Learning to walk before I run

Willow1983

Gosh loads of folks close to my area too. We love Troon and if had loads of money would be our place of choice near the sea 🥰 Also love Dumfries house the gardens are gorgeous in the summer. Willow

beanielou

AgathaSquirrel said:

beanielou said:

Dumfries House is amazing. A sadly no longer with us friend held a post there and was prominent in the programme about it. Lots of tears. 

I’m sorry to hear that. The work that has happened at Dumfries House is phenomenal. I hope your friend was proud of their contribution.

They absolutely were & HRH was beyond delighted with their contribution. 

rtandon27

We'll overlook the origins of said whiskey in favour of the MSEness of using what you have in stock, but only if you promiss to replace it with whisky from your own parts (or my parts) when you need to!

AgathaSquirrel

Willow1983 said:

Gosh loads of folks close to my area too. We love Troon and if had loads of money would be our place of choice near the sea 🥰 Also love Dumfries house the gardens are gorgeous in the summer. Willow

Lots of lovely areas along that coast - also Prestwick, Seamill, West Kilbride. We are very lucky in this part of the world.

Willow1983

Agreed AgathaSquirrel, these are all places we go walking and all around 15-30 mins away in the car. We also have some lovely local walks in nature 🥰

Baileys_Babe

edinburgher said:

We have haggis, carrots (don't really like neeps) and tatties, so could do a bit of a Burns Night later on. Our only whisky is American but I won't tell if you don't

Did you decide to have haggis? I hope you did, we would have joined you if I could find gluten free haggis this side of the boarder.

Viking_mfw

Baileys_Babe said:

edinburgher said:

We have haggis, carrots (don't really like neeps) and tatties, so could do a bit of a Burns Night later on. Our only whisky is American but I won't tell if you don't

Did you decide to have haggis? I hope you did, we would have joined you if I could find gluten free haggis this side of the boarder.

You can usually find it in Sainsbury's at this time of year (fellow gf Haggis fan).

Baileys_Babe

Viking_mfw said:

Baileys_Babe said:

edinburgher said:

We have haggis, carrots (don't really like neeps) and tatties, so could do a bit of a Burns Night later on. Our only whisky is American but I won't tell if you don't

Did you decide to have haggis? I hope you did, we would have joined you if I could find gluten free haggis this side of the boarder.

You can usually find it in Sainsbury's at this time of year (fellow gf Haggis fan).

Unfortunately not round here, I check every year, as well as Tesco, Asda and Morrisons 🙁

edinburgher

@Baileys_Babe -

We had haggis, mashed carrots with butter and chives, and mashed potatoes with butter and white pepper. I also whipped up a very tasty sweet + salty gravy that used cooking juices from last week's carnitas, chicken gravy granules, and HM cranberry sauce. A bit random, but very much delicious. 

A few glasses of whisky may also have been consumed, no ill effects today

No financial new today - £270 DD for the credit card went out, reducing our psychologically important £8,000 buffer because credit card payments reduce net worth. I used virement to try and get us back to the usual buffer but it will take a few days... Mrs E gets paid on Wednesday, which will help.

rtandon27

@Baileys_Babe - have you tried m&s and/or 0cad0? - I was surprised to see haggis in the train station m&s on my way into the office the other day - it's a tiny store where i stop off to get milk for coffee & yogurt for granola, but in it's case of fresh meat there were tubes of the traditional pork offal haggis as well as a veggie & lentil version.