26-05-25

Good morning, everyone.  Here we are, back to Monday again and a Bank Holiday as well.  The sky looks promising and the sun is shining - at the moment.  The morning forecast looks great, the afternoon not so much but we will see.

This is looking over into next door's garden.  Right at the end they have a tree with a climbing rose that has been there as long as I can remember.  They chop it right back from time to time and back it comes, looking absolutely lovely and giving joy year after year after year,  

I love it.

The chilli pepper seems very happy and is sending out flower buds, loads of them.  It's an Apache, not blisteringly hot but quite hot enough for me, thank you very much.  I always pop some in the freezer and, given that I use chilli flakes, maybe I will dehydrate some in Nellie.

And, finally, plenty of the tomatoes are now throwing out flowers.  Yay!!

I popped over to Morrisons after doing a fridge clear out yesterday morning and (puts on halo) stuck firmly to my shopping list.  Not that it was much cheaper but that's the way of things nowadays, isn't it?

After putting everything away in my newly tidied fridge, I set to and made a couple of batches of soup.

I had a broccoli head that was just turning - you know, when it looks a bit 'rusty' but is still perfectly good - plus a stalk so I threw it all with some other veg into Thermione, cooked, blended and melted in the tail end of a pot of Philly light and it turned out not only very tasty but the loveliest pale green in colour.

To my shame, I discovered two bags of parsnips under the potato bag and they were in poor nick so after peeling and trimming and generally discarding the awful bits, I made some curried parsnip soup, although I need to get some more curry powder, I have no idea how old mine is and the flavour wasn't strong.

I ended up with four portions of cheesy broccoli soup and five of curried parsnip.  Beth is having two of each and the others will do for lazy lunches or those hungry times when you just want a bit more.

I won't be going out today.  Quite apart from the crowds, I have a long, long list of things that need doing and, with no fitness classes, it seems the ideal opportunity to show my home a bit more love.  Things like windows are on top!

I'll feel very satisfied once it is all done and dusted (literally at times).

Are you going out anywhere for Bank Holiday Monday?  xx