Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way

Brie

I got a couple of cookbooks as wedding/shower presents nearly 40 years back.  One was for soups.  My mom looked at it and was puzzled and asked "why would anyone need a cookbook for soup?"  Must admit I didn't keep it very long.  Mom was the queen of soups from leftovers to the point that when offered a stop at MacDs on the way to visit her my nephew said no as he wanted to arrive hungry so he could enjoy Grandma's soup.   

KajiKita

That is so lovely @Brie 😊

Whereas I never had soup when I was growing up. My parents never made it or served it. Looking back now actually, that does seem a bit odd ….🤔

KK

KajiKita

Feeling virtuous - got bathroom and loo cleaned! 😊👏💪

Got in the garden for a bit as it is dry in spite of the forecast but was pretty tired after yesterday. Technically the next jobs should be either weeding / clearing another veg bed or cutting down the coppiced hazel in the copse. I wimped out on both of these 😂 and instead weeded, cleared and pruned the little bed next to the greenhouse that has refugee bits and pieces from the front garden in it and the poorly performing Loganberry. The loganberry is now tied in, the very spiky ancient rose is cut back hard and I divided and replanted a huge primula in that bed in three new places - it looks a lot tidier now. Just needs a feed with something organic. 

I did ‘walk the job’ of the Hazel cutting back so I have a feel for how tough it will be - not too bad actually, should do it in one session. Moved a load of ugly pots that I dropped last season’s potted up spring flowering bulbs into, that are now starting to flower again, from next to the compost heap up to the bottom of the drive so we can see them from the house. 😊 These MUST get divvied up and planted in the ground this year! 😂 Maybe in the green, like snowdrops ….? 🤔

Speaking of snowdrops, ours have started flowering but on very short stems so difficult to cut well for a posy. Might be due to that very dry spring / summer we had here last year? 

KK

KajiKita

Had a very strange afternoon… 
Mr KK had a visitor  round to talk military vehicles and militaria so I popped out to the local moreesons to pick up sprouts (forgot to order them) and hand soap for the kitchen sink (last container was opaque so I didn’t know we were running low. 

I walked around the top of one aisle to go down the next and almost physically ran into my ex, sociopathic, Buddhist teacher! 😳 I was shocked and said nothing, just dashed past him, he looked like he didn’t know whether to be civil or curse me (the latter being his default response for ex students). VERY discombobulating. I heard he’d moved back in this direction but I NEVER expected to run into him there and for the first time for 10 years …. 

KK

badmemory

So you got out of the store without shoplifting in your haste.  I would call that a serious win - well done.  I still see, although very rarely now, one troublesome person who actually died 50 yrs ago & I still don't understand why they are like they are.

Brewerspride

Eeek - hope you're undiscombobulated now!

f0xh0les

I can see the headlines now
Sociopathic Buddhist Teacher  squashed in Bizarre WW2 Military Tank Manoeuvre In Morrisons Car Park.
Eye witness KK said ' it would have been the way he wanted to go out'  It was a very moving manoeuvre.    I nearly dropped my sprouts ' 

debtfreewannabe321

Just catching up, my soup is same way chuck whatever I have in, usually some lentils too as I prefer it thicker and blend with sticky blender now. I did have soup maker which I loved but it broke. 
My weight is doing the same as yours. Up a lb down a lb and repeat 🤣🙈 but I'm also persevering like you as I want to get fitter as well as slimmer. 

I have an ex spiritual teach whom I paid a lot of money too over the years for lessons in this that and t'other and she would ask me tonnes of questions about things I was knowledgeable in ...and just recently after she sort of randomly cut contact with me (still friends on FB but she and I just stopped talking) I saw a post go up for a course she's offering.... literally with my words on the spiel about the subject in hand. I think she did the same to an acquaintance of ours too as that person had a bit of a rant on FB but didn't name her outright (but after it happened to me I've kind of guessed who she's talking about!)
So many spiritual narcissistic/ sociopaths around which give the rest of the spiritual nice people a bad name 🤨😳! 

PennysIntoPounds

Eek, that is disconcerting.
I know everyone has to shop somewhere but you don't expect a sociopathic Buddhist teacher in Morries do you.

Time to out-zen the bar steward by being extremely calm, practicing self care, counting and expressing blessings, and thanking the universe for the brief warning and reminder of how you do not want your self or life to be 

Humdinger1

Well handled @KajiKita! Will you say anything next time, if there is a next time?!  Yes, looking up thread, I think people don't die till you've made your peace with them.  Please remember how fab you are love Humdinger xx