Monday, 13-07-26

 Morning, everyone!  A new week begins and they reckon it will stay sunny and pretty warm.  Just as long as it stays as it was yesterday - hot, yes, but not humid and with a nice breeze.

Yesterday went pretty well.  I did, however, have a bit of a mini disaster with the bread.

When I bake my bread, I do a cold bake and I cover the tin I put the dough in with a other tin, bake for about 25 mins, remove the covering tin and finish the loaf off.
However, yesterday the yeast was super active (the warmth, probably) and rose up to the top of the covering tin (which I hadn't oiled because that's never happened before) - and it stuck.   Oh, the fun I had getting it out and you can see that I wasn't entirely successful!
I left the other one to cool down before tackling it and, once cooler, the bread came away well.  So I know what to do if that happens again.
So Beth got one loaf, albeit a very high one that looked as if I had stuck two normal loaves together!
Ands the one in the photo is now sliced and in my freezer.  Ugly loaves taste just as good as pretty ones, after all!

And Lindsey's sourdough was fine.

I did something I have meant to do for a while and that is to opt out of the winter fuel payments.   This coming year I won't have to save it and pay it pack through tax.

And, finally, my hearing aid is fine so that's good.

Interestingly, after two days of watering cans, I discover that while Anglia Water has a hosepipe ban, Essex and Suffolk Water doesn't - yet - and we're under the latter round here.  Yay, back to the easy option (for a while, anyway).

Today, I am off to circuits first thing and then Kay is over to sort my downstairs out, bless her, while I deal with all the baby foxgloves in the middle bed, some of which are going into a spare pot for now.

Then, this afternoon, I am off into school to watch the Year 6 show - it think it is called 'Gigglebox' so it should be funny.
This is what the online bumph says:

Tonight, school is taking over the TV!

Join the Parker family for an evening glued to the screen by a riveting schedule of TV shows, all of which have one thing in common…school! There’s edge-of-your-seats drama, devilishly-difficult quizzes, calamitous cooking challenges, tortuous talent searches, make-over madness…and much more! With giggles galore, these televisual treats go to prove just what a fun-filled place school really is, and why the memories we make there last forever!

AND . . . I will have SIX little tomatoes from the garden in my lunch salad!!!

Did you all have a good weekend too?  

See you tomorrow.  xx