A Week of Meals

The mange-tout, strawberries, carrots, spinach, beetroot and rainbow chard are home grown. Breakfasts are one slice of bread with Marmite on - no butter. Lunches are 3 pieces of fruit apart from on Wednesday when I had mange tout, beetroot and salad bits. Edited: Oh and apart from Saturday - whoops.

Sunday: Lidl fish - pollock and salmon baked in the oven with homemade cheese sauce (with a fish stock cube crumbled in), mange-tout and mashed potato

strawberries (from my friend) whizzed in the blender with a little bit of ice-cream

Monday: yesterday's cheese sauce and fish left-overs with stir fry mange-tout, ends of peppers, onion, carrot, cabbage and rainbow chard, served with spaghetti

strawberries and a satsuma

Tuesday: yesterday's left over stir fry with pork steak with steamed mange tout and baked potato

satsuma and melon

Wednesday: chicken casserole, beetroot and rice

Lidl choccy lolly (naughty naughty)

Thursday: yesterday's left over chicken casserole with rice

Lidl choccy lolly (naughty naughty)

Friday: chicken casserole with new potatoes (My portion was minus chicken - there were only 3 chicken thighs in it to start off with.)

Lidl choccy lolly (naughty naughty)

Saturday: 

Get a grip, girl, think positive - fruit for afters

The words in italics I wrote on Friday. Here's the revised version.

a bowl of steamed mange-tout followed by a bun with decorative icing brought home by DD last night after she'd been to a birthday party

(Our main meal was at midday because we went out to Granny's Bay,

 bought fish and chips and had a walk on the beach.)

Get a grip, girl, think positive. I'll have to do this post again to show that I eat healthily, won't I.

xx

Glow, girl, glow!

Horses sweat,

men perspire,

and ladies glow.

I hate changing the bedding because it makes me glow like mad!

Let's just call it a great work-out.

xx

PS A very warm welcome to my new follower. I hope you enjoy your visits here. I'm a little warm at the moment!

Forgive me ...

... for listing all the books I'm reading. I'm sure it must be pretty boring to read but I want to record the books I've read this year.

One more novel bites the dust. This Blackpool saga is filled with 'heartache and happiness'.

Readable and now becoming predictable but very enjoyable. My sizeable collection is rapidly diminishing.

xx

Granny Collections

This collection uses all the wools I have left just once.

So does this one.

This collection is the Blackpool Collection.

The middle square has the colours of a stick of rock,

the top square has shades of green for Stanley Park,

the left square are the colours found around Marton Mere,

the bottom square is sea, sand and sky

and the right hand square has colours found at the Winter Gardens.

Nearly there.

xx

Welcome

Welcome to my new followers. So glad to have you here. I was wondering if I would receive any new followers with all the Bloglovin' promotion going on. Do I need Bloglovin'? I've got all my favourite blogs on my blog pages so each evening I click on their links and 'follow' the postings. Other blogs I've got on Net News Wire but I prefer to look at all the blog not just a small portion of it. Bloglovin' seems to want personal information and their terms and conditions make me a little uneasy. I don't want my information given out to others or for businesses to target me because of my interests. I'm sure by joining there are lots of advantages especially if you make full use of all technology (which I don't).

I know many bloggers have signed up to Bloglovin' but I'm not at the moment until I have researched more. I certainly don't want my blog linked to my Facebook page or any other blogs I may have as I like to keep my details and personal life separate.

So welcome new followers and thank you for joining this site in whatever way you've joined. See you around.

xx

Kitchen Window - July 2013

The flowers are from the garden - a perennial shrub and a bush. I've forgotten their names. Oh dear! I think I can take the plant pot off the cookie cutter now as the window isn't steaming up anymore. There is an electricity monitor on the sill which shows usage and how much money the electricity is costing us.

xx

Nine to Five plus One

10am

What am I wearing? 

Jeans, black T-shirt, denim waistcoat

What am I doing?

Picking strawberries

Where am I?

Visiting friends

What's the sky like?

Blue with a few clouds

What's motivating me?

A beautiful country cottage garden full of fruit, flowers and vegetables

Roses destined for drying for confetti

3pm

What am I wearing?

Same as before

What am I doing?

Walking home from town

Where am I?

In the streets of Blackpool

What's the sky like?

Same as earlier on but more blue sky

What's motivating me?

Being with DH, calling in on DD, recalling the meal we've had, the walk we've taken, the sights we've seen

Jellyfish on the beach

Another one a different colour

The tide's coming in

A craft fair was on in the Pavilion, a beautiful little theatre, at the Winter Gardens. 

It's been the Armed Forces' Week here and St. John's Square was buzzing with planes,

bands (Band of the King's Division),

tanks and people.

6pm

What am I wearing?

Black trousers, green V neck tunic top
What am I doing?

Arriving at a friend's summer party
Where am I?

In another lovely garden full of annuals, shrubs and bushes

What's the sky like?

Cloudy with rain threatening
What's motivating me?

An enjoyable evening with good company, good food and good conversation.

I'm linking to Thrift Deluxe's blog today as her blog is called Nine to Five.