Tea here is salmon and asparagus risotto, cooked in a white wine and garlic stock. It will have creme fraiche stirred in just before the end of cooking.
If my wife wasn't cooking a chicken pie, I'd ask if I could drop round and have a bit. (My wife doesn't like asparagus).
For the last few years the bus services here have improved immeasurably and it makes me sad to see them at present driving around empty.
We had stir fry for tea - I made double on Saturday, and tomorrow we're having the rest of a bolognese I made on Sunday. Mr Nen has suggested we treat ourselves to a takeaway meal from a local hostelry on Wednesday, which will make a welcome change.
Thursday will be shopping day again. I'm going once a week, first thing in the morning, and by doing so have so far managed to get pretty much all we need.
Salmon, salad and new potatoes, followed by pineapple, strawberries (thank you Reduced-for-Clearance section) and natural yoghurt, washed down with a G&T, second of the evening.
Got a letter asking if, as a "vulnerable" person, I needed help with shopping, etc - from the same department that has me on a list as a volunteer doing shopping for the vulnerable. First, I can't see that I'm vulnerable; second, don't they check the two lists against each other?
Day 15 and we are now all out of quarantine. I’m feeling a bit more like myself, though still slightly breathless. Popped to the corner shop to buy groceries for in-laws (over 70 and self-isolating) and elder son carried them home. The corner shop is new (new estate just built behind us) and is a Nisa with Eastern European management. Lots of the food has non-English labels, lots of interesting sausages and today I bought a giant tub of white cheese just like the sort I have made at home before.
I’ve checked my work emails and should be doing some study today but I’m not quite at that concentration level. So a lazy day reading instead.
Glad to hear you're feeling better, Heavenlyannie, but The Organist's right - take it easy until you're properly mended!
I'm contemplating a little amble - it's a cloudy but dry day here - followed by turning some minced beef into a big pot of chilli.
Chilli was the first thing my mum taught me to cook (it was the early 80s), and I've always enjoyed making it. Not too spicy - I'm a wimp when it comes to heat - but enough garlic to knock your socks off!
@Heavenlyannie You shouldn't plunge straight back into work! You have been unwell, whether with Covid-19 or whatever, and should stagger your return.
All I am doing is answering my emails and there is nothing stressful there, they are mostly moral support communications between my module teams. I’m not doing any marking until I am well rested (and can offload that and anything else I want if necessary too). There is no pressure on me to work at all, they are extremely supportive and concerned and are wonderful team workers (we cover each other all the time); I work for the most supportive organisation in the world But thanks for the concern.
My poor students are having a tough time, though, as they are mostly health care workers.
I did a run around the park this morning. Running is not usually anything you would find me doing, but since it is about the only form of exercise outside the house available I thought I had better get into the habit. I found I couldn't run the whole way, so alternated between running and walking. Hopefully if I persevere with it, I will get better! Met two or three dog walkers and that was all.
Is anybody else feeling tempted to turn into a bit of a slob? What's the point of wearing decent clothes, make up, jewellery etc if nobody is going to see you? It did occur to me that if I didn't keep putting earrings in each morning the holes might close up, so that's the main reason I have been bothering most days. As far as clothes are concerned - I've worn the same pair of comfy jeans each day for over a week now, and changed tops rather less frequently than I normally would. Anyone else fallen into this mindset?
I am a bit slobby, too.
To be honest, not that smart in non-isolated times, either, but I do seem to be putting the washing machine on at slightly less frequent intervals.
I have some elderly "round the house" clothes, and some "respectable" clothes for when I am out and about. As I am never "out and about", I am permanently in the old clothes - even when going to buy necessities, as I am unlikely to meet anybody.
The "respectable" clothes are being rested, and even round the house I am not doing much to dirty them, so apart from underwear, I am not changing much.
Mr RoS even less!
