Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

I ended up skipping breakfast and, later, had the final 2 digestives.

Lunch was from the freezer - Xmas Day nut roast, Xmas spuds/mashed I'd frozen + 2 large carrots bought early last week + some peas + gravy.

That's freed up a tiny corner of the freezer.

Farway

Seems Xmas LO are starting to figure this week

bouicca21

Definitely Xmas lo day. Stock from the Xmas ham, plus lentils = ham and lentil soup for lunch.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Glad you got your car back on the road Farway
No Christmas LOs here for dinner though I do still some of the cheese & chocolate mountains and some bits & turkey in the freezer to work my way through.
Pasta I think tonight either with ragu from the freezer or a quick leek, mushroom & bacon sauce.
It reached 5C here this afternoon - feels almost tropical:rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

In CBA mode here - so lunch was a couple of different cereals with milk, sourdough bread, a pear.

Dinner - still in CBA mode - so hauled a variety of vegetables out of the fridge and roasting them in the oven. Plan to have with a mixed "ready" sorta thing and some of that "nutty Parmesan" parmesan equivalent/tomatoes/olives.

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APJI - Where are ya'? Your last comment was planning on reading in a bed (being as it how was a snow day). So - come on....how's it going?

:rotfl:This is me in "bossy mode":rotfl:- and remembering you've now finished the neighbours jobs/seen the in-laws and your lodger has gone.....so I is wonderin'....:cool:

moneyistooshorttomention

That buyer was being a bit of a mare then wasnt he? - as in "cheeky mare":cool:

I'm not keen on buyers turning up without an appointment at the best of times - relative of my buyer did that unexpectedly with my last house - just as I was heading out the door intent on a lunch out. The EA's description of where said relative lives (ie one of the "classiest" roads in my home city) told me exactly who this person walking down the road meaningfully was....and I carried right on heading out for my lunch:)

But trespassing in the garden - naughty! naughty! rap on wrists. I can understand "just happening" to be walking past on the nearest public road "accidentally" carrying a pair of binoculars and taking a peer from there if one is worrying about it. But naughty to just walk into your garden like that...and I can understand reacting to trespassers in the garden (even if they had a reason) - as I found neighbours trespassing in my garden noticeably often when I bought current house. Funnily enough - that has stopped now...which I'm sure is totally unconnected to things like my having a hosepipe very visibly nearby that I might decide to start watering said garden with...:cool:;)

Fingers crossed all will go well now for the rest of the house-selling process.

PasturesNew

The trouble with unannounced visitors, especially for those who live alone, is that even if the person's in they might not have bothered getting dressed today .... and might be slopping round the house in a T shirt they loved from the 70s, the shorts they almost still fit into from the 80s and some oversized rugby socks.... and, in a lot of houses, that's even "overdressed".... not to mention your knickers drying on various radiators, or whatever.

Some days, if it's particularly cold, I just pull on "the two nearest socks" never minding if they match, so long as my feet are warm ... and I don't wear shorts ... so it's just an oversized T shirt, thong and odd socks most days.

If somebody's in your space and you're "spotted" you then feel an obligation (no matter how you're dressed) to make some polite conversation with them and, in the case of a buyer, even invite them in ... it's hard to smile on the outside while screaming obscenities on the inside

When I was selling some years ago the couple ended up having about 7 viewings; they visited every time they were in the area ... what a pain!

caronc

After 34 years + of working with the public, I'm really good at outwardly smiling while internally cursing:rotfl::rotfl:
MrAPJI, sounds as though the sooner your buyer's cash is in your hands the better!

wort

I pegged the washing out and it rained , decided to leave it and its almost dry.
I've cleaned through, been to help sister mind other sisters grandkids. Had a ham and garlic mayo sandwich, then started to paint my stairs and landing.its all had one coat, finished at 6.30 so cba to make tea, had fish fingers cheese and potato rosti on a gf thin. Then a huge portion of the pineapple upside down cake.
Hopefully if I've not seized up I will carry on painting in the morning.

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble with unannounced visitors, especially for those who live alone, is that even if the person's in they might not have bothered getting dressed today .... and might be slopping round the house in a T shirt they loved from the 70s, the shorts they almost still fit into from the 80s and some oversized rugby socks.... and, in a lot of houses, that's even "overdressed".... not to mention your knickers drying on various radiators, or whatever.

Some days, if it's particularly cold, I just pull on "the two nearest socks" never minding if they match, so long as my feet are warm ... and I don't wear shorts ... so it's just an oversized T shirt, thong and odd socks most days.

If somebody's in your space and you're "spotted" you then feel an obligation (no matter how you're dressed) to make some polite conversation with them and, in the case of a buyer, even invite them in ... it's hard to smile on the outside while screaming obscenities on the inside

When I was selling some years ago the couple ended up having about 7 viewings; they visited every time they were in the area ... what a pain!

Could be a lot worse Pastures - ahem....like deciding something needed doing urgently in the garden at a time when The Wind was blowing madly. Wearing precisely one very short nightdress and a pair of slippers and halfway through (and some very strong gusts of wind at the time) realising a workman has turned up unexpectedly (just when the wind was at it strongest - ahem....and he was standing right behind me):rotfl:.

I didn't say a word. He didn't say a word.:rotfl:.