General Chat

Our weather was better today, but still a bit chilly in the shade. I did my usual weekly house clean this morning and lots of washing this afternoon

Tomorrow we are going to the Knaresborough bed race, we went last year and it was fun. Sunday is supposed to be very hot, so it will be the large paddling pool in the garden again. It is the monthly town litter pick in the afternoon, I don’t fancy that in the heat, but it has to be done

Your sunshine hasn't reached us yet Florence, lol.

I have just been outside to fill up all the bird feeders & there's a chilly wind, need to go back out & fill up the bird baths but will have to carry it from the house because my very BIG water Bowie has run dry, no rain here for a long time.

Hoping our Son in Law will manage to cut the 2 areas of grass soon as it is really long at the moment, however working on the nearby farm he isn't getting finished until well after 10-00 pm which is too late to use the mower, he's going to find cutting the grass hard work when he does manage to do it.

A simple meal today, Pizza, i'm not a big fan of Pizza but hubby requested it !

Disturbed a baby deer yesterday he/she was sleeping in the verge alonside the house road, such a cute thing.

Joan.

Phew its so hot here already :-D

Trying to do housework and getting very tired very quickly!

Making sure I drink plenty of water though and only doing short bursts of chores and as for the ironing....def not today!

Sending the sunshine to anyone who hasn't got any.

Have a good day all.

Florence in the hebrides

No alcohol at the meeting but I have a glass of wine by my side at the moment.

I am Linda, but what I would do for a glass of Pimms ;-) ;-)

Tut Florence, dancing encouraging the consumption of alcohol. I thought that we were all strict teetotallers on here ;-) ;-) ;-)

AnnG, hope you have a large jug of Pimms to make the meeting go with a swing lol :-D :-D

hi all, Yes thanks Florence I am ok, just a bit busy, was out all over the weekend so been trying to catch up with the garden since as I have a meeting here this afternoon of our U3a gardening interest group. there will be nine of us today, better than the 12 it could be as it is going to be too warm for too many bodies. Just blitzed the kitchen and now going to sort out the conservatory

Linda, I do make lots of soup during autumn/winter but not today as its already very warm. I have all the windows open and having just stripped my bed, I am now roasting!

Gonna put some cans of juice in the fridge for later and a bottle of flavoured water.

Kitchen looks like a bombsite lol so that's my next task for the morning.

Hope everyone ok and well today who looks in

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The recipe is a Slimming World one, it is so easy because it is just open the. And tip them in. I just use a stick blender to blitz it smooth
I love homemade soup, I make lots of different types. I had spicy lentil and carrot today

Great recipe, Linda!
Thanks for posting that.

It sounds similar to Jack Monroe's tomato and bean soup:

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2018/03/03/tomato-and-haricot-soup-15p/

Ty Linda. Gosh baked beans? Never put them in a soup before but good to try something different for a change. I know the little onions, we used to have them at xmas or a buffett. I shall put them on my shopping list next time.

Gosh its more exhausting putting everything back then taking out lol.

Lady on her way just now to take old carpet away ...yipee :-D :-D

Tomato soup makes four portions

Ingredients –
Two tins of chopped tomatoes
One tin of baked beans
One tin of carrots with the water ( 300g size)
Four tiny silver skin pickled onions ( not the normal large type)
One vegetable stock cube in 1/2 a pint of boiled water

Cut the onions into small bits, put everything in a pan, cook for 15 mins, then blend
Or you can blend it when cold and then cook it

The secret ingredient is the silver skin pickled onions. The first time I made it, I didn’t read it properly and used large pickled onions, needless to say, it didn’t taste good.

Good morning all.

Well the carpet has been relayed in daughter's room and now the work begins to transfer all her furniture etc back into her room. The new carpet is really black and makes my old carpet look dark grey although its not!

They were here less than an hour and tidied up the scraps into a bin bag. They also carried the heavy chest of drawers into the room from the lounge which was so kind of them as we struggled yesterday moving it out.