Hmm... I never wear make-up and jewellery. I always wear comfy clothes. So from that angle, not much has changed. I have never particularly aimed to be aesthetically pleasing to people. I don't know if that makes me a slob. I thought a slob was about being dirty, but I have two baths a day, and I wear clean clothes. Though I'll wear a fleece several days in a row, if it remains clean - I've always done that, and don't consider that to be slobbish. My house is messy, but it always is.
Are you still stuck in hospital @Priscilla. I've worn the same earrings for ages too. I tend to wear (pretend) gold ones in the winter and silver ones in the summer. For some reason I'm much more adventurous with the silver ones. My clothes are all pretty much wear in what ever situation clothes. A few things I try to save for going out, but that was never something I did a lot of anyway.
It's much better for both your clothes and the environment to wash your clothes less often. I used to have to wash everything pretty much daily when commuting on the tube, because it all stank after one wear of being squidged sardine-like in close proximity with others. These days I tend to wear the same jeans and tops for longer because there's lots of information saying it's the right thing to do.
I'm another one who doesn't wear make up because allergies mean that I find something I think I can use from samples, then buy a proper amount and start reacting. I had to give up on earrings in a job where they weren't allowed because the chance of being assaulted was high, plus nickel allergy made all my fun earrings unfunny.
Talking of being a slob ... someone posted this picture on our community FB page: https://tinyurl.com/ushxfpb. It could be all too true for some (after all it was in this fair city that Tesco had to ban people coming into one of their supermarkets wearing PJs!)
I normally work from home and make an effort with my clothes most days, as I like to dress well. By well, I don’t mean conventional; I have a taste for colourful and eccentric clothes. I also like wearing pretty earrings or a bead necklace, todays I have very small hoop earrings with pale green crystals.
Todays’s tea is a feta burger (courtesy of the tub of cheese mentioned earlier) grilled on a slice of ham and served on a bed of barley cooked in chicken stock and garlic, and tossed with pea shoots.
I get dressed, but as usual it is very relaxed. Even my smart is casual.
I really need to get outside - I’ve been behind a sewing machine making a set of scrubs, and would like to be able to deliver them tomorrow to get feedback on how they fit before starting on the next set. I do not trust sewing pattern sizing one bit!
I did have a break from that for a coffee morning, and it was lovely to see friends again and find out how they are doing.
Does anyone else feel like they’re going to wake up soon and find it’s a bad dream? Or bit like a broadcast of War of The Worlds?
Nice @Boogie. I've not explored what is available in my area yet, maybe at the weekend.
We're having a vegetarian stew of my husband's devising with mashed potatoes. I can't wait!
My clothes are so soft and simple, they are not much different in essence from pyjamas. They are simply different in appearance, each item all one colour - black leggings and maroon t-shirt, for instance, as opposed to bright turquoise pyjamas with black and white penguins on. So sometimes, I am going to bed in my clothes, if they are still clean, to save on washing. Then I wear those same clothes for my early morning walk (because why get changed for a solitary walk, where I am keeping a good distance from the very few people I encounter, and when I will change when I get home?) and after my walk, I have a bath, put those clothes in my washing machine, and change into clean clothes. Seems a waste of electricity, water and washing powder to change clothes when not necessary. Being at home all day, I am not getting dirty or working up a sweat. I do think we wash clothes far more often than needed in today's society.
It is nice, though, that the weather is now sunny, so when I do wash clothes, I can hang them outside to dry, so they will smell like fresh air.
Because I'm not working anyway, my usual attire is jeans and a loose, casual shirt of some description, so no change there. I only wear make-up for special occasions, but I'm very fond of my jewellery, which is all (except my wedding and engagement rings) silver, some with enamel or coloured stones and is usually chosen to go with the colour of whatever shirt I'm wearing. Jewellery and scent go on even if I'm going nowhere.
As much of my wardrobe is still in transit, I have a rather more limited palette than usual, but now that the new iron has arrived* (thank you Mr. Bezos's staff) I have no excuse not to use all the clothes I do have to hand.
