The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

But I mainly thought of you because I took a flask of hot chocolate with vanilla essence and cinnamon :j Quite often do that now because it just sounded so great when you suggested it, so thank you :kisses3:

Going to try and persuade MrCheery to come out for a walk and visit the little tea-and-cake-in-the-village-hall place near our new house this is the last one til next summer now!

Although the sun is coming up here, there is a definite autumnal-ness feel to this morning. The hot chocolate is definitely going to be making a reappearance

That sounds nice - do volunteers staff the tea and cake stall? I see what you mean about the driving, but I'd try and do it - because you know when you live 50 steps away from it, you'll never end up going...... Plus you'll be able to compare and ensure that next year's cakes were up to this year's - or even surpassed - standard.......

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

ALMOND essence, not vanilla! (Although that would probably be nice too but I do like all my food to taste of marzipan where possible :rotfl: )

Cheery love, as long as you never tell me you like all your food to be beige, it's ok that you love almond essence. I like vanilla and don't have any almond (currently), but DH would like almond I'm sure - maybe nearer Christmas - 'stollen' inspired hot choc :think:

Have a lovely day

Greying X

Good Morning :hello:

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Well I do NOT like all my food to be beige so can we still be friends? Pretty please?

Lawks! Yes, yes, yes Cheery. It's my MSE chums and the small clutch of friends in RL that contribute to making my life so wonderful. It's you lot that get why we're living 'small', but not mean. It's my RL friends that....... well, I shan't mention what they do for me, because they've been heavily called upon of late. But let's just say, my friends, RL and virtual are the best I don't want y'all to go nowhere!

We had a very quiet day yesterday. DH worked very hard and he did a fair chunk of the items on the list. In fairness, we have been able to tick them all off, although I think we both agree that the shed could probably do with another intensive sort out, with the ruthless getting rid of tack taking place. This remains difficult as only one of us can be doing it at a time; darling BG needs caring for. However, crud that previously we kept 'just in case' has been permanently removed. It is easily over a year, probably getting on for 4 :eek: since we last cleared out the space, and hey, guess what, we've not used owt of that 'just in case' stuff. None of it was high value (quite the opposite), some of it was gifted by a friend clearing out their garage...... 15? years ago? So...... given that we've got rid of high value stuff and not regretted it, the low grade, space sapping stuff was easy to get rid of.........

Tea last night was fish, chips & mushy peas. I'll admit, it was the 'ease' that got me Also it didn't seem to samey, having oven chips again, because they were different. I still can't wait until the tattie harvest begins - although I won't say that when stuck behind a tattie tractor and trailer for miles on a country road, will I :rotfl:

Tea tonight will be... I can default to l/o bolognese with pasta if we go out, or whip up something 'fab.u.lous darhling', if we stay put....... :rotfl:

I'm feeling better - I'm glad I've been able to try to fight this cold - it's horrible. But I am at the slightly less dribbly, slightly more coughing stage now. i'm trying not to sound like I smoke 40 fags a day......And my voice is definitely not on the s3xy side of husky.........:rotfl:

BG is dribbly, but full of energy and smiles too, so hopefully they are coming through it too

Right, can't think of owt else MS. so best vamoose.

Ta for popping in, reading, joining in and all in all, being supportive. I'm grateful. Thank you.

Greying X

Good Morning :hello:

Must remember it is Tuesday today!

Tea last night did end up being l/o lentil bolognese with pasta and brocolli. I know, the same as we had last week, but it was simple to prepare (we'd been out), and hopefully was nutritious, as it certainly was delicious - filled a hole too

We purposely went to a quiet spot - we had to drive through a tourist honey-trap spot to get there, and made the right decision, it was heaving - but as long as folks were having fun in the sun, well, that is all that matters, isn't it? We parked up for free, found a vacant picnic bench, watched the world putter by, went for a potter and snarfed blackberries (didn't bother picking, but a week or two's wait will probably do no harm) straight off the bush. I think the vit c injection overrides the countless gazillion 'bugs' that fruit and vegetables grown out in the wide open are bound to be inundated with We had a lovely time Bit annoyed the pesky sqizzles had got to the hazelnuts early though and nicked all the nuts - they weren't ripe?

Called in at a mrT oon the way home. It does make me laugh this particular branch. I've possibly mentioned it before. It's too big (probably) for the population it serves, so they always have loads of stuff to YS. But they clearly don't like discounting stuff. Yesterday's highlights were their absolute speciality, which is 'lime green' organick potatoes, still £1.75, 50p knocked off a £2.25 bag of mineolas, with one of the oranges oozing mouldy decaying 'juice' from the net.... _pale_ And lots of pre-prepared salad, that had gone brown....... I settled on taking a punt on some flat peaches that they'd reduced to 25p a pack (part of their 49p offering). I've not got high hopes for them - flat peaches and I don't really get on. But we'll see.

Right, I've things to attend to. If only to work out which soup to make for tea. I was going to do brocolli cheddar, but as we had brocolli last night......

Ta for popping in and joining in. Appreciated.

Greying X