One of those days when we stayed in and did bits and bobs. Vin had some banking he wanted to do, and we madee tonight's tea this morning too. We did a lovely kedgeree which we haven't had for an age. Must make one for Jane when she comes home it's one of her favourites. We don't make it with smoked haddock though we use Quorn chicken style pieces and get a great result.
The cats stayed in a lot today too, must still be too cold for them outside. can't help thinking of poor little Rusty six years ago when she was missing. She must have been so frightened because they are both home birds really.
Had a lovely long bath this afternoon with the book, candles and my tiny little bar of chocolate, only a teeny weeny toblerone tiny bar..not too sinful, but a bit indulgent.
I'm reading the Hamish Mcbeth books at the moment. very entertaining but not great literature..but who cares. Good to go to sleep with at night.
Said on the news that harry rednapp had been found Not Guilty of tax evasion. How does he get away with that when I have to pay tax on my little piddly pension. makes you cross.
Jane hasn't rung up today it is her day off too, so she would be working and doing her bits and bobs. She really is working very hard i'm proud of her.
Just played an Adele record on the radio. Some stupid german Fashion designer is in trouble for calling her fat!!!! She is gorgeous. If I looked like her and had her voice I would be well chuffed. he can talk he looks like an old prune!! leave her alone.
Tonight we are having:
Kedgeree with a little bit of garlic bread.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Banking...
Went out this morning to get a bit of fresh air, and to put some money into jane's account for her. My bank is in Formby so we went there first, drove round the block about three times and no sign of a parking space so gave up and decided that we'd go back later at lunchtime.
Tripped off to Dobbies to have a mooch there. Vin wanted to get a couple more bags of logs, and a "Chocolate" plant that he had seen the other day. they have them fo 2.99 which is quite reasonable. Hope this one grows.
had our free coffee for the month,then a bit of a look round. i spotted a really nice necklace to go with a good pair of earrings that I have so well pleased with that. Plus a naughty little bag of Thorntons chocs on offer at half price.
Called in at Formby again on the way home and lo and behold there was a space so wenbt in and opaid some money into her account. She had bought some new trainers yesterday so was a bit short of money.
Jane's pens arrived this morning from Amazon. Terrific firm for getting orders delivered quickly. Vin has nabbed one already, and I have taken one for my puzzles. They are a thicker Biro and write really well. box of 50 for £11 which Jane reckons is about 20p each. She had been getting tham from tesco for £2.50 for four!!
Cold today, with frost lying around on shaded roofs, but not on the sides in the sun. Much lighter these nights, its still very light now at nearly five to five.
Jane rang up this afternoon and we had a long chat, while she was walking to work..Walk and Talk.She has firm plans for the year, with good targets about what she is doing. keep going Jane I'm proud of you.
Tonight we are having:
vegetarian Toad in the Hole,
Potato Croquettes or maybe a bit of mashed potato.
Carrots and beans.
Mushroom gravy.
Tripped off to Dobbies to have a mooch there. Vin wanted to get a couple more bags of logs, and a "Chocolate" plant that he had seen the other day. they have them fo 2.99 which is quite reasonable. Hope this one grows.
had our free coffee for the month,then a bit of a look round. i spotted a really nice necklace to go with a good pair of earrings that I have so well pleased with that. Plus a naughty little bag of Thorntons chocs on offer at half price.
Called in at Formby again on the way home and lo and behold there was a space so wenbt in and opaid some money into her account. She had bought some new trainers yesterday so was a bit short of money.
Jane's pens arrived this morning from Amazon. Terrific firm for getting orders delivered quickly. Vin has nabbed one already, and I have taken one for my puzzles. They are a thicker Biro and write really well. box of 50 for £11 which Jane reckons is about 20p each. She had been getting tham from tesco for £2.50 for four!!
Cold today, with frost lying around on shaded roofs, but not on the sides in the sun. Much lighter these nights, its still very light now at nearly five to five.
Jane rang up this afternoon and we had a long chat, while she was walking to work..Walk and Talk.She has firm plans for the year, with good targets about what she is doing. keep going Jane I'm proud of you.
Tonight we are having:
vegetarian Toad in the Hole,
Potato Croquettes or maybe a bit of mashed potato.
Carrots and beans.
Mushroom gravy.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Still no Snow!!
