Lovely and sunny here too after a little hiccup with some gery bits after the sun came up full of promise. We've been to Les Sables d'Olonne - my cunning plant to calm OH down after I bought an impromptu cupboard yesterday and we had to put the roof rack on to fetch it. We did the market in the Halles for veggies and fish - spring onions and pointy cabbage no less - plus the usual suspects and then fish. Whole hake for 4.90€. I've cut it into 4 steaks and a tail. No fish pie.
Thence to a portside restaurat for a fishy dinner. No moules frites but the 22€ menu had crab mayo in the starters. Delicious but very simply served as half a crab complete with claws plus a set of pincers, a wedge of lemon and a pot of mayonnaise. Half a crab is a lot! Then more fish for mains and he, typical man, had tarte tatin while I had poached pear wrapped in puff pastry and filled with caramel. Yum!
Then we got to the Troc and 3 chaps lifted the cupboard into the roof rack and one mentioned that there was a matching chest of drawers for 39€ if I was interested. I expected a wee thingy but it's huge and has 3 big drawers and is also very solid and has fancy carvings so that came home too. A good wash and a little woodwash to lighten the pine and they'll be perfect.
OH has donned his shorts to walk the dogs and I am going to put my feet up and rest before dance class this pm.
Sorry you're crook too now GWRS. Rest and lots of fluids. Hope all the other lurgy people are getting better.
I put all sorts in our dishwasher - when OH isn't looking. If you wrap it well in a couple of layers of foil and don't use detergent it's supposed to be an easy way to poach a large salmon for a party......
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)."
Have planted 3 roses in a very large pot. One of my pots cracked so I took out the two roses in it and planted one of the Gertrude Jekylls that OH gave me for Christmas with them in the big pot he gave me as well. The two other GJs are going in the garden.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Dishwashers , fantastic machine , wouldn't be with out it , secoundly only to automatic washing machine
When we go to Tenby always have dressed crab from a little shop on harbour , her husband is a local fish a man with 2 boats , they also do lobster couldn't be fresher
He might think he's back in the river and start trying to 'leap' BL
I just scrub my soap powder thingy every so often. I'm not that keen on dishwashers (don't have room for one in this tiny house) and I hear so many people moan about who loads, who unloads, 'he's not done it right' etc etc.
Murky sort of evening here now after a lovely day - very mild without any wind. It almost got to double figures - better than most spring days.
Hope you're not too poorly GWRS. I love lobster, but never have it unless I'm at a good fish restaurant, which is rare now. Girls don't eat much fish either, unfortunately
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sign of the times. Didn't finish working in the garden until 5.30pm. Summer is coming folks.
In our last house, I was "in charge" of the dishwasher loading / unloading etc. In this house Hubby does it. It was never discussed, it just sort of happened.
We've got fish pie too. Waitrose 1 fish pie. Reduced to £2.75 from £6.99. They're very nice , but no doubt not as good as home made, but £2.75??? couldn't knock it back.
Anyone seen the b'day card featuring a very elegant but possibly slightly inebriated Edwardian lady raising her champagne glass "....and cheers to all the ladies who rearrange the dishwasher"?
Guilty as charged...
Love crab, love fish, want pie - now! (stamps foot) (Please and thank you very nicely)
Hope your day in bed has done some good GWTS - and hope you feel better tomorrow.
Edit to add: Yes I noticed Fairy - he's a very naughty boy isn't he?
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Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Hello everyone. No news here except to complain about weather, so I won't bother.
sorry to learn GWRS has caught the lurgy. Hope you don't break a rib.
catch you all tomorrow.
Lovely and sunny here too after a little hiccup with some gery bits after the sun came up full of promise. We've been to Les Sables d'Olonne - my cunning plant to calm OH down after I bought an impromptu cupboard yesterday and we had to put the roof rack on to fetch it. We did the market in the Halles for veggies and fish - spring onions and pointy cabbage no less - plus the usual suspects and then fish. Whole hake for 4.90€. I've cut it into 4 steaks and a tail. No fish pie.
Thence to a portside restaurat for a fishy dinner. No moules frites but the 22€ menu had crab mayo in the starters. Delicious but very simply served as half a crab complete with claws plus a set of pincers, a wedge of lemon and a pot of mayonnaise. Half a crab is a lot! Then more fish for mains and he, typical man, had tarte tatin while I had poached pear wrapped in puff pastry and filled with caramel. Yum!
Then we got to the Troc and 3 chaps lifted the cupboard into the roof rack and one mentioned that there was a matching chest of drawers for 39€ if I was interested. I expected a wee thingy but it's huge and has 3 big drawers and is also very solid and has fancy carvings so that came home too. A good wash and a little woodwash to lighten the pine and they'll be perfect.
OH has donned his shorts to walk the dogs and I am going to put my feet up and rest before dance class this pm.
Sorry you're crook too now GWRS. Rest and lots of fluids. Hope all the other lurgy people are getting better.
I put all sorts in our dishwasher - when OH isn't looking. If you wrap it well in a couple of layers of foil and don't use detergent it's supposed to be an easy way to poach a large salmon for a party......
Don't think I'd dare! What if the foil unwrapped?
Have planted 3 roses in a very large pot. One of my pots cracked so I took out the two roses in it and planted one of the Gertrude Jekylls that OH gave me for Christmas with them in the big pot he gave me as well. The two other GJs are going in the garden.
Hello ,spent most of today in bed
Dishwashers , fantastic machine , wouldn't be with out it , secoundly only to automatic washing machine
When we go to Tenby always have dressed crab from a little shop on harbour , her husband is a local fish a man with 2 boats , they also do lobster couldn't be fresher
He might think he's back in the river and start trying to 'leap' BL
I just scrub my soap powder thingy every so often. I'm not that keen on dishwashers (don't have room for one in this tiny house) and I hear so many people moan about who loads, who unloads, 'he's not done it right' etc etc.
Murky sort of evening here now after a lovely day - very mild without any wind. It almost got to double figures - better than most spring days.
Hope you're not too poorly GWRS. I love lobster, but never have it unless I'm at a good fish restaurant, which is rare now. Girls don't eat much fish either, unfortunately
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening all.
Sign of the times. Didn't finish working in the garden until 5.30pm. Summer is coming folks.
In our last house, I was "in charge" of the dishwasher loading / unloading etc. In this house Hubby does it. It was never discussed, it just sort of happened.
We've got fish pie too. Waitrose 1 fish pie. Reduced to £2.75 from £6.99. They're very nice , but no doubt not as good as home made, but £2.75??? couldn't knock it back.
Hi all.
Wet and miserable here [ and that is just me ]
No fish here, I am making Cottage pie.
My dishwasher is still at work!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Good buy Hosta. I love fish pie but never make it now as I'm the only one in the house who'd eat it
Am I the only one who noticed your comment re the helmet earlier? Ooh err missus! Lowering the tone as usual
I must be just as bad....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Anyone seen the b'day card featuring a very elegant but possibly slightly inebriated Edwardian lady raising her champagne glass "....and cheers to all the ladies who rearrange the dishwasher"?
Guilty as charged...
Love crab, love fish, want pie - now! (stamps foot) (Please and thank you very nicely)
Hope your day in bed has done some good GWTS - and hope you feel better tomorrow.
Edit to add: Yes I noticed Fairy - he's a very naughty boy isn't he?
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Me too, but I didn't want to give him the satisfaction!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border