Cloudy but sunny day and quite warm again and set to get hotter as the week goes on and noo sign of rain at all.

Last night, I decided to cook 2 salmon fillets with new potatoes, home made slaw and green salad, was a nice change and we enjoyed it.

Now as to what we are having tonight is another matter???

Linda, can you tell me your tomato soup recipe please, sounds delicious.

Well I had better see if the washing is ready now to hang out and then have some toast.

Have a good day all

Florence in the hebrides

You are lucky with your weather Florence, it is cloudy and cool here.
I washed all the unit doors in the kitchen this morning

We have to deliver library books to the elderly this afternoon,but that won’t take long, so I am going to make lots of soup for the freezer. I will make some tomato, incredibly easy and tastes very like Heinz,plus some leek and potato and some carrot and butter bean. I have lots of the microwaveable soup mugs to put it in

Afternoon everyone from a gloriously sunny village.
Yep its brilliant sunshine and quite warm with a little breeze.

I am feeling sooo hot because I have just ironed a basket including a super kingsize duvet cover, the valence sheet can wait another day as I was feeling a bit lightheaded.

So I'm sitting with a coffee and having a break.

Daughter back this afternoon and then the fun begins moving her bed and mattress to the lounge. I so hope I do not get any unannounced visitors before Friday as it will take that long to get the rooms back to normal lol

Joan, your baby hare sounds delightful and obviously well behaved lol as he's not eating your plants thankfully.

Dad saw a fox sunning himself on his decking on Monday afternoon but the animal digging holes in his new veg patch is none other than a grey squirrel caught red handed!! He has put out garlic cloves and vinegar to deter animals from coming too close.

The local fire brigade went zooming past again an hour ago and have not yet returned. Hope its nothing serious as the moor is tinder dry and the slightest spark will set it alight really quickly.

Well a bit of paperwork to see to and then decide what's for tea but in this warm weather a salad with a jacket potato will do me, anything else is too much.

Florence in the hebrides

Afternoon all

Its brightening up here and sun is trying its best to shine through the clouds.

My pal arrived at 10.15 and stayed until 12 as she had to collect her hubby from work on her way home. We had nice posh biscuits that i found in the cupboard and demolished 1 or 2 lol. Good chat and banter and now up to date with each other's lives.

Got the washing out and its swaying nicely in the breeze so wont be long before I take it in,
Daughter took off on a whim to go and elsewhere for the night but will be back tom afternoon, so a peaceful evening and the tv all to myself. I can watch the soaps in peace lol.

Dwarf geraniums have bloomed and the yellow rose is out. Plants are doing well and will soon be a lovely wash of different colours.

Hope everyone else well today and having another sunny day.

Florence in the hebrides

LOL Linda. another memory surfaces re p park.

When our eldest was about 3 we went to Scarborough & eneded up at th epark not knowing the Naval battle was going to be happening soon after entering.

Our son got such a scare when the guns started he watched the whole of the battle with his hands covering his ears.
Lovely memories of it all.

Hubby & I would sooo love to be able to spend just one more day at Scarborough etc.

Joan.

I have never watched it, but from googleFilming of the interior scenes of "St. Aidan's" used both The Leeds Studios and St Luke's Hospital, Bradford. Most of the exterior scenes were shot during the summer months at the Red Court building on Holbeck Road, South Cliff, Scarborough, as well as the nearby park area and Holbeck Clock Tower.

Peashooter Par k is still good, I went with OH last year. We always took the children to the naval battle on the lake and to walk in the fair y lights on the island when it was dark.

Florence, that park with the big lake is called, Peaseholm Park, a very lovely place, been there many times when a child & when courting & again when married with the 2 eldest children.

Scarbrough is a grand place.

Shepherds Pie was delicious & hubby ate a good portion which made me very happy.

Joan.