2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

Laura_Elsewhere

@TwibbleDee, how nice of you to ask us! I'll come - do we bring our own food, or is there anything I could bake to bring along?  

TwibbleDee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@TwibbleDee, how nice of you to ask us! I'll come - do we bring our own food, or is there anything I could bake to bring along?  

We end up providing everything to ensure that everything ends up gluten-free.  I'm planning to torture the 13-year-old tomorrow by having her bake brownies.

Cherryfudge

TwibbleDee said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@TwibbleDee, how nice of you to ask us! I'll come - do we bring our own food, or is there anything I could bake to bring along?  

We end up providing everything to ensure that everything ends up gluten-free.  I'm planning to torture the 13-year-old tomorrow by having her bake brownies.

You meanie.

Shall I bring Eton Mess? That's safely g/f (to the extent I suspect g/f people get tired of it, sorry). It's just we need to pretend it's still summer here in the UK.

Laura_Elsewhere

@Cherryfudge, well, I'm happily embracing autumn with great joy, as I love it!

@TwibbleDee - I thought I might do these tiny baby potatoes as miniature baked jacket potatoes, just to eat as hot fingerfood... is a dusting before cooking with mustard-powder, sea-salt and black pepper ok? 

Laura_Elsewhere

It is raining steadily out there now, and I am sitting comfortably, still in my pyjamas, finishing off sewing another couple of face-coverings for us both... I love autumn  
In a bit I shall make lots of sausage-rolls, as they are perfect to take with us on hikes and next week, the second of our two weeks, is longer, tougher hikes (although several of this week's "easy short" ones turned out to belong in next week...). By the time My Intended returns to work on Mon 19th, WFH, p/t, we should both have lots more energy, far better lung fitness, and have lost a few pounds, giving us a better fighting chance if we do catch Covid-19. 

Hope everyone is enjoying as lazy and relaxed a weekend as we are!  

TwibbleDee

Cherryfudge said:

TwibbleDee said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@TwibbleDee, how nice of you to ask us! I'll come - do we bring our own food, or is there anything I could bake to bring along?  

We end up providing everything to ensure that everything ends up gluten-free.  I'm planning to torture the 13-year-old tomorrow by having her bake brownies.

You meanie.

Shall I bring Eton Mess? That's safely g/f (to the extent I suspect g/f people get tired of it, sorry). It's just we need to pretend it's still summer here in the UK.

Eton Mess sounds like Pavlova.  Very tasty.

Of course, since we're having people over and planning to be outside, it's now supposed to hit 100F today.  They're saying that tomorrow might be the latest day in the year we've gone over 100 and set records.

Today will be spent cleaning and setting up for tonight.  One of these days, I should learn how to properly keep house so it isn't a rush to vacuum, put things up, etc., but that might be a bit far-fetched for me until I get rid of a LOT of things. 

PollyWollyDoodle

That’s my ambition @TwibbleDee, to be able to invite people in without a mad flurry of tidying up. One day… I have improved over the years with the help of Marie Kondo. 

Laura, I am another autumn lover, partly because its my birthday in November, but I love boots, scarves, jumpers and hats. It’s my favourite time of year, I don’t like the weather too hot but a lovely crisp autumn day is perfect.  Preferably with some leaves to kick through.

Cherryfudge

I love the colours of autumn, and the snugness when I'm indoors in a hot bath and it's dark and wet outside! However, spring is my season. I usually start it in February and keep it going till nearly June.
Favourite autumn foods, anyone? Thick soups, hot ginger to drink, gingerbread, parkin, treacle toffee, hot apple puddings...

Laura_Elsewhere

Sausage rolls...? Not GF, although maybe the virtual pastry is GF?  

Help yourselves, anyway - they're to fuel next week's hikes but four dozen leaves a few spare!  

PipneyJane

Have I told you all that you are wonderful people?  Well, you are.  Thank you for making me smile, today.  @TwibbleDee, hope the party goes well.  @Laura_Elsewhere, I’ll certainly eat your sausage rolls - they look lovely.

@PollyWollyDoodle, I’m the same as you. One day, I will have a tidy house and it will remain like that.  Housewificus Domesticus I am not, although I can cook like a dream.  (And enjoy doing so.). I just have the ability to put a pen down on an empty table and, 30 seconds later, it’ll look like bomb hit it.

- Pip