Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

At least investigating the DNA test will keep you out of mischief for a while Farway.  I saw  something where they took DNA from triplets and they all do different percentages it seems for non- identical triplets like any siblings can take different things from different parents.  I'm just surprised that my sister who has spent years doing the FT hasn't had one done   

I used up some of my egg glut and made a mushroom omelette lunch time with a small side salad. Dinner was LOs from yesterday, cold pork, jacket potato wedges (crisped in the AF) French beans, courgette and broccoli with a dollop of piccalilli 

PasturesNew

Brambling said:

 I'm just surprised that my sister who has spent years doing the FT hasn't had one done   

Maybe she knows something you don't and doesn't want to rock the boat  
I've an uncle, my mum's half brother.  Mum was illegitimate/brought up by her grandparents, her mother married the following year and had children in 1927, 1931, 1939 and 1944.  
I said to mum once "1944's a lot later than the others/she was 40 by then too" and mum muttered "there was a sargeant who used to come round in the War"... so I've always wondered as he doesn't look like the others/looks like his mother.  Would never have dared ask him though + he died in the last year.  If true, maybe he never knew.... or maybe he hinted at something to one of his children ... and maybe that's a secret yet to be suddenly discovered if his kids, or theirs, ever do a test. 

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
I keep thinking I ought to have a look at my FT, I know of some "skeletons" but I'm sure there are lots more! 
Bright and sunny this morning. Yesterday the wood for my new fence and gate unexpectedly arrived,  just as well the boys cleared the area at the weekend as the work might start a bit sooner than I thought it would!
There's enough roast pork LO for sandwiches for lunch so the small joint did us well. I do find the FR joints hardly shrink at all unlike some of the SM ones.  Tonight we're trying JO's butter-style chicken curry from his new book. I have rather a lot of ripe cherry toms and that will use up some of them. 

Brambling

PN my sister has shared all skeletons she has found and is first to ring around with a new one, these days very few things are considered so shocking as they were once were.  A few secrets did shock my mum when they came out and were gleefully discussed with her sister   for example her grandparents never spoke to their next door neighbour when my mum was growing up and it turned out the neighbour was my great grandmothers niece, a illegitimate daughter from her brother who according to census records was living with her father in 1911 as a young child with no sign of her mother.  When my sister first started doing it over 25 years ago my dad's sister refused to talk about family history (we think we know why) and my mum's aunts who were in their mid 90s wouldn't (maybe because of the above 'secret').  As you know illegitimate children weren't unusual and couples sometimes didn't marry until the first boy was born so first born girls were illegitimate (maybe that's just in the country?) 

PasturesNew

Brambling said:

 As you know illegitimate children weren't unusual and couples sometimes didn't marry until the first boy was born so first born girls were illegitimate (maybe that's just in the country?) 

There was also the issue of employment agreements.  A lot of men signed up for apprenticeships (7 years) and other binding employment contracts, especially in the countryside.  In short they weren't allowed to be married.  The men got their jobs because they were single, employers had no time/space for married men and the trouble that brought with it... so their hands were tied.  It wasn't until after a girl had given birth that more pressure could be put on the employer to allow them to marry. 

Wednesday2000

Typical, the weather was grey and dull for my walk and it has just become warm and sunny as soon as I got home!

I went into two charity shops and Superdrug. It was fairly busy in the town centre. I hadn't been there since February.

I wanted to go to H&B to buy more herbal tea but I forgot!

I had PB toast for breakfast before I left. I feel like I'm getting a slight sore throat so I'm having green tea with fresh ginger and lemon in my tea maker.

I have leftover pasta for lunch and then I'm making a roast dinner tonight.

Wednesday2000

Oh yes, I have tons of potatoes as the delivery driver gave us two bags of them by mistake.

I am going to do lots of roast potatoes for dinner.

I just had my pasta but it was quite a small portion so I will make some leek and tattie soup now. Yummy!

PasturesNew

I had some chips for lunch and the final 3 fish fingers from the last box. 
A motivated and focussed person would've made a little shopping list now of good frozen food, about 4-6 items, and gone to buy them.  I am not that person. 
 

Freezer needs to be 'protected' with a series of "fake packs/looks like it's full" + real food.  It's currently just got a bag of chips, 2 hash browns and 1 small ready meal pack in it.... plus two fake/empty boxes.

Farway

Sunny day after a dull start, bit of volunteer gardening & co-op for bananas, YS mushrooms & Twix

Some folk, grrrr, pinched the sunflower heads from the border , for the seeds I guess. Why can't they leave for others & the birds to enjoy!!

Lunch, a Marmite & cheese sarnie

Dinner, cheesy baked spud with boiled eggs salad, I think it's about time I had something green & healthy

PN, the DNA test I had was the Y chromosome, seems Y goes father to son only and is basically unchanged over the centuries, so no guessing or fun about ethnicity with Y

Your Uncle may have found it handy should he have cared to.

There are many using the Y but you have to be aware of the possible consequences, hence my Y surname vanishing and resurfacing under another surname in the 1600s, someone somewhere in time was up to no good.

A tale yet to unfold and one which may never be resolved, but 1600s Britain was in turmoil so a lot could have gone on then

Brambling

PasturesNew said:

There was also the issue of employment agreements.  A lot of men signed up for apprenticeships (7 years) and other binding employment contracts, especially in the countryside.  In short they weren't allowed to be married.  The men got their jobs because they were single, employers had no time/space for married men and the trouble that brought with it... so their hands were tied.  It wasn't until after a girl had given birth that more pressure could be put on the employer to allow them to marry. 

My eldest sister married nearly 60 years ago 5 days after my BIL turned 21 and his apprenticeship finished, I've a feeling he wasn't allowed to marry but there would also have been he was on a low salary so they also couldn't afford to, as it was they moved into my parents front room for about a year (before I came along 😁)

It seems there are support groups in the US for men who find out they're not the biological father of adult children when those children have DNA tests (which are a popular Christmas present) it's quite common 😳 

A wet start to the day but it turned out nice enough this afternoon for next doors 5 year old to practice her recorder in the garden   Even with my door and windows close it was like nails on a chalk board, who needs Chinese Water torture 😳

lunch was LO pork in a wrap with salad.  Dinner was the last of the pork as Singapore noodles. Four meals wasn't bad for a joint which coast me £2.50 😁

Caronc JOs butter chicken is on my menu plan for Thursday although I'm substituting cashew butter with peanut butter