Soop's kitchen extension

Ooh my treat of choice? That would be worthy of a thread of its own!
As our (fortnightly) cleaner has just been and the house is pristine, my treat of choice will be 3 hours of either silence or Radio 4, Graceasleep in front of the fire, (oven) fish and chips (well a person can pretend) , no red wine as I will have to pick DH up around 4, but a wee nap (NOT NIP) might also feature. I know how to live life
What would others' treat of choice be?

NanaandGrampy sorry but I have never drunk gin in my life. I have no idea how it would taste in marmalade.

I would love your lunch but either in a roll or on brown bread but not your choice of reading material, I prefer murders and mysteries.

Alea you are having a ghastly time at present but as you said, somebody benefited, Grace and she deserved it after what she has been through.

and what is your treat of choice Alea?

When my girls were in school , on the first day back after the summer holidays I would pack them off then make a large plate of fresh chicken sandwiches on white bread with proper butter,cheese and onion crisps and a fresh cream meringue.

Id have a fresh, shiny, new Mills and Boon to hand and I would retire to my bed until 3pm to eat, read and enjoy the silence !!

Up just in time to greet the girls from school

I am thinking a "little treat at home for the ONE of me"!! DH won't be back until after 4 and is pretty much off his food at the moment presumably as he has been feeling so rotten, so much of last night's casserole lovingly (?) prepared so that he could eat it one handed , went to the grateful greyhound. Always a silver lining says Grace!

Life hasn't just dealt him a bad hand "Alea* it impinges on every aspect of your life as well.
I am also feeling very sorry for myself as we have a crisis with a GC, I am not going to tell all as it is very personal and complex but all I can think at the !moment is " what else can go wrong". My poor D is in bits.

Im sending you a hug Alea that all sounds so tough on you and your husband. I dont have anything that would help except maybe but it isn't midday yet so maybe not - being squiffy in Waitrose is sooo not the ticket !!

Can you have a little treat at home for the two of you ? You sound like you need it x

Luckily DH had a blood test yesterday when he went to the orthopaedic clinic to check up on the Cellulitis diagnosed last Thursday (as well as an X Ray. ) His Hb has dropped from 8.4 to 7.4 since Thursday, no wonder he is feeling even rougher than might be expected. He can barely walk the length of