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I have just had my usual toast and Flora. I have a class today and the weather has brightened up a lot as it was pouring when I woke up.2
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Good afternoon everyone,
Dry and trying to be sunny today after some really quite wintry showers yesterday.
Had a lovely lunch with the kids yesterday and apart from the carcass pickings and one portion of soup no LOs. I'll pick the carcass later and use the meat for chicken and veg soup, some of which we'll have for dinner tonight. The spare portion of soup went home with my sis when she popped by for a cuppa and to collect Ari who we had overnight. Brunch was a very tasty roll filled with scrambled egg, a tattie scone and one of these Heck 6 Smoky Pork Sausage Rashers 300g - Tesco Groceries .3 -
A mixed day weather-wise but at least it was dry and I had a nice walk around the bay before the brisk wind started to pick up.
Met up with a friend for a cafe brunch late morning and tonight I’ll have some more of the gammon joint with AF chips, peas and pickled beetroot.
2026 Jan spends = £
2025 Grocery spends = £1166.08 (Jan - June £531.61, July - Dec £634.47)2 -
I have some of these in my freezer, picked up YS!caronc said:Ari who we had overnight. Brunch was a very tasty roll filled with scrambled egg, a tattie scone and one of these Heck 6 Smoky Pork Sausage Rashers 300g - Tesco Groceries
I had a lazy day just pottering with some sorting in the small bedroom, I can see a lot more floor space now 😁
Cheese and chilli jam roll for lunch. Chicken, veg and orzo traybake for dinner, it was throw in the dish kind of meal, Mediterranean inspired, probably won't be able to duplicate but very tasty 😋
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Quiet day here after a long day volunteering at an event yesterday. Caught up with strictly this morning, put a load of bedding in the wash and wrote a shopping list. Out for a swim late morning.
Beans with toast for lunch (just fancied it). Chimichurri chorizo and sweet potato traybake tonight with a green salad.2 -
Damp & dull, ideal day for hunkering down with a hot drink & a biscuit
And me nowjustkeepswimmimg said:Beans with toast for lunch (just fancied it).
. Ideal this weatherDinner, LO cauli cheese with LO mash and grilled pork loin chopNumerus non sum1 -
Good morning everyone,
It's gloomy and beginning to get blowy, The forecast is for strong winds and heavy rain coming in for the rest of the day so I'll do the bin run and bring logs in from the deck shortly. Must order more logs as DS2 emptied the log store stacking the deck stash yesterday. That said there's enough still to last us a few weeks as unless we hit a really cold snap it's only on for a few hours in the evening.
Some of the chicken and veg soup I made yesterday for lunch, Dinner tonight will be omelette filled with Cajun spiced onions, mushrooms and peppers with salad and AF baby spuds.2 -
The plumber was just here and fixed the pipe so I can do laundry again! I hand washed a few things over the weekend and had forgotten how annoying that is to do.

I just woke up very hungry and had a sandwich with a large glass of water. It is quite bright and windy here today. I had my 30th class of the year last night.
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I made a delicious lentil, tomato and carrot soup today. I have leftovers for the next two days. It isn’t really soup weather yet as it is still so mild.1
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Grey and windy but strangely mild here.Posh fishfinger sandwich for lunch. Salmon with leek and cannellini bean stew and broccoli tonight. LO stew for the freezer.2
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