Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums

A gentle,  uneventful one here, which is just what was needed. I lit a candle and sat at the kitchen table for much of the day, plotting and scheming, which is one of my favourite activities. Mr Cheery got up, and we decanted to a cafe for an hour or so, where we got a free cuppa with a loyalty card, then had a little trip around the charity shops. Mr C is under the weather so has gone off for a nap, and I have done more plotting and scheming.  Not scheming for anything exciting, you understand! Just to make life a little more manageable. 

Just did another Prolific study - standing at £20.96 now, with £8.25 pending, so it looks like I will make it to £30 by the end of the month (if this clears, of course, and if not, it's a nice start to September). 

I'm feeling in need of a little income challenge for September. We're instigating the new budget, which should gently reign in our spending a little, but I think a 'make £5 a day' challenge for me might not go amiss. Will see if I can persuade Mr C into re-engaging with Prolific but he only took to it for a week or two the first time so I won't hold my breath. 

In the meantime, I am off to try my first experiment with the tinned spaghetti - wish me luck! I will report back  

joedenise

Hope you enjoy your tinned spaghetti!  Something I admit I've never even eaten but my kids used to like it instead of beans.

Cheery_Daff

Well, I confess I didn't do anything super exciting this evening. I kept it nice and simple, with Jack Monroe's suggestion for rinsing off the tomato sauce, and serving with cheese and salt and pepper. I did that, but, not being in dire straights right now, I also served it with a simple stir fry (just onion and red pepper) and some toasted sesame seeds (I keep a small pot of these by the cooker for livening things up). 

Perfectly acceptable. I wouldn't bother buying tinned spaghetti for this purpose, of course, and wouldn't be serving it up at a dinner party but it was an acceptable carb addition to have with a stir fry, and I might well just end up using the rest of the tins like this for easy weekday meals. We'll see. 

Right, I need to stop plotting and scheming and actually DO something. Tidy off the dining table, wash a few dishes, and take the recycling to the end of the drive before it goes dark (and take the compost out too).

Then Mr C has found us a film to watch (no idea what) so I shall be settling in with my crochet. 

(Somehow we have run out of milk!! So I'm on my last cup of tea until tomorrow, gah! Unless he takes a notion to go to the 24 hour garage, which I won't be suggesting or approving of, but if we do end up with milk I will definitely drink some more tea )