I was quite pleased with the chilli (and S. thought it was OK too); I was a bit bolder than usual with the spices, but it really wasn't bad, and there's enough left to have with baked potatoes another day.
* That'll be part of tomorrow's activity sorted - I can barely contain my excitement ... 👀
I have a Uniform - one of 5 or 6 pairs of undemanding jersey trousers + 1 of about 20 loose, colourful tops + 1 of 96 pairs of socks + 1 of, um, lots of hand knits. Plus a pair of trousers and a gilet specifically for gardening.
With these I always wear a necklace - many of my own making - and a Scent of the Day (from a current selection of about 20).
No make-up. Never did wear much, and mostly just a bit of eyeshadow and mascara.
These days removing my glasses means that I can't see my eyes - well not in any detail - and am likely to poke my eye out with the mascara brush.
Have never been one for jewellery, but I like to wear a light scarf indoors.
As I take a walk first thing in the morning, I have to put some day clothes on. I have a sweater and trousers just for that, and change when I get home. I also have some very tatty clothes just to wear for gardening.
Uniform for today: cord trousers, thin roll-neck thermal layer and a warm jumper, and boots because we're in a sea of mud at the moment.
Supper this evening: special-fried rice, prawns in black bean sauce with water chestnuts and bamboo shoots, fried bean-sprouts (courtesy of our nearest Chinese restaurant), followed by homemade pear and blackberry strudel with creme fraiche.
I'm in my usual outfit of jeans/casual trousers, long sleeved t shirt, and a warm pullover. The same for teaching online or teaching face to face. No makeup, though I do draw in my eyebrows ( they grew back sparse and pale after chemo) when I remember.
Tea tonight is either all day breakfast, or an Indian meal from the restaurant next door. There's some confusion, as their advert in the window says Thursday 1St April. It can be Thursday, it can be 1St April, but it can't be both...
I've just discovered that the local launderette has shut for the duration. The next nearest one is an hour's bus ride away - so I will be wearing my clothes for longer than usual!
When I looked up manual washing machines (there is no room in my house for a full sized washing machine) I saw that the simplest version is basically a bucket with a sink plunger - I have a bucket and a sink plunger, so we'll see how that goes.
So now, the next essential shopping I do will be to go to the local hardware shop (phone ahead for orders and pay at the door) for a clothes drying rack in the absence of the launderette's tumble dryer.
In the nick of time yesterday we discovered that the local hostelry were stopping their takeaway service that day. It was presumably in order to use up some of their stock so it didn't go to waste. From today their staff will be on unpaid leave.
We immediately phoned in our order, Mr Nen did the foraging foray, and I enjoyed lasagne with garlic bread and he had lamb curry, then we both had sticky toffee pudding. We'll have this evening what I was planning for last night, and I'll be shopping first thing in the morning. We're having to go easy on the milk...
Regarding the clothes thing, as I'm officially now no longer working it was always going to be a time of different routines; I'd simply reckoned without it being quite this different. I find it easy not to get dressed until late in the day - we have breakfast, then I do some domestics and then get distracted into a book, or into something online, then if I'm not careful it's lunchtime and I'm still in night clothes and track suit. I really don't like that so am working hard to make sure I get showered and dressed soon after breakfast.
Work was always very casual wear, so I'm carrying on in that vein, and I haven't worn makeup for years. At present I'm not wearing any of my rings because my hands are so dry from the constant washing and it's easier to put hand cream on without them.
Dress code today started with day PJs, smartish on top because I had a Skype flute lesson. It doesn’t matter what I wear from my chest down! I will soon change into allotment clobber of very dirty old, too-large jeans and a fleece top, with a fleece jacket. On my return I’ll probably put on night PJs with a big warm dress over the top.
I am reloving an old iPad - I want to simultaneously broadcast on zoom and livestream which is only possible on my laptop, but the laptop microphone and video quality is ropey - I knew that when I bought it, not realising I might need it! So I’ve set the old iPad to factory settings and am experimenting with running the old and the new together. It feels a bit Neath Robinson-ish.
