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Lovely photo and a smashing piece of art with cat leaves.
 
All the best with the blood tests and also with the celeriac chips. I find that they need to be cut thinner than I would like and then put in a plastic bag with the oil and shaken, not stirred. Heating the dish and only having a single layer seems to help with crisping up.
 
Good morning, just, from the future time in the bright and sunny yet strangely cold SW France. Managed to get parents TV hooked up to the WI-FI last night - quelle surprise! The reaction from parents was as if I was some sort of wizard. My turn to cook today - we went out for lunch yesterday. My parents have their main meal at lunch time - not a bad idea I suppose and it prevents pre-bedtime bloating. I am home alone as they are both out on different chores. The cleaner has just left, I have peeled the veg and gathered together ingredients. Blood sugars checked in at 4.2 so going to risk a quick sniff of Leffe Blonde. Art bit, another perspective. Hope your day is going well.


 
Perhaps you are a wizard @dunelm

 
Lovely night-time scene - moon about as bright as it has been here recently and lovely Midnight. He's a beautiful and loving pet to keep you comfortable and to guard you overnight. He clearly takes his job seriously.
 
DIL didn't get away with the pups this morning - all the ferries down the West Coast of Scotland are off, as are the planes. The wind is due to increase again so don't suppose anything will be sailing/flying tomorrow either. Apparently it is supposed to calm down a bit by Friday so DIL has booked her car onto the Friday sailing. Hope driving conditions aren't too difficult with this blustery weather. Granddaughter passed her driving test - did I say that already? So they will be able to use the motorways to get down to Liverpool and probably part of the way to Norwich. It will be quicker that way and they really need to be back on the Island by Sunday evening to go back to work on Monday. I think they were hoping to take a break in Falkirk on the way back to visit DIL's dad, but that may not be possible now.

Edit: should have said FBG was 11.1 at 4 am - down to 5.8 now. That's good, but I actually weighed myself this morning and I have gained about a stone in weight - now 181/2 stone. Aaarh!
 
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Thanks for that. Is that in the Ninja cum air fryer, Big Oil enriching Old Skool oven or the stick fire which everyone knows is THE only choice for a proper beef pudd'n?
 
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Annb said:
Lovely night-time scene - moon about as bright as it has been here recently and lovely Midnight. He's a beautiful and loving pet to keep you comfortable and to guard you overnight. He clearly takes his job seriously.
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Thank you very much for the painting compliment.

Midnight was a stray but came to me at the end of April 2022. It took some time for him to learn to make friends with me. And it was some more time before he came indoors.

Thank you.
 
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Thanks for that. Is that in the Ninja cum air fryer, Big Oil enriching Old Skool oven or the stick fire which everyone knows is THE only choice for a proper beef pudd'n?
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I honestly don’t think that it makes an ‘apeth of difference with these new fandagled heat sources - unless you are a tic tacker or a special influencer like what Liz Truss isn’t
 
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I honestly don’t think that it makes an ‘apeth of difference with these new fandagled heat sources - unless you are a tic tacker or a special influencer like what Liz Truss isn’t
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My friend Mr Raab says these things really matter and he's coming for kitchen supper. I bet you don't rotate avocados either.
 

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My friend Mr Raab says these things really matter and he's coming for kitchen supper. I bet you don't rotate avocados either.
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That employer is just a normal employer of a cleaner, but with more money and more thn average need to control. Many people employed as housekeepers (or home helps, or cleaners - same job, more highfalutin' title) find that their employers are just the same. It is a downtrodden role. Once housekeepers were important in a household but these days they are just cleaners with a fancy title. I don't know what it is but, when (usually) a woman employs a cleaner, she gains a sense of her own importance, will try to underpay, complain about the job being done and try to get more done than was agreed. Sadly, it's the way of the world. I have known several women who were cleaners and exploited by their employers. Even my own cleaner has similar problems with other employers. Why is that, I wonder.
 
Evening all
Late posting, been a bit busy and no real time to catch up properly.

Blood sugars this morning were a dodgy 4.1, made breakfast interesting so as not to go hyper, luckily I didn’t have to drive, but playing the keyboard for plinky plonky was amusing, but only if you are not a purist.

Sleep tight, an old expression for when beds were tidied up with ropes an straw mattresses.
 
Remember I said a few days ago, that someone was knocking at my front door about 3 times in a hour. And awhile later, presumably the same person, knocked again, and I mentioned they had a torch.

As far as I am aware, they have not been back.

But online this afternoon, I found that in my neighbourhood Internet site which covers quite a wide area around here, there have been other instances of this, what I described, in other areas, of a man with a torch ringing the doorbell at evening, but no one has answered the door. Apparently it was caught on the ring doorbell and this guy was going from house to house. But because he had the torch for some reason the ring doorbell video was blinded. One reason why no one answered their doors and on another instance, the person said she was out.

And some people said that this man gone through their gates, and shone his torch down the side of their houses, and up at their gutters, presumably that this was recorded from their ring doorbells when it wasn't being blinded.

No one has said that they have notified the police of this suspicious behaviour.

That doesn't seem very good that the ring doorbells can be blinded by a torch.

Anyway, my gate is locked tonight and I've got one of my wildlife cameras at the kitchen window inside. I've got a couple of security lights that will come on from inside the windows.

I was going to tidy up my side passage on the side of the house, which faces my Fort Knox fence neighbour. No one can get in my back garden at the end of it that way because of a gate and brambles and high vicious throned roses. But brambles are now growing on the ground of that passageway. They can grow, I won't be cutting them back now....

I have now moved from the front room to my bedroom at the back of the bungalow, so that I am not aware of anyone knocking at the front door...
 
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