Cooking for one (Mark Three)

flubberyzing

I can just about handle Church of England, but Catholic is in a whole new ballpark. Fortunately I'm atheist enough to think that if a higher power did exist, that I'd be forgiven, and if they don't... It doesn't matter anyway!

I'm generally of a view of "you do you" when it comes to religion, but I'm not fully in favour of making it such a big part of kids school lives, and treating it like it's definitely, absolutely, 100% scientific fact.

moneyistooshorttomention

I tend to the "you do you" viewpoint as well. Goodness knows - few people in this country think the way I do in that respect:rotfl:

I tend to the school of thought of "Give them a good general overview of all the different religions and none - and let them make up their own minds". I'm not sure which I would feel most "uneasy" about - a Catholic education or an Evangelical one. I wouldnt feel too happy about either. I would have been okay about sending kids to a Steiner school or a standard non-faith one. I'd have been okay-ish about sending them to an Anglican one - but would be monitoring closely in case it turned "evangelical" (at which point I'd be considering moving them).

With an Anglican mother and agnostic father - I was going to be left to make up my own mind anyway:rotfl: - they didn't "battle it out" about that.

So my schools weren't religious ones and I was sent to Anglican Sunday School as a young kid (probably so that I would know the basis of our country's religion) and then left to myself teenage onwards to "go my own way" and, goodness knows, I investigated a very wide-ranging line of thought before I decided what I personally think:)

EDIT; Though I've just recalled that my attitude to an ordinary school turning to being biased towards a different religion than our own - and any kids I had would have been whipped out of there so fast their feet wouldn't touch the ground.

caronc

State schooling here is divided into Catholic and "everyone else", however both must admit any pupil if they live in the catchment area. In my area many non-Catholic families opt to send there kids to the local Catholic primary as the main centrally located primary is full or because it tends to have smaller class sizes. Families are able to opt their kids out of the more religious aspects of the education.

Personally in all aspects of my life I'm a "each to their own way" kind of person but sadly there is still quite a bit of sectairinism here frequently hidden under the guise of if you are a Rangers or Celtic fan!


First three items are off my "to do" so enjoying a cuppa before I prep some puff pastry pinwheels and make my lunch. After that it's my usual feet up for a couple of hours:).


It's still tipping it down.......

PasturesNew

It only rained first thing here today - I can see blue sky but the sun's behind a cloud somewhere. It's been breezy, but eased off now.

Re religion - I was never baptised/christened, none of us were. Mum was non practising Methodist, dad was born/raised Catholic, but married a divorcee so that was out the window Dad never went to church to my knowledge as an adult.

Growing up, I went to a variety of Sunday schools - mum didn't bother what sort they were. We coloured in pictures of Jesus. Mum liked a sing song and carols, so there'd be carols on the telly at Xmas and Songs of Praise on Sunday nights.

I managed to not kill anybody, nor covet a neighbour's goat/whatever .... all without religion needing to tell me that.

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl: Pastures and I think my general way of thinking was probably more influenced by my father than my mother anyway (and he describes himself as a Humanist) - so I admit to having realised much of the time I'm acting the way my father would in a lot of situations.

Yep...that's right....I didn't make it to my voluntary work this afternoon. To be more accurate - I made it there...but I was absolutely soaked to the skin and no-one much was there anyway - so I came back home again. It's still not sunk in yet that the weather here sometimes stops people doing things.....:cool:

You'da thought I might just have clicked when I've been reading Facebook pages about various roads round here being blocked and it was starting to become clear that a social event some drive from here tonight looked likely to be cancelled (it now has been).

Just left a message with friend I'm due to go out with tonight about all this (as she'd be driving in from some distance away) and told her all about this and that I'll expect her if I see her. Visions of them making it here okay and then not being able to make it back to where they live okay and that's 3 extra people for breakfast tomorrow:rotfl: When you live in this sort of area - between the weather and the poor public transport it's as well imo to be able to put a couple of people up for the odd night if they get cut off:cool: Well - I've got extra milk and bread in most of the time anyway so not a problem for that.

Farway

Sorry folks, the weather here is fine, bit windy but warm & sun peeks out now & then

Up early, couldn't get back to sleep again, thinking about the planned day ahead

Usual porridge / banana combo for breakfast

Then out, today was planned photography day, there is a church nearby which has made a large outside display of knitted memorial poppies, donated worldwide, and I wanted to see that for myself, plus exhibition inside.