Dinner will be...? Not sure, I’ll see when I get to it.
A number of pigs in blankets, left over from Christmas, cooked in a batter, for which I will risk one of the real eggs rather than the dried I have by me. Not quite toad in the hole, as they are rather small. The dried egg did not make very good eggy bread this morning.
My corner shop still has eggs, for which I am very grateful.
Another lazy day here resting, husband cooked bacon, eggs and mushrooms for lunch. I’m spending the afternoon reading.
Good Heavens - dried egg sounds very World War 2-ish!
Just back from Tesco - a bit of a queue, but I got everything I wanted, including (praise be to Our Lord, and His Blessed Mother!), SALMON FISH PASTE ).
Also other luxuries like bread, soup, and bin-liners...
...and a packet of Polish dumplings with meat (pierogi z miesem ), which AIUI are much the same as Russian pelmeni.
I went to Asda yesterday evening. I discovered that googling one's particular supermarket gives a bar chart of how busy it usually is each hour, and also live updates about how busy it really is. So I found a quiet time to go. I wondered if it would be out of staple foods by evening, but I found everything I was looking for, including eggs and sausages. I also saw that the yellow sticker reductions for fruit and veg are being ignored - I guess people are concerned that they've been handled by many customers. I bought several punnets of different fruit, reduced very cheap.
Our local-ish Asdas are far too big for me to totter around, even with the aid of a trolley for support, but I wonder if similar info is available for other places?
I'll have a look next time I need to go shopping, which (just in case the government is checking up on me) will not be this week...
Plenty of eggs and bread in Tesco's today, but still no tomato SOUP. Where has it all gone??
Our local-ish Asdas are far too big for me to totter around, even with the aid of a trolley for support, but I wonder if similar info is available for other places?
Yes, the bar charts are something that have been done for a while, for several shops and other services, before coronavirus. I hadn't expected them to be updated for lockdown, but they have, and it's really handy to have a live update. I'm not sure if it will be done for small branches of supermarkets, but it's worth googling to see. The quieter days seem to be Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and the quieter times in the evening. I went at 6pm, and didn't even have to queue. Last week I went on Thursday (not having checked the bar chart), at 5:30pm, and there was no queue, but it was busy and people weren't sticking to social distancing.
BTW, the Asda I go to has mobility scooters for customers who find it hard to walk. I have no idea how this applies during lockdown, and I don't know if the Asdas near you would have them, but it might be worth contacting them to find out if you wanted to shop there.
There is a bar chart for my local Tesco store but it lies. Apparently the time I went this morning should have had 10 minutes waiting time but I can assure you I waited patiently for 45 minutes in a long queue in the carpark.
Our Asda has apparently been madness, so I haven't been at all. They are trying to enforce a one way system round the aisles but it's not working. No queue at Lidl at 11 am this morning, nor (as far as I could see) at Waitrose, though the latter seems to be struggling with its supply chain.
Not quite toad in the hole, as they are rather small.
Tadpole in the hole?
I was so pleased to find eggs on Monday when I went into town to forage. Yesterday a message came around from the local free range egg farmer that I usually buy from - he was getting rid of his 1500 hens - my garden is too small for even 3 so I hope many of them found homes.
Scrubs were delivered and the happy GP they are for tells me she’s now nicknamed Hot Lips Houlihan (they are olive, and even as if I finished sewing them I could hear the Mash theme tune like an ear worm).
Dinner is Allotment Thing - mostly leeks and the green shoots from sprouts that should have come out ages ago.
Our Asda has apparently been madness, so I haven't been at all. They are trying to enforce a one way system round the aisles but it's not working.
It's the same in my Asda. I asked the security guy about it and he said no one was sticking to it, no matter how much they tried to tell people, so it is chaos. It just happens to be a lot quieter some evenings, so it doesn't matter then that no one is using the system, because there are so few people.
