Peggy's Mundane Thread

been to St Budo Kwop, bought some lunches and posted 3 parcels in the PO.

Removing and cleaning the carbs on me bike, a bloody nightmare!

Carbs off and clutch cable ripped off, now it's just me and Sparksy for the afternoon!

Knocked down a concrete block wall & fixing new railway sleepers on top of old ones.

Had to pop to Tragoes for some extra long screws.

At work for another hour and a half. Usual stuff. I want to go home.

Oh, hold on, the kids will doing home learning, maybe I can get a bit of overtime in and be late home from work!

Dear oh dear, it can't get much more mundane and suburban than you last three.... the only thing missing is a Plympton lawnmower. It all feels a bit like Donnie Darko before it all goes haywire. Watch out for the wabbit, that's all I can say

Well I made the best of the beautiful weather this morning by getting out of the house and going over to Mount Edgecumbe for a long walk. Catching the ferry back in time to get some chips in Elviras before they closed, naturally.

Need to go to the post office tomorrow. And to get milk and bananas.

Went to a garden centre all day

Well they had cider tasting (tried 11 different varities ) and was going to say thanks but I won't buy any but Kaz said I was being tight and bought 3 bottles!

The kids played on mini tractors and had a go at pressing apples, and there was a free hog roast

Could have had a totally free day there but we did buy some refreshments. A small bottle of ginger beer £2.95 and no nectar points! A cup of coffee cost £2.45 and tasted exactly the same as a 99p cup of coffee.

Madigan?

Marked a lovely day by getting up late, having a very late/breakfast with my daughter/saying what a lovely day it was/driving her to the station/having a freezer curry with a variety of drinks/having some more drinks with chocolate and listening to David Sedaris as well as various music from youtube. And soon to bed......

Did I mention that I got a pair of AKG 451 headphones for my birthday?

Although is touch expensive for the 'budget' tag they've been given, they are quite brilliant.

And they fold up for travel.

Richer Sounds have them at almost half the price of John Lewis...

Physically very weary tonight after a testing weekend of hard labour - two Scrumpy Jacks & a cloudy Addlestones down so far tonight...

Put the kids and wife to bed. Having a pear cider and will watch downton later!

If you look at my house on Google maps, you can see me looking at the Street View car like a slack-jawed yokel.....

Car with a camera on the roof.....what will they think of next?

Privacy-invading gits.

If you look at my address on google street maps, you can just make out Tony Hooper sat taking photo's from the neighbours apple tree!

I've just bought myself a genuine US Army Issue M65 Parka. As it was on E-bay I also get nectar points

Sometimes I go through phases where life is in repeat mode. I had to go out this evening: saw a cat sitting by the road on the way there, and saw another cat sitting by another road on the way home.

Also, I keep encountering the word 'paradigm'.

Took my mum for her flu jab today. They also gave her a pneumonia jab.

She was a bit wobbly after, bless her.

Flu jab booked in for Saturdays,

Nice walk and coffee in Devonport Park yesterday, met nice man called Phil who had moved down from London.

My battery charger has gone and snuffed it along with the tumble dryer last week and the bloody kettle two days later

O and I am now out of bananas (sigh)

Thought I was going out tonight and would be in a hurry so bought a shop curry. The curry was boring and the evening cancelled.

That's life.

built a georgeous stew tonight, big assortment of vegetables with beef and dumplings

Im having trouble with stew lately. Can't seem to get the stock right.

I used to use Oxo (3 beef cubes and 1 veg = 4)

Then someone recommended the Knorr stock cubes. This is where the trouble started.

Oxo recommend 190ml of water per cube, which I'd say is about right. But Knorr recommend 450ml per cube - and the cubes are similar size.

I think Knorr are taking the piss. One cube in 450 ml of water does not a lot, except turn the water a slightly dirty colour.

I'm emptying my cache on the (yet again wretchedly late) 1903hrs Paddington to Newton Abbot.

I had a left over Sunday roast for tonight dinner, without any potatoes

Czarcasm wrote:

Im having trouble with stew lately. Can't seem to get the stock right.

I used to use Oxo (3 beef cubes and 1 veg = 4)

Then someone recommended the Knorr stock cubes. This is where the trouble started.

Oxo recommend 190ml of water per cube, which I'd say is about right. But Knorr recommend 450ml per cube - and the cubes are similar size.

I think Knorr are taking the piss. One cube in 450 ml of water does not a lot, except turn the water a slightly dirty colour.

Find one beef cube enough with a spoonful of marmite instead of a veg cube. rest of flavour and thickening comes from the meat and veg. Cromble the cube in to the dry stewpan and cover with water, add the rest of ingredients top up the water and stir in the marmite.