Wednesday 8 November 2017

COLD & WET UNDERFOOT.. 'RATHER HER THAN ME' I THOUGHT.

Brrrr.. Monday's lovely weather seems like a dream, for today it's chilly and wet outside. She's being extremely frugal and apparently the heating isn't going to be turned on until December. I had a sneaky thought that she might be subjecting us to this because she thinks it will make my feathers grow back faster, evil wench! And I do admit to wishing that I hadn't plucked them out.

She would like to pull up the 'drawbridge' as it were because outside doesn't look at all appetising but library books won't change themselves, she has to investigate something at PC World and then go to Lidl at Clapham Junction for lots of their dark chocolate and an assortment of nuts with which she'll make several chocolate salami.

Talking of nuts, fresh (wet) walnuts are in the markets! Oh, slurp-the-durp! She saw them on Liz's stall in the North End Road last Friday, £1.00 for a big bowl of them, they're so delicious, especially if you've got some very good cheese to eat them with.

And for a huge treat she's ordering a brisket from Dickinsons, our very lubbly-jubbly butchers also in the North End Road. Cooked slowly and for several hours, it is one of the most delicious (and cheap) cuts of beef.

She rubs hers with smoked paprika, crushed garlic and herbs, it is wonderful cooked with carrots and shallots, we can't eat ordinary potatoes in this house as being a member of the Nightshade family, along with tomatoes, aubergines and peppers, they cause her arthritis to flare dramatically and the knuckles on her left hand and both her knees to become extremely stiff and swollen. But mashed sweet potato goes with it just as well!

Other things make her arthritis flare.. Wheat and Corn are two other BIG triggers as is dairy.. but only sometimes! She can eat some cheese but not others. The harder the cheese is, the less pain she gets so very sadly she is having to say "Farewell" to her two favourite soft Goaty cheeses.

Well, this isn't getting those library books changed, is it? She's off out and about and so I'll flap my way to a comfy perch and cogitate my somewhat bare tumtum. Silly me. Let's hope my 'clothes' grow back quickly and that I resist the urge to pluck them out again.

GeeGeeParrot.
November 8th, 2017.

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