We've just finished lunch! Lightly spiced carrot soup with a cheese damper. Yum. There's a shoulder of lamb just gone in the oven to cook very slowly for a few hours with shredded onions, garlic and carrots, some herbs and half a bottle of white wine.
I am now free to cut out the second pair of trousers and sew them this pm. Early start tomorrow as we have to get Possum to Nantes airport by 10am.
Dove - technical hitch with the Buche! No cocoa powder!! How did that happen? I have made it vanilla flavoured and rolled it in drinking chocolate instead of icing sugar to compensate. Later on it will be filled with whipped cream and raspberries and be smothered in a very rich chocolate ganache so it will still be "death by chocolate".
Haven't seen anything I recognise as a gammon joint here or in Belgium. Maybe Busy knows?
Well done Hosta but expect you won't sleep for a week now. If it helps, Mrs T used to survive on 3 or 4 hours a night but then need an occasional catch up weekend. Lots of successful business people do too apparently. Maybe it's just in your genes and you should do something with your wake time rather than lie there fretting.
I hope you've got your shopping in Joyce in case that snow does arrive. I expect LP will be in a cleaning and bedding washing frenzy.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
...Well done Hosta but expect you won't sleep for a week now. If it helps, Mrs T used to survive on 3 or 4 hours a night but then need an occasional catch up weekend. ......
Not sure that's a recommendation
The Buche sounds just grand to me ... not a fan of chocolate sponge so I often do a plain inside and choc on the outside
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes thanks. Cosmos just has a teeny scab left in the middle of his paw pad and is back on kitten form - hunting elastic bands in the middle of the night, having hysterical ticky games with and without Minstrel, purry and playful and cuddly and "helping" with all sorts. His bare patch on his leg is growing back too - stripped naked by all the plaster strip used to hold on his socks.
Rasta now has a fine set of scars but her coat is growing back where she was shaved for cleaning and they should disappear. No adverse effects except for being wary of what may be lurking in hedgerows when she's out on walkies. Too right!
T'other pair are fine and don't get into such trouble - so far, touch wood.
I, meanwhile, have arthritis in the joints of that formerly broken toe and its neighbour and have to get referred to a specialist but I suspect that, henceforth, I will always be wobbly doing solo spins in jive, samba, cha-cha and salsa and won't be able to do really long walkies again. Humph!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hello all, hope you all had a great Christmas (I've skim read but not caught up properly). I know Hosta didn't have a great time, nor punkdoc, hope things are improving now.
We had a good one, though the frantic morning before the Big Boxing Day Feast was more stressful than intended. And there were so many germs being cultivated by various family members that it's little wonder I've been feeling below par since.
Did anyone listen to Armistead Maupin on Christmas Day (the second Queen's Speech, as he put it)? I haven't yet, but was at the event celebrating a friend's birthday - it was lovely, lots of love in the room, but I'm curious to hear how they've edited it. It seems they've missed out the Bernstein piece which is a shame, and I doubt they left in the name his brother called him when he came out ...!
And am I alone in still having bulbs to plant? The guilt is huge.
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Well, who'd have thought? I fell asleep again!!!
Well done Hosta ... that's what you need ... practice makes perfect
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all , nice lie in this morning , just finishing breakfast watching the sleet
Nothing like a cuppa in bed to do the trick Hosta.
You sounds a bit like us a GWRS. I was just nodding off again about 10 am when the phone rang. That did it. I got up.
Weve had some rain tonight. I’ll check thevgauge in the morning. Every little bet helps.
Night all.
We've just finished lunch! Lightly spiced carrot soup with a cheese damper. Yum. There's a shoulder of lamb just gone in the oven to cook very slowly for a few hours with shredded onions, garlic and carrots, some herbs and half a bottle of white wine.
I am now free to cut out the second pair of trousers and sew them this pm. Early start tomorrow as we have to get Possum to Nantes airport by 10am.
Dove - technical hitch with the Buche! No cocoa powder!! How did that happen? I have made it vanilla flavoured and rolled it in drinking chocolate instead of icing sugar to compensate. Later on it will be filled with whipped cream and raspberries and be smothered in a very rich chocolate ganache so it will still be "death by chocolate".
Haven't seen anything I recognise as a gammon joint here or in Belgium. Maybe Busy knows?
Well done Hosta but expect you won't sleep for a week now. If it helps, Mrs T used to survive on 3 or 4 hours a night but then need an occasional catch up weekend. Lots of successful business people do too apparently. Maybe it's just in your genes and you should do something with your wake time rather than lie there fretting.
I hope you've got your shopping in Joyce in case that snow does arrive. I expect LP will be in a cleaning and bedding washing frenzy.
Not sure that's a recommendation
The Buche sounds just grand to me ... not a fan of chocolate sponge so I often do a plain inside and choc on the outside
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Obelixx, no shopping needed for ten days and freezer packed full.
LP, gets more adverse than I do at the coast.
Are the injured pets on the mend?
Good.
Yes thanks. Cosmos just has a teeny scab left in the middle of his paw pad and is back on kitten form - hunting elastic bands in the middle of the night, having hysterical ticky games with and without Minstrel, purry and playful and cuddly and "helping" with all sorts. His bare patch on his leg is growing back too - stripped naked by all the plaster strip used to hold on his socks.
Rasta now has a fine set of scars but her coat is growing back where she was shaved for cleaning and they should disappear. No adverse effects except for being wary of what may be lurking in hedgerows when she's out on walkies. Too right!
T'other pair are fine and don't get into such trouble - so far, touch wood.
I, meanwhile, have arthritis in the joints of that formerly broken toe and its neighbour and have to get referred to a specialist but I suspect that, henceforth, I will always be wobbly doing solo spins in jive, samba, cha-cha and salsa and won't be able to do really long walkies again. Humph!
Arthritic joints
I now use a walking stick when out walking......gives a sense of security.
Glad the pets are back to their frisky selves.
Hello all, hope you all had a great Christmas (I've skim read but not caught up properly). I know Hosta didn't have a great time, nor punkdoc, hope things are improving now.
We had a good one, though the frantic morning before the Big Boxing Day Feast was more stressful than intended. And there were so many germs being cultivated by various family members that it's little wonder I've been feeling below par since.
Did anyone listen to Armistead Maupin on Christmas Day (the second Queen's Speech, as he put it)? I haven't yet, but was at the event celebrating a friend's birthday - it was lovely, lots of love in the room, but I'm curious to hear how they've edited it. It seems they've missed out the Bernstein piece which is a shame, and I doubt they left in the name his brother called him when he came out ...!
And am I alone in still having bulbs to plant? The guilt is huge.