Cooking for one (Mark Three)

CRANKY40

I wish there was a heart smiley Candy.

As far as the cooking for one goes, I will be having home made butter chicken and rice tonight. The House Troll will be having gammon and pasta in a stir through jar sauce (tomato and marscapone) which would have been his lunch if he'd gone to school. I didn't send him as 121 children were sent home sick yesterday, one of his pupil progress leaders is off as his wife has Covid and the other PPL is off as he's been sharing an office with the one with the sick wife for the past week. The only lesson that they didn't have a cover teacher for yesterday was maths and the HT's maths tutor (not as posh as it sounds, the boy has dyscalculia and we needed help) is coming tonight and will continue to come whilst school is closed. 

This is our cat. She's not allowed on the table.

jaybee

Well . . . there is a mouse on the table!

Brambling

Working from home has some benefits for his lordship someone to have a lunchtime snooze on

candygirl

Awww beautiful furbabies Bonnie's keeping me going at the moment.Without Her, I'd be bored to death  
Have had beans of toast for brunch, n prob having egg fried rice , n coleslaw for tea

Wednesday2000

Aw, what beautiful animals.

I just stuffed my face again. 2 large jacket potatoes for dinner.

PasturesNew

Sorry I've been absent, things aren't going too well. 
1/ Car failed its MoT, so I had to be brought home by taxi (garage pays, so that was lucky; they do it for journeys of customers under 5 miles). 
2/ LL has had an annoying person stay ... and there've been up to 3 hours of stir-far-quin-fries going on a few feet from me each day.... 
And my head really wasn't in the mood to post here as I just want to scream a lot of the time as I felt "trapped" due to not having a car + wondering when the next stirfry would kick off and how long for. 

Gave the visitor both barrels, well, half a barrel, when I snapped about an hour ago and hollered out "S T F U" ...  

It didn't make much difference, but by Golly it felt great to say it out loud.  Maybe I should've/could've actually screamed it, screeeeaaamed it...   

I've been eating the noodle pots, crisps, bit of fruit, flatbreads, sweeties mostly. 

PasturesNew

Here, social distancing's a dying art.  I'm bl00dy good at it, a master.... the LL bl00dy rubbish at it. 

This week there's been somebody staying (since the weekend), I think there was a 2nd person in the house too.  The LL has been out every day since about Thu/Fri - not for long, I think mostly food shopping, but out.  
The LL's bf has been round 2-3x for shortish periods of time and possibly one overnight stay.... so he's also been out/about in the real world too between visits here. 

Makes me spit.... half the country's just not bl00dy trying. 

Brambling

Sorry things aren't going too well PN it sounds like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place until at least June.  Have they fixed the car?

I've just spoken to one of my sister who has been told by her employers to self isolate for twelve weeks because of her health issues, it's a shop so she can't work from home, they will pay her.  I think she's more glad to be away from panic buyers.  I've told her it means she can't go out and about especially as they're paying her to SI.  She wound me up a bit by starting the call by saying she had spoke to my cousin and had bad news and then pausing, I assumed the worst as my last surviving aunt and uncle are 90 and 95.  It was one of my mums' cousins who was nearly 90, someone I only really saw at funerals the last one my mums 8 years ago but I remember her as being quite sophisticated always well dressed and she had a 'man friend' for decades but never married him 😮 they would go on holiday together  😳 which would have my mum and aunts all of a twitter.  I was impressed by her as a teenager 😉

 Caronc I hope things with your volunteer job doesn't take to long to sort out.  

Lunch was a gammon roll (well second half of the roll from yesterday as it was large) with piccalilli.  Dinner was a LO veg from the veg with the last of the gammon

I freed up some room from the freezer by taking out a small beef joint which I'll cook tomorrow night (an advantage of working from home 😁)  I decantered 2 pints of milk (I brought home from work) into small containers and froze.  I'm not overly fond of frozen milk but I'll get a few decent cups of tea if I can't get hold of any.  And I'm going to squeeze in some spinach I've blanched and some runner beans.  There wasn't a lot of room in there before this,  even after a tidy which is not such a bad thing at the moment but I would have liked to try to put a little more veg in

caronc

Yikes PN no wonder you are frustrated.
Volunteer role is full on and it looks as though we will be open but only to support critical workers but equally that could change in a blink. Thank goodness for a marvellous paid staff team who often get overlooked when we think of key roles in the community!
On a lighter note this is my temporary cat and no he is not allowed up there everything was thoroughly bleached after this!! (apologies for the messy kitchen!!) 

Farway

Sounds awful PN, hope car is not too expensive to fix although labour costs & not the parts are often the crippler in repairs. On a slightly brighter note this weekends weather is set fine, so maybe out & about but isolated?

Guessing there's a park or beach type nearby, you could isolate by sitting on a park bench in the sunshine with can of Special Brew & shouting at the seagulls, should keep most folk away

Porridge breakfast

Lunch, not sure, some type of sarnie, I've got one egg left so very likely fried egg sarnie

Dinner, the end of my HM loaf is getting stale, so probably looking at cheesy beans on toast