Veryvery boring as there are five red Calla Lillies, twenty Iris and five Begonia that need to be planted.
WET weather started to come in late yesterday afternoon and whilst it isn't that cold, it's mighty damp here today.
She had a big surprise this morning, she was lolling about in bed reading something on her mobile when it rang and up came BUB on the screen with a video call!
There was no point in denying that she was still in bed, there she was as large as life in the dark!
How very nice, they always had to be very frugal before as calling the Isle of Man was expensive but now on WhatsApp, they can chat for free as long as they are at home with a free wifi. It's certainly made a difference to her phone bill!
A very pleasant day was had yesterday, she met the Goaty Mum at Bute Street Farmer's Market and handed over a couple of things that she thought Debbie would find useful and made them a cup of ginger and peppermint, you have to let this mix steep for some time but, it's very tasty!
Then she went off to the North End Road market, knowing that grim weather was coming our way, she decided a proper old fashioned lamb stew was what was needed.
Meat on the bone makes tasty stews and Best End of Neck aka Scrag makes the tastiest of them all.
The queue was long but they had five people serving so she was at the top of the queue quickly and asked for two lamb necks to be chopped up and, did they have a tray of lamb bones?
For this is a proper butcher, they do all their prep work in house and so, if you're not too late, you can buy trays of beef, chicken, lamb and pork bones for a £.. yes, one £.
This is how she makes stocks which she freezes in ice cube trays.
And yes, they had one large bag of lamb bones, she puts the bones on top of the neck and they give lots of extra meat and gelatine to the stew and anti-up the taste!
She added two trays of chicken carcasses and bones to her shopping, she'll freeze these and use them later in the week. In cold weather she keeps a pot on the stove, it's brought to the boil and simmered for ten minutes once a day.
Which means there's always a protein meal that can be heated up when she comes in from gardening.
Then it was off up the market to Geoff's stall, he had three avocadoes for a £ and three good sized,very fresh cauliflower also for a £ and finally £1.50 bought her a huge bag of delicious black grapes - which in Waitrose or Sainsbury's would be over £6.00 for the same amount in weight and, not so fresh!
We are very fussy about grapes!
Back home with all her swag, she chopped onions, garlic, celery stalks, added them to oil and lightly cooked them before adding the neck chops to brown, seasoning and hot water was added, the pan brought up to boil, then simmered for four hours.
The chicken bones went into frosty cabinet for next week.
Grapes were washed, some put into a bowl and the rest into chilly white larder.
We had two belly of pork slices on steamed cauliflower and cabbage, then received a lovely surprise!
When that evil Google updated her diary on the mobile, it wiped her data and she had forgotten that March 2nd was our upstairs neighbours birthday.
She sent us a message asking if we would like a slice of cake.. yum.. is the Pope a Catholic? And down came a slice of cheesecake! How sweet and how scrumptious and delicious it was.
She is not gardening today, it's 'pretty' windy here in deepest Knightsbridge, it would be very windy out on the plots, so she is going to be a culture vulture and head out to a museum.
I'm not welcome at museums, for can you just imagine what chaos I'd cause amongst all those lovely white marble statues?
I'll be home with the television for company but she won't be out for as long and we'll be back later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, stay safe and warm.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 3rd, 2019.
WET weather started to come in late yesterday afternoon and whilst it isn't that cold, it's mighty damp here today.
She had a big surprise this morning, she was lolling about in bed reading something on her mobile when it rang and up came BUB on the screen with a video call!
There was no point in denying that she was still in bed, there she was as large as life in the dark!
How very nice, they always had to be very frugal before as calling the Isle of Man was expensive but now on WhatsApp, they can chat for free as long as they are at home with a free wifi. It's certainly made a difference to her phone bill!
A very pleasant day was had yesterday, she met the Goaty Mum at Bute Street Farmer's Market and handed over a couple of things that she thought Debbie would find useful and made them a cup of ginger and peppermint, you have to let this mix steep for some time but, it's very tasty!
Then she went off to the North End Road market, knowing that grim weather was coming our way, she decided a proper old fashioned lamb stew was what was needed.
Meat on the bone makes tasty stews and Best End of Neck aka Scrag makes the tastiest of them all.
The queue was long but they had five people serving so she was at the top of the queue quickly and asked for two lamb necks to be chopped up and, did they have a tray of lamb bones?
For this is a proper butcher, they do all their prep work in house and so, if you're not too late, you can buy trays of beef, chicken, lamb and pork bones for a £.. yes, one £.
This is how she makes stocks which she freezes in ice cube trays.
And yes, they had one large bag of lamb bones, she puts the bones on top of the neck and they give lots of extra meat and gelatine to the stew and anti-up the taste!
She added two trays of chicken carcasses and bones to her shopping, she'll freeze these and use them later in the week. In cold weather she keeps a pot on the stove, it's brought to the boil and simmered for ten minutes once a day.
Which means there's always a protein meal that can be heated up when she comes in from gardening.
Then it was off up the market to Geoff's stall, he had three avocadoes for a £ and three good sized,very fresh cauliflower also for a £ and finally £1.50 bought her a huge bag of delicious black grapes - which in Waitrose or Sainsbury's would be over £6.00 for the same amount in weight and, not so fresh!
We are very fussy about grapes!
Back home with all her swag, she chopped onions, garlic, celery stalks, added them to oil and lightly cooked them before adding the neck chops to brown, seasoning and hot water was added, the pan brought up to boil, then simmered for four hours.
The chicken bones went into frosty cabinet for next week.
Grapes were washed, some put into a bowl and the rest into chilly white larder.
We had two belly of pork slices on steamed cauliflower and cabbage, then received a lovely surprise!
When that evil Google updated her diary on the mobile, it wiped her data and she had forgotten that March 2nd was our upstairs neighbours birthday.
She sent us a message asking if we would like a slice of cake.. yum.. is the Pope a Catholic? And down came a slice of cheesecake! How sweet and how scrumptious and delicious it was.
She is not gardening today, it's 'pretty' windy here in deepest Knightsbridge, it would be very windy out on the plots, so she is going to be a culture vulture and head out to a museum.
I'm not welcome at museums, for can you just imagine what chaos I'd cause amongst all those lovely white marble statues?
I'll be home with the television for company but she won't be out for as long and we'll be back later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, stay safe and warm.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 3rd, 2019.
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