It's an odd week. I have a whole row of meetings and am spending half the days getting ready for them or doing stuff arising from them. I'm vastly intimidated by writing down everything I eat and today it's been inconvenient to eat anything much at all, which gives a very bad example to someone with an eating disorder.
I made a particularly nice dishful of kedgeree for the blokes this evening, ate a couple of forkfuls and planned to have a proper meal when I got home at 9 o'clock. They ate it all. Shovelled the lot in. Gannets*. I ate a yoghurt and an orange and drank red wine and whisky. I do not deserve to sleep at all.
However, some considerable satisfaction this morning. Two varieties of tomato are up - Black Russian and Green Zebra, all three of lettuce and a tray of coleus. And Squiffany expressed considerable interest in the whole growing thing, so she sowed more seeds herself. Red cabbage, sweet peas, courgettes and globe artichokes. I have some globe artichokes I grew last year, but the chickens have pecked them badly and most of them haven't survived. If I end up with too many, Al can sell the plants or they can go at the Village Festival in July (they'll be in pretty big pots by then, mind you).
A couple of days ago, when the sun was shining, I walked through a whole cloud of midges. There was a housefly in the greenhouse on Monday and I just swatted away a fruit fly. I've never known this in February before. Absurd.
Tomorrow I'm visiting Windsor Castle. As a tourist, not a guest. Though a Guest of Her Majesty does not necessarily mean that one has been invited to dine at the royal table.
*As you gather, I grew up in the Tony Hancock era
Windsor castle? How come?
ReplyDeleteI hope you bring back some pictures.
Just as a tourist. The Highly Cultural Society wot I'm chairman of is having a visit and then a lecture on the subject in April. With rather bad timing, I booked a holiday so will miss the lecture, but no matter. At least I won't have to get up and give the vote of thanks!
ReplyDeleteMind you, memorising boustrophedon is worth doing a vote of thanks for.
They scoffed your supper? How very dare they! After you prepared it too...blooming men!
ReplyDeleteI am so cross.
Can't you just ... creatively imagine what you would have eaten if you had had the time? It's for a good cause, right (saving a person's life)?
ReplyDeleteHave fun at Windsor! We only looked at the outside, but very much enjoyed Dover castle. I'm sure you know that Dover & Windsor (and maybe another?) were the only castles that sucessfully survived the siege of 1216.
z, i cant help but notice whisky is always brought up when you are talking about drinks! :)
ReplyDeleteand yes, have fun at windsor! i wonder which is much nicer: being a guest or being a tourist.
i guess being a tourist works for me all the time. at least you can leave the place anytime you feel like doing it. whereas, if i happen to be a guest, i still need to reconsider my host's feelings!
a guest of the castle?
ReplyDeletei can come and carry your hat. i'll blend.
Green Zebra?! Off to google for a picture!
ReplyDeleteHow apt! I've just seen 'The Queen'. Loved it. Every bit of it. If you haven't do.
ReplyDeleteWendz, I spoke too soon. I'll put it right in the next post.
ReplyDeleteImperatrix, I've eaten a lot today, that'll make up for it. A proper lunch and then my husband had a sirloin steak waiting for me tonight. I might do a bit of creative accounting in a good cause, but I don't want to sound greedy either (this is shameful, my poor friend could have died).
Oi, Maggie! Cheeky!
I drink wine and beer too, you know!
Jen, we'll blend marvellously. I'll introduce you as my best friend.
Ally, here's a link if you haven't found it - scroll down. I actually bought the seeds from Mr Fothergill I think, last year, but I'd had them before. I usually save seed, but a helpful person cleared the greenhouse for me.
http://www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Tomato_274.html
Pat, I haven't seen it as yet. A friend recommended it, today. She said she loved it too. I've been a bit doubtful about fictionalising actual events.
:) couldn't stop smiling at that post! u know - here in india, since the women mostly serve the rest of the household and all, it most often happens that they only get to eat what is leftover :(
ReplyDeletei once made this 'chutney' (am assuming u know what that is!) for breakfast, and apparently it was a hit - coz everybody (including an aunt who was visiting!) kept raving about it, and whats more - simply polished it all off. i missed my own chutney, but it still gave me a kick of sorts ;o)
D'bum - you'd not have had a look-in if I'd been there either!
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