Carrot & Ginger Soup

Prestige Pans to Thunderbird Wine

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Julia has gone to the gym. It is the final day she will be able to use her membership and she has decided to treat herself to a run and a sauna. I have been left at home with the washing up and the preparation of lunch. So far I have researched an article, done most of the washing up, thought about soup and started to write a blog.  It’s close to the plan she had in mind for me, but probably not close enough. However, compared to doing a couple of miles on a treadmill followed by lightly boiling myself, I prefer my morning to hers.

Over the next few weeks we are expecting several more deliveries as we squander our pensions on comfort, including a second new bed, a new freezer and various other fripperies.

vegetable Soup

Meanwhile, there is little to say. We are gradually packing 35 years of memories/clutter and dispersing it to bins, charity shops and (mainly) to the new house. There is going to be another sorting when we get there. I have already started going through my books again and the ktchen equipment is building up. My pans are nearly 50 years old. They are Prestige copper-bottomed pans but the years have made their mark and we were recently offered a newer, similar set. Then we were offered three more pans. I accepted one lot, not knowing that Julia had accepted the others. The same goes for many things – we have accumulated things over the years, some of which were stored upstairs or in the garage. It’s hard to turn things down. We have six corkscrews now we have sorted them all out.  Nobody needs more than three (one to use, one as a spare and one for the picnic basket).

In fact, nobody needs corkscrews anyway, as a lot of wine seems to come with screw tops. It’s one more sign of falling standards. There was a time when only Buckfast and Thunderbird came with screw tops and they were not the choice of the sophisticated social drinker.

And there you go – memories. I started with clutter and moved ont to my mis-spent youth. Now, before Julia arrives, I’d better get on with doing something useful and terminates my mis-spent dotage.

Carrot & Ginger Soup

Carrot & Ginger Soup

Photos feature pans. It’s the best I could do.

12 thoughts on “Prestige Pans to Thunderbird Wine”

    1. quercuscommunity Post author

      I avoid programmes like that – they remind me of the mess I’m in, and the pain of even thinking of divesting myself of any part of my carefully collated collection of clutter is too great. However, you are right, it will probably help and I will look for it on the player.

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  4. arlingwoman

    I sympathize. I’ve spent much of the year clearing out, but not my own stuff–other people’s. It helps not to be attached. But believe me, you will feel lighter when it’s all done. I’ve never been much of an accumulator and having seen the effects on the children of dead accumulators, I’ve doubled down on my twice yearly evaluations of what could go. I hope the soup is good. Also, those copper bottomed pans–I’ve got a small fry pan my parents got for a wedding present in 1950. It weighs about twice what the same sort of thing weighs now. That could mean longer lasting or easier to lift when full, depending on your preferences.

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    1. quercuscommunity Post author

      I’m going to be following your lead and evaluating out stuff on a regular basis from now on. I often claim to have been an antiques dealer, but I was actually what the tax authorities refer to as !a dealer in secondhand goods” and I just couldn’t say no to anything. 🙂

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