Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I assume you told you're current LL your plans PN? It will be lovely when you can relax again

Not too hot today it was pleasant working with the door open, I think it's building up for the middle of the week when they are threatening it will reach 30 I may miss the office air conditioning  

one of my older sisters fell and broke her shoulder yesterday in her garden and is in hospital,  she's in her mid 70s and has been shielding as a asthmatic with COPD so this isn't the best thing for her to have done 🙄 my BIL couldn't get her up a combination of her not being small, she landed in a awkward place and my BIL had a heart attack last year it was lucky the ambulance was only 20 mins as she was face down. Hopefully she will be home tomorrow my BIL will have to wait for her to update him in the morning as he's not allowed to visit.  I swear my siblings are taking it in turns this year 🥺

lunch was the LO  lamb from yesterday with salad, I'm not usually fond of cold lamb but I was sorry that there was only enough for one meal as it was so nice, a nice treat of local lamb from the farm shop I will definitely be looking out for it again 😁 all the meat I've brought there has been worth paying more than the SMs lovely meat from local farms 😁 dinner was a portion of the stuffed portobello mushrooms I made yesterday I was glad I cooked it as a sister called as soon as I finished work late and it was 7pm before I finished the call and passed the message on (we have a family telephone tree so one person doesn't have to do all the calling 😁

Farway

Scorcher here, bit of a breeze luckily

Out early tending the volunteer border, it is starting to look "proper" now it's had a weed & water over the past few weeks

Back in time for cheese & piccalilli sarnie for lunch, quick & easy sums it up

Dinner, should be salad with the weather but getting fed up with same old same old, so it's use up LO corned beef, HM chips, fried eggs & open a tin of beans.

Eat you heart out Jamie O

I've taken a rump steak out to defrost for tomorrow, that'll go well with some salad in the expected heat

candygirl

Ouch 're Your poor Sis BRAMBLING! I hope She's not in too much pain
I'm feeling a lot better now, thank God, n am just going to sit in the garden .
Think it's pasta salad n jackets for tea, as it's so warm.
Hope You're all ok x

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Hope your sis is okay Brambling sounds like a nasty fall. 
I was a right sleepy head this morning, I woke up at my usual time but could hear my son was in the shower so decided not to stir until he was done. I must have fallen back asleep quickly and soundly as suddenly it was just after 9.30! I had been in bed quite early the night before too so must have been needing the extra zzzzzs.
It's still raining though at least the howling gale has subsided. There was a brief dryish spell so I did the bin run and watered the greenhouse while I could without getting drenched. I also picked the first handful of green beans which I'll add to the broccoli, spinach and pesto sauce I'm making later to have with tagliatelle for dinner. At the weekend my elder son dropped off a large pot of basil which was needing pruned and repotted. I'll prune it later and use the leaves to make a batch of pesto. 
Lunch was a ham, cheese and tomato roll with fresh peas and grapes. 

PasturesNew

Popped up the storage earlier today, just took three small bags.  Things I don't need... the rest of what's here will fit in the car in one go.  The trouble with loading a car up is you have to load it so nothing's visible, so boot only - because you have to park it and leave the car while you  do paperwork/get a key before you can lug your stuff in.... and I didn't want to have so much stuff in the car it "looked interesting" to the perpetual plethora of door handle triers and window smashers that are in abundance these days.  A low profile move..... 
The chap gave me 3 boxes, so I can repack some of the storage stuff.  It was never "packed/boxed for storage".  It was "packed/boxed on the basis we're tossing it all in here - and then, soon, will pop back and get the lot out and toss it into a new house".... lots of stuff in there, god knows what.  One needs lots of "stuff", without being able to say what it is.  
After that I headed for the viewpoint, parked the car under a big tree (can't sit in the sun or in the car in the sun) and got a cheeseburger.  

PasturesNew

Property: Nothing that grabs me.  New budget's ~£298k now with this extended rent-paying situation.... reducing each month by how much I spend.  One "that'd have to do" came onto the market today at £318k.  That's an optimistic price for what it is/where it is, but it could go either way as there's room to extend where the garage is, which might mean somebody's prepared to spend £60-100k on turning it into something "wow", as the bugg4hs do.  On the other hand, it might languish as it's not that great a proposition for extending (could get a better overall plot)... but you never know who is after what/why.  I'm surprised the agent's put it on so high.... last one in that road went for £280k last year; last year when the market was much better, we didn't have a global pandemic, people weren't losing jobs... 

When I moved in here I thought I'd pop out and get a little job to cover the rent so I wasn't reducing my capital, but then hit two snags. 1/ I didn't feel I had privacy in the space and didn't want her/god knows who helping themselves to my room or whatever might be going on if I weren't omnipresent, so I stayed omnipresent.  2/ A global pandemic removed any chance of getting any "little job"  

Pyxis

The asking price, Pastures, might just be a test-the-market ploy. 
As I've said before, you can always make a cheeky offer, as you're in such a fantastic position, being a cash buyer with no chain. 

Some people by now might be desperate to sell, especially if this is a hiatus between peaks of infection and might want to get it sold in case there's  another lockdown.

However, you might find more comes onto the market over the next few weeks.

Brambling

Glad you're feeling better Candy 

Sounds like you needed the sleep Caronc 😴

Today as been pretty much the same as yesterday just a bit hotter 🙂. Lunch was a bacon and egg sandwich using 'proper' bacon from the farm shop. Dinner was stuff pepper I only fancied half a pepper so there another half left, probably lunch tomorrow just to finish it off 

Farway

Woke up about 0530, it was 71F in bedroom with the windows open even then. I've watered some of the plants already & the sun is burning, slight breeze thankfully.

You'll need that shade tree for dining out today today PN

Caron, your green beans are ahead of mine, I have some but look about a fortnight off yet, but I do have peas at least

After breakfast I bashed the defrosted rump steak, now marinating in 'fridge for dinner

Lunch, I'm picking all the cherries, they are super ripe now & will only spoil if I leave them any longer on the tree

I'll use some in a fresh fruit salad, more strawberries are ready and goosegogs ripe enough to eat right off the bush.

I do like this time of year when the previous month's efforts start to pay off

Dinner, steak with salad, think I'll have some HM AF chips with it

First world problem yesterday, the ring pull on the bean tin came off as I pulled it.

What a faff, normal turning tin opener failed to cut cleanly.

I finished up prising side of lid up with a knife & scooping out the beans.

I have a stab tin opener somewhere but failed to find it in time. Minor job for today

PS, Caron, that's one thing miss with isolating, proper bacon I can look and check before buying

caronc

Good morning, 
Just beans at the moment Farway everything else is miles off and my peas look as though I'll not get many at all. Proper bacon - you need to get a stash in the freezer. I usually freeze it in two rasher portions and find it keeps just fine. It can feel a bit wet once defrosted but it's surface wet only IFYSWIM and nothing a quick dry off doesn't sort out.
It has finally stopped raining but looks like a "one day" only job before it returns with thunder storms tomorrow. We had hoped to have a socially distanced family bbq on Saturday but have brought it forward to today. My sis and DIL-to-be are bringing salads and the boys steaks and langoustines , I just need to set things up and enjoy a glass. Apparently I'm a year older today so get a day off