Quite nice today actually, if a bit cold still, but that is to be expected in february really. The cats, at least Rusty anyway was jumping round the bed at five o'clock this morning. The favourite seems to be a sort of trampoline game from one sleeping body to another. Then she settles on my hip, which is fine unless she suddenly starts scratching and ear or wriggling and then that wakes me up.Don't mind though, she is such a sweetie she can do what she likes. presently, she is having a nice siesta in her basket in front of the window in the computer room.That's her little routine. They are very much creatures of routine are cats. Like us I suppose.
We took ourselves off to Waitrose this morning. relatively quiet, and parked right outside nearly, which is always a bonus. I do like their veggies, and Vin was pleased because he got the pasties for Friday!. The only trouble is that it is expensive. I spent as much as I spent in ASDA on friday and didn't get nearly as much. You get different things from Waitrose thugh, like more expensive biscuits etc., so it mounts up.
Home for a nice coffee, and no post today either. seems these days that we hardly get any post, except for bank statements and the like the rest is rubbish.
Jane has just rung up to say that she had bought a new pair of trainers, Nike ones from a sports shop in Manchester. She was on her way to work, and we have a good chat while she is on the move.
Tonight we are having:
Cheese and leek escalpe
Mixed vegetables
Mushroom sauce
Baby potatoes squashed and baked.
We took ourselves off to Waitrose this morning. relatively quiet, and parked right outside nearly, which is always a bonus. I do like their veggies, and Vin was pleased because he got the pasties for Friday!. The only trouble is that it is expensive. I spent as much as I spent in ASDA on friday and didn't get nearly as much. You get different things from Waitrose thugh, like more expensive biscuits etc., so it mounts up.
Home for a nice coffee, and no post today either. seems these days that we hardly get any post, except for bank statements and the like the rest is rubbish.
Jane has just rung up to say that she had bought a new pair of trainers, Nike ones from a sports shop in Manchester. She was on her way to work, and we have a good chat while she is on the move.
Tonight we are having:
Cheese and leek escalpe
Mixed vegetables
Mushroom sauce
Baby potatoes squashed and baked.
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Snow? What Snow?
Snow was forecast for the weekend and heavy too. However it didn't hit us here. Not even a flake at all. Yesterday..Saturday was really cold, and freezing rain, with little icicles on the shed roof, but today while it is cold a bit milder. they seem to have had snow in central England and down South.
jane rang up yesterday morning..i picked up the phone and a little voice at the other end said " It's snowing Mummy, and it's freezing" She was sitting on the bed with two quilts round her to keep warm, then she was going to have a bath to get warm before she went to work. Poor kid. i don't envy her going out in the cold and the dark to do her night shift. jane I'm proud of you!
Vin went out yesterday morning to Dobbies to get some logs in case we got snowed in, and he came back pleased as Punch because he had got his Dobbies card back which he had lost. It was at the Customer Services desk. So, he was a happy bunny.
last night we had:
Chinese He had Spring rolls and I had dippers
1/2 a packet of egg fried rice
Stir fry vegetables.
Today he didn't go out, we were a bit late getting up and it was cold anyway so he stopped in. We did the crosswords this afternoon, very pleasant sat by a lovely log fire and he watched his recorded Railway Journeys done by michael Portillo.
Tonight we had:
Beautiful Pizza with our tomato sauce
Portobello mushrooms pineapple courgette and red pepper for Vin
Egg and potato salad with avocado
Potato salad for moi and cheese pasta salad for Vin.
jane rang up yesterday morning..i picked up the phone and a little voice at the other end said " It's snowing Mummy, and it's freezing" She was sitting on the bed with two quilts round her to keep warm, then she was going to have a bath to get warm before she went to work. Poor kid. i don't envy her going out in the cold and the dark to do her night shift. jane I'm proud of you!
Vin went out yesterday morning to Dobbies to get some logs in case we got snowed in, and he came back pleased as Punch because he had got his Dobbies card back which he had lost. It was at the Customer Services desk. So, he was a happy bunny.
last night we had:
Chinese He had Spring rolls and I had dippers
1/2 a packet of egg fried rice
Stir fry vegetables.
Today he didn't go out, we were a bit late getting up and it was cold anyway so he stopped in. We did the crosswords this afternoon, very pleasant sat by a lovely log fire and he watched his recorded Railway Journeys done by michael Portillo.
Tonight we had:
Beautiful Pizza with our tomato sauce
Portobello mushrooms pineapple courgette and red pepper for Vin
Egg and potato salad with avocado
Potato salad for moi and cheese pasta salad for Vin.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Bumps a daisy!!
