Just a few more musings on things I didn’t cover in the earlier post.
I noticed, while shopping yesterday, that my thoughts were turning more to sugar. It tested my self-control yesterday, enmeshed as I was in a shop filled with cake, hot cross buns and chocolate eggs, but I got through it.
Well, I say I “got through it”. I got through it in the sense that I bought Belgian buns, Battenberg cake, two small chocolate rabbits and a bag of mini eggs. It’s not much for a week as long as you spread it out, and could have been a lot worse. I’m hoping that next week will be slightly more disciplined.
Number Two Son rang Julia. He was trying to reassure her that he was OK and back in employment, this time at a bank call centre. It’s nice to know he’s financially secure but now she’s worrying that he’ll catch something off his co-workers.
It seems a local politician has lost her job over remarks she made about Boris Johnson being in hospital. To be honest, though the comments were ill-judged and discourteous I think things are being blown out of all proportion. She was also inaccurate in saying Boris was the worst PM we’ve ever had – we’ve had far worse, though to be fair he hasn’t really got into his stride yet.
As I write this, I have a massive pan of ratatouille cooking. I carried on buying aubergines even though I couldn’t get courgettes on my last couple of shopping trips. They are now starting to go brown in places so I decided to get them cooked now and then store the results.I’m determined not to waste a morsel of food, though it can be tricky with all the fresh veg I’m trying to store.
Despite the pronouncements of this brain-dead mother of two, we aren’t all throwing food away. In the last three weeks we have thrown away a couple of cupfuls of milk that went off. I just couldn’t be bothered to find a suitable use for it. Sorry. I will do better if it happens again.
I note from the article, and the pictures with it, that she “had” to throw stuff away, including Worcester Sauce, Soy Sauce and two jars of pickled onions. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never found that those products actually go off. They certainly don’t go off three weeks after they were bought as part of a panic-buying spree.
That, I think, covers the bits I missed last time. Tonight’s tea was roasted veg (potatoes, carrots, parsnips, leek) with a bought-in chicken pie, broccoli and gravy. Tomorrow’s tea will be fish pie, because we need to eat the fish. On Friday we will start on the ratatouille. If we eat it with something out of the freezer we will have space to freeze some ratatouille.
Inn the garden, poppies are getting ready to bloom and the Red Valerian is preparing to burst out.
Red Valerian, about to flower
It is the Council post that Ms Oakes should have lost.
It will be interesting to see how things develop.
I agree that it is too early to pass judgement on Mr Johnson as the worst PM…..but he must be a contender, I would think. But time will tell,.
A definite contender. 🙂 It’s tricky for me to judge as I’ve always thought he was a complete arse and can’t believe he’s PM.
Spoiled milk gets tossed around the roses here, and watered in. They seem to like it.
Oh, that description of what you bought made me laugh. I would have been right there with you, Quercus, buying extra sweets. Glad your son is well!
There is something comforting about sweets. 🙂
The kids are both fine thanks – I hope yours are keeping well too.
So far, so good.
I didn’t listen to that silly person, but jars of those things last aeons–I have never known anyone to throw them out even if they really should due to their extreme age–the whole point of them is that they are preserved in ways that do not usually go bad. Hmm.
I tend to think of them as indestructible.
I tend to think of them as invented to last on seagoing voyages of years’ duration.
That makes sense.
In my mind they would be stored in barrels in the ships, but then again historically so were people as needed–
🙂