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Tescodealqueen said:

My dad thinks I am a bit weird as first sign of a sunny breezy day my first thought is shall I strip the beds! Which I did yesterday and changed to the summer quilt and had the best nights sleep in ages having stayed relatively cool all night. I am so easily pleased these days

We too changed to our summer quilt last night and I slept better than I had been.

We have a wool blanket in easy reach if it gets too cool in the night.

foxgloves

Totally agree with you both - it does suddenly have turned a corner with night time temperatures. I intend to change the bedlinen on Friday & I will be putting the summer duvet on. One positive bonus of this will be not being woken by Mr F at 4.30 am moaning that he's too hot!
F

foxgloves

Hello Bluebells,
What a windy day.....but lovely sunshine here by the afternoon, so I shouldn't complain. Garden badly needs rain though......proper rain for a few nights in a row, but dry in the day please so I can get lots of outdoor jobs done.
Had put aside this morning for batch cooking & that's what I did, while listening to my audiobook (one of the Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike mysteries). I actually finished it, so have started a scandi-crime one now. Anyway, I'm digressing.......
Batch-cooking session was really useful. I ended up with 13 portions for the freezer - I made a veggie curry in the slow cooker (recipe is chickpeas, but unusually we didn't have any, so I used butterbeans instead), pesto (using our homegrown chard & pistachio nuts instead of basil & pine nuts) - I'm pleased with how that's turned out & it will be a quick meal with some pasta. I also made fish cakes, using all the trimmings & odd fillets from yesterday's fish box delivery and a few potatoes which had started sprouting. I usually do my own thing but this time I used the recipe in HFW's leftovers book, as I've been re-reading it. Well, I know Mr F-W likes his food, but these are massive. I reckon even Mr F will only be able to tackle one of these. Defo will only need salad with them. It was also a chance to use up some of the parsley plant on the windowsill which is lush atm, but will soon be taking on an air of wilted tragedy if it stands there much longer. 
So 13 portions of 3 different meals into the freezer & I also made a sourdough loaf & my usual 'house' loaf which is 300g wholemeal to 200g white bread flour baked in a long tin. I shall cut that one in half when it's cool & freeze as two, as it stays fresher that way.
Other stuff? Not really. I planted up my 2 hanging baskets.......these are not my forte, so in more recent years, I've just planted the top of them with a nice pelargonium & 2 traily things & they have been much easier, cheaper & worked better for me. Oh & I've done 20 mins of concerted bindweed removal. I don't need to make too much effort on the culinary front this evening, as am just making kedgeree. Mr F has requested stir-fried garlicky chard with his (he'll soon look like a chunk of chard!) so I'd better go & pick a bit more. Best to use it though, as it is last year's, so it will doubtless soon bolt & even if it doesn't, it will soon be pulled up as I shall require that bed for extra outdoor tomato plants.
Hope you've all seen some sunshine today.
Best wishes,
F x

foxgloves

Hey! Brain-picking time.....yours, not mine. I'm sure there is a way of doing this, which for some reason, is eluding me: If I wanted to start reading a diary from the beginning, how would I do this? Also, how do I go back to a specific page or rough group of pages in my own diary, if I wanted to look for something, for instance? I must be missing something obvious because diaries are always displayed on their latest page & I can't see any intuitive way of changing this because the only active command key just goes back one page at a time. 
What am I missing? (apart from a packet of caramel digestives).
Cheers,
F 

BlueJ94

foxgloves said:

Hey! Brain-picking time.....yours, not mine. I'm sure there is a way of doing this, which for some reason, is eluding me: If I wanted to start reading a diary from the beginning, how would I do this? Also, how do I go back to a specific page or rough group of pages in my own diary, if I wanted to look for something, for instance? I must be missing something obvious because diaries are always displayed on their latest page & I can't see any intuitive way of changing this because the only active command key just goes back one page at a time. 
What am I missing? (apart from a packet of caramel digestives).
Cheers,
F 

Are you using your mobile phone to view diary? 

foxgloves

Hi, @BlueJ94, yes, mostly my phone, but I could use my laptop.
F

BlueJ94

foxgloves said:

Hi, @BlueJ94, yes, mostly my phone, but I could use my laptop.
F

Thanks that makes sense. Basically it's a pain in the butt to do it on the phone. So depending on what phone you have. On the top right of the browser page you should see 3 dots or like a setting tab looks like this



You should then see a little option for "desktop mode" which changes your view to this.. Where you can choose what page you want to go back to like so. 



Hopefully this helps!

Humdinger1

@BlueJ94 that is amazing! Thank you!! Now @foxgloves...if this isn't too personal a question, exactly how big is this freezer of yours?!  I'm imagining Narnia, but full of food instead of fauns, white witches, snow and fur coats.  Could you hold an ice ball in it? Love Humdinger xx 

foxgloves

Thanks so much for that, @BlueJ94. Very kind of you to provide instructions. I shall have a play around with it at some point & see what I can do. 
F x

BlueJ94

Glad I could help @Humdinger1 and @foxgloves