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18 March 2008
17:17:00 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
It's 'Have a Dig at Delia' week again! I'm pleased to see Delia back on our telly screens but, as always when she does something - ANYTHING - the know-alls start crawling out of the woodwork. This series, she's showing how to make perfectly presentable meals in double quick time. How to make a cottage pie, for instance, using tinned mince (groud beef) and Aunt Bessie's frozen mash and ready grated cheddar cheese. She calls it Cheating and so do I and why not eh? It IS cheating and we all do it. I don't care who's cooking, we all cheat at times. Who goes to the trouble of using dried red kidney beans for their chilli? They have to be soaked, boiled, simmered.......no thanks, tinned are fine. Who, these days, even if they have all the time in the world, messes about making their own flaky pastry? Not many, I wager, when you would have to be Mr. Super-Chef to tell it from frozen. No. Delia-digging is in vogue, but not by me. She is still the best 'celebrity chef' we have, bar none, but while most of the others are good entertainment, she is sheer practical common sense.
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17:17:00 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Second time today
Here I am again, second time today. I was going to wait until tomorrow but every time I think that something always comes up that prevents me so strike while the iron's hot:
I had a bit of paper right here on the desk with memos of things I wanted to write about, and where is it? Gone. That's where. The thing has been knocking around for a week or more, gawping at me so I feel guilty about not doing an entry. I should think it'll be in the shredder along with half the contents of the filing cabinet! I did a massive spring cleaning job on the filing cabinet over the weekend because I couldn't get into it any new stuff. I realise now that I didn't sort it out last year, and this is where bone idleness gets you. Paper all over the place and missing blog notes.
It's not just me who has been having a turn-out though. Keith has a week off work this week and is going round the house like a whirling Dervish (I wonder what one of them is?). Windows are all cleaned, carpets hoovered, furniture polished, even silk flowers painstakingly dusted. Honestly, it's like living with Aggie and Kim! In fact I might just get him a pressie of some yellow marigolds with faux fur stuck on. (for our friends across the Atlantic, Aggie and Kim are a pair of cleaning gurus on TV. You either love 'em or hate 'em!).
I am grateful though, really I am. I can't do a lot of the things without his help and you never hear him complaining about any of it. Now, here I am, resident on the computer, and he has just popped out to fetch a couple of hundred bricks and some sand and cement. He has noticed that little baby frogs - or toads, I don't know which - are hopping back through the hedge from next door to live on the concrete hardstanding which used to house a small shed and now is a little fenced compound for the dustbins. They used to live there before but 'hopped it' (ho ho) next door when we took the shed down. Now they're back so he is going to take out that bit of hedge and build a bit of wall...........I wonder how high frogs can jump? Anyhow, that's while I go swanning off to my sis to get my hair coloured. Anyway, the point is that I go swanning off while he does all this slaving. He reckons it saves me the bother of having to mooch around being horrid to him!
The daughter of the late Sid-next-door called in the other day and gave me some lovely flowers but neither of us knows what they're called. I don't think I've ever seen any before. Here's a picture - any ideas?
This is what the inside looks like inside:
Just while I think on, here's the completed 30th birthday cake you had a sneak preview of
Just in case I don't get another chance before weekend, I hope everyone has a blessed and peaceful Easter, full of the joy and hope our Saviour brings.
Love, Angie xx
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Is it possible that flower is a type of artichoke? It sure looks like one! (trust me to associate it with food!) I am with you as far as Delia goes. I think she is the best chef in the UK at the moment. At least she is real. Love the cake. I wish I had your talent there! I am off to bed now, but could not resist taking a peek at what you had to say before I went!
Marie -
You are blessed to have that husband of yours to make it all spic and span around your house. I use alot of short cuts to my cooking now that I'm on my own. I used to cook dried beans but have not in ages as the ones in the can are just fine. Your cake is just beautiful. I don't know how you make them so picture perfect. I'll never show pictures of the cakes I make...they are just too plain.
Glad to see your entry. Don't be away so long next time. 'On Ya' - ma -
I havn't watched Aggie and Kim but I did see one of them on the skating on ice programme and thought she was good ~ Your Keith has been busy I would definitely get him some marigolds trimmed with faux fur ~ he sounds like he has earned them :o) we used to have frogs come into the Garage and had to clear them away before we could park the car ~ couldn't bear the thought of running over them :o) ~ Those flowers look very exotic but have no idea what they are called ~ Angie that cake is beautiful ~ Ally x
19/03/08 13:25
Gwyn