Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

Another afternoon painting and am 2/3 of the way through 5 litre tin two. 2nd coat on one whole wall on sunday, I am not risking it tomorrow with heavy shower a possibility. I will be glad to see the back of painting, everything I touched at one stage got blobs of paint on it from my roller and hands. I do know that after this session, I will not be doing any more big painting jobs. Any new house will be painted prior to moving in and all with auro white, which actually looks a lovely mellow colour. Easy to touch up if all the same

One day soon you'll be able to buy a little robot ... you'll use a laser remote control to mark the corners of walls/windows/doors, then press "start" and sit back and watch it. You'll put a full tin of paint on a tray ... and remove empties.... and it'll be self-cleaning too (probably at the hire shop when you take it back. Most people would be able to paint their entire house in a day

Even a robot that just did painting by you pointing a remote control at it, so it could simply do all the long/laborious plain walls, would be a start. Then you'd just cut in and do the edges, then sit back and direct the robot by pointing a pointer where you wanted it to paint.

These robots would be the size of vacuum cleaners.

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I am glad I factored a day off today, will just tidy a bit but nothing else but RnR

Food, hah, no idea. I am not slaving over a hot stove and will grab a bit of turkey or some fish and add that to my veg, main thing is that I have some ice and intend to have a cold GnT sitting outside later on.

Lol, I stripped my very paint splattered outer clothes off yesterday and bunged them in the washing machine. Went into my bedroom in my undies, to see three farmers looking over to my way from the other end of the orchard, backed out fast, crawled in to grab my clothes, luckily had dropped them near the floor in my hurry to change to paint clothes. They were only looking away from the sun and talking and my windows look black from outside but it made me jump

edit: paint robot with climbing suckers, now theres a good idea. Or houses that can lay flat so that robots don`t need suckers, only needing rollers

PasturesNew

Without a clue what I wanted, I went to the closest shop ... just grabbed sausage rolls, frozen chips, a reduced veggie chilli and pack of pitta breads.

My "L" don't seem to sell the meat chilli, but the veggie one was in the reduced section and for some bizarre reason I chose to buy it, even though it's still about £1.20 when reduced!

I have no clue what food I fancy later though ....

I don't buy salad items because it's pretty boring, you get far too much which you then have to eat solidly for 4-5 days ... and it's a pricey way to eat food you don't like/fancy in the main

Probably no point going out today - everywhere will be jammed full of loud/noisy people, shuffling along, being far too close and being annoying. Unless you walk 2 miles along a deserted clifftop footpath you can't find a spot of sand that doesn't have hoardes of large groups playing ball/shouting and running around.

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

One day soon you'll be able to buy a little robot ... you'll use a laser remote control to mark the corners of walls/windows/doors, then press "start" and sit back and watch it. You'll put a full tin of paint on a tray ... and remove empties.... and it'll be self-cleaning too (probably at the hire shop when you take it back. Most people would be able to paint their entire house in a day

Even a robot that just did painting by you pointing a remote control at it, so it could simply do all the long/laborious plain walls, would be a start. Then you'd just cut in and do the edges, then sit back and direct the robot by pointing a pointer where you wanted it to paint.

These robots would be the size of vacuum cleaners.

Well couldnt be worse than the painters I've had here so far:rotfl:. There's been 3 of them and not one of them did the preparation work before painting:cool:.

As I, at any rate, can read books on what preparation one is supposed to do - then I suspect I might land up being the next painter I employ...as the bits of decoration I did in my last house were done to a higher standard than them - even though it's not "my job" and it is theirs. Guess I got used to having found a painter that really IS a painter and he then took over in my last house.

So a robot painter - bring it on. I'll do all the preparation they should have/didnt do - and then leave the robot to it.

wort

Caronc snap same here re the painting/strawberries /chives.

Yesterday was ham salad sandwich and satsuma for lunch, spent the afternoon reading in the garden. Forgot to put the Moss killer on ! Whoops.
Balti curry rice and poppadoms, with baobab yogurt and kiwi.
I'm working today so I'm taking a tinned salmon and salad sandwich and yogurt , I will add some fruit probably a satsuma or 2.
Just popping some more washing out hoping no rain it's glorious at the moment but I won't be home until teatime.
I'm just hoping next door doesn't light a fire agsin:( yesterday I went to peg sheets out and could smell fire so had to hold off putting them out.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Painting robots - I have a mental image of R2D2 painting and C3PO marching behind saying "missed a bit":rotfl::rotfl:
I was up and dressed sharp today as I got a text at 7.50 re a parcel being delivered between 8 & 9 am. I'm glad I did as the door bell went at 8.01:eek:, still means I don't need to hang about now for it.:)
It's a lovely morning here, sunny and mild. The weather is due to break tonight so I'm going to try and spend as much time pottering about in the garden as I can.

Slow cooked pork ribs for dinner tonight so I'm just off to prep those and then they can just cook away while I do other things:).

PasturesNew

Having said I "don't like/eat salad", I mean all those fresh things and leaves and stuff that goes off ... stuff that's sold in larger quantities than a CFO would have use for, especially when all added together in a pile.

But, I did make some "salad-esque" bits and pieces. I grated cheddar, I boiled eggs, I cooked pasta for a cold pasta salad ..... and you know what....? It's clouded over and gone cool anyway.

So I had two hot sausage rolls

moneyistooshorttomention

It's easy to grow a bit of salad that's permanently available for quite a bit of the year in the garden and then they don't "go off".

I've now got those chives, two types of sorrel and nasturtiums there as perma-plants in the garden. So it gives a bit of a start on making a salad. I shall put in a few more perma-plants at some point soon.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
It's a cracking day weather wise here and quite warm (15C):).
I've had a fairly productive morning tidying up out front.
With my next shop not booked until Monday, I'm running short of fresh veggies so apart from celery & red pepper my "salad" lunch was all made from tins or jars (tuna, cannelini beans, olives, jalepenos, corn, diced pickled shallots). It was really tasty and there is enough left for tomorrow
Pork ribs are chuntering away in the SC so after I've had my usual afternoon nap, I'll be heading in to the back garden and see what I can get done there.:)

Farway

Up and about with plenty of time, but pot of tea first, and after breakfast of porridge / honey / banana / HM yoghurt decided to not bother going out, despite it being sunny. There is nothing i need or even fancy, read a book in the conservatory instead

Spotting mention of courgettes on here, decided to sow some this year, new packet located and now sown indoors. I've space for them in large tub and normally do OK

I've sorrel, chives, garlic chives and nasturtiums, all seed everywhere but I've space and let them get on with it. My sorrel like MTSMs is on a takeover mission, popping up all over the neighbourhood now

Lunch was PB baguette with last of the Spam, with piccalilli, followed by lump of bread pud

Now dull and spots of rain, glad i'm in

Dinner, no idea at all, there are YS crumpets which could be pressed into service. CBA to prep any veg

I think dinner will fail most nutrition experts tests. I could just eat a pork chop, but don't have one so dream on matey