The dumplings, made with last year’s suet, were terrific! Hey, I can cook dumplings! Yay me! Yay them! Ti-ra-la-la-i-tu! I gloat! Hear me!
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Loud and clear and Well Done, Fishers!
Soo xx
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[happy erpity]
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The promised snow is happening.
Carinthia. xx
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AttaFishy! Not drooling here at all, honest. Well, maybe just a bit.
Small birds welcome suet in these lean months. Just sayin’.
The time I made ones that sank and clanked around the bottom of the cauldron in a frankly sinister fashion, it wasn’t the failure I minded as much as the offsprog’s eagerness to inform everyone in the known universe just how crap they had been*. Mind you, they had been Specially Requested, and I usually turn out a very decent dumpling.
Shame and ignominy, recollected in the memory of gravy.
[weepity] and so to bed.
*and remind me about it for years, dammit.
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Ah, no weepities, Gus. DD - every time, it seemed, that I’d sprung a new dish upon the lot of them - would exclaim that ‘it was niiiiice, but I wouldn’t want it every day’. Pffft.
Soo xx
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I was dragged up knowing what gorgeous pillowy flavour bombs and gravy moppers up dumplings are and not being able to get them except while staying with Grandma in Bradford
My mother hated em so I had to teach myself how to make em
bout the only thing about the only thing my father expressed pleasure in my catering service while my mother spent many many months in hospital
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Afternoon all
I got my nails done today a soft green with a turquoise shimmery sparkle over it
I think it looks nice for the Spring that is in the air
Daffodils in full bloom outside Tesco really cheer one up
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I have Snowdrops & Croci, but itizz too cold fer Daffs here ATM.
I thought that I had posted yesterday, but I had an extended Snoozette when I got back from the Orsepiddle.
Carinthia. xx
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How went the horseypiddle dear one
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Over the past year or so the ornamental-key-shaped knobs on the drawers and cupboards in my kitchen have become progressively less satisfactory, untwiddling themselves gradually from the screws which go through the drawers or doors and hold the knobs in place, and in one case stripping just enough not to go back on properly at all. And each time it has happened, it isn’t just a case of just screwing up the screw from inside the drawer, because each drawer has a false front on it. So you have to undo four screws holding on the front, then tighten the screw to the knob, then re-seat and do up the screws holding on the front. Fiddly and time-consuming.
This meant, essentially, that we needed fourteen new knobs. (The other eleven are a different sort and were and are fine.) Now, I know which DIY shop the ones we have must have come from, because there is a drawer in their door-knob section which is pulled out using just such a knob. It is empty, and has been all year. And on the internet I could buy ten, or I could buy twenty, or I could buy six, but not two at a time. But!
Yesterday I found a site where knobs that appeared identical to the good ones I have were being sold in groups of four, and in groups of ten. So I ordered some, at about 8.30 last night, and blow me down, they were delivered at ten to eight this evening!
What’s more, I have fitted one, and they fit and they do up tight and they work. Now I can look forward to dismantling and then remantling thirteen more drawers, and I will suffer no more from knobs that are inclined to come off in me 'and. I am a happy fish.
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Oof
Sorry Twellsy. I wasn’t being rude, I honestly thought that I had replied.
I am trying Steroids for a month to see if we can gee-up my system a bit. I spent 4 months on Antibiotics until December, & missed out on an awful lot of my Methotrexate. I am back on it now, but am in the midst of a flare, & my hands are like 2llbs of thick Sossinges ATM.
I haven’t felt too clever today after negotiating delayed ‘buses yesterday in the intense cold & wet.
Carinthia. xx
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Not a “like” like, Carinthia; and I hope things settle down a bit as speedily as possible.
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You poor dear Chatelaine
I am just trying to let you know that we care
I have been munching steroids since Christmas so I am able to stay out of hospital so I understand that meds can be a pita and get out of kilter when emergency measures are needed
What a resourceful Fish we have
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I am making mushroom & garlic soup, wiv added chicken, in an attempt to drive a few bugs away.
The kitchen smells fabulous. How I will smell when I have eaten it may not be so fabulous…
Carinthia. xx
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Who cares dear as long as you enjoy it!
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Hissing it down here too.
Soup is served.
Don’t get it on yer fevvers, Birdie
Carinthia. xx
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