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Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Monday 8 June 2020

Play With, Mix It & Sing Along!

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong - Dandemis
Let's welcome Monday with a little singalong↓
 Back on the tiny Wobbly Work Wheel🎑
Time for hug and brew↓
 Breakfast.
Dressed.
Out for our daily walk↓
 
 No sunshine yet↓
 I gave hubby a wet πŸ’‹
as he had to go off to the office.
I have got my table back \o/
First coffee of the morning↓
 Quick read of the newspaper↓
 Nancy  Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy (nΓ©e Barbato) Sinatra, and is widely known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
She is 80 years old 🎈
 Bonnie Tyler  is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover". Her 1978 single "It's a Heartache" reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.She is 69 years old 🎈
   Next up.
Baking time.
Garden gloves on first...
Getting the garden to give up 
 all the rhubarb out of my garden.
I still needed more Rhubarb!!
I remembered I froze some last year.
Woo hoo found some in the freezer.
Put it altogether!
Kenny out out for a quick play.
The Rhubarb and Ginger loaf went into the oven.
Now to play with rolling pin↓ 
 The loaf was done.
The biscuits went into the oven.
Quick light lunch↓
 The Rhubarb and Ginger was done↓
 &
Lemon Curd & Almond Butter Biscuits↓
 I wrote yesterday's blog.
Now for Tea at 3pm↓
I got 5 out of 6 on the Tv Themes Quiz :)
The carrots I bought at the weekend was replanted.
So was the onions, a tomato plant, and  asparagus.
The Pumpkin plants I grew from seed, needs to go into a bigger trough.
From 3 bags of compost, I'm down to one now...
Got no more room for any more fruit and vegetables!
Back garden is rammed!
Hubby comes back,
Nice wet πŸ’‹ to welcome him home.
Meat free stir fry for tea ↓
 There was a queue to get on the Aldi website↓
The sun was going down when I was going to work↓
 No moon due to the clouds↓
 Lots of good music to sing-a-long with↓
It's still light when I get back↓
  
  We caught up with:
It looks like the bikini will have to stop in the drawer, as the long range forecast doesn't look too good.....
Unless you are a duck! 
 

Monday 4 May 2020

A Good Monday Is Hard To Find....

The cruellest lies are often told in silence - Robert Louis Stevenson
Welcome to Monday!
Let's hop onto my tiny Wobbly Work Wheel 🎑
 I had a nice hug and cup of tea to start the day↓
 I had breakfast.
Got dressed.
Not out for our daily walk↓
 
 Under the bridge↓
 Went past my late dad's house↓
 
We walked 1 and 1/2 miles altogether.
Hubby goes off to work↓


Back home to hang 3 baskets of wet washing on the line.
Quick look in the newspaper↓
Terry Scott  was an English actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films. He also appeared in BBC1's domestic sitcom Terry and June with June Whitfield.He would have been 93 years old 🎈
 He died aged 67 in 1994
 Randy Travis, is an American country music and gospel music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He is 61 years old🎈
 Dom DeLuise  was an American actor, voice actor, comedian, director, producer, chef and author. He was the husband of actress Carol Arthur and the father of actor, director, pianist, and writer Peter DeLuise, and actors David DeLuise and Michael DeLuise. He starred in a number of movies directed by Mel Brooks, in a series of films with career-long best friend Burt Reynolds, and as a voice actor in various animated films by Don Bluth.He died aged 75 in 2009.
  I got the saw out to shorten the trellising↓
I will paint it green later on in the week.
I had my Amazon delivery↓
I wrote up the weekend blog posts.
Now for a little boost.....↓
 Hubby followed me so he could drop off his car to be MOT and serviced.
 Gets back in the sunshine↓
 Light lunch time↓
 My new bench arrived↓
 Tea at 3pm↓
 Kenny was sulking and wanted to be played with....
 I made a nice Lemon Drizzle Cake↓
 The youngest son was putting the bench together.
While we went food shopping↓
Some people were not doing the 2 meter rule!!!
The Bench is ready to be christened by my big arse↓
 Unloaded the shopping.
Now to start on the evening meal.
Courgette, Crab, Pork Stir Fry with Mexican Rice
 Followed by tea and lemon drizzle cake↓
 Now off to work↓
Has some great music to sing-a-long with↓
It was nice and dark with a shiny moon when I got home.
We watched the newspaper review.
As no one is eating the bananas I bought at the weekend.Time for a bit of banana cake to be made tomorrow.......
More time with Kenny!
 








 

Thursday 30 April 2020

Using The Whiskey For Other Things...

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat - PJ Rourke
Welcome to my lockdown Thursday🎈
I had a warm hug and a nice cup of tea↓
 I had breakfast.
Got dressed.
Now out for a daily walk.
The flowers have come out↓
 Off we go↓
 The sunshine is out↓
 We gets back.
Hubby goes back to work.
I enjoy coffee and read of the newspaper↓
 Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career.He would have been 77 years old 🎈
He died aged 73 in 2016
 Dame Elizabeth Campion  is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. She is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the first and only female filmmaker to receive the Palme d'Or, which she received for the acclaimed film The Piano (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.She is 66 years old🎈
    I gets yesterday's blog wrote.
Light lunch time↓
 I start on tonight's evening meal.
All the chicken was pan fried then added to the oven.
Then I start making a Whiskey and Ginger cake.
I left it far too late to get the paddle out of the breadmaker.
After an hour it was ready....
Found some nice icing to cover it with chopped hazelnuts and a dash of chocolate↓
 Tea at 3pm with cake and coffee↓
 We got 3/6 on the TV themes quiz.
I had a quick powernap.
Then it was time to dish up the evening meal.
Chicken,with Leeks and Mash↓
 We watched the final episode of season 3 of:
Off to work in the daylight↓
  Listening to some great music↓
I gets back to carry on watching season 4.
It's getting cold...
Off to that warm bed....
See you all in May!