Weekend!!!!! Yessssssssssssssssssssss . . .
Yesterday was SEN day and I got things done that have been hanging fire for ages so that was a great relief. Particularly good was the afternoon when I had an informal 'meeting' with one of our LSAs to discuss and write an IEP. I felt it was highly successful and we came away with a very useful and relevant piece of paperwork, which isn't always the case although I do try very hard to make it so. Education is obsessed with bits of paper, you know. Yes, it's all worked out on screen but then you have to print out multiple copies of everything to scatter around. Paperless office? Huh!!! They don't believe you unless it's all on a bit of paper!
One of my little dears gave away a secret. She was chatting about her holiday (her family is going away for a few days over the weekend) and suddenly segued into talking about a surprise for me on Tuesday - 'a nice surprise, Mrs Clark, do you like nice surprises?' I almost said 'I like naughty surprises' but remembered to whom I was talking and did the conventional thing. So I have that to look forward to, whatever it is!
There's nothing specifically planned for today, thank goodness. George is coming, unless it rains, in which case he isn't coming.
The snails are crawling back from wherever they went to over winter and have started to attach my hostas, so I'm afraid I will have no mercy! Slug pellets! You think they'd learn, wouldn't you?
I'm trying a couple of new recipes, which I will tell you about if they are OK. One's from one of those freebie mags I mentioned earlier and the other is from BBC Easy Cook.
I hope to finish off R's sock which means lots of sitting with the telly on. Oh, the hardship!
And I suppose I need to do some housework at some stage. I have guests next weekend so I can't procrastinate for much longer.
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Saturday, 21 April 2012
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Wednesday
Good morning, everyone. No frost today but brrrrr, it's still cold, as I found when I took a few things out to the freezer this morning. I really should have put something on my feet first!!
It's ironic that as soon as the hosepipe ban starts, so does the rain! Yesterday was a beaut - pouring as the children came to school, pouring at morning play, OK at lunchtime and in infant afternoon play we had about five minutes and then it started again, not for long but hard enough to take them all back in again. Then the wind picked up in the evening and, because of the howling gale blowing through my home, I discovered that the spare bedroom window was open - properly open, not tilt and turn - and there was considerable dampness on the window sill, so goodness knows how long it's been open. The handle was turned up, right up, not sideways for T&T or down for closed. Ah well, that'll teach me to check them a bit more often, won't it? Once the window was closed properly and the heating turned up for a short time, all was warm and cosy again.
Yesterday evening was a bit of a food crash disaster. I had a proper meal planned but was rather tired (I know, only two days back) and succumbed to the delights of bread, butter, cheese and a few leftover biccies, none of which I particularly enjoyed, but there you go. Back on the waggon this morning and moving on is the name of the game, for sure.
I'm somewhat addicted to those glossy food mags. You know the ones - the likes of Delicious, Olive, BBC Good Food, etc. They're fun to read, relaxing, pleasurable and they have this habit of including 'free' little recipe booklets, some of which are amazingly good. In the last cycle of mags there were two 'healthy' type booklets, one with thirty recipes in and the other with forty. One is entitled '30 Healthy Recipes' and the other '40 Low-Fat Recipes'. You know, there are more useful, sensible, accessible recipes in each of those booklets than in a six month reading of the main mags and I will be using them as a basis for my culinary efforts for the next six months or so. I can't cook all that often as I have a freezer full of pre-cooked dishes to work through and a desire to be more frugal, but I will definitely be using them. One has even been christened in the bath, it's so interesting.
And for my reader-friend who thinks I'm weird to find recipes fun to read, ya boo fizz, so there! :0)
It's ironic that as soon as the hosepipe ban starts, so does the rain! Yesterday was a beaut - pouring as the children came to school, pouring at morning play, OK at lunchtime and in infant afternoon play we had about five minutes and then it started again, not for long but hard enough to take them all back in again. Then the wind picked up in the evening and, because of the howling gale blowing through my home, I discovered that the spare bedroom window was open - properly open, not tilt and turn - and there was considerable dampness on the window sill, so goodness knows how long it's been open. The handle was turned up, right up, not sideways for T&T or down for closed. Ah well, that'll teach me to check them a bit more often, won't it? Once the window was closed properly and the heating turned up for a short time, all was warm and cosy again.
Yesterday evening was a bit of a food crash disaster. I had a proper meal planned but was rather tired (I know, only two days back) and succumbed to the delights of bread, butter, cheese and a few leftover biccies, none of which I particularly enjoyed, but there you go. Back on the waggon this morning and moving on is the name of the game, for sure.
I'm somewhat addicted to those glossy food mags. You know the ones - the likes of Delicious, Olive, BBC Good Food, etc. They're fun to read, relaxing, pleasurable and they have this habit of including 'free' little recipe booklets, some of which are amazingly good. In the last cycle of mags there were two 'healthy' type booklets, one with thirty recipes in and the other with forty. One is entitled '30 Healthy Recipes' and the other '40 Low-Fat Recipes'. You know, there are more useful, sensible, accessible recipes in each of those booklets than in a six month reading of the main mags and I will be using them as a basis for my culinary efforts for the next six months or so. I can't cook all that often as I have a freezer full of pre-cooked dishes to work through and a desire to be more frugal, but I will definitely be using them. One has even been christened in the bath, it's so interesting.
And for my reader-friend who thinks I'm weird to find recipes fun to read, ya boo fizz, so there! :0)
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