Today I started with a lie in and followed up with a relaxed breakfast featuring bacon croissants. I have become very cosmopolitan in my later years.
In the after noon I went to the shop because, in the course of the morning I suddenly realised I had left my battery charger plugged in at the shop. I’d noticed it bleep yesterday to tell me the batteries were charged but had forgotten to disconnect it. Fortunately, the automatic cut off had worked and all was OK. This isn’t always the case as they sometimes get painfully hot. This is a reminder of why I was worried about fire.
In the evening we had a large salad, plus some quiche and a sliver of cheesecake. The salad was rocket, tomato, cucumber, spring onions, mushrooms, peppers, dried apricots, almonds, feta and watermelon. It’s partly an attempt to eat more salad, and partly an attempt to clear up a lot of part packets of stuff.
Tomorrow I will make soup as we have a number of mushrooms and carrots coming to the end of their shelf life. It will be Mushroom Soup and Carrot and Lentil Soup, I’m not going to try to make Carrot and Mushroom Soup. That would be a step too far.
I’ve also been reading posts, though I’m still struggling with time. My apologies to everyone I have been neglecting.
Finally, we watched The Great British Sewing Bee. It’s a harmless way to pass an hour in the evening, despite the slewed comments of the judges. They definitely have favourites. In the judging it’s quite common for judges to criticise the non-favourites for faults that they then ignore when telling their favorites that their creation is superb, even though one or more obvious faults are jumping out of the TV screen.
Bumble bee on bramble flowers – Sherwood Forest
n most TV competitions.
The fire dander from batteries is quite real, and I remember back in the days a coworker telling me he was present when a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) a computer was plugged into caught fire in an engineer’s office. He dove under the desk and unplugged it, and got it out.
That should be danger, not dander. 🙂
To be honest, I didn’t even notice it until I read this and went back to check. The brain tends to auto-correct. 🙂
Some of my camera batteries get very hot in that charger, so I like to be safe. Fortunately I’ve never experienced a fire from this sort of thing.
I agree that carrot and mushroom soup is a non starter.
The very thought of it is enough to make me feel queasy. Sadly, I just checked the internet and there are several recipes for it. 🙁
I hate the subjectivity of such competitions relying on judges’ personal views.
Yes, that’s always the problem. Garment of the week (they were making Smoking Jackets) was a simple pattern done very well. The one that came second was much more innovative. The one that came fourth (and narrowly escaped sending home) was like one bit with more complex features than the winning garment (he tried something harder as it was semi-finals). I don’t know how you can compare them, but it seems dull and safe is the way. Another competition would have rewarded bravery or innovation and penalised “safe”.
That sums it all up
Now we mention it, I can just see you reading in a smoking jacket . . .
If you get a chance, I wooden mind a couple of photographs from Sherwood forest with or without the bumble bee.
We are huge fans of the baking show, but haven’t watched the Sewing Bee. That lentil soup sounds good. What do you use for spices?
It depends what I have to hand. Garlic, possibly chilli (fresh or from a jar) cumin (I seem to have lots of that), black pepper, smoked paprika (for colour if making tomato soup, it never seems to do too much to the taste). Turmeric for colour in the carrot soups and maybe curry powder. I’m not very adventurous with spices.
I like the Pottery Throwdown and the Sewing Bee, not so keen on the Bake-Off. Julia likes Bake-Off – The Professionals so we watch it. I don’t rate it.
I will post some later, though they will be without bees. 🙂
Pictures of Sherwood Forest are now up. Though they aren’t very inspiring.
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