvantage of my too-long grass. I nearly stepped on a frog! A lovely big one too! I kept my feet very still, hanging things up, and then tiptoed back into the house. I'll have to cut the grass more often, and keep the borders for the frogs, tiptoeing like that is going to take forever :cool:

teapot2

Kids love a go on machinery like that if my great nephew is anything to go by. One of his many job choices is to be a digger driver when he grows up.... or an astronaut....

How lovely to have a frog and well done for spotting it, do you have a pond or a wet area in the garden? I've only seen one frog in mine which I think must have been dropped by a bird as it was somewhat shrivelled

Karmacat

I was ever so chuffed by the frog - trouble was, it was right by my foot, it was sheer luck I hadn't stepped on it As for water ... I have two water butt supports, both unused, and they're turned upside down (otherwise an ants nest erupts from underground!) and they're full of water. I also have two 18" wide plant saucers, and they're full of water too, plus as they're so shallow I have ornamental slate stones in them, so that anything that falls in can get out. Sparrows adore the water butt supports - they perch on the edge and drink/ bathe!

Suffolk_lass

We have two metal dishes buried in the ground that are full of water (and duck-weed, other plants and a couple of rocks) - needless to say they get a foot plunged in semi-regularly as they are under the overgrown rockery/raised bed .

That town day sounds great. I know we are looking at putting on a mini car and bike show next year and you have set me thinking...

Karmacat

Absolutely, the emergency services always seem keen - there was a lifeboat stand too, though we're ten miles from the sea, and I bought some Christmas cards there, always try to find a way to give the RNLI some money.

The other organisation that might want to provide a presence is RAYNET, the volunteer radio network people who 're accredited to help out during emergencies?

Today ... hmmm, I didn't go on the healthy walk - I need to phone bruv, and I need to spend whatever physical energy I have getting green waste into the bin, it's empty this week for boring but real reasons that's all the energy I've got. Pleased to be doing that, though.