Mundane News

[Speicher]

Not sure it's even sensible, to be honest.

Sounds remarkably like crash dieting to me.

I agree. I think my calories intake would be about 1200 to 1500 per day. I use his recipes for main meals. Using "proper" ingredients means that I do not miss potatoes, pasta or rice. Lunch is as usual, but with no "low fat" spread, todays lunch was one cheese and tomato (medium sized) wholemeal roll.

I have lost nearly a stone since the middle of May, so that is three months. Partly due, I expect, to discontinuing the steroids. I am happy with that rate of loss, but then I am not, as far as I know, prediabetic, and did not gain multiple kilos during lockdown. I gained nine pounds or thereabouts during chemotherapy. It is very strange that sitting in a Chemotherapy session for four or five hours, suddenly snacks become irrestistible. I was under strict instructions not to lose weight.

The chunky fish bites were lovely. My experience led to them being not evenly coated. I like fish fingers, but find the bought ones are very salty, with not immediately identifiable content.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Discovered what was making the kitchen smelly: a potato in my recently bought bag had rotted.

Now the gooey mess at the bottom of the cupboard is gone, and I have a cleaner smelling kitchen.

 

[Speicher]

I may succumb to temptation to buy a plate of cream cakes. Would you like one?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I may succumb to temptation to buy a plate of cream cakes. Would you like one?

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Casting purls before swine?

 

[Jenkins]

A 180 degree slice is still a slice! 😄

Is the correct answer. I was the only one on the late shift yesterday so there was no-one to share with.

 

[mybike]

Would it ever catch up with the aircraft carrier, if you take into account wind speed and the carrier steaming into wind ?

A Cessna 150 can do 125mph, I don't think an aircraft carrier can match that.

 

[Reynard]

Oooooo the drama! This morning I had a visitor...

I was sitting at my computer and glanced out to the garden and saw this:
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He/she had caught a sparrow and thought I might like to watch him/her eating it...
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Then the catch was taken up the garden to a higher perch, where the meal was consumed
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I wanted to get a shot of the bird in flight but it just sat there... for 20 minutes!
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Then the drama. This guy appeared...
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He gave the sparrow hawk the evils... and then struck!
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Then there was a brief standoff...
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... followed by another strike and both birds disappearing over the garden fence. It happened so quickly that I missed the shot altogether! So no shot of a sparrow hawk in flight today then.

DOH!

There's been a sparrowhawk at work in the garden. There are a pile of wood pigeon feathers near the door to the utility room at the back of the garage.

 

[Reynard]

My chutney is nearly ready to jar up.

 

[Reynard]

Snap

Snap...well almost . I have made plum/cinnamon confiture today

Mmmmm, sounds good.

 

[mybike]

Well M&S certainly know how to treat their customers .
My daughter bought me some Luxury hot cross buns and they have altered the recipe and taken a lot of the spice out .
The company has been through a number of top bosses who don't understand who buys their products! The way they are going no one
will !

Much like the opinion my wife holds of their clothes.

 

[Reynard]

Much like the opinion my wife holds of their clothes.

It's been a fair while since I've bought anything in M&S. They used to be my go-to for undercrackers and everyday jeans, but now I buy undies in Decathlon and jeans in the Gap sale as their sizing has gone really shonky.

 

[classic33]

It's been a fair while since I've bought anything in M&S. They used to be my go-to for undercrackers and everyday jeans, but now I buy undies in Decathlon and jeans in the Gap sale as their sizing has gone really shonky.

There could be some "extreme yellow stickering" going on there soon.

 

[fossyant]

Well, that's me done until 1st September - time for a bit of time off. York for an overnight tomorrow, then home and off to the caravan for a little over a week.

 

[Reynard]

There could be some "extreme yellow stickering" going on there soon.

Not from me, there won't be. If there's nowt in there I want, what's the point? The nearest one is in Cambridge anyways...

 

[Reynard]

Chutney all sorted now. Four jars plus the pan scrapings.

The latter are going into tonight's cheese toasties as I can't be arsed to cook. That and the bread is starting to go mouldy, and I don't want to waste it.