Breaking Through, Travelling On

Ooh thank you, SL and CBC both, that's great! My mother never really let me help in the kitchen, although I wanted to, so I have no common sense at all in cookery, even though I actually got the GCE much to the surprise of my teacher

The tins I was using were metal, and I do have Vic sandwich tins of metal too (I still want to use the halogen). I really like the sound of those instructions, thats my kind of recipe :kisses3:

My stuff to go to the charity shop has gone, finally :cool:

Asda delivery booked, their minimum fee has gone up 100% to £2 :cool:

Am cooking beans :cool:

Next Saturday is my deadline when the other bulky stuff will arrive (currently have a new single mattress for my spare bed, also a result of house tetris, not bought by me) :cool:

Kitchen is tidier not really, but I'm doing a bit :cool:

All is good :j

Will definitely persevere with the Yorkies - it'll be SL's recipe next, that sounds exactly the sort of thing I need.

SHS - erm, stuff? Go on, tell me what sort of stuff, I dare you

I actually managed to get to my ex-colleague's afternoon tea yesterday :j and thankfully his (very, very loud) family were late, so I could sit down with my partner and his wife and have a good old natter. Even so, I managed to have a piece of birthday cake :j and good lord, what a lot of refined sugar it was wonderful

First stage of house tetris happens today, Merseyside to Norfolk. Next bit on Wednesday.

The photo on the volunteer's phone at the NT place has arrived :j Very sensibly, I think, she gave it to a manager, and the manager has sent it from the official email. You never know who's crazy, or what they're going to do with somebody else's email. Top stuff!

Today, after recovering from the little afternoon tea party, I need to do lots of admin - pay some French expenses, washing machine is on, tidy the porch ready for the next invasion of stuff (including supermarket delivery tomorrow), sweep floors upstairs in preparation for the tetris, all sorts of things like that. Oh, and phone the builder, who's not got back to me yet with photos of prospective products, or a start date.

Lots to do!

Oh I see! Nothing dairy like creme fraiche, but certainly sauteed onions, lurvely - I had a weekend in Harrogate once upon a lifetime ago, and had a lunchtime pub meal of Yorkie, onions and gravy, it was utterly heavenly.

Might need to amend my Asda order to include some veggie gravy granules ....

Thanks SHS