Wonder why we say this? Anyway Jane rang up just about lunchtime when we had got back from our shopping, to say she had bumped into some man in a car at some traffic lights in Manchester. She reckoned that he had stalled andand she went into the back of him, but he got out and said there was no damage and drove off. We said we thought it was probably a company car and he wasn't bothered. Anyhow they didn't even exchange names etc so she seems to have got away with that.
We went off to ASDA this morning for a bit of a stock up and get our weekend things.We were a bit ;ate setting off but got round ok. I had a look at the clothes but didn't see anything I fancied..(never do) and Vin walked along to the car place. Wanted to get some of their chinese sauces which are really nice. Got everything that we wanted and the bill always surprises me there it seems low for what you get.A lot better value than Waitrose anyway.
Had our coffee in their car park in bright sunshine..don't know where this big freeze is coming from. it is cold, but not that cold.
Late lunch because of phone calls etc., but got there in the end.
Tonight we are having:
Fishless fingers,
Mushy peas for Vin and green beans for moi
Chips 200grms.
Tartare sauce.
We went off to ASDA this morning for a bit of a stock up and get our weekend things.We were a bit ;ate setting off but got round ok. I had a look at the clothes but didn't see anything I fancied..(never do) and Vin walked along to the car place. Wanted to get some of their chinese sauces which are really nice. Got everything that we wanted and the bill always surprises me there it seems low for what you get.A lot better value than Waitrose anyway.
Had our coffee in their car park in bright sunshine..don't know where this big freeze is coming from. it is cold, but not that cold.
Late lunch because of phone calls etc., but got there in the end.
Tonight we are having:
Fishless fingers,
Mushy peas for Vin and green beans for moi
Chips 200grms.
Tartare sauce.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
dentist and Books...
Up fairly early this morning because Vin had an appointment at the Dentists for a check-up. he goes the same time every year now and it is exactly a year since he last went.
The plan is that we go to the Library which is a short walk from the Dentists and get some new books. To our shame it appears that it is a year since our last visit to the Library as well!!! Since we renew our books online these days we don't tend to make the journey there, plus we buy a lot of books too, or Vin gets them from Charity shops so we don't have the need to go there in person as it were.
First surprise...we drove into the car park which is usually heaving to find it empty!! Vin got out to see if the Library was open..it was...then he spotted a parking machine!! What is that about? Suppose it is to stop people parking there all day. Well it's done that alright, there were only around four cars on the whole park. And, the Library was extremely quiet. Unaturally so. Shot themselves in the foot there I think, it has obviously stopped people going into the Library. Apparently they were installed at the end of November, so we hadn't been aware of that. You get 1/2 an hour for 20p but we knew we were going to be longer than that, so paid 80p for the longer period! Personally i think that's a disgrace, doesn't give you long enough to browse and will stop people going to the library it seems.
Anyway, i went inside and Vin went off to his dentist for his checkup. I had a good look at the Large Print books, then he joined me later. he likes Local History books from there, so chose some of those and we left to come home for our coffee.
Jane rang up at lunchtime, to have a chat. She is doing very well with her science course (Touch Wood) and is getting distinctions for her exams. She is very short of money though, and she has to pay back some overpaid tax credits that she got last year!!! poor kid, she is really trying at the moment, all day a college and working evenings at Ticket master too. no wonder she is knackered she says.
Vin has set me up with online banking this afternoon. really quick to do only took a short while, and when I get something called a card reader i can set up a standing order to help her out a bit.
She says she is going round tesco with ten pounds in her pocket looking for bargains. Oh dear!
Bobby has just come into the room where the computer is and given me a lovely nuzzle and butt of her head. She is a real home loving cat and likes her ciddles just as much a Rusty Bless her.
Rusty tends to be more openly affectionate but bobby will choose her moments too, then you feel very honoured.
Vin has just stuck his head round the room door and made me jump sky high. Sort of crept up on me, being deaf i don't hear him so he often makes the most of that.
Our john's birthday today. Happy Birthday John. I hope he is warmer where he is than we are today. it is very hot in Perth according to the papers. freezing here today. very frosty this morning and took ages to clear up.
Tonight we are having:
Pasta bake with mushrooms
Pack of mixed green veggies
A bit of garlic bread.
The plan is that we go to the Library which is a short walk from the Dentists and get some new books. To our shame it appears that it is a year since our last visit to the Library as well!!! Since we renew our books online these days we don't tend to make the journey there, plus we buy a lot of books too, or Vin gets them from Charity shops so we don't have the need to go there in person as it were.
