There is always the real cheat french onion soup
Start with a jar of onion marmalade
Heat it up gently add brandy to burn off alcohol add beef stock…
Bubble and serve
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Long-distance Hugs, Fishy.
I have just had a neck/shoulder/arm/hand & back massage.
I feel 2" taller
Carinthia.xx
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Ooh, that is a cunning ruse, Twellsy. I’d be a little concerned about it being on the sweet side, perhaps. But it has been filed in the Gusly brane under Wizard Wheezes.
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In order to do that I would have to go out and buy some onion marmalade… No, I think not.
It is all too much faff.
I shall go back to reading and listening to Holst’s Planet Suite, which I find good when I am feeling too feeble for Beethoven or Bix.
Good about the massage, Carinthia; they can be terrific.
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Ah.
Pluto, the bringer of Kleenex?
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Is there any Stoo left, Fishy?
That would do the trick
Carinthia.xx
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I put my coat in the side pocket of my big case this morning & when the case was weighed, it was exactly 23kg.
The lady at the Check-in desk was most impressed.
Carinthia.xx
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That is real Skill, Dahlink. Did you tell her there was a kitchen sink in there?
G xx
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Just be careful not to spill any into the soup
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I am hoping that Gus will be proud of me
In Tesco there was a child complete with safety helmet charging around at high speeds on a scooter
I spoke to five staff about this
Once I got their attention on the subject of customer service as opposed to their sex lives
A pathetic
“I suppose I could get Security to speak to the child “
I happened to see the child’ Owner and several years of bile were poured over the Mama
She tried to pity me for being so unhappy
I asked her if she would be happy when I tripped on the wee girl and squished her
Scooter into Mama ‘s trolley
Gus is rubbing off on me
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I am indeed, and hereby award you a 
.
Why they do not have to be tethered outside like dogs eludes me.
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Have one from me too for doing a Very Good Thing. A service to humanity, that.
I’m awarding a to OH too, or should I call him TFD (TFSD actually but that’s neither here nor there). Not only has he nursed me like a professional, um, nurse for the last 3 days, when I finally got up this morning he stripped the bed & washed the bedding. Then when he asked me what solid food I thought I could eat and all I could think of was a cottage pie, he made me one. And this afternoon he has trimmed the hedge into the bargain, so now I can see the sea from my window again.
I am very spoiled.
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I think (sometimes) that parents are unable/unwilling to see how their children’s behaviour can impact on others and that calling out brattishness can only be a Good Thing. Children being allowed to roam free in restaurants, for example, drives me bonkers. Children having meltdowns are less likely to iiritate me, when I can see that the fraught parent is doing all they can to cope and I tend to non-verbally express a bit of solidarity. Our two (very young, at the time) were being absolute shoites in a small room adjoining a main restaurant and managed to clear the room of two couples. This was, fortunately, a rarer than hens’ teeth occurrence and we caused it by inflicting two very, very hungry small kinder upon people.
I have made a mixed bean and pepper chilli which, although it would be a further assault upon our Lovely Fishers’ well-being, tastes pretty good to me.
TFD deserves a 
, too, for being a thoroughly Good Egg.
Soo xx
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Yumski! A good vegetable chilli is a very fine thing (although not for legume-avoiding, unfortunate Fish, of course)
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With all the soup-making that seems to be going on, is this a good time to mention a brown loaf about to enter the oven?
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Always, joe. Let us know when it comes out, though!
Soo xx
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Is there ever a bad time to mention that sort of thing?
I did realise, after posting, that today is scarcely French Onion Soup weather, being somewhat warm. But it attained mythic status in the family as a treatment for colds.
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When you’re standing between the Chatelaine and the oven?
(It’s a very polite trampling…)
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I am inclined to be sympathetic with parents who have to bring childer shopping
I go so far as to talk to the weans and be aclown to raise a smile
Racing on wheels is fun if in a proper place
Now Friday beer has happily so my knitting has been put aside
I have enough trouble with a pattern without beer confuddling the small brain I have
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At the risk of sounding obsessed with the subject of soup*, I was somewhat perplexed just now to discover small sample sachets of soup for cats in Captain Idiot’s cartons of his usual food.
- I am, a bit; I think it’s hereditary (from my father’s side)
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