Possessed Laptop

So....I wrote this REALLY long post about the health benefits I am experiencing from barley tea, and no milk, as recommended by Mother..who is not speaking to me, incidentally). I have been ill....virus...cold bones, can't lift body out of bed type of thing. No excuse to her....sigh....Ah well....bugger!!

Anyway, the laptop went loopy and I lost most of my post.....arghhhhh!!! I am senile, I cannot possibly remember what I wrote so....Argghhhh....again!!!!!:o)

Laptop also decides to jump lines, so sorry it I don't notice. It also has generated vertical yellow lines in the spaces?

Anyway, ah yes, I was cold in bed last night. It was freezing, even with 3 mogs on the bed!! I did not sleep well. But, come morning, I literally jumped out of bed. Yay. Didn't last long, though. Still...progress:o))) Hands were normal size...not double swollen.

We rescued last night's incinerated pud from the oven this morning.....sigh.....will need to soak the dish for months....sigh....

Tonight's pud was shop bought.

Still...look on the bright side.......We is still poor!!! lol

Son no 1 rings twice a day. He is sweet.....but we are often at loggerheads. We have an attitude problem....his.....although he would disagree on this point. He is a bit headstrong and can be a tad unsympathetic, blinkered and impatient. Anyway....he is NAGGING me to go see the quack (allopathic doctor) about the rickety joints. I do not trust them...sorry and would rather see a herbalist...but consultation fees are £100. Wary of seeing docs due to by-product of gallstones and watching my dad become addicted to painkillers and dying. So, herbal remedies I am going for...atm.

Today, Junior and I 'did' the last bit of the Romans, then World War 2, learning about so called socialists and what they can do to you. She see's similarities in today's lot of politicians..aka the government mp's.

Anyway, weren't they great...the Home Guard? My brother was born at the end of WW2. He knows EVERYTHING about it and collects books/dvd's/videos on the subject.....an expert on Doom and Gloom, so to speak. If Junior decides to do an A level in it, she will be tutored to A* standard. He is Mr Happy-go-Lucky in real life...Mr Nice:o)) xx

Am chilling out with my new-found, pain-free hand joints.....Alisha's Attic on the cd player....has chilled out 7 cats so far!! lol

Exotic Lessons

Junior has been helping make dinner. She is now into apple crumble. Anyway, we did not possess any...or any apples to make our own. We did, however, have some frozen fruit, which we got for smoothie mixes.

So, I shows her how to make the crumble topping, with porridge for added crunch. Yum... Then, we proceed to sort out the fruit. Me thinks it a good idea to warm it up first in a little sugar/marg mix....sort of toffee sauce:o) Then adds a bit of cinnamon and ginger. Luvly jubbly!

So, J puts fruit into baking dish and tops with crumble. We take photos, which is inspired!!

'What shall we call this little invention?', she asks Crumble Surprise says I!!

Yay! Bloody surprise it was, too.

Exotic fruits like mango, papaya, pineapple and banana don't like being baked for very long, do they? Not like your run of the mill apple crumbles.

So, what a surprise!! We had no desert.....just lots of smoke and a burnt pud...and oven to clean in the morning...when it has cooled down and stopped oinking of incinerated offering. No piccy of burnt pud. Oven is still holding it hostage and I cannot cope with any more smoke, so will wail for it to go stone cold before dumping it in bin. So, use your imagination re state of eagerly anticipated pudding. lol

I am obviously not one for culinary inventions:o) Bugger!!




Crumble topping on

Exotic fruit in toffee sauce













Gratuitous pic of Popeye on favourite cat perch.....my wardrobe!!!

Remedies and Badly Behaving Floors

This week we're going to be looking at what seeds we're going to buy for our garden allotment.

