Love spelt bread but have to make my own as it's rarely seen here.
Today's curmudge is minor in the grand scheme of world events at the mo but I bought a tray of 6 pink lilies from LIDL a few weeks ago. They are all orange and not a shade I can handle. I shall have to give them away.
Back in spring I bought some gladioli, reduced, which should have had burnt orange and cream flowers and put them in the "hot" end of a new bed. They all turned out to be pink but a rich shade I can enjoy if moved to the pink end.
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)."
Trouble is I don't know what the supermarkets are using. I found Lidl had two types of cashew nuts. The cheap range was in rapeseed oil. The deluxe range was in sunflower oil. My shopping for the last year has been get in, grab it and get out. I bought stuff I knew was OK. Only when I spent two hours on the loo with excruciating cramps did I realise the deluxe range has been changed to rapeseed oil as well. Like soy, it is in everything.
Sorry @raisingirl. @fidgetbones try dry cashews? No oil. Here I can buy them roasted and choose between salted and unsalted. I use them in some curries.
A different grump - OH has been playing golf at Cholet, inland from here, and drove home this evening thru heavy downpours which all stopped as he approached La Roche-sur-Yon, about 20kms from home. Drizabone here and set to stay that way.
I do love the late summer warmth and sunshine but please can we have just one good drenching?
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)."
Not as serious an issue but what really pisses me off is when a supermarket , by chance, produces something worth buying again. You buy it again and some arsehole has found a way of making it cheaper and you're stuck with the inferior product. I remember when a famous spread producer 'improved' the taste of their spread ( it was spit out horrible) soon after, a spread emerged 'the original taste you love'. I never went back to it.
Trouble is I don't know what the supermarkets are using. I found Lidl had two types of cashew nuts. The cheap range was in rapeseed oil. The deluxe range was in sunflower oil. My shopping for the last year has been get in, grab it and get out. I bought stuff I knew was OK. Only when I spent two hours on the loo with excruciating cramps did I realise the deluxe range has been changed to rapeseed oil as well. Like soy, it is in everything.
I have an issue with the current trend to reduce sugars by adding artificial sweeteners. Either full sugar free or just as part of reducing sugar. It makes me ill in less than 15 minutes with a mega migraine attack on speed! Truly horrible but I don't die with it. IMHO artificial sweeteners should be listed as they list allergens.
It is most annoying when a brand new of product has a sugar version and a sugar free diet version without sugar but with artificial sweeteners. Then they turn the one with sugar into a half and half sugar and artificial sweeteners. I generally only find out with a bad migraine. I know another guy who has the same problem. It's actually common but they claim artificial sweeteners are perfectly safe.
I had to buy new railings for the front doorstep - the original ones were already in a poor state when I moved in. Fitted the other day - £1200 lighter in my bank account. Think of the plants I could have bought instead Still - a nicer moan than having to bury the little dunnock who flew straight into my bedroom window recently while I was working on a border nearby. Poor wee soul. 6 inches to the right and he'd have flown through the wide open one into the bedroom instead. Ironically - they're the smallest windows on the back of the house. I've now forked out and purchased the blinds that I'd been putting off getting...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yesterday we took the kids to a local attraction that has amazing cave systems you can walk through, 200 life-sized dinosaurs and a petting farm. Good times were had by all except they advised that the caves are cold so people should wrap up warm. It was cold when we left the house anyway so I made sure to grab my thinnest puffa jacket. My oldest boy was a bit freaked out by the caves initially so I had to carry him most of the time. He's not very light anymore and the ceilings were too low for him to ride on my shoulders. It was a long walk with lots of stairs so needless to say I didn't feel the cold and with a mask on as well I was dripping with sweat.
His favourite parts were the tree in the carpark, a friendly sheep and a big rock.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Today's curmudge is minor in the grand scheme of world events at the mo but I bought a tray of 6 pink lilies from LIDL a few weeks ago. They are all orange and not a shade I can handle. I shall have to give them away.
Back in spring I bought some gladioli, reduced, which should have had burnt orange and cream flowers and put them in the "hot" end of a new bed. They all turned out to be pink but a rich shade I can enjoy if moved to the pink end.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
A different grump - OH has been playing golf at Cholet, inland from here, and drove home this evening thru heavy downpours which all stopped as he approached La Roche-sur-Yon, about 20kms from home. Drizabone here and set to stay that way.
I do love the late summer warmth and sunshine but please can we have just one good drenching?
I remember when a famous spread producer 'improved' the taste of their spread ( it was spit out horrible) soon after, a spread emerged 'the original taste you love'. I never went back to it.
It is most annoying when a brand new of product has a sugar version and a sugar free diet version without sugar but with artificial sweeteners. Then they turn the one with sugar into a half and half sugar and artificial sweeteners. I generally only find out with a bad migraine. I know another guy who has the same problem. It's actually common but they claim artificial sweeteners are perfectly safe.
Still - a nicer moan than having to bury the little dunnock who flew straight into my bedroom window recently while I was working on a border nearby. Poor wee soul. 6 inches to the right and he'd have flown through the wide open one into the bedroom instead.
Ironically - they're the smallest windows on the back of the house. I've now forked out and purchased the blinds that I'd been putting off getting...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...