Myra's in Paris with her children and her grand-children and will have had, after a month, a bellyful of the 'family', that is why she lives here whilst they all live there! And the remark about 'foreign muck' will have made her smile and laugh.
For it was what how her children's first nanny, a Norland.. very stiff upper lip etc.. described any non-English food to Myra when she first arrived in Beirut fifty years ago but she soon succumbed to the delicious food that was served by Myra's cook and ate everything and, lost weight!
So 'foreign muck' is the phrase that is used a lot between these two old friends.. it usually goes like this.. "which foreign muck shall we have for lunch" when the two of them are marauding the West End after seeing a show / exhibition or on the hunt for something or other.
If there are other people within earshot, it HAS to be said with a completely straight face and, in a serious tone of voice.. and there is always a reaction! It makes her laugh just to think of Myra saying it in her incredibly 'English' voice!
Anyway, she has stopped growling over her weight-gain, you'll be pleased to hear and turned her attention to YumYum HQ. It was untidy, the rugs needed to be replaced with clean ones, the work surface needed a good scrub and all the 'stuff' which had accumulated on the work surface, you couldn't even see it, had to be washed and put away.
Hot water in a washing-up bowl with a little squeeze of washing liguid and a lot of washing soda makes the perfect solution for things that need a lick 'n' a promise! Just put the whatever into the water, give it a quick rub with a cloth and a rinse with clean water and bingo.. it's squeaky clean and ready to be put away.
The same solution cleans stove tops, grills and work surfaces, she also gives them a squirt of white vinegar. Likewise with cabinet doors and the inside of chilly-white larder and the top of that, she moved my YumYum bowl, scrubbed the top clean, washed my water bowl AND then.. tralala.. she produced to my joy, like a rabbit out of a hat, two small cardboard boxes!
Why was I thrilled, well, any self respecting parrot loves to rip up cardboard and I'm no exception!
Then she went outside into the pitch dark, oooh, it's chilly-billy night tonight and wet and poured washing soda down the outside drain. She is punctilious about NOT putting fat down our kitchen drain but some always gets washed off a plate and so by putting soda crystals down your drains, it stops a build up of grease and soap, everyone should do this.
It also keeps your drains smelling clean, discourages vermin.. and sprinkled onto wet steps, it stops them from being slippery.
A couple of slices of Pork loin was her late lunch today, together with some celery, the last of the green beans and the samphire. Tomorrow she'll get me hummus and grapes and skinny beans for her. And she must remember to take a piece of fish out of frosty cupboard aka freezer, before she goes out so that it'll be ready to cook for supper, tuna would be good, we haven't had fresh tuna for ages.
But that's tomorrow and now it is today and tomorrow is another day, she's moved on from being disappointed by gaining the 1.5lbs but she won't be making OR eating orange cake and chocolate salami again in a hurry.. sad that.
Chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 4th, 2016.
For it was what how her children's first nanny, a Norland.. very stiff upper lip etc.. described any non-English food to Myra when she first arrived in Beirut fifty years ago but she soon succumbed to the delicious food that was served by Myra's cook and ate everything and, lost weight!
So 'foreign muck' is the phrase that is used a lot between these two old friends.. it usually goes like this.. "which foreign muck shall we have for lunch" when the two of them are marauding the West End after seeing a show / exhibition or on the hunt for something or other.
If there are other people within earshot, it HAS to be said with a completely straight face and, in a serious tone of voice.. and there is always a reaction! It makes her laugh just to think of Myra saying it in her incredibly 'English' voice!
Anyway, she has stopped growling over her weight-gain, you'll be pleased to hear and turned her attention to YumYum HQ. It was untidy, the rugs needed to be replaced with clean ones, the work surface needed a good scrub and all the 'stuff' which had accumulated on the work surface, you couldn't even see it, had to be washed and put away.
Hot water in a washing-up bowl with a little squeeze of washing liguid and a lot of washing soda makes the perfect solution for things that need a lick 'n' a promise! Just put the whatever into the water, give it a quick rub with a cloth and a rinse with clean water and bingo.. it's squeaky clean and ready to be put away.
The same solution cleans stove tops, grills and work surfaces, she also gives them a squirt of white vinegar. Likewise with cabinet doors and the inside of chilly-white larder and the top of that, she moved my YumYum bowl, scrubbed the top clean, washed my water bowl AND then.. tralala.. she produced to my joy, like a rabbit out of a hat, two small cardboard boxes!
Why was I thrilled, well, any self respecting parrot loves to rip up cardboard and I'm no exception!
Then she went outside into the pitch dark, oooh, it's chilly-billy night tonight and wet and poured washing soda down the outside drain. She is punctilious about NOT putting fat down our kitchen drain but some always gets washed off a plate and so by putting soda crystals down your drains, it stops a build up of grease and soap, everyone should do this.
It also keeps your drains smelling clean, discourages vermin.. and sprinkled onto wet steps, it stops them from being slippery.
A couple of slices of Pork loin was her late lunch today, together with some celery, the last of the green beans and the samphire. Tomorrow she'll get me hummus and grapes and skinny beans for her. And she must remember to take a piece of fish out of frosty cupboard aka freezer, before she goes out so that it'll be ready to cook for supper, tuna would be good, we haven't had fresh tuna for ages.
But that's tomorrow and now it is today and tomorrow is another day, she's moved on from being disappointed by gaining the 1.5lbs but she won't be making OR eating orange cake and chocolate salami again in a hurry.. sad that.
Chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 4th, 2016.
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