Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

greenbee

I draw my face on too - particularly for video or public speaking work. Thankfully I don't do that much of it anymore!

KajiKita

I met my friend for lunch at a kind of crafty collective place. It’s a very random collection of shops but the cafe was excellent (had a kind of pie thing I’m looking to replicate - as per below) and I started some CMas shopping 😊

Ran out into the garden again as soon as I got home and finished off planting some winter veg - I suspect the timing is off, but now harm in trying … 😉😊
There is one, lone lettuce at the front of the bed that there wasn’t room for in the greenhouse 🤷‍♀️😂
Cut fresh flowers for the house again 😊❤️

Mr KK has come home and yes, that was the new V5!! 🎊🥳🎉 (Thank goodness, as he was starting to get quite stressy and grumpy about it … 🙄😂). 

I’m still working on improving my diet and as I prefer working from a hard copy recipe format (I find it easier, plus you can annotate them with comments additions and corrections) I have been quietly buying vegetarian cookery books over the last wee while. The latest one arrived this morning, a slow cooker veggie and vegan one, and I found this in there:



This is remarkably similar to what we had for lunch today, with a mash topping instead of pastry. It was really good 😊 I think I will make this base as it is here (I.e. with blitzed cashews and nutritional yeast as that extends the nutritional content), but with a cheesy mash topping. The base I will be able to freeze in single portions and it won’t take much to pull together some cheesy mash topping to finish it with each time I want to eat it 😊

As part of this whole exercise I want to go through my recipe books and hoick out, and hopefully sell(!) the vegan ones I don’t want to keep. Some I will as they have food recipes in that I enjoy but some are surprisingly UPF heavy, or ludicrously complicated (such as the dirty vegan books). I’m hoping to get into that tomorrow as Mr KK will be out all day at the sale (hopefully selling lots of fausty junk … ahem … militaria! 😉😂) so I will be able to spread out and see what I’m doing. 

Hit 10K steps today and achieved a goal (got the veg plants in before the rain sweeps in) - happy with that 😊

KK

KajiKita

Can’t seem to upload the veggie patch images but here are my flowers from today: 



😊

KK

Humdinger1

Gorgeous flowers @KajiKita! I dread the approach of autumn but love it when it's here, provided I embrace the food, colours, clothes etc.  The end of summer is melancholy but spring is more beautiful every year.  Onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx 

KajiKita

Humdinger1 said:

Gorgeous flowers @KajiKita! I dread the approach of autumn but love it when it's here, provided I embrace the food, colours, clothes etc.  The end of summer is melancholy but spring is more beautiful every year.  Onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx 

Thank you ☺️ Spring is definitely my season too 😊, but tbh, after such a hot summer this year (so many days of 30 degrees here) I was actually quite relieved to get to a weather state that I could actually function in again … 😊

KK

ladybird1106

As long as the ground is above 5degrees you should be fine putting your winter veggies in.  

Love 🐞

KajiKita

ladybird1106 said:

As long as the ground is above 5degrees you should be fine putting your winter veggies in.  

Love 🐞

Oh fab, it’s double digits in the daytime here and we haven’t had a frost yet, so they should be okay 😊

I’ve just had a little win … Popped onto sainsbugs to book next week’s slot and noticed that they have Christmas delivery slots open (I signed up to their delivery saver thing so we get preferential slots). We’ve booked one for the 24th - Mr KK is VERY impressed 😊🤩

KK

skint_spice

Love the flowers, such beautiful colours.

beanielou

Love the flowers. 

Merlin's_Beard

I prefer a summer - but a normal summer, not the baking idiocy we had this year. Sadly I suspect these are going to be the norm. The lack of light in autumn always remains a real problem for me.