Sunday, 12-11-23

 Good morning, everyone.  Welcome to Sunday morning.  It's still dark so no hints about the weather to come yet but yesterday was another truly beautiful day.  Cold, mind you, but inside, with the sun shining through the windows, was cosy.

Yesterday was gentle but nice.

Lindsey's live online SET class was a great start to the day.  The connection dropped at one point but I got straight back in so didn't miss much at all.  SHe should call them Winter Warmers - they really warm the blood and get the circulation going and I ought to access them daily (she has recordings on Facebook)

The newsletter from the Broomfield coach trip organisers came through (it is monthly plus top ups if needed) and I now have a day trip to Canterbury booked for next june or July, I forget which.  It's somewhere I've always wanted to go but never have, packed with history, a Cathedral and so on.  Plenty of time to do some homework, book things if necessary, etc.  You always get more from a visit with a bit of planning, don't you?

During the afternoon, I went into the kitchen to make some quick puff pastry in Thermione.  I used to subscribe to the Delia school of 'life is too short to make your own puff pastry' but it really is easy with a thermomix (or any decent food processor, in fact).
It takes time, like bread, but you're not at it all the time, it's the resting times, and it does make a really nice pastry.
I now have a block of it sitting wrapped in the fridge, I have just taken out the filling for Delia's not-sausage rolls and later on I will put the two together.  I won't need all the pastry so the rest will freeze in small amounts - you don't need a lot to top a pie for one, do you?

This next made me very, very happy - I was trawling through the blogs I follow and comment on and when I read Sooze's, I was so pleased and so glad for her.  After waiting quite a while, she and 'him outside' have been offered a bungalow to move to.  They're going to look at it quickly and my fingers are very firmly crossed that it will be just perfect - or as perfect as it needs to be because, after all, one always wants to put one's own stamp and vibe on a home.  But isn't that brilliant?

Today, Sunday, has a few things on the list.
I am off to Sainsbury's at ten.  That's because I'm running out of non-food items like dishwasher powder, washing up liquid, etc.  I tend to get more than one this this sort of thing so it's not a weekly or even a monthly things but now and again . . .
There's also some foody bits and Sainsbury's has some of the food I want to get so . . .

I will make those not-sausage rolls except that they will be little pasty shaped thingies rather than cylindrical.  And they will go back in the freezer - yes, refreezing the middle, but there's no animal products in it and I will be quick - and I've done it before.  It's not dangerous as meat would be.

In the freezer I found some chopped strawberries (from Lathcoats) intended to make strawberry gin so I will get some gin this morning, add sugar and the strawberries and after several weeks of shaking and standing, Bob's your uncle - a strawberry gin liqueur!

In between times, I'm getting on with yarn stash reduction by making more granny squares.  I can really see a difference not - some of the balls are tiny and will be gone soon.  It keeps my hands busy and warm too and I feel less guilty about sitting 'doing nothing' if I'm working on something.
(I know that doesn't make sense but I know what I mean!)

Goodness, what a load of waffle.  I will stop now and get ready for the day.  Hope yours is as good as I'd like mine to be.  xx