He comes home when I whistle

Posted on December 30, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cold, Eating, Fun, In the garden, Life, Love, Mooching, Outdoor cat, Sleeping on the bed, Whistle, WinterLeave a comment

The outdoor cat is now more of an outside cat. I call his name (he remains anonymous here) and whistle him and he comes in. I have to wait a few minutes while he mooches round the garden. He woke me up this morning by lying on me in bed for a cuddle, then up he got and slipped downstairs. I followed to let him out ( my indoor cats) also anonymous, have been out a couple of times but end up hiding under garden benches. They are a lot smaller and I think would get picked on by the ginger Tom who also patrols our garden.

After half an hour and a decaff coffee to warm me up, I whistled him about three times and he came back in from the cold and dark. He’s eating biscuits at the moment, having his fill. Next? He might go out to mooch again, but I hope he stays in.

By the way, I don’t know how many people whistle their cats, but it seems to carry better. I’ve done it since I was a child I developed some notes along the line of a ‘cat where are you?’ tune….ah he’s gone back upstairs…. Bye

Belgian chocolates

Posted on December 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chocolate, Christmas, Eating, Food, Milk tray, Photo, Romance, Sugar, Tasty, Treat2 Comments

Oh no! Hubby bought chocolates for Christmas, a big box…. But then we decided to open them. I’ve had five and feel really guilty and a bit ill. Hubby’s eaten about ten! We should not do this. It’s not healthy. But I couldn’t resist the sweet and smooth flavours of them. I’m going to put them in the back of a cupboard so they can be enjoyed next week with our coffee.

When I was a child there used to be adverts of a man scaling a wall in the dark, climbing through a window and leaving a box of chocolates with a card… Not sure but I think it had the man’s silhouette on it? The tag line was ‘and all because the lady loves milk tray’. Chocolates were romantic in those days, not the cause of diabetes!

🌰 Chesnuts

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bang!, Chesnuts, Christmas, Cooking, Eating, Food, Heat, Memory, Oven, Snack, Superheated2 Comments

Memory from seven years ago on Facebook. Hubby decided to bake some Chestnuts- but they were not cooked so he put them back in the oven- 10 minutes later- BANG! One had exploded, he was shouting ow- so I came down to find him taking the roasting dish out of the oven- and using my jumper as an oven glove, he proceeded to try and break them open first with the garlic press, then with the nutcrackers- the chestnut did not pop- it exploded all over the work surface, I grabbed some kitchen towel and we used that to wrap the superheated chestnuts to break them open….

Cygnet

Posted on November 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baby swan, Bird, Bird food, Canal, Cygnet, Eating, Etruria, Food, Stoke-on-Trent, Trent and merseyLeave a comment

This cygnet came over to see us while we were by the canal today. Sadly I had nothing to feed it. If I had thought I would have taken some brown bread. You are really supposed to feed them grain, but signs went up a few years ago saying don’t feed birds bread and some birds starved in the winter. I think the important thing is to give birds small bits of bread, if it’s big lums it can swell up in their crops and clog them up, also I guess it might be better if it’s a bit wet? Not sure, but as long as its not mouldy….Next time we visit I will take some bread x

Off to collect

Posted on November 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eating, Food, Life, papaya, Restaurant, Take away, Tasty, ThaiLeave a comment

A Thai curry.

The restaurant we go to is closed to customers inside but they are doing a takeaway service. The food is always lovely and tonight I’m collecting some papaya salad. And some lamb curry. Tasty

Fruit

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dessert, Eating, Food, Fruit, Humour, Juicy, Photo, Pineapple, Poem, Poetry, Succulent, Sweet, Tasty, YellowLeave a comment

That pineapples looking sad,

Spotted leaves are wilting

It looks like it’s ripened

I must carve its flesh

Before it’s too late

Sweet yellow and sharp

Shall we have custard or cream?

Or just plain and succulent?

Last time we had one..

Ten years. Fifteen

Really..

Looking forward to it.

But is the pineapple?

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt, old.

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Eating, Face, Food, Hubby, Ink, Kept moving, Pattern, Permanent markers, Picture, Portrait, Tea4 Comments

My hubby, forty years together and we are both getting old. Various marker pens on cartridge paper. He didn’t keep still or I would have done a better job on it. I’ve bought a few more permanent marker pens. Some are OK, but some seriously smell of something like acetone? I used a silver pen to try and add grey to his hair and reflections/highlights on his face.

Just out the oven

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baking, Bran, Bread, Bread and cheese, Cooking, Eating, Home made bread, Loaf, Oats, Oil, Water, YeastLeave a comment

It’s looking OK. Bread made from a kit, added a few rolled oats and a bit of bran.

I used oats on the outside once it had proved and been knocked back. When I took it out of the bowl to put into a Pyrex flan dish it had trebled in size. It only shrank slightly when I put it in the dish. The kit I had used contained yeast and had mixed seed in it. It was cooked on gas mark eight (high heat) for twenty five minutes. Now it needs to cool. The loaf needs turning ouf of the flan dish but it’s too hot at the moment. I don’t have any oven gloves so will use a tea towel. Will have a bit later on with bread and cheese if it’s OK?

Fresh blackberries with chocolate icecream

Posted on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blackberries, Blogging, Chocolate icecream, Dessert, Eating, Fruit, Gardening, Icecream, Pear tree, Plum tree, Random, Summer, Sweet4 Comments

Ice cold from the fridge, picked half an hour before and rinsed under the cold tap. Fresh from the garden fence (growing through from the neighbours garden), we had a bit of chocolate icecream in the freezer so we added that to the berries. Lots of our fruit plants have been profligate this year. Except for the plum trees? I think the blossom might have got blown off because they are not in a sheltered part of the garden.

The pear tree is almost horizontal, held up with a piece of wood. There are lots of pears set. Maybe I could make a Perry? I could do with a recipe. Mmm getting ideas…

Salad for tea

Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged ccolour, Eating, Food, Gnocchi, Layout app, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Salad, Tasty, TeatimeLeave a comment

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Just wanted a cool meal

Lettuce and radish

Avocado and tomato

Tsatsiki and spring onion

Spiralised cucumber

Egg and celery

Potato Gnocchi

Low calorie Mayo,

Yum!

Mallaband-Brown

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