She eventually ran out of the house but why did she have to run? Well, she didn't want to get out of that cosy warm bed this morning so our day started much later than normal. Normally, by now, we have written 'The Morning Post' so we're very late with this morning's edition, are we not?
But having got out there, she was quite happy, yes, it was extremely ChillyBilly but she had on her head another Beanie, a scarf wrapped around her throat, a furry lined coat, several layers of clothing and woollen lined boots.
She was bound for middle eastern food shops, there are several in the North End Road in which she knew she would find ground cloves and sage leaves. These were the missing ingredients of a package that she was sending to Michele, the important stuff having been found at Baldwins yesterday.
Mint leaves, Sage leaves, ground Cloves, Bitter Orange Peel, Tincture of Myrrh, essential oil of Lemon, ground Cinnamon. Plus a bottle of Black (Cumin) Seed Oil. She made them all into a neat package and having gone into the Co-Operative Post Office, she went into her mobile for the postal code. Uhh, no postal code, her wretched mobile had disposed of their address, grrr! So she made several calls but no one was home, drat!
So she plodded home, plodding 'cos she had gone into Dickinson's, our lubblyjubbly butcher, and come out with several chicken carcasses. Last night she poached a few chicken legs in a vegetable stock, removed the vegetables and chicken from the stock pot and stripped the meat off the bones.
Having come home and found the address, she went off to our local, highly efficient Post Office in Launcelot Place. Oh.. lookielookie, a Self Service desk. Well, even she knows how to work one of these and after weighing the package and pushing a couple of buttons, out came a label and having paid for it with a Debit Card.. whoosh.. it went off to Pewsey.
Talking about Post Offices.. we do hope and trust that Mister Tom has had luck finding our two packages that are running around NY10017, not being delivered to the right address.. GRRR.
She came home, ladled out some of last nights' stock into a jug, gave me a saucer of scrummy things for my 'High Tea', she put the new chicken carcasses into the stock pot, topped up the water level, added more onions and garlic and put the pot onto simmer.
Yes, I love poached chicken and vegetables, so finding these on the saucer for my tea together with a spoonful of hummus was a big treat.. slurp.
Lots of vegetables and poached meat are on her (and my) menu this week.. to get a loss of 3 lbs takes a little bit of organising, a lot of foods are classified as speedy: for instance Spring Greens, Carrots, Cabbage, Brocolli and we will eat lots of these together with protein foods such as meat, fish, eggs.
Kefir, some cheese, a few nuts, lots of fruit.. oranges, apples.. these will be the foods that we're going to have this week.. in fact.. everything we love to eat!
Now she's off as she's got to do clever things and I am off to perch on the bedroom pole and have a doze with my full tumtum.. burp.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 16th, 2016.
PostScript: With apologies to Johnny Mercer, who wrote the lyrics to LazyBones in twenty minutes!
But having got out there, she was quite happy, yes, it was extremely ChillyBilly but she had on her head another Beanie, a scarf wrapped around her throat, a furry lined coat, several layers of clothing and woollen lined boots.
She was bound for middle eastern food shops, there are several in the North End Road in which she knew she would find ground cloves and sage leaves. These were the missing ingredients of a package that she was sending to Michele, the important stuff having been found at Baldwins yesterday.
Mint leaves, Sage leaves, ground Cloves, Bitter Orange Peel, Tincture of Myrrh, essential oil of Lemon, ground Cinnamon. Plus a bottle of Black (Cumin) Seed Oil. She made them all into a neat package and having gone into the Co-Operative Post Office, she went into her mobile for the postal code. Uhh, no postal code, her wretched mobile had disposed of their address, grrr! So she made several calls but no one was home, drat!
So she plodded home, plodding 'cos she had gone into Dickinson's, our lubblyjubbly butcher, and come out with several chicken carcasses. Last night she poached a few chicken legs in a vegetable stock, removed the vegetables and chicken from the stock pot and stripped the meat off the bones.
Having come home and found the address, she went off to our local, highly efficient Post Office in Launcelot Place. Oh.. lookielookie, a Self Service desk. Well, even she knows how to work one of these and after weighing the package and pushing a couple of buttons, out came a label and having paid for it with a Debit Card.. whoosh.. it went off to Pewsey.
Talking about Post Offices.. we do hope and trust that Mister Tom has had luck finding our two packages that are running around NY10017, not being delivered to the right address.. GRRR.
She came home, ladled out some of last nights' stock into a jug, gave me a saucer of scrummy things for my 'High Tea', she put the new chicken carcasses into the stock pot, topped up the water level, added more onions and garlic and put the pot onto simmer.
Yes, I love poached chicken and vegetables, so finding these on the saucer for my tea together with a spoonful of hummus was a big treat.. slurp.
Lots of vegetables and poached meat are on her (and my) menu this week.. to get a loss of 3 lbs takes a little bit of organising, a lot of foods are classified as speedy: for instance Spring Greens, Carrots, Cabbage, Brocolli and we will eat lots of these together with protein foods such as meat, fish, eggs.
Kefir, some cheese, a few nuts, lots of fruit.. oranges, apples.. these will be the foods that we're going to have this week.. in fact.. everything we love to eat!
Now she's off as she's got to do clever things and I am off to perch on the bedroom pole and have a doze with my full tumtum.. burp.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 16th, 2016.
PostScript: With apologies to Johnny Mercer, who wrote the lyrics to LazyBones in twenty minutes!
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