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Happy Birthday @joedenise - enjoy your day out and especially the birthday wine

bubbs

Afternoon all

Happy Birthday Denise 🎁 hope you have had a good day.

We have had winds, rain, snow, hail and it's now sunny! But it is freezing cold!!

Denise, Dad has a really really long way to go, but if he don't put any weight on and get some of his strength back i can't see him having any more treatment 😫😫😫😫

Chucking it with snow here again 🙄

Melon and ham for breakfast

hot chicken salad for lunch

Chicken and mushroom curry for tea 2 syns, egg fried cauli rice, half dozen chips, garlic bread hexb

bubbs

And Billy bargain salmon X 2 Pks

joedenise

Has been a good day.  Went to Greenways this morning, Agatha Cristie's house.  Never seen so much crockery in a single cupboard!  and boxes of all sorts all over the house.  The gardens were lovely, particularly the camellias, such lovely flowers.

Went out to lunch and had a lovely piece of sea bass with warm new potatoes, vegetables and samphire - there was loads of samphire and quite honestly I think it's absolutely pointless and didn't really add to the dish.  I'd have been happy with just the potatoes and veg.

We're both full again as we ate quite late so it's going to be the last of the chicken curry with a mini naan bread later for dinner.

Back on plan 100% from tomorrow.

maman

So pleased you enjoyed Greenways @joedenise. Lucky Agatha having that as a holiday home. They filmed one of the last Poirot episodes there with a fete in the lovely gardens.

Wishing you a very happy birthday and you must tell us how you made the super chicken curry. 🎂

Back soon with today's menu. 😊

joedenise

It was my usual recipe @maman but for some reason just seemed much nicer!  Fried off a couple of onions for about 15 minutes until softened, sprinkled over 2 Tbs medium curry powder, tsp each garlic granules (didn't have any fresh), turmeric, coriander and cumin, added a little water so they didn't stick.  Once they'd lost the rawness added a can of chopped tomatoes and a couple of chicken oxo crumbled and once hot added cut up chicken and then cooked for about half an hour.

Right off to eat the rest of the curry with another naan bread!

maman

Thanks @joedenise, I'll give that curry a try.

That's a brilliant saving on the salmon @bubbs. I'm sure your dad will start eating properly and build his strength when he gets back to proper home cooking.

Today is the first day of a new week for me and I'm hoping to stay completely on plan. No plans to eat out until next Friday. I don't feel fat but going over syns will catch up if I'm not careful. We had a stir fry tonight using the rest of the 10p bag of veg and the last of the pork cut into strips. Martin would be proud of me.😇 It's definitely possible to be mse and follow SW. I've just taken a photo of the meter readings just to check that we don't get charged the new rate too soon.  

Today's EE menu-
B- HEB toast, HEA milk, bacon, fried egg (P), baked beans (S)
L- JP (F), cottage cheese, ham (P), beetroot, spring onion (S)
D- pork stir fry (P,S) with noodles (F)
Syns- sweet chilli sauce 1

bubbs

Dad is coming home tomorrow 😁 there is a but though.....Mum said he was really nasty to her today  even the man in the next bed said don't speak to your wife like that 😱!

I said hopefully he will settle when he is back in home , he was sat there with his case all packed saying i am coming home 😂 she said not today your not, i am , i rang **** (sister)and she is fetching me 😂 Mum said you don't know her number or have a phone, he said the nurse let me use hers 🤣🤣
 He said you don't know what it's like sitting here on my own, she said i do i am sitting on my own at home, he said what you been doing then, have you not been out? She said oh i had a party all the neighbours round and g&t 😂 (she don't drink😂)
He said how did you get here? She said **** (my BIL) took her shopping and then dropped her off, you don't need any shopping, yes i did she said, he then goes anyway why didn't you drive? She said you know why i don't drive, he said just a load of bloody excuses 😥and on it went .

maman

Oh dear @bubbs. I expect he's fed up, angry and feeling sorry for himself and taking it out on his nearest and dearest. It's really tough on your mum but when he's home there won't be a visiting restrictions so you'll be able to share the load. 🤗

bubbs

maman said:

Oh dear @bubbs. I expect he's fed up, angry and feeling sorry for himself and taking it out on his nearest and dearest. It's really tough on your mum but when he's home there won't be a visiting restrictions so you'll be able to share the load. 🤗

Like i said to my sister, alot has happened in 2 weeks 😥 been told that, the next week in hospital and having surgery and being there a week!
What did make us laugh he said to mum, what am i supposed to do with this ? flapping his stoma bag about 😱😂she said put your pants and trousers over it, oh he says 🤣
We will have to see how it goes