Very impressive considering it is just a small village church. Very sad though reading some of the tributes, "from the daughter he never saw" etc.
Found a gravestone of the daughter of Alexander II of Russia, I was not expecting to find a Russian princess buried in a village churchyard

Lunch was cheese & salady sarnie

Dinner is basic ex Navy food, cheesy, eggy, hammy. Very CBA CFO food

PasturesNew

That bit of fish went down a treat

Glad I got that.

It's been on my mind to buy the frozen 4-packs of battered fish for awhile now... but hadn't ever got round to it. Today's purchase was based purely on it having a 50% off/Use by today sticker on it....

The remaining three have been foil wrapped individually and popped into the freezer.

I had chips and mushy peas with it - to be honest, I don't like tinned mushy peas, but there are few options. As I tend to eat just one can of mushy peas every year, or less often, I don't want to clutter up the freezer with frozen mushy peas - and I can't make my own due to quantity issues and then it'd clutter up the freezer. So it's tinned or nothing - but tinned ones are nothing like proper, steeped, mushy peas.

flubberyzing

I buy a can of mushy peas from time to time. I find they are best with a good glug of vinegar. It loosens them up and gives a bit more of that "chip shop vibe".

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Hope you've dried out Money and the storm is passing in your area<<hug>>
Sounds like a very thought provoking display Farway, neither of my grandfathers saw front line service, My maternal grandfather was based was involved behind the scenes in radar developement and my paternal grandfather was in a reserved occupation (steelworks) though probably wouldn't have been classed as fit due to very poor eyesight and what was then classed as "stunted growth". He was a very poorly baby and toddler and not expected to reach school age, he surprised them all by living to he was 80.

Hard to beat a "steeped pea" PN but they are a bit of a faff, I don't mind the tinned mushy peas though.:)
Thankfully in the last hour it has actually stopped tipping it down:D, the house feels very quiet without the sound of wind & rain battering it!
My "to do" for today has been done:D, though I realised after I had formed the meatballs that the chopped parsley was still in a ramekin on the counter:o. Doubt it will make a huge difference to the end result but annoying! Lentil stew looks and tastes great, I'd happily eat it without the meatballs. I know Yottam Ottonlenghi gets stick for the complexity, length of (sometimes obscure) ingredients etc, but this dish was reasonably straightforward if you like cooking as I do. Still have a bit of a long list for tomorrow but very doable I hope.
I am however bushed now so something easy for dinner is needed, I'm swithering between some keema curry & pitta from the freezer or "something", wedges and roast veg done in the oven. I'll see what comes to hand first when I look in the freezer.;)


ETA: dinner ended up as naan bread pizza

Brambling

Like Farway we had good weather here a little overcast but fine, unfortunately I've been working on and off all day so when not working I've had to keep an eye out for emails and couldn't go out. Just finished now so about to have a glass of something and catch up on Strictly :beer:

I had older parents so both my grandfathers were soldiers in WW1, although both came home they died before I was born relatively young. One was a blacksmith in France until he got TB. The other was part of the expeditionary forces and was captured September 1914 and walked to Germany to work as slave labour in the salt mines the entire war. My dad was in a reserved occupation for WW2 but lost his eldest brother in France on the retreat to Dunkirk with two other brothers rescued from beaches, until he died my dad would get upset Remembrance Day and whenever the Last Post was played. He had to break the news to my grandparents and said my gran knew which son was dead and that the others would make it home.

My education was in village schools so although not a church school we had assembly every day with hymns and once a week one of the vicars or ministers from one of the village churches would take the assembly, with the exception of Catholic we seemed to cover the range from CofE, Baptist, Methodist etc. My older sidlings all had to go to church but not us although both my parents went back to church when they got older.

I invited my sister for lunch today, we slotted in steak, chips and salad between working and I kicked her out when I had to start working again at 2.30pm :rotfl: my nephew popped in after we had eaten for an hour which was lovely, I hadn't seen him for a couple of months . Dinner was cheese and biscuits with grapes eaten on the run

Enjoy your lunch tomorrow Caronc