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@Krystyna23040 normal gravy seems the only way for me to go mitigated by wine and exercise if possible. My other major sorrow with Elsie is the loss of tomato, onion and garlic based sauces and casseroles. I actually ate (and enjoyed) aubergines in Pafos - can't stand them in UK. @SlimLizzy so kind of you to pass on Mr Slim's recipe but butter and or cream used that way are the reddest of red lines for me. Any foodies know if crème fraîche would would work instead but this is all a faff for one. Pure Elsie is hell on earth/unendurable for me. Hug - @Krystyna23040 - for the roadworks and need for Mr K - what an absolute legend he is.
 
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Hugs for two year old granddaughter


And thanks @ianpspurs for my compliments.
 
Greetings Homo Diabeticus hereon assembled. @SlimLizzy , good news on the electrical and roofing front. You must be excited if feeling a little apprehensive of another false dawn. @dunelm good man for keeping an eye on your friend and thank you for sharing your gift of art. @gennepher so of the moment and so you to upcycle/waste not that paper and delight old grouches such as me with your gifts of creativity and fighting spirit.
 
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@ianpspurs We are only talking a knob of butter in the gravy, not ounces of the stuff. I don't understand how Crême fraiche would be acceptable if butter and cream are not.
 
All the best for the visit of the roofers. I think that in France, electricity is delivered as three phase with each phase distributed to different parts of the house. I remember when we refurbished my brothers place that the electrician asked him how much power he wanted. Boxes - all with labels on - but lots of them. Most are consigned to the garage until we make room for things.
 
Good morning everyone from the stillness of the dawn here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Thai restaurants and lip smacking Pad Thai (I know) came in at 6.2 this am - ooh you are naughty, but I like you.

Not a lot happening yesterday - mainly because I don’t relish hobbling about outside with a stick. Girl in the bubble entertained us yesterday afternoon with a tea party and chortling tales of babble and laughter. A rep came yesterday to give us a quote on work required, another today, early afternoon and then a third on Thursday. And, just to push the boat out, a forth on 5 December. MRI early evening and that’s about all for today I think.
Art - a bit hurried, but still. I hope that you all have a very good day - confusion reigns with us - bin day has been changed - what a catastrophe! I need some koffy.


 
Great willow art @dunelm
Good luck for quotes, and MRI
 
5.4 this morning. Will catch up with posts later. Not sure why this morning is flying by so fast - dog walk shortly then off to teach classes.
 
Fbg 6.7

Creative today....
Experimenting with this Daler-Rowney sketchbook A5.
Drawing trees with some of the different black pens I have.
So, six trees with six different pens, each sprayed 3 times.

I have more and more black pens, so I will experiment today with all I can find. Put the different pens in bags and label. Then I will have an idea how they may work with water.
I can see different uses for them in how I might want to create a painting.

The middle one at the top would be great for something misty as the branch lines vanish completely. The one on the top left still retains the branches. And so on.

Why do I have so many black pens? Actually some of these are 25 plus years old. J and I used to look round art shops, craft shops etc. And if there was nothing I wanted to buy, I always bought something because I had spent time in someone's shop (maybe to get out of the rain, or I had been given a tea or a hot chocolate and talked with the owner, and I felt it was courtesy to buy at least a little something, hence I thought black pens would always be useful...).

I took the staples out of the sketchbook as you can see. The sketchbook was too restrictive stapled together.

I need coffee now...

 
‘Tis the season for http://www.fenlandcelery.com/ goes well with the lowest carb bought Hummus (cauliflower hummus is an absolute nonsense) and Gaucamole (give h/m a whirl). Good F C from a farm shop in my favourite village in this part of the world. Obviously in Cambs with a spiffing cricket ground. Magical with a quality Stilton, which is in Cambs, but now made in Leicestershire - murky history. @gennepher wonderful creative and so you buying something from shops not simply "using" them. @dunelm Thank you for sharing your artwork. I hope the reps give "competitive" quotes, the MRI goes well and you adjust to the new bin day time zone. Pithiest statement of where I'm at is this: The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death. Deride the source by all means but I'm here - fitbit doesn't lie. Superpower Bin Day and Thanksgiving tomorrow - Yee-haw I found this fascinating and troubling in equal measure. £11 for a "better" chicken - from a supermarket? I'd expect to pay nearer £15-20 from a good farmer's market.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen, national bin day again, wow how quick these bin days occur.

A 6.1 this morning.

have a great day all.
 
Thanks @ianpspurs
I have amassed a lifetime worth of black pens in this way, and even those from 25 years ago are still working beautifully. I can still remember where I bought many of them. For example the Berol handwriting pens (that did the tree on the bottom right) were bought in Ormskirk one summer's Saturday in about 1998/9. I can remember the car I had, and where I parked it...and I still remember the seller of the pens...
 
Interesting stuff. I like the one bottom centre. The colour and the spread
 
Hm! Fenland Celery - only available for 8 short weeks at your local Fortnum & Mason - sounds a winner. Chickens - stack them high and sell them cheep! Can you flog a Poulet De Bresse or even a Label Rouge chicken to the Brits?
 
Hm! Fenland Celery - only available for 8 short weeks at your local Fortnum & Mason - sounds a winner.
Doubt whether I could lay my hands on much more than 4000 acres of the stuff just now. Fortnum and Mason opprobrium? Because Betty's of Harrogate is so unpretentious and such good value - I must have been dreaming. Every region seems to have a wannabee - (near the fragrant Mary A.) @Krystyna23040 what is the Norwich/N Norfolk entry?
 
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