And who would save it for us! But it wouldn't be the same, would it? Just think, if you care to, of an oxtail stew cooked with red wine.. the only water that goes anywhere near one of her oxtail stews is the steam that falls back into the pan off the lid.. of lamb stew cooked with 'scrag'.. aka best end of neck.
Of mashed potatoes with garlic, cauliflower or romanesco brocolli with a rich cheese sauce. Of a splendid rye toast with freshly made seville marmalade.. no, there'll be no hibernating this year.
We'll just have to 'flap' about a bit more to keep warm, which brings me to an extraordinarily funny 'phone-in' she heard this morning on LBC radio. One of the crew were talking about this new ruling about children not being allowed to play the sick card and get excused PE.. physical edication.. aka gym.
She said "and we've got ........ calling in from ...", we listeners were expecting a man's voice but it was a young boy's voice who came on air and with no hesitations or umms or ahhs, he proceeded to tell this woman what he, aged 8, thought about this ruling.. and to finish up his call.
He said "that at my school, owing to the PE teacher being a bit of a 'wimp', the PE class in the winter is cancelled any time it's raining, looks as if it will rain or is windy.. (and this was the best bit) but isn't that silly, for what can you expect, it's WINTER, Winter IS wet and windy".
Aged eight.. she loved it and it made her chuckle all the way down the King's Road to the Farmer's Market where she was dropping off radiators for Joe.
And on Ted's Veg's stall was a big box of mixed Beets! She brought a big bag of both the red and the yellow. Oh, yubba-dubba-doo! And this morning this latest lot of kefir looked to have made her enough whey with which to make a couple of large jars of beet kvass.
But, when she was at the market, she voiced a fear, that she might have done something really stupid and upon coming home and having done a search, to no avail, she's going to kick herself very hard.
For she's given away the pair of large glass jars that she used to make kvass last winter. HOW dumb was that? She now remembers donating them to New Horizons in the early summer and seeing them being carried off by Annie, a lovely woman who has a large family and does lots of cooking.
That'll teach her to be in too much of a hurry when sorting things out, if she had thought about it a bit more she would have remembered kefir.. whey.. making kvass = glass jars needed in winter but she wasn't making kefir at that time and so it didn't register. Pity that.
Never mind, she'll go back to our local, just around the corner, wonderful Italian deli 'La Picena' and ask Anna if she will give save her another couple, for that is where her jars originally came from.
Anyway, there is now a large glass jar of red beet kvass sitting on the work surface, which will do its' magic within two or three days, this means she'll have it by the middle of the week. And Joe will have milk at Borough on Wednesday, she plans to do a week with kefir, followed by a week with kvass and so on and her digestive system will be in seventh heaven.. and so, Dear Readers, will I!
For I get bits of the fermented beet to eat, only just before I go to bed though, for red beets + my very speedy digestive system = red (parrot) puree which is not what you want anywhere, so I'm given it and then put to bed quite shortly afterwards.
I wonder if it's going to snow tonight? She said the sky looked 'very iffy' coming home this afternoon, quite different to Friday which was SO bright and sunny and yesterday, for although the sky was a watery blue, it wasn't glum but it certainly was cold and glum today.
Ugh, she had to go to 'spend a penny' when she was at the market. And the loos are in the children's playground, the building is made out of breezeblocks, they're not heated, she was clad in multiple layers of clothing and got progressively colder and colder as she stripped off.. blimy.. just imagine living in a home with no curtains to keep the cold out!
Thank goodness we don't but she knows homes that are of the modern style with bare floors and no curtains and sometimes even no blinds.. cor.. we'd hate to have their heating bill. For thick, properly interlined curtains can and do save you from a lot of your heating being lost.
The difference when she pulls back the curtain which hangs in front of our front door is astonishing! It is not so bad when we are both inside as there are the original bolts and when they're closed, they force the door into the door frame but if they're not shut and the curtain is open, our hall can drop by several degrees to be much colder.
But.. we are snug as bugs in rugs tonight! And, I've had a toast crust! Yippee.. my first for ages!
It happened like this, she was given a wonderful loaf of rye bread with fruit in it, but knew she'd scoff the lot and gain MULTIPLE lbs instantly, so swapped it for a piece of light rye bread with seeds in it, NOT nearly so yummy but equally delicious and able to be used.. excuse me.. for a bacon sarni.. aka bacon sandwich. Hey, it's her waist-line that we're concerned with, not mine!
So there we are.. and it is Monday.. aka weighing in day.. tomorrow, she expects to have gained a bit but as Katy will say "was it worth it?" and the answer will be "yes", for the Polish meal on Friday with Ann was very scrummy, so, too, was the Lebanese street yumyum yesterday.
And the tasty morsels that have been swallowed over this past week haven't been of gi-normous amounts, so, there's a chance, albeit a very small chance, that she might not have gained any weight.. but don't hold your breath or bet on it!
