I didn’t quite get the Armistice Day post done as I suggested in the last post. After writing two part posts – probably a thousand words or so in total -I decided to give it a miss because it wasn’t working.
At that point I switched over to cookery. Belly pork and roasted veg for tea, chicken and ham pie for tomorrow and vegetable curry for Wednesday. Tuesday, which you may have noticed was missing, will be fishcakes. I cheated by buying fishcakes last night, so I didn’t need to make any.
With the associated washing up, and moving of red cabbage, this took a surprisingly long time. Finding the tarragon took the best part of ten minutes because it’s a small packet in a chaotic kitchen. Julia had unpacked it last night and as she had neither left it in the bag or put it in the fridge I was left slightly clueless.
That left me with the choice of breathing life into a moribund post on Armistice Day or transcribing the list of Farmers’ Markets.
If you consider that the transcribing was more fun than the blogging you will see how badly things were going. It kept turning into a rant on the use of the poppy and the Great War centenary as a way of making money.
Things took a significant downturn when we had to do a Health and Safety assessment and fill out a wad of monitoring and personal development forms. It went badly.
Not as badly as the search for a birthday present though, that is really going badly and Julia isn’t helping by refusing to tell me what she wants.
Hopefully she wants a brightly-coloured paper bag containing supermarket chocolates, flowers and face cream, because it looks like that’s what she’ll be getting.
We were on our way up to Spokane on the 11th. Saw some wonderful countryside!
Good luck on the birthday present! 🙂
I think I may have solved the birthday present problem. Spokane looks nice.
The charity business is a pit of contradictions I agree but as a trustee of a tiny charity, I try to rise above it all.
I was a trustee of a small charity once, and had no problem, but I’ve seen a few things over the last few years that depressed me.
Are you going to let Julia read this so she’ll know what she’s getting? I have been putting off a letter of complaint to the dodgy solicitors cos it means going over all the stuff and collating it. There – now I’ve told you – perhaps I’ll get down to it now.
I thought the threat might provoke her into giving me a clue. It didn’t.
Good luck with your letter – I still haven’t done mine to the NHS after my adventures in spring.
I fully understand not putting energy into the NHS letter.
Yes, writing the letter is just a high stress way of having nothing happen. 🙂
An absolutely perfect way of putting it.
🙂
Making money from the Great War and its war dead? Surely not. Try………
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2127469/charity-receives-just-a-third-of-money-raised-for-tower-of-londons-ceramic-poppy-display/
The more I have looked at charities and fund-raising over the years, the more disappointed I have become.
Those meals sound wonderful, but oh the elusive birthday present!
I’m trying to do better with the cookery. With any luck I will be struck by inspiration tomorrow! 🙂