Cooking for one (Mark Three)

moneyistooshorttomention

Apji - while I think about it re your removal. If you do have the additional extra of paying removal people to do your packing for you, then a couple of points:

a. I did that when I moved here and price was pretty much what I expected - ie £300.

b. The "but" is I landed up finding it was a different removal firm to the one I'd actually booked that turned up:cool:. The two men duly started packing (and yep...they do work at pretty lightning speed) and the "but" is my last house is a two-storey house and one of them started up chatting to me whilst he was packing and I was wondering a little bit just why he was being so chatty. The other one was packing downstairs whilst no. 1 was doing this.

You can probably guess the rest - and I don't think that was a "genuine conversation" at all by no. 1. I think it was one designed to distract me from what no. 2 was up to downstairs.

So I got to this end and off they went and I unpacked my stuff over subsequent days - and then I realised I was minus some full bottles of spirits that I owned. Nope - they've quite definitely never ever turned up this end from that day to this. I knew, of an absolute certainty, pretty much to the inch where that booze had been sitting downstairs - as I'd gone through my house with a pretty fine toothcomb decluttering in order to minimise the amount I was bringing with me - and I was definitely bringing that booze with me.

It was a bit of hassle to do so - but I did get the boss of removal firm to pay for that stolen booze - after a "discussion" or two....:cool:.

From this - if there's going to be both you and brother-in-law there whilst they pack = make sure you are near one of them and b-i-l is near the other one of them. Just in case you get ones like that (ie fake chats for distraction purposes).....:cool:

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I've had "posting " gremlins, so hopefully this won't refuse to submit either!
Lunch was LOs as planned and I've taken beef stew & dumplings from the freezer for dinner.
Tomorrow needs to be a cooking/cleaning day so I can get organised for Saturday night. Thankfully my shopping arrived as ordered.

caronc

Yeh it posted :j

PasturesNew

... and another slice of cake. It's better than any £1 cake I could buy ... but it's too easy and has too many calories, so I won't be making too many.

I tend to re-discover something, make it, love it, then make it 2-3x, then not again for 3-4 years.... I've always been like that

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money!! you really have spooked me re removals packing but at the same time I am grateful, forewarned etc. I am now making a list of items that I will be moving myself

I am on the ball today wrt food, woke up like the lark as normal, ate granola, dried raspberries, walnuts , hemp, nice large cup of tea and have prepared for the main meals today. An egg is out and will be boiled at 10ish. Yay all vegetables chopped and soup is cooking now. Soup is carrot with shallots and garlic, butter and rapeseed to saute, roasted cumin seeds, some curry powder and a bouquet garni. I did all the chopping, all in one, in my food processor wjhich I only needed to rinse and is now away. I decided to add some lentils, to boost thickness and goodness

Last meal is very tummy friendly and will be cooked in the timed rice cooker. Basmati, dried soya, seaweed sprinkle, umboshi, ginger, sweet potato, celery. Some brocolli added on top 15 minutes before ready, will steam on top

Lunch carrot soup and a cheese toastie, very appealing to me tbh and am much hoping to get a cycle ride in before lunch and the rain at 1. The housework mojo has faded a bit but I know which two rooms to tackle when it appears again

PasturesNew

I had a slice of cake for breakfast. It's nice and moist and lovely.....

moneyistooshorttomention

kittie wrote: »

money!! you really have spooked me re removals packing but at the same time I am grateful, forewarned etc. I am now making a list of items that I will be moving myself

As you say "forewarned is forearmed". I'm sure there are a lot of honest packers/removal people out there. But my suspicion is that many more people have had goods stolen during removals than realise that fact (particularly if things have been packed by the firm for them).

Most people probably forget they own whatever-it-is/think another member of their family must have chucked it out/don't realise until quite some time later when they think "I know I've got a wotsit" and look for it - but they think they themselves are responsible one way or another for something having happened to the wotsit in the intervening years.

I knew those bottles were in "that" cupboard on "that" side of "that" shelf in my last house and had quite clearly decided they were coming with me. There's no-one else living with me that might have decided to drink them/dispose of them/etc - hence I could be 100% certain I still had them/should have had them.

I'd taken the precaution of putting my jewellery/money/paperwork elsewhere and those things came over to Wales in my friends' car with me.

Be aware that, even if you pick a firm belonging to that association some of them belong to (BARS??) there will probably be a disclaimer in the small print about any claims you put in for "loss"/breakages about having to do so within a certain time. Think it was 7 days? There's a pretty safe chance (in their opinion) that most people won't finish unpacking during the first week:cool:. I think I realised about 10 days after moving here? Hence I had to argue to get payment for that from them (as they quoted me that small print).

So - I was lazy about unpacking everything promptly (by a few days) - but I "knew" that "Everything should be unpacked instantly - like within 24 hours" - because that was my childhood memories of what I'd seen whenever a move happened. Hence I probably got everything unpacked quicker than a lot would...if not as fast as I know I "should" iykwim

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more grateful than not, money it has given me plenty of time to make that list

PasturesNew

I've got things I've not seen since my move that makes me wonder if a random box went missing, it contained a brand new pair of pyjamas and a shabby old Scrabble game.... but then you can't be entirely sure .... and you're sure it'll turn up .... there are also a couple of tiny ornaments that I've not seen ... but, again, they could simply be "wrapped in a twist of tissue and tucked inside something in a box that's got stuff in still" - and without anywhere to unpack things to, you just leave it.

My parents had a couple of those long glass fish that seemed to "disappear". I wasn't there when they moved, or unpacked... but that's what they said. Having said that, mum did have a habit of making up answers when you asked questions she couldn't be bothered to think about or answer... so who knows; it's possible they got rid of them before they moved, or after as they did take a lot of stuff down the charity shop after they unpacked.... they'd be down there nearly every day for a year with a few items/day it seemed....

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
It's lovely bright day here though still bitterly cold.
I've had a busy morning wrestling with Henry (hoover) and prepping peri peri pork for the slow cooker as part of getting ready for a houseful tomorrow evening. I've still lots of cooking (and cleaning to do) but split over 2 days it should be manageable:).
No breakfast, though did have a banana mid-morning. Lunch will be toast with LO stew from last night. Dinner is finally going to be the mince round:D, I might make root veg mash to go with it, I'll see how I get on if not it will be oven chips and peas;)
Best go and get the dusting underway.....(once I've finished my cuppa:))