Think we'll do the Square Foot Garden design and use some bigger raised beds for the stuff we want to grow more of. I want more herbs in, especially lavender. I am the world's worst lavender grower!! I can kill it with just one touch!! So, I'm looking for pointers that will reverse this trend!! lol

Junior is the flower girl:o) She absolutely LOVES flowers, so we'll be trying to get some of those grown. When we go shopping, she oohs and aahhs at all the flowers and plants. She is the only kid I know who likes garden centres. So....flowers....I'll leave the supervision up to mother in that department, in view of my lavender-killing tendencies. I MIGHT have a go at growing some myself......well away from Junior's plot. I want fragrance:o) Roses for starters...so I can get rose hip syrup...supposed to be good for arthritis...but too costly in tablet form for moi. And geraniums. My gran used to grow this purply/cornflower blue type which had a slight parma violet smell to it. I can't find it anywhere. Even been known to sniff out the ones in gardens I pass, but no joy. Any suggestions.....anyone out there? Just my luck for it to have become extinct!!

I've just found an arthritis remedy which I can afford:o) Potatoe juice. To be drunk each morning on an empty stomach!! Anyone ever tried that?

I have to go now as Junior is having a tantrum with her bedroom laminate flooring. New wardrobe has shifted a piece....so floor is not perfect...which will simply not do for my girl. lol

Junior liked the colour of these.















Lavender that I managed to kill
















Still managed to kill this cutting, too!

















Lillies. I nearly had a heart attack when I spotted a lily beetle. They are weird little creatures!!

Fed Up

Remember all the hassle we had with the mad cat woman? Well, it seems it's starting, again...the stalking.....

Too many little coincidences have occurred. Sightings of the wretched woman and her cronies near our home, etc Cats have been spooked of late..they growl at such times and 'freeze'...ears up..listening; dog is barking at odd times.. and growling too...not like her at all.

Understatement of the year,,,,I am titsed off!!....so to speak.

Can someone find me a house...away from the nutters of the world?

Dead Legs

Woke up this morning to find that I could not move!!

Ack.....blummin rickety joints!! Once I had 'come round' I realised that I had a certain Popeye on my chest....enjoying 'that' pose...where mogs tuck their front paws under and.....look!! Well, he would have had a good, long look up my hooter, going from his position. Poor lad! lol

Then, I could hear communal purring......3 of them on or about my feet....keeping me warm..bless:o) Feet were dead though, due to weight of felines. lol I think the purring is a 'We are very comfy here...please don't move! type of hint. lol

They are a protective lot:o)))

I think back to my former life (ack) and ex would have had a heart attack at the thought of 4 mogs in the house, let alone on the bed! He will, no doubt, be happy to be free of this and I am so happy to be free of constant premiership football on the tv with accompanying chockablock expletive narrative!

So, today, Junior decides that they need a treat (yet another) and buys them cat milk. They LOVE their young mistress...she has a kind heart....and the dog shares the lurve, too. She is proud owner of new chewie stick....

Son no 1 ia broke, too. Car mot failed. Needed best part of £500 to put it right. No more takeaways for him for a while. lol

Who's a little fart, then?

Ah....bro in law and big bro are visiting this weekend:o) YAY!

This means that my temperamental hoover will be 'looked at. If they fix it...bliss!' If not....arghhh!

My tummy was rumbling yesterday. Cannot think why, given the amount of grub I manage to consume. Junior found this quite funny as she is partial to a bit of toilet humour, seeing as she can be quite noisy in that department. She could give her older brothers a run for their money in any farting competition, I tell you. Mother is good, too, without even knowing that she is partaking:o)) Anyway, this got us into a discussion about the digestive system. We didn't plan it, of course. Just came out!! lol I remember, years ago, while I was doing some biology homework, then boyfriend....who went to a school for clever little things, peered over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that's what my sister means when she calls me orifice!' lol

The tiffin was made and some is still waiting to be eaten. It's too sweet, even for J. Yes!!!!! Could she possibly have had enough of chocolate? It would've been cheaper to buy it ready made. Still....lesson learned:o)

Bus Shelter

What a wonderful piccy!! It was in or around Sheffield and it's a bus shelter with gigantic snow faces. Cool or what? Courtesy of heartshaped