A quote from the previous post.

I will be preparing a vegetable stew, a Chinese rice and a mushroom curry tomorrow  while Julia is at the tearoom. We will eat one for tea, one tomorrow, and freeze the third. Soup will also be on the menu. Cauliflower and broccoli soup, then leek and potato

The reality is hat after doing more writing (or, struggling to write, if I’m honest), I watched TV with Julia on her return, ate crumpets (with proper butter), shared the last slice of Ginger Cake and, eventually wrenched myself from my seat at around 6pm. I now have a vegetable stew, a portion of veg for making hash and a mushroom curry. I don’t have the Chinese rice I planned, or any soup and I had to ration the leeks to leave enough for the soup. It’s not quite as organised as I had hoped, but on the other hand it’s better than  nothing and the floppy veg are all being used.

I did think about pudding but most of the bread is in the freezer and, with builders expected tomorrow, there’s a chance we may be needing the milk for making tea.  I also crossed rice pudding and quiche off the list due to the milk situation.

The medallion post I struggled with has been sent off and the next one is under way, but is resisting me. This often happens when I run my stock of articles down to the last one. It’s why I try to keep at least two weeks ahead with the Numismatic Society. At one a week, you need to keep on top of it. I had hoped that if I could keep it going for a year, some other people would have a go, but it hasn’t happened. When I’m also trying to write poetry and articles for other societies my stock of articles soon disappears.

I chose two easy subjects to get a couple of articles in the bag, but even that takes time and my resolve to avoid getting sucked into doing too much research soon weakens.

Julia is just doing the dumplings for tonight’s stew, using vegetarian suet, so I will soon be back to eating, watching TV and snoozing.

Tomorrow we are expecting builders.