Yes @D0rdogne_Damsel celeriac has an earthy celery flavour. Actually putting the parsnip with it was a bit of an error as the parsnip dominated, but I had a couple of misshapen ones that I wanted to use. Next time I will use potao as the thickener. Celeriac on its own can be a bit watery but it's other benefit it's a slow release carbohydrate.
Realistically my whole home life is affected by the cats - rooms they not allowed in unattended, plants and breakables can only go in those rooms, doors shut, no food left out, cat blankets everywhere... hang on a minute...I’ve been stitched-up here 😂
Our house is rapidly getting like that @AuntyRach since daughter bought her cat home. It's taken over the small bedroom, keeps wanting to go in and out like a yo-yo, loves the radiator in the airing cupboard and insists on drinking dirty water out of the sink instead of its water bowl. It's got us both very well trained in just a couple of months.
@D0rdogne_Damsel and @Obelixx there isn't a cellar here and no scullery or utility room. I am planning to have one put in the double garage, also a study.
We went to my old house this afternoon as I wasn't able to check it properly after finishing with the notaires. We collected an estate car and a trailer's worth of stuff and will have to go back on Wednesday for the tall things, such as 2 stepladders, parasols. Also the pressure cleaner and other bits we couldn't fit. We took the vacuum cleaner, 3 paintings, a work bench, a trolley that goes up steps, wellie boots and several bags of smaller things. I forgot my stainless steel roasting tins. The removers had also left behind 2 cupboards that I wanted which had garden products in them, fertilisers, weedkiller etc. They told me on Friday that they had taken everything.
Still have a lot of boxes to unpack. The packing is strange, my ice cream maker was in a box with things from 2 other different cupboards in the kitchen. OH's socket board for his computer was in a box full of things from the larder.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, do I have the dubious pleasure of being first up? Woke up early for a change and couldn't get back to sleep so thought I might as well get up and take my 'special' Monday morning pill. Now got to wait 30 mins before I can eat or drink - and I'm hungry! It's warmer out today, about 7C but windy and grey. Yesterday's sunshine was very welcome.
You are not going to be suffering from Lockdown boredom are you @Busy-Lizzie. Bon courage as they say.
Looks like a sunny day again, but still cold.
My friends' children (grown up) were both ill over Christmas with Covid in the UK as was their mother and step father, unfortunately both the step father and their mother have now both died. The children had to give permission for the machine to be switched off yesterday on their mother (my friend's ex wife). My friend has taken it very hard, he obviously feels for his children and of course regarding the wife, although an ex, they had a life together before the divorce. All the more upsetting for him because he can't just go over to the UK to be with his kids. I have a friend, soon to be an ex-friend I think, that is insisting this is all a hoax, the numbers are nothing in comparison to other diseases and has in fact been on marches to protest about it.....I see how devastated my one friend is and cannot find any sense/truth in my protesting friend's nonsense.
I was interested to see Chris Whitty interviewed this morning on the BBC news programme, he also seems like a sensible chap, poor man having to deal with all this at the moment. The whole thing just makes me so sad.
Anyway can't mope about, not good for you. Off to do Joe Wicks workout now, saw him interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning too, he does seem to be a very nice chap, very encouraging and empathetic to people's possible sadness/problems and I do believe even a little workout gets you going, works for me anyway. I dug out my little step counter watch yesterday and managed almost 11,000 steps, Charlie and I did have a long walk, let's see what I can manage today.
I hope everyone on here is doing ok, best wishes to all.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
My wife spent half the day yesterday on the phone, passing on the sad news that one of her elderly relatives had become yet another statistic of this year. Another classic case, went into hospital for a broken hip just before Christmas, caught covid died on Friday. His DIL told us & asked my OH to help with contacting the rest of the family.
I am very sorry to hear that too @Allotment Boy, it's very sad that those far away distant numbers we saw reported each day are now becoming names of those we know and care about. If only people would get the message, believe it and act on it - or not as the case maybe, just stay at home!
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
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We went to my old house this afternoon as I wasn't able to check it properly after finishing with the notaires. We collected an estate car and a trailer's worth of stuff and will have to go back on Wednesday for the tall things, such as 2 stepladders, parasols. Also the pressure cleaner and other bits we couldn't fit. We took the vacuum cleaner, 3 paintings, a work bench, a trolley that goes up steps, wellie boots and several bags of smaller things. I forgot my stainless steel roasting tins. The removers had also left behind 2 cupboards that I wanted which had garden products in them, fertilisers, weedkiller etc. They told me on Friday that they had taken everything.
Still have a lot of boxes to unpack. The packing is strange, my ice cream maker was in a box with things from 2 other different cupboards in the kitchen. OH's socket board for his computer was in a box full of things from the larder.
Take it steady 🤗
night night all... I’m very sleepy now 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's warmer out today, about 7C but windy and grey. Yesterday's sunshine was very welcome.
You are not going to be suffering from Lockdown boredom are you @Busy-Lizzie. Bon courage as they say.
Looks like a sunny day again, but still cold.
My friends' children (grown up) were both ill over Christmas with Covid in the UK as was their mother and step father, unfortunately both the step father and their mother have now both died. The children had to give permission for the machine to be switched off yesterday on their mother (my friend's ex wife). My friend has taken it very hard, he obviously feels for his children and of course regarding the wife, although an ex, they had a life together before the divorce. All the more upsetting for him because he can't just go over to the UK to be with his kids. I have a friend, soon to be an ex-friend I think, that is insisting this is all a hoax, the numbers are nothing in comparison to other diseases and has in fact been on marches to protest about it.....I see how devastated my one friend is and cannot find any sense/truth in my protesting friend's nonsense.
I was interested to see Chris Whitty interviewed this morning on the BBC news programme, he also seems like a sensible chap, poor man having to deal with all this at the moment. The whole thing just makes me so sad.
Anyway can't mope about, not good for you. Off to do Joe Wicks workout now, saw him interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning too, he does seem to be a very nice chap, very encouraging and empathetic to people's possible sadness/problems and I do believe even a little workout gets you going, works for me anyway. I dug out my little step counter watch yesterday and managed almost 11,000 steps, Charlie and I did have a long walk, let's see what I can manage today.
I hope everyone on here is doing ok, best wishes to all.