Tea here was vegetable tempura, rice noodles and salmon, cooked by husband. This was followed by homemade mochi (husband made mung bean mochi yesterday ).
Sorry to hear about your farmer @daisydaisy. My friend in Australia told me everyone there was buying hens, so I hope they find homes. Glad the scrubs were well received too.
Had a lazy day today as husband was out at work, so I stayed in and did bits and pieces, including using some slightly out of date vegetarian suet to make dumplings to add to the remains of the veggie stew from last night,
I did a bit of a fry-up for lunch: the remaining sausages, mushrooms and a couple of eggs each. It would have been improved by the addition of tomatoes, but they went in the chilli. The second half of the chilli, with a couple of baked potatoes, was supper.
The neighbourhood support Tesco's run yielded two packs of salmon, some new potatoes and some grapes, and we might put in a butcher/greengrocer order towards the weekend.
I'm also contemplating checking to see if any takeaways are delivering for a weekend treat ...
We live very near to an Aldi, so I can see from my house how busy it is, or not. Quiet times seem to vary but evenings are busy, probably with people coming home from work. They now close at 8 instead of 10pm and operate a one in, one out system and have plenty of stock.
Not that I am going there at all, as we are self isolating as DH has health conditions.
We have now got regular deliveries in place for veg ( weekly) milk( twice a week) and meat on request. My daughter has now got a delivery slot from Sainsbury’s so has added items to her order for me. Meanwhile our neighbours have been very good.
Our small town has set up a group of volunteers who will help with shopping, prescriptions, for anyone who needs it.
@Puzzler said: Our small town has set up a group of volunteers who will help with shopping, prescriptions, for anyone who needs it.
Our local Salvation Army corps is doing just that, too, with help from other churches in the town. It's taking a little while to get going, but the Major in charge is cautiously pleased so far...
A day spent pottering and doing bits of household maintenance - gutter clearing, log chopping and stacking, sharpening the blades on the mower, salting the weeds on the terrace, etc, etc. Appropriate garb of lined work trousers, long-sleeved thermal top, jumper and windcheater.
Lunch of leftovers from yesterday's Chinese meal. Supper of sole cooked in vermouth with green lentils plus salad, dessert of baked apples and yoghurt.
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We had stir fry for tea - I made double on Saturday, and tomorrow we're having the rest of a bolognese I made on Sunday. Mr Nen has suggested we treat ourselves to a takeaway meal from a local hostelry on Wednesday, which will make a welcome change.
Thursday will be shopping day again. I'm going once a week, first thing in the morning, and by doing so have so far managed to get pretty much all we need.
Got a letter asking if, as a "vulnerable" person, I needed help with shopping, etc - from the same department that has me on a list as a volunteer doing shopping for the vulnerable. First, I can't see that I'm vulnerable; second, don't they check the two lists against each other?
I’ve checked my work emails and should be doing some study today but I’m not quite at that concentration level. So a lazy day reading instead.
I'm contemplating a little amble - it's a cloudy but dry day here - followed by turning some minced beef into a big pot of chilli.
Chilli was the first thing my mum taught me to cook (it was the early 80s), and I've always enjoyed making it. Not too spicy - I'm a wimp when it comes to heat - but enough garlic to knock your socks off!
Memo to self: don't forget the CHOCOLATE.
My poor students are having a tough time, though, as they are mostly health care workers.
Is anybody else feeling tempted to turn into a bit of a slob? What's the point of wearing decent clothes, make up, jewellery etc if nobody is going to see you? It did occur to me that if I didn't keep putting earrings in each morning the holes might close up, so that's the main reason I have been bothering most days. As far as clothes are concerned - I've worn the same pair of comfy jeans each day for over a week now, and changed tops rather less frequently than I normally would. Anyone else fallen into this mindset?
To be honest, not that smart in non-isolated times, either, but I do seem to be putting the washing machine on at slightly less frequent intervals.
I have some elderly "round the house" clothes, and some "respectable" clothes for when I am out and about. As I am never "out and about", I am permanently in the old clothes - even when going to buy necessities, as I am unlikely to meet anybody.
