Mundane News

[Reynard]

It's been a mostly sunny and rather chilly day after a very cold night. Nowhere nearly as cold as yesterday though.

Did not have the best of nights as I couldn't get comfy thanks to my back playing up. Still, onwards and upwards. Spent the morning doing things like putting away yesterday's groceries, refilling the fruit bowls and sorting out culinary ingredients. Also put the black pudding into the freezer as I shan't get round to using it before next week.

The Pont Leveque cheese is also destined for the freezer. But I shall let it ripen for a bit first though, before swapping it for one of the squishy cheeses currently living in the freezer.

Had a lovely luncheon of a ham & cheese toastie, fruit and a

This afternoon's tasks involved splitting a load more firewood, topping up some of the bins in the house, and then having a kitchen afternoon in order to make a nice big pot of beetroot soup. That's accounted for the last of the 4kg of freebie beetroot that I picked up last autumn while out on a bicycular bimble.

Now sat by the fire with a nice prior to sorting out the rest of tonight's supper.

 

[classic33]

I just swept the flat.

Did it need doing?

 

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Chicken curry almost ready

 

[Andy in Germany]

Did it need doing?

I had to catch some of the bugs living there before they developed language skills.

 

[classic33]

I had to catch some of the bugs living there before they developed language skills.

Maybe they have already, you just don't understand them.

 

[Mike_P]

Noted not quite as chilly as yesterday as the household rubbish wheelie had a trip to the end of the drive. The birds seem to agree as they have scoffed around 4/5th of what they got through yesterday.
Sainsbury's cod less again so Waitrose visited as well for some hake and I used up the last of last weeks vouchers on a slab of cheese.
Followed a complete clown, went through a red then i caught up with him at the next set of lights after which turned left from the right hand lane and disappeared only for a while later to be found separated by one car.

 

[biggs682]

Evening cuppa soon disappeared.

 

[Illaveago]

Out of 49 days so far this year we have had 33 grey days!

 

[Jenkins]

Home by mid afternon , the overnight bag was restocked with fresh snacks and clean smalls and is now back by the front door ready for Wednesday's day away. By the time I'd done that and had a quick coffee, there was still plenty of time and sunshine (plus a nagging cold wind) to pop out on a bike for an hour of very fresh air.

It's now getting close to hot chocolate time.

 

[Jenkins]

Out of 49 days so far this year we have had 33 grey days!

There's also been few - if any - of those 'mild for this time of year' days.

 

[Reynard]

Fabby supper of barszcz czerwony (Polish beetroot soup*), then whole sea bass baked with tarragon & capers, buttered new potatoes and steamed savoy cabbage.

* also contains onion, shallot (as the onion was a bit tiddly), carrot, celery, cooking apple (in this case a Cottenham seedling) and a generous bunch of parsley.

The vast majority of the ingredients were freebies (beetroot, apple, parsley from the garden), on a clubcard offer (carrots) or on yellow sticker (sea bass, tarragon, shallots, potatoes and butter).

 

[tyred]

I did venture out for a bike ride this evening. A lovely night for it - clear, dry, moonlit but deceptively breezy. I only intended a short ride to see how my back would be , but it was absolutely fine, so I did about 18 miles. I hope I don't regret it tomorrow!

My back seems to be more or less normal again now, the exercises the physio gave me to do each morning seem to do the trick. The only thing that seems to cause problems is the chair I have at work. My home office chair is much more supportive.

 

[Illaveago]

I'm watching RAF Top Gun programme. Very sad.

What I don't get with the training of the Typhoon pilots is the way in which they are tested after 6 months of training. If they failed to lock on to a hostile target in their test then they are rejected. This seems an awful waste of training. What if the next 2 failed? Why not give them a second chance with a bit more training and experience? I noticed a similar thing reading Geoffrey Wellam's book First Light WW2 fighter pilot. A lot of good pilots were kicked off the course because they didn't meet certain standards. I think they were trying to be too elitist!

 

[Gravity Aided]

I see that the Americans have sent their team of highly trained negotiators to Saudi Arabia fresh out of high school.

Are you sure they are graduates?
I do not recall American high Schools having any curriculum about throwing people under the bus.
I do not know about American High Schools now, we just had three tiers
Vocational Education-which sent you toward the trades and mechanic jobs
Regular High School -which aimed you at nothing in particular, a general education.
College- Bound -which gave you a preparatory education. A more challenging course of study.
All I ever knew about was college-bound, which was the course of education for most of my family and friends.
We had placement testing in junior high school, 7th and 8th years. That determined your future.