SWAG Dear Readers! That's the name of what she returned with yesterday! Alas and alack there was no Bavette to be had at our LubblyJubbly butchers but her favourite fruit stall had the BIG Persimmons aka Sharon fruit or Khakis at 16 for £2.00.. 2.32 Euro or $2.50!
As part of our regime is to eat healthy yumyum, how could she resist such a deal? Of course she couldn't and of course, she didn't! They popped into WW with no problem at all. She then continued on her merry way to the Post Office to purchase stamps and on the way, she picked two packets of small padded envelopes and a couple of the plastic envelopes which weigh nothing and are brilliant for sending packages overseas.
This morning we partook of oh such good YumYum, boiled eggs followed up by an extremely fine ripe Persimmon. They are one of our favourite fruits and the big variety are particularly good at this time of year. Winter fruits. God makes them in that ZIPZAP colour as if to cheer us up and by golly, they do!
Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Cox's Apples.. you get my drift? Soon, it will be Seville Orange time.. and then it will time to dig out your big copper jam making pan and empty glass jars.
Then she went of to our local Post Office in Launcelot Place and had a 'crisis' on the way
For she went by a different route, past Tattersalls and encountered the smell of fine cigar smoke coming out of a small cigar shop.
Oh, my ears and whiskers. Instantly she was back to two times in her life, the first was aged five living with much beloved aunt Hay darling in Harrogate and snuggling with Gran'fer in his chair watching 'Gunsmoke', he smoked cigars and the smell reminds her of this extremely happy and very secure time in her life and then, there's another time.
She's older at mid twenties to early thirties and smoking Davidoff Embassadrice cigars. No, she's not about to start smoking again but if she ever did, it would be these. For a box used to come each month from 'You Know Who' in Washington, he arranged for a lovely cigar merchant here in London to send them to her.
Oh yes, she's the first to admit to being very spoilt by Bill, which made it extremely difficult for her when they had the earth shattering moving row which caused their splitting for those years when they were on 'No Speak' terms. He didn't just give her lovely things, he was funny, generous of spirit, incredibly thoughtful and very kind to her parents.
Having dragged her nose away from the open door, she proceeded onto the Post Office and posted three packages to the USA, some European Christmas cards and bought stamps for American cards that she will send this next week when she's written them.
Then she went to collect her red lantern. Disagreeable brother hadn't finished it properly, the chain wasn't sprayed nor was the ceiling rose but she smiled at Gary, the polisher, and said "Thank you" and left, she'll have words with her lovely friend when he gets back from his travels next week and they'll adjust the bill somewhat!
Then she came home and caught me having a nappet, aka a small nap, so she proceeded to make us a veryvery late lunch or an extremely early supper! Now, I want you to guess what these were, for I, for one, have never ever eaten them in my life, I have never ever even seen them before, could it be that she hasn't cooked them for over twelve years?
They are tiny, hard and orange. What are they? Have a guess, no? Lentils! Do you eat them, apparently they are good for you.
She cooked a cupful of them in water with a couple of pieces of dried mushroom, a clove of garlic, a chopped onions, lots of black pepper, NO salt but some paprika and for the last few minutes she layered a lot of sliced cabbage on top of them to steam, one of those pointed cabbages that we eat a lot of in the winter time.
WOW! I LOVE Lentils! They were really scrumptious. She sat on the sink and we both ate out of the bowl and my old favourite word slurpicious describes them perfectly. How strange that she hasn't cooked them for such a long time. Curious, no?
The reason she is doing so now is because she has to pay Kasia the second half of the Blue Bokhara rug restoration bill on Monday, ouch! So frugal ways have come to our home for a few weeks! It's quite a big bill and she can manage it IF she spends no money next week and is 'careful' the next week. NO money! It's a good thing she bought food yesterday, isn't it?
So it's been a lovely day, bright sunlight streamed through my window, it was a trifle chilly but my new TumTum feathers are begining to cover the bald grey skin, it wasn't a good look. And they bring the added benefit of keeping me warm, if I didn't preen the baby fluffy ones out, I'd be even warmer! Silly old me.