First surprise...we drove into the car park which is usually heaving to find it empty!! Vin got out to see if the Library was open..it was...then he spotted a parking machine!! What is that about? Suppose it is to stop people parking there all day. Well it's done that alright, there were only around four cars on the whole park. And, the Library was extremely quiet. Unaturally so. Shot themselves in the foot there I think, it has obviously stopped people going into the Library. Apparently they were installed at the end of November, so we hadn't been aware of that. You get 1/2 an hour for 20p but we knew we were going to be longer than that, so paid 80p for the longer period! Personally i think that's a disgrace, doesn't give you long enough to browse and will stop people going to the library it seems.
Anyway, i went inside and Vin went off to his dentist for his checkup. I had a good look at the Large Print books, then he joined me later. he likes Local History books from there, so chose some of those and we left to come home for our coffee.
Jane rang up at lunchtime, to have a chat. She is doing very well with her science course (Touch Wood) and is getting distinctions for her exams. She is very short of money though, and she has to pay back some overpaid tax credits that she got last year!!! poor kid, she is really trying at the moment, all day a college and working evenings at Ticket master too. no wonder she is knackered she says.
Vin has set me up with online banking this afternoon. really quick to do only took a short while, and when I get something called a card reader i can set up a standing order to help her out a bit.
She says she is going round tesco with ten pounds in her pocket looking for bargains. Oh dear!
Bobby has just come into the room where the computer is and given me a lovely nuzzle and butt of her head. She is a real home loving cat and likes her ciddles just as much a Rusty Bless her.
Rusty tends to be more openly affectionate but bobby will choose her moments too, then you feel very honoured.
Vin has just stuck his head round the room door and made me jump sky high. Sort of crept up on me, being deaf i don't hear him so he often makes the most of that.
Our john's birthday today. Happy Birthday John. I hope he is warmer where he is than we are today. it is very hot in Perth according to the papers. freezing here today. very frosty this morning and took ages to clear up.
Tonight we are having:
Pasta bake with mushrooms
Pack of mixed green veggies
A bit of garlic bread.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
D-Day and Hares and Rabbits again!
Stopped in today mainly because we were awaiting delliveries today. One earlier in the morning for my Aranesp injections. They are brought by a courier in a van, and we had to exchange the yellow sharps box which was full of old injection needles etc.
The other delivery was for four bags of coal, which came at lunchtime.Four bags at £74.. Vin reckons that should last us until around March, together with some of Dobbies logs and the peat we have.
I spent the morning doing the ironing of the bedding which is Egyptian cotton and needdds a lot of ironing but so worth it.
very bright today but Vin says it is really cold out. He has been over to the recycling centre and down in the garden tending to the bunker.The cats, don't seem to venture out that much in this weather really. Bobby sleeps a lot of the day, but Rusty is up and down the garden especially if Vin is there. She follows him everywhere, and he was saying that this morning she made him jump because she had got into the coal bunker. naughty little thing. She is a nosey little cat and will look into anything going. We made sure she was in when the coal arrived though.
She sat in the window and watched what was going on.
1st of feb today so Hares and rabbits...something we always say on the first day of the month. No idea why.
Tonight we are having:
Chicken style drumsticks
Little baked potatoes
Bread sauce and cranberry sauce
Mixed vegetables that we have left ocver.
The other delivery was for four bags of coal, which came at lunchtime.Four bags at £74.. Vin reckons that should last us until around March, together with some of Dobbies logs and the peat we have.
I spent the morning doing the ironing of the bedding which is Egyptian cotton and needdds a lot of ironing but so worth it.
very bright today but Vin says it is really cold out. He has been over to the recycling centre and down in the garden tending to the bunker.The cats, don't seem to venture out that much in this weather really. Bobby sleeps a lot of the day, but Rusty is up and down the garden especially if Vin is there. She follows him everywhere, and he was saying that this morning she made him jump because she had got into the coal bunker. naughty little thing. She is a nosey little cat and will look into anything going. We made sure she was in when the coal arrived though.
She sat in the window and watched what was going on.
1st of feb today so Hares and rabbits...something we always say on the first day of the month. No idea why.
Tonight we are having:
Chicken style drumsticks
Little baked potatoes
Bread sauce and cranberry sauce
Mixed vegetables that we have left ocver.
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