The "respectable" clothes are being rested, and even round the house I am not doing much to dirty them, so apart from underwear, I am not changing much.
Mr RoS even less!
I'm another one who doesn't wear make up because allergies mean that I find something I think I can use from samples, then buy a proper amount and start reacting. I had to give up on earrings in a job where they weren't allowed because the chance of being assaulted was high, plus nickel allergy made all my fun earrings unfunny.
Todays’s tea is a feta burger (courtesy of the tub of cheese mentioned earlier) grilled on a slice of ham and served on a bed of barley cooked in chicken stock and garlic, and tossed with pea shoots.
I really need to get outside - I’ve been behind a sewing machine making a set of scrubs, and would like to be able to deliver them tomorrow to get feedback on how they fit before starting on the next set. I do not trust sewing pattern sizing one bit!
I did have a break from that for a coffee morning, and it was lovely to see friends again and find out how they are doing.
Does anyone else feel like they’re going to wake up soon and find it’s a bad dream? Or bit like a broadcast of War of The Worlds?
I’m looking forward to it.
We're having a vegetarian stew of my husband's devising with mashed potatoes. I can't wait!
It is nice, though, that the weather is now sunny, so when I do wash clothes, I can hang them outside to dry, so they will smell like fresh air.
As much of my wardrobe is still in transit, I have a rather more limited palette than usual, but now that the new iron has arrived* (thank you Mr. Bezos's staff) I have no excuse not to use all the clothes I do have to hand.
I was quite pleased with the chilli (and S. thought it was OK too); I was a bit bolder than usual with the spices, but it really wasn't bad, and there's enough left to have with baked potatoes another day.
* That'll be part of tomorrow's activity sorted - I can barely contain my excitement ... 👀
With these I always wear a necklace - many of my own making - and a Scent of the Day (from a current selection of about 20).
These days removing my glasses means that I can't see my eyes - well not in any detail - and am likely to poke my eye out with the mascara brush.
Have never been one for jewellery, but I like to wear a light scarf indoors.
As I take a walk first thing in the morning, I have to put some day clothes on. I have a sweater and trousers just for that, and change when I get home. I also have some very tatty clothes just to wear for gardening.
Supper this evening: special-fried rice, prawns in black bean sauce with water chestnuts and bamboo shoots, fried bean-sprouts (courtesy of our nearest Chinese restaurant), followed by homemade pear and blackberry strudel with creme fraiche.
Tea tonight is either all day breakfast, or an Indian meal from the restaurant next door. There's some confusion, as their advert in the window says Thursday 1St April. It can be Thursday, it can be 1St April, but it can't be both...
When I attend CoF on Friday I’ll be in my best jumper
When I looked up manual washing machines (there is no room in my house for a full sized washing machine) I saw that the simplest version is basically a bucket with a sink plunger - I have a bucket and a sink plunger, so we'll see how that goes.
So now, the next essential shopping I do will be to go to the local hardware shop (phone ahead for orders and pay at the door) for a clothes drying rack in the absence of the launderette's tumble dryer.
We immediately phoned in our order, Mr Nen did the foraging foray, and I enjoyed lasagne with garlic bread and he had lamb curry, then we both had sticky toffee pudding. We'll have this evening what I was planning for last night, and I'll be shopping first thing in the morning. We're having to go easy on the milk...
Regarding the clothes thing, as I'm officially now no longer working it was always going to be a time of different routines; I'd simply reckoned without it being quite this different. I find it easy not to get dressed until late in the day - we have breakfast, then I do some domestics and then get distracted into a book, or into something online, then if I'm not careful it's lunchtime and I'm still in night clothes and track suit. I really don't like that so am working hard to make sure I get showered and dressed soon after breakfast.
Work was always very casual wear, so I'm carrying on in that vein, and I haven't worn makeup for years. At present I'm not wearing any of my rings because my hands are so dry from the constant washing and it's easier to put hand cream on without them.
