EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

Morning! :wave:

Well half way through the week already - honestly, where DOES it fly to?

Surveys are ticking along. Annoyingly spent ages faffing on the phone doing a YouGov one the other night only to find out at the end that it paid a draw entry, rather than actual points. :mad: It was made clear in the email but not on the app, so I need to remember that.

Dinner last night was LUSH - I was reminded of it as I made a reference on Greying's thread to a lot of our meals coming under the heading of being "concoctions" rather than actual recipes - and last night was a case in point. The leftover lamb breast from Sunday, cut into bite sized pieces and fried in a dry pan along with the crumb topping I made for it on sunday. Then the remainder of the bag of kale lobbed in and stir-fried to wilting. The spices and seasoning from the lamb were just enough to "carry" the dish, and once off the heat I threw in the remainder of the cucumber, cut into cubes, and a few chopped up fresh tomatoes. The whole lot was mixed together with couscous and topped off with toasted pumpkin seeds. T.A.S.T.Y - but NOT anything photo worthy. (Or I was too keen to eat it to wait and photograph it - you decide!)

Tonight is easy-peasy - bolognese all prepped and ready and just needing heated up and pasta cooked. Wednesday nights are made for simple easy fix dinners. :T

MrEH did his bank transfer for the CC yesterday so the money shuffle for that is all done and dusted - and yes campers we do indeed have a surplus in the joint account. :T Need to decide whether to transfer it straight to savings, or wait and see what we spend as extras over the weekend in Cromer and decide from there where it's going. Hmmm. Either way it can stay where it is until payday anyway, "just in case". My own account also has a surplus - although I'll need to visit the cashpoint for the weekend yet. It's been a good month!

Still walking as much as I can cram in - today should be a good day for it weather permitting as MrEH and I are car-sharing. So a walk this morning, one at lunch, and a longer one tonight I think - today will be about fitting in some distance, rather than about pace. Mixing it up a bit like that seems to be working for me. Off the back of that, my work trousers are all now at that annoying point of being slightly too big - but not enough so that the next size down will work. And NOT the style that can have a belt added really, either. Sigh. Good, but annoying!

Hey Cheery, Angel, Scott & Beanie - thanks for popping by! YouGov's not too bad at the moment - aside from the surveys on the phone which I'm not doing any more I don't think - they're bloomin' tedious!

Anyway - a bit of spending to declare. And it's on CLOTHES! :eek: Popped to Matalan at lunchtime - largely because I wanted to see if they had any trousers for work to replace the current collapsing pairs - they hadn't, but I did have a general browse as well and came out with 2 tops - one sage green, the other black (the second one is suitable for work which is handy as I have some rather "tired" looking black ones currently. Also found, tried on and fell in love with a gorgeous slouchy chunky knit hoodie style top - which I'm hoping will look ace with jeans. As my wardrobe is desperately in need of an update I didn't flinch at the £25 price tag - just have to hope it washes OK. £32 spent in total - and I've now got slightly more confidence about finding things that work for me so I might use some of my spare time on saturday on having a browse around, too.

I did think about it Angel, but decided against for a couple of reasons. MrEH gets somewhat twitchy about dye going through the machine as he's petrified it will affect his white work shirts the next time he washes them - and although I've never had ANY issues like that with machine dye, it makes me a bit nervous too! The second was that the tops concerned were cheap when bought, they're literally just stretchy t-shirt style ones and I'm not honestly convinced they're worth it bearing in mind the wear I've had from them. I've done it before with Jeans though - works a treat! :T

Really tasty risotto for dinner tonight - threw in some peas and some broad beans (both frozen) to up the veg content a bit, along with the usual onion and mushroom. Just lovely!