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perlmonger and I took everything we could off the bedroom floor, and set the Roomba going. It ran out of power once, and needed cleaning four times ...There was enough fur to knit another cat.
perlmonger and I took everything we could off the bedroom floor, and set the Roomba going. It ran out of power once, and needed cleaning four times ...There was enough fur to knit another cat.
weekend 7/8/9/ march 08
Mar. 10th, 2008 10:43 amFriday night started with the always excellent Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes at the compact and bijou Nailsea Folk Club. A stonking set, enjoyable as always.
Saturday I nipped (or popped) up to the farm shop, and bought 1 orange, pork, dried apricots to make supper for self and frends. I wanted leg of pork, but they didn't have any; the butcher asked what I was going to do with it, and when I said "casserole" he produced masses of offcuts and charged me 6 quid. We got 9 generous servings out of it, so that was pretty good! I did pork with apricots and pears, followed by molten chocolate puddings. Spent the afternoon cooking that lot, plus a banana bread, as we had some bananas going over.
Nice evening with Pat'n'Dave WANOLJ.
Sunday I steamcleaned the bathroom and most of the tiles, especially the grouting. Then I put a market stall's worth of veg through the food processor for later cooking, and constructed an excellent fry up of chipolatas, black pudding, field mushrooms, fried potato, bacon from a friend in Moray, fried egg and baked beans. Then we watched the first 4 episode of West Wing, while consuming tea and banana cake, and groaning due to overindulgence. After that, we turned some of the veg, together with 4lbs of Dexter mince, into bolognese sauce. The plan to make soup from the rest, and some duck stock from last weekend, had to wait, as the soup pan had been pressed into service for the bol.
Supper consisted of crispbread with Port Salut, and another chocolate pudding (there was some left over, you see, and it would have been criminal to waste it), and another 2 episodes of WW. Which is just as good as I remember it.
Nice weekend, feel better now.
Saturday I nipped (or popped) up to the farm shop, and bought 1 orange, pork, dried apricots to make supper for self and frends. I wanted leg of pork, but they didn't have any; the butcher asked what I was going to do with it, and when I said "casserole" he produced masses of offcuts and charged me 6 quid. We got 9 generous servings out of it, so that was pretty good! I did pork with apricots and pears, followed by molten chocolate puddings. Spent the afternoon cooking that lot, plus a banana bread, as we had some bananas going over.
Nice evening with Pat'n'Dave WANOLJ.
Sunday I steamcleaned the bathroom and most of the tiles, especially the grouting. Then I put a market stall's worth of veg through the food processor for later cooking, and constructed an excellent fry up of chipolatas, black pudding, field mushrooms, fried potato, bacon from a friend in Moray, fried egg and baked beans. Then we watched the first 4 episode of West Wing, while consuming tea and banana cake, and groaning due to overindulgence. After that, we turned some of the veg, together with 4lbs of Dexter mince, into bolognese sauce. The plan to make soup from the rest, and some duck stock from last weekend, had to wait, as the soup pan had been pressed into service for the bol.
Supper consisted of crispbread with Port Salut, and another chocolate pudding (there was some left over, you see, and it would have been criminal to waste it), and another 2 episodes of WW. Which is just as good as I remember it.
Nice weekend, feel better now.
I continued the cleaning jag. Cleared out the shelves in the kitchen - the ones that are in the corner beside the fridge, and behind the bin, so hardly get looked at. Emptied out many many bottles of beer that was *years* past its sell by date.
Removed guff from kitchen floor, set Roomba going, took empty beer bottles and other assorted junk to the tip. Came back via Bedminster, called into opticians to get new glasses adjusted. How come they're always fine when you leave the optician, then immediately become too loose?
Popped into Asda and bought assorted plastic boxes, things for the organising of. And turkey mince for Iggy - he is very fond of it, and so must have it. Tried their self-scanning checkout. Gave up in despair as it is so slow.
Came home, sorted herbs and spices into small baskets, and spare herbs and spices into large baskets. Washed kitchen floor. Cooked small (by our standards) fry up - bacon, black pudding, mushrooms, beans, fried egg, accompanied by toasted soda farls.
Slobbed for the rest of the afternoon - some crap television, then a long soak in the bath. Then off to the Legion for the monthly pub quiz. No, we didn't win.
Removed guff from kitchen floor, set Roomba going, took empty beer bottles and other assorted junk to the tip. Came back via Bedminster, called into opticians to get new glasses adjusted. How come they're always fine when you leave the optician, then immediately become too loose?
Popped into Asda and bought assorted plastic boxes, things for the organising of. And turkey mince for Iggy - he is very fond of it, and so must have it. Tried their self-scanning checkout. Gave up in despair as it is so slow.
Came home, sorted herbs and spices into small baskets, and spare herbs and spices into large baskets. Washed kitchen floor. Cooked small (by our standards) fry up - bacon, black pudding, mushrooms, beans, fried egg, accompanied by toasted soda farls.
Slobbed for the rest of the afternoon - some crap television, then a long soak in the bath. Then off to the Legion for the monthly pub quiz. No, we didn't win.
Saturday was quite idle, really - we dickered around with some stuff for a potential new site. Pete didn't stir out of the house at all, and all I did was walk up to the Local Shop (for local people) to get mushrooms and cream for the beef stroganoff I was planning to cook that evening.
( it very nearly didn't happen, mind you. )
and we finished series 2 of Lost - *how* bloody annoying was that ending?
Sunday we took the ancient and venerable G3 iMac round to young Oli, son ofvalkyrie_k and stepson to landsmand, who is now living in Brissle. He was suitably grateful, and we also bought him lunch at the Persian caff in Southville as a 21st birthday outing (21? How on earth can that be?).
then came home, and decided to - at last - pull up the ancient and disgusting hall carpet (which Ptep has scratched straight through in a couple of places - this (the removal, not the scratching) inspired by next door's skip, which still had space in it, and they had said we could bung stuff in it. We also moved the bookcase in the hall to the landing, and now we can open the front door properly. It looks so nice and spacious that I think we will just bung a couple of rugs down and leave it at that. I'd love to varnish the floorboards, but I haven't worked out how to do it with eight marauding felines in the house.
( it very nearly didn't happen, mind you. )
and we finished series 2 of Lost - *how* bloody annoying was that ending?
Sunday we took the ancient and venerable G3 iMac round to young Oli, son of
valkyrie_k and stepson to landsmand, who is now living in Brissle. He was suitably grateful, and we also bought him lunch at the Persian caff in Southville as a 21st birthday outing (21? How on earth can that be?).then came home, and decided to - at last - pull up the ancient and disgusting hall carpet (which Ptep has scratched straight through in a couple of places - this (the removal, not the scratching) inspired by next door's skip, which still had space in it, and they had said we could bung stuff in it. We also moved the bookcase in the hall to the landing, and now we can open the front door properly. It looks so nice and spacious that I think we will just bung a couple of rugs down and leave it at that. I'd love to varnish the floorboards, but I haven't worked out how to do it with eight marauding felines in the house.
