Sympathies to @AuntyRach and her MIL as well as @Yviestevie and her daughter.Ā May you all have the strength and kindness you need to deal with your situation and emerge OK if not triumphant.
We've had a lovely anniversary meal - 7 small courses of which 3 were lobster in various preparations plus 4 different glasses of wine chosen for the main events.Ā Ā Great fun with the sommelier explaining his wine choices and all of it delicious.Ā Ā Have come home happy, well fed and not stuffed.
Your surprise lunch destination looks really good too @Busy-Lizzie.Ā Ā Nice to be pampered.
Hope you get your cakes made OK @Fairygirl.Ā More chocolate?Ā Ā Love chocolate.
We are going to see our friends in the village at lunchtime, taking some sandwiches. He isn't at all well, he's 89. He has help from the local nursing services in the mornings.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good morning all š āļøĀ a bright and breezy morning here in Norfolk.Ā
Slept like a log and well past my usual waking time.Ā
We had a surprise visit yesterday from son who had to be in N Suffolk and decided to extend the trip to visit us ... hadnāt seen him since new year so it was lovely to sit in the garden and chat. Time flew and we suddenly realised it was supper time ... he had somewhere to be so didnāt stay to eat.
Fortunately Iād made the lamb rogan josh with wilted chard, so just needed to reheat that, cook rice and chapatis and chop mint for a raita ... 15 minutes and supper was on the table. I felt really tired after all the chatting š Son had been to the Gower recently and brought me a lovely pair of earrings made from pieces of driftwood from the beach made by his cousinās friend. šĀ
That does sound a lovely meal @Obelixx ... many congratulations for your anniversary š„Ā
@Busy-Lizzie your lunch venue looks gorgeous too ... love the menu; which did you choose? Ā Hope you have a lovely lunch with your friends today.Ā
How did the cakes turn out @Fairygirl ... are there any left?
Are you driving today @hosta? Ā Hope the roads arenāt too bad.Ā
Today is the day for fixing the insect netting to the frame for the broccoli ... Iād better get up ...Ā thereās also a roast chicken and accompaniments to prep.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm up but have left OH to have a lie-in, he had a bad night. Hoping to get out in the garden soon but watching some very black clouds racing over. What a scrumptious meal @Busy-Lizzie, reminds me of aĀ very good 7 course tasting menu we once had in a lovely fish restaurant in the Barbican at Plymouth.
A nice surprise to see your son @Dovefromabove and the earrings pressie sounds intruiging.
It does sound good.Ā Ā Love the way these places include surprises and treats.Ā Ā We're thinking of going back to see what seasonal things he does to lobster at the end of November since we have our birthdays just 14 days apart and OH's is a significant decade this year.
I like the sound of your rogon josh too @Dovefromabove tho I wouldn't do rice and chapatis.Ā One or t'other.Ā Ā I also have a chuck to prepare to slow roast while I'm out this pm and, sticking with the culinary theme, I have a batch of apricot and pistachio flapjacks in the oven.
I normally don't do riceĀ andĀ chapatis either @Obelixx but supper had been delayed, OH was ravenous and speed was of the essenceĀ ... the rice cooked in the time it took to cook two chapati on the flat griddle that I use ... I only had a chapatiĀ ... OH has hollow legs and can eat for England, despite weighing a constant nine and a half stone at most ... he's built like a racing snake š
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We've had a lovely anniversary meal - 7 small courses of which 3 were lobster in various preparations plus 4 different glasses of wine chosen for the main events.Ā Ā Great fun with the sommelier explaining his wine choices and all of it delicious.Ā Ā Have come home happy, well fed and not stuffed.
Your surprise lunch destination looks really good too @Busy-Lizzie.Ā Ā Nice to be pampered.
Hope you get your cakes made OK @Fairygirl.Ā More chocolate?Ā Ā Love chocolate.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Your meal sounds delicious too, @Obelixx
We are going to see our friends in the village at lunchtime, taking some sandwiches. He isn't at all well, he's 89. He has help from the local nursing services in the mornings.
a bright and breezy morning here in Norfolk.Ā
Fortunately Iād made the lamb rogan josh with wilted chard, so just needed to reheat that, cook rice and chapatis and chop mint for a raita ... 15 minutes and supper was on the table. I felt really tired after all the chatting š Son had been to the Gower recently and brought me a lovely pair of earrings made from pieces of driftwood from the beach made by his cousinās friend. šĀ
That does sound a lovely meal @Obelixx ... many congratulations for your anniversary š„Ā
@Busy-Lizzie your lunch venue looks gorgeous too ... love the menu; which did you choose? Ā Hope you have a lovely lunch with your friends today.Ā
How did the cakes turn out @Fairygirl ... are there any left?
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What a scrumptious meal @Busy-Lizzie, reminds me of aĀ very good 7 course tasting menu we once had in a lovely fish restaurant in the Barbican at Plymouth.
A nice surprise to see your son @Dovefromabove and the earrings pressie sounds intruiging.
I like the sound of your rogon josh too @Dovefromabove tho I wouldn't do rice and chapatis.Ā One or t'other.Ā Ā I also have a chuck to prepare to slow roast while I'm out this pm and, sticking with the culinary theme, I have a batch of apricot and pistachio flapjacks in the oven.
Las autumn, the VendĆ©e gardening club has bought a collection of old dahlias from a bankrupt organic garden and they are being grown by one of the members who has a smallholding.Ā We're off for a visit this pm to admire and, I assume, order babies from next spring's cuttings and divisions.Ā Ā It'll be outside and there'll be coffee so I thought I'd take a very British nibble that's easy to serve.Ā Ā No idea how many will brave the meeting but I shall have my mask.
Hope everyone has slept well and is enjoying their weekend.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.