I am reloving an old iPad - I want to simultaneously broadcast on zoom and livestream which is only possible on my laptop, but the laptop microphone and video quality is ropey - I knew that when I bought it, not realising I might need it! So I’ve set the old iPad to factory settings and am experimenting with running the old and the new together. It feels a bit Neath Robinson-ish.
Dinner will be...? Not sure, I’ll see when I get to it.
Another lazy day here resting, husband cooked bacon, eggs and mushrooms for lunch. I’m spending the afternoon reading.
Just back from Tesco - a bit of a queue, but I got everything I wanted, including (praise be to Our Lord, and His Blessed Mother!), SALMON FISH PASTE
Also other luxuries like bread, soup, and bin-liners...
...and a packet of Polish dumplings with meat (pierogi z miesem ), which AIUI are much the same as Russian pelmeni.
I was inspired by this little clip from Sesame Street :
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fLKvckLRjrk
I like Beef Stroganoff, also Chicken Kiev, but I'm afraid I can't stomach Borscht (on account of the beetroot).
I'll have a look next time I need to go shopping, which (just in case the government is checking up on me) will not be this week...
Plenty of eggs and bread in Tesco's today, but still no tomato SOUP. Where has it all gone??
Yes, the bar charts are something that have been done for a while, for several shops and other services, before coronavirus. I hadn't expected them to be updated for lockdown, but they have, and it's really handy to have a live update. I'm not sure if it will be done for small branches of supermarkets, but it's worth googling to see. The quieter days seem to be Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and the quieter times in the evening. I went at 6pm, and didn't even have to queue. Last week I went on Thursday (not having checked the bar chart), at 5:30pm, and there was no queue, but it was busy and people weren't sticking to social distancing.
BTW, the Asda I go to has mobility scooters for customers who find it hard to walk. I have no idea how this applies during lockdown, and I don't know if the Asdas near you would have them, but it might be worth contacting them to find out if you wanted to shop there.
I was so pleased to find eggs on Monday when I went into town to forage. Yesterday a message came around from the local free range egg farmer that I usually buy from - he was getting rid of his 1500 hens - my garden is too small for even 3 so I hope many of them found homes.
Scrubs were delivered and the happy GP they are for tells me she’s now nicknamed Hot Lips Houlihan (they are olive, and even as if I finished sewing them I could hear the Mash theme tune like an ear worm).
Dinner is Allotment Thing - mostly leeks and the green shoots from sprouts that should have come out ages ago.
It's the same in my Asda. I asked the security guy about it and he said no one was sticking to it, no matter how much they tried to tell people, so it is chaos. It just happens to be a lot quieter some evenings, so it doesn't matter then that no one is using the system, because there are so few people.
Had a lazy day today as husband was out at work, so I stayed in and did bits and pieces, including using some slightly out of date vegetarian suet to make dumplings to add to the remains of the veggie stew from last night,
The neighbourhood support Tesco's run yielded two packs of salmon, some new potatoes and some grapes, and we might put in a butcher/greengrocer order towards the weekend.
I'm also contemplating checking to see if any takeaways are delivering for a weekend treat ...
Not that I am going there at all, as we are self isolating as DH has health conditions.
We have now got regular deliveries in place for veg ( weekly) milk( twice a week) and meat on request. My daughter has now got a delivery slot from Sainsbury’s so has added items to her order for me. Meanwhile our neighbours have been very good.
Our small town has set up a group of volunteers who will help with shopping, prescriptions, for anyone who needs it.
Our small town has set up a group of volunteers who will help with shopping, prescriptions, for anyone who needs it.
Our local Salvation Army corps is doing just that, too, with help from other churches in the town. It's taking a little while to get going, but the Major in charge is cautiously pleased so far...
AG
Lunch of leftovers from yesterday's Chinese meal. Supper of sole cooked in vermouth with green lentils plus salad, dessert of baked apples and yoghurt.