GeeGeeParrot.
November 25th, 2016.
As part of our regime is to eat healthy yumyum, how could she resist such a deal? Of course she couldn't and of course, she didn't! They popped into WW with no problem at all. She then continued on her merry way to the Post Office to purchase stamps and on the way, she picked two packets of small padded envelopes and a couple of the plastic envelopes which weigh nothing and are brilliant for sending packages overseas.
This morning we partook of oh such good YumYum, boiled eggs followed up by an extremely fine ripe Persimmon. They are one of our favourite fruits and the big variety are particularly good at this time of year. Winter fruits. God makes them in that ZIPZAP colour as if to cheer us up and by golly, they do!
Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Cox's Apples.. you get my drift? Soon, it will be Seville Orange time.. and then it will time to dig out your big copper jam making pan and empty glass jars.
Then she went of to our local Post Office in Launcelot Place and had a 'crisis' on the way
For she went by a different route, past Tattersalls and encountered the smell of fine cigar smoke coming out of a small cigar shop.
Oh, my ears and whiskers. Instantly she was back to two times in her life, the first was aged five living with much beloved aunt Hay darling in Harrogate and snuggling with Gran'fer in his chair watching 'Gunsmoke', he smoked cigars and the smell reminds her of this extremely happy and very secure time in her life and then, there's another time.
She's older at mid twenties to early thirties and smoking Davidoff Embassadrice cigars. No, she's not about to start smoking again but if she ever did, it would be these. For a box used to come each month from 'You Know Who' in Washington, he arranged for a lovely cigar merchant here in London to send them to her.
Oh yes, she's the first to admit to being very spoilt by Bill, which made it extremely difficult for her when they had the earth shattering moving row which caused their splitting for those years when they were on 'No Speak' terms. He didn't just give her lovely things, he was funny, generous of spirit, incredibly thoughtful and very kind to her parents.
Having dragged her nose away from the open door, she proceeded onto the Post Office and posted three packages to the USA, some European Christmas cards and bought stamps for American cards that she will send this next week when she's written them.
Then she went to collect her red lantern. Disagreeable brother hadn't finished it properly, the chain wasn't sprayed nor was the ceiling rose but she smiled at Gary, the polisher, and said "Thank you" and left, she'll have words with her lovely friend when he gets back from his travels next week and they'll adjust the bill somewhat!
Then she came home and caught me having a nappet, aka a small nap, so she proceeded to make us a veryvery late lunch or an extremely early supper! Now, I want you to guess what these were, for I, for one, have never ever eaten them in my life, I have never ever even seen them before, could it be that she hasn't cooked them for over twelve years?
They are tiny, hard and orange. What are they? Have a guess, no? Lentils! Do you eat them, apparently they are good for you.
She cooked a cupful of them in water with a couple of pieces of dried mushroom, a clove of garlic, a chopped onions, lots of black pepper, NO salt but some paprika and for the last few minutes she layered a lot of sliced cabbage on top of them to steam, one of those pointed cabbages that we eat a lot of in the winter time.
WOW! I LOVE Lentils! They were really scrumptious. She sat on the sink and we both ate out of the bowl and my old favourite word slurpicious describes them perfectly. How strange that she hasn't cooked them for such a long time. Curious, no?
The reason she is doing so now is because she has to pay Kasia the second half of the Blue Bokhara rug restoration bill on Monday, ouch! So frugal ways have come to our home for a few weeks! It's quite a big bill and she can manage it IF she spends no money next week and is 'careful' the next week. NO money! It's a good thing she bought food yesterday, isn't it?
So it's been a lovely day, bright sunlight streamed through my window, it was a trifle chilly but my new TumTum feathers are begining to cover the bald grey skin, it wasn't a good look. And they bring the added benefit of keeping me warm, if I didn't preen the baby fluffy ones out, I'd be even warmer! Silly old me.
GeeGeeParrot.
November 25th, 2016.
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