Happy Ganma!!!

One of the little packages delivered to Ganma's house very early this morning. One has been fed breakfast and gone off happily to school and this little angel has been cuddled, fed and changed and is now sleeping for an hour or so.

My wonky pepper being sauteed with some onions ready to be turned into.............

........this.......and very nice it was too served up in warm tortilla wraps.

 

Not much other than baby watching going off at the minute and after a bad night I am sure I shall be taking to the sofa for a nap when Marlowe has been collected at about 12:30pm.

Ooooh.....I had best go and get the play gym out.....little monkey is awake already.

Have a fab day.
Sheila-x-

I'm Late!!!

Ooooh I'm a bit behind this morning.
Had a very lazy day yesterday and didn't do much of anything apart from going out for lunch which was gorgeous as always. The only thing I didn't like was being sat in the conservatory as the sun was blinding and it was very hot in there. Sod's Law.....just as we were leaving the sun went in and it never really came out much after that.

As I said before....I am putting off doing any more sewing until Wednesday as I have the girls very tomorrow morning and I want to work on the quilt until it is finished with no interruptions so today I am going to be sorting out my shambolic fabric storage once and for all. I have bought down a big box from the attic to replace the big shopping bag that I use for some storage and I am hoping to put all of my fabric in it. I am on a stash buying diet for a while so hope to use some of it up before I start buying again.

I have some chicken marinating for an easy tea of wraps with sauteed pepper and onion and fajita style chicken and then I need to go and pick up some salad as ours has all gone into pack up boxes and we'll need some for the next few days if I am to avoid cooking....lol.

Just hubby's pots to wash up and then I will start my sorting.
Hope you have a fab day.....what is left of it.
Sheila-x-

Allsorts!!!

Thanks very much for the comments on my post yesterday. Especially overseas visitors who said that the veg was normal for them. I wish it was over here.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a cucumber that is curved or an orange pepper that has a streak of green on it. I am questioning though what was wrong with the onions....they look the same as the ones I normally buy in a bag from T's and the spring onions had soil on them as did the potatoes....so what....it washes off.
If I can get hold of one of the boxes every week I shall be a happy bunny sticking my fingers up to ramrod straight cucumbers and carrots washed within an inch of their lives.

I am sore this morning. I spent rather a long time sitting on the floor playing with the girls yesterday and my cocyx is screaming that I am too old to be doing that. Blow that for a game of soldiers....we had great fun. Ruby had hysterics when we played Pop Up Pirate and I screamed when the pirate popped out. She thought it was hilarious.
Very proud of Ruby who got a 3rd place rosette for her Elsa spoon. She was chuffed to bits.

Hubby and I are off out for lunch shortly which will hopefully be better than the fish and chips we had last night. They were disgusting. We used a chip shop we have never used before. The portions were obscenely huge and the food tasted of absolutely nothing....totally tasteless. Shan't be going there again. They obviously think quantity beats quality.

Well I had best go and get dressed. I am still in my pj's at 11:30am....whatever is the world coming to?

Hope the sun is shining for you today.
Sheila-x-

Wonky Veg!!!

Just for a change I paid a visit to Asda last night. I very rarely shop there but I had been a couple of weeks earlier and bought some of their dry cure ham which was delicious and I wanted to get some more.
While I was there I picked up one of their Wonky Veg Boxes for £3.50 and up yonder are the contents.
The peppers are massive. One will be used to saute with some onions to go with chicken fajita wraps in the week and the other will be chopped into some salad. Not sure if the lettuce is romaine or chinese leaves but either is fine with me and it will make a lovely salad with the cucumber and spring onions with the addition of some other bits from the fridge. The cabbage and carrots will be used in a light vegetable soup along with some of the red onions.
The potatoes were boiled and hubby used some of them for his fried potatoes this morning. I tasted one and they were not very nice. No taste and a horrible texture so maybe they would have been better in the soup.
All in all though I am pretty pleased with it and will be looking to buy another box at some time.

I'm just about to go and have a shower and get ready to go and do my babysitting stint at DS's house. I'll probably be out until after midnight so hubby is coming down at tea time to fetch fish and chips for Ruby and ourselves. DD was coming down to me after work but has had an invite to go out so I will have to entertain myself once the girls are in bed. They have Sky TV so I'm sure there will be something I can find to watch.
Keeping an eye on the weather as I'd like to take the girls for a walk down to the park this afternoon but it's a bit drizzly here at home. You never know though....four miles can make all the difference and it may be quite nice in the little town.

Thanks for stopping by today.
Sheila-x-

Who's That Bird?!!!

From where I sit in the dining room, whether I am sewing or using the computer, I look down over my neighbours front gardens to a small wood at the bottom of our road. I have been seeing a bird flying about the trees but I can't make out what it is as I never have my glasses on when it makes it's appearance. It's larger and a little more chunky than a sparrowhawk but not as big as a buzzard. It seems to have a yellow/tawny colour to it and I usually see it between early and mid morning. It's driving me nuts not knowing what it is and you can bet your bottom dollar that if I do have my glasses on it doesn't appear.

I can feel stirrings of my sewing mojo returning but I'm not going to start today as I like to have a good few days in front of me when I have something I want to finish and I won't be at home for long tomorrow due to babysitting duties, we are out Sunday for lunch and then will probably go for a walk as it's just me and hubby, Monday will be a busy day catching up on housework and Tuesday I have an early morning drop off of the grandchildren with Ruby to get ready for school. Grandad will drop her off and then I have Marlowe until Daddy finishes work at about 12:30pm. So....I need to nurture this little stirring until Wednesday morning and then sewing machine....here I come...lol.

Today will be a 'three kicks at the pantry door' kind of day for tea. Hubby has decided he wants faggots....yuck.....and DD and I will probably have either a bit of salad with something or a sandwich when we get back from town. I need to go to Lidl and stock up on some of the American food they have in this week such as the Monterey Jack cheese slices. I prefer the Pepper Jack but they never seem to have that. I also need maple syrup and some of the American pancakes which Ruby loves for breakfast and their sweet potatoes are 59p a kilo this week so I'll pick some of those up too.

I'm just waiting for hubby to get up so that I can run the hoover round down here so I'll have me coffee and a mooch on You Tube as all the tidying has been done, pots are washed and hubby's work clothes are in the washing machine so there's not much else to do.

Black clouds and drizzly rain here so I hope your weather is better today.
Have a fab weekend.
Sheila-x-