But we are full of cheer and we hope you are too.. chirpful is our mood.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 17th, 2016.
Of mashed potatoes with garlic, cauliflower or romanesco brocolli with a rich cheese sauce. Of a splendid rye toast with freshly made seville marmalade.. no, there'll be no hibernating this year.
We'll just have to 'flap' about a bit more to keep warm, which brings me to an extraordinarily funny 'phone-in' she heard this morning on LBC radio. One of the crew were talking about this new ruling about children not being allowed to play the sick card and get excused PE.. physical edication.. aka gym.
She said "and we've got ........ calling in from ...", we listeners were expecting a man's voice but it was a young boy's voice who came on air and with no hesitations or umms or ahhs, he proceeded to tell this woman what he, aged 8, thought about this ruling.. and to finish up his call.
He said "that at my school, owing to the PE teacher being a bit of a 'wimp', the PE class in the winter is cancelled any time it's raining, looks as if it will rain or is windy.. (and this was the best bit) but isn't that silly, for what can you expect, it's WINTER, Winter IS wet and windy".
Aged eight.. she loved it and it made her chuckle all the way down the King's Road to the Farmer's Market where she was dropping off radiators for Joe.
And on Ted's Veg's stall was a big box of mixed Beets! She brought a big bag of both the red and the yellow. Oh, yubba-dubba-doo! And this morning this latest lot of kefir looked to have made her enough whey with which to make a couple of large jars of beet kvass.
But, when she was at the market, she voiced a fear, that she might have done something really stupid and upon coming home and having done a search, to no avail, she's going to kick herself very hard.
For she's given away the pair of large glass jars that she used to make kvass last winter. HOW dumb was that? She now remembers donating them to New Horizons in the early summer and seeing them being carried off by Annie, a lovely woman who has a large family and does lots of cooking.
That'll teach her to be in too much of a hurry when sorting things out, if she had thought about it a bit more she would have remembered kefir.. whey.. making kvass = glass jars needed in winter but she wasn't making kefir at that time and so it didn't register. Pity that.
Never mind, she'll go back to our local, just around the corner, wonderful Italian deli 'La Picena' and ask Anna if she will give save her another couple, for that is where her jars originally came from.
Anyway, there is now a large glass jar of red beet kvass sitting on the work surface, which will do its' magic within two or three days, this means she'll have it by the middle of the week. And Joe will have milk at Borough on Wednesday, she plans to do a week with kefir, followed by a week with kvass and so on and her digestive system will be in seventh heaven.. and so, Dear Readers, will I!
For I get bits of the fermented beet to eat, only just before I go to bed though, for red beets + my very speedy digestive system = red (parrot) puree which is not what you want anywhere, so I'm given it and then put to bed quite shortly afterwards.
I wonder if it's going to snow tonight? She said the sky looked 'very iffy' coming home this afternoon, quite different to Friday which was SO bright and sunny and yesterday, for although the sky was a watery blue, it wasn't glum but it certainly was cold and glum today.
Ugh, she had to go to 'spend a penny' when she was at the market. And the loos are in the children's playground, the building is made out of breezeblocks, they're not heated, she was clad in multiple layers of clothing and got progressively colder and colder as she stripped off.. blimy.. just imagine living in a home with no curtains to keep the cold out!
Thank goodness we don't but she knows homes that are of the modern style with bare floors and no curtains and sometimes even no blinds.. cor.. we'd hate to have their heating bill. For thick, properly interlined curtains can and do save you from a lot of your heating being lost.
The difference when she pulls back the curtain which hangs in front of our front door is astonishing! It is not so bad when we are both inside as there are the original bolts and when they're closed, they force the door into the door frame but if they're not shut and the curtain is open, our hall can drop by several degrees to be much colder.
But.. we are snug as bugs in rugs tonight! And, I've had a toast crust! Yippee.. my first for ages!
It happened like this, she was given a wonderful loaf of rye bread with fruit in it, but knew she'd scoff the lot and gain MULTIPLE lbs instantly, so swapped it for a piece of light rye bread with seeds in it, NOT nearly so yummy but equally delicious and able to be used.. excuse me.. for a bacon sarni.. aka bacon sandwich. Hey, it's her waist-line that we're concerned with, not mine!
So there we are.. and it is Monday.. aka weighing in day.. tomorrow, she expects to have gained a bit but as Katy will say "was it worth it?" and the answer will be "yes", for the Polish meal on Friday with Ann was very scrummy, so, too, was the Lebanese street yumyum yesterday.
And the tasty morsels that have been swallowed over this past week haven't been of gi-normous amounts, so, there's a chance, albeit a very small chance, that she might not have gained any weight.. but don't hold your breath or bet on it!
But we are full of cheer and we hope you are too.. chirpful is our mood.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 17th, 2016.
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