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Scottiedog_3

@Sun_Addict I think when the weather's wet and cold, animals always seem to be starving hungry. My three are in training for the pet food Olympics...🙄

milann

Bet Mr SA thinks he looks fab 👍
Cant say I blame ds and gks not venturing out as there’s no knowing what obstacles they’d have encountered 😳

Sun_Addict

Tried to take the dog for a walk round the block and had to drag her, she wouldn’t budge the little so and so. The minute we turned around she headed straight for the park excitedly. So she won and we went on the park. It was an absolute mud bath. She really enjoyed it, jumping in puddles and running about. Had to put her straight in the bath when we got back, she was covered in mud from head to toe. 

Cleaned out the bedroom cupboard where the kitten had sprayed and closed the door so she couldn’t get back in. A bit later wondered where she was - yes she’d somehow managed to get herself shut in there 🤦‍♀️

Mr SA has managed to get blood on the duvet cover I only changed yesterday. He’d tried to cut his toenails with a huge pair of scissors and cut his toe in the process 😩 I bought him some proper clippers so why he didn’t use them I don’t know. I won’t cut his toenails, I can’t touch feet 🤮 I’m considering getting a mobile foot person to come and see to his feet, there’s one locally. 

Have done next week’s meal plan. I’m using my Joe Wicks veggie cookbook for a couple of recipes. 

Monday - veg lasagne (from the freezer) and salad (using up the last of the salad)
Tuesday - Rosie’s Beautiful Bolognaise from Joe Wicks veggie cookbook (will use up some of the dried green lentils, must remember to soak them for 12 hours)
Wednesday - salmon with honey and mustard dressing and veg
Thursday - veg chilli (from the freezer) and rice
Friday - garlic and herb yellowfin sole with veg
Saturday - chickpea, tomato and spinach curry (from the Joe Wicks veggie cookbook)
Sunday - vegan slow cooker stew with herb dumplings (an old favourite recipe)

Making a split pea soup for work day lunches to use up the out of date split peas.

I don’t have anything exciting for breakfast usually a slice of dry toast, crumpet or whole meal muffin - I don’t like butter or margarine so eat them dry. 

Watching another live WW cook along at 6pm.

It’s all quiet here as Mr SA has gone back to bed to watch an ancient film. 

pennywisepoundstupid

I with you on feet, defo get the mobile lady to come🤢.

Sun_Addict

Forgot to say I finished reading The Village Affair by Rebecca Shaw yesterday, it was ok, very light reading. Started reading Daughter by Jane Shemilt and it’s brilliant already just a few chapters in. Another one that’s been on my shelf for ages.

milann

Makes sense to get somebody in to sort Mr SA feet for him. He will do himself a mischief left to his own devices 😳
The meal plan sounds lovely again except the dry toast….I’d have to have something on it. I’ve taken a bit of a shine to chocolate spread and banana as a treat recently 😁 

Cherryfudge

Isn't it interesting how dogs are so individual? I've never been a  'dog person' until the last year. My DD has a puppy and that's changed things significantly!

Your dog found puddles and loved them: I've been walking a friend's Bichon Frise who is pure white and trots daintily round puddles. (Still gets muddy paws and underneath but the top of him is always pristine). He loves smells and other dogs but isn't at all bothered about stick or pine cones. DD's puppy thinks pine cones and sticks are the best. I know dogs are bred for certain characteristics, but who thought to breed in a love of puddles?

The mobile foot person is a good idea, if only to save another load of washing! I did some work with older people during the first lockdown and it was horrendous to see the state their feet got into without a visiting chiropodist: care home staff aren't allowed to cut nails because of the risk of injury. It's so easy to get it wrong and set up further problems, so buying in care might be a good move all round.

It's a quiet afternoon here too, with pouring rain, and at some point I'm going to check the freezer for ingredients to make a mushroom goulash. Your meal plan sounds very nice indeed.

WinterWarrior

My dog could possibly be part pig…she loves rolling in mud and swimming. I understand the swimming as labs are bread to retrieve things from water too, but no idea where the love of mud comes from 🤣
I also agree, a mobile foot person would be a billion times better than touching mens feet 😖

RelievedSheff

Our dog does his best to walk around puddles. 

Although sometimes he will catch us out and walk straight through the middle of one. Usually when we don't have his Mud Daddy in the car to wash him off!

RelievedSheff

Oh and I'm not a feet person either. I don't like cutting my own toe nails. Certainly could do someone else's 🤮