Next steps; grip-relaxing bimbling, and avoiding the temptations

Watty1

You are so my kind of woman - finishing her evening with a Brandy Alexander    That has been my favourite since university days when we went off to cocktail bars      

Baileys_Babe

Happy New Year 🤗

foxgloves

I haven't had a brandy alexander since my student days when we took regular advantage of cocktails happy hour at a city pub. 

Suffolk_lass

Back from the hospital via a quick purchase of oranges in the SM on the way home. Still -2 when I got home and the rear windscreen of the car is a nasty smeary mess as the washer fluid jet is frozen. I have had my first double yolker egg and two rashers of bacon with two slices of toast and I might just have soup for the rest of today to get my body back to a sensible level of expectation!

Thanks to shopping just before NYE but after Mr Sl's pension arrived early, I have spent over a third of this month's grocery budget already - £57.85 out of the £150 I am hoping to achieve. We shall see. The only "need" is cat litter - empty shelves before Christmas, and I might buy Seville oranges if I see them.

The sonographer was lovely and my scan was all done in just over 20 minutes. No changes and I look to be in good shape, despite the little growths that are regularly monitored. All good for another few months.

My objective today is to nudge Mr Sl into sorting out whether we can fix the non-reading of the PV arrays by the inverter, or if we need a grown up to come and look. I'm sure I downloaded a full manual. My next task is to find and read that. 

Have a good day everyone!

beanielou

Glad scan went well. 

Suffolk_lass

Thanks @beanielou. It is a relief.

Poor Mr Sl spent most of the day fiddle-faddling (technical term) with the inverter to try and get it to work with the solar arrays to no avail. The manual is some sort of bot-translation from Chinese that even he (a capable engineer) cannot get the device to do what it is supposed to. We have a friend in the next town who might be able to help but if not, it will be a call to a grown up. I really don't want to go back to the original installers as they were arrogant little gits who dismissed and ignored virtually everything I asked for. The person who set it up was keen to leave and really could not be bothered to take the time to explain anything. There is a company in the next town the other way who have a decent reputation. We will call them.

In terms of Christmas Fayre, the untouched cheese is now frozen, along with a small wheel of Brie that has more than half left. We have two elevenses portions of chocolate chip panetone left, a few Apple stollen bites (an unintentional happy purchase from Aldo's) and a carton of single cream. We finished off the turkey soup for supper with garlic naans!

I have my veg box outside still and I'm of the opinion the veg is keeping better in that than my fridge. I've just brought some in to make today's sausagemeat casserole (onions, leeks carrots, Broccoli stalks, potatoes, celery) with half a stick of now defrosted sausagemeat in patties with a jar of (homegrown) tomato passata, some veg stock and herbs. Looking forward to this with some steamed greens. We have black kale and kalettes outside in the garden, but also SM cabbage that is underway, so undecided at the moment. The community garden has some romanescu that I fancy if they are still there.

Other than that, today's to-do is to take down, review and pack away the decorations we will keep, and dispose of those we won't. I plan to make a list of what is needed. The outside lights will come down tomorrow with DS promising to join Mr Sl and do the bit up the ladder, while I am at Auntie's funeral, and tomorrow is twelfth night. It looks like it is a 200 mile round trip to that. Needs must.

Right, time to get that casserole made and underway. Have a good day all!

foxgloves

That sounds like a tasty use-it-up casserole. We are going to pack away decorations today too. 
I hope everything goes well for your Aunty's funeral tomorrow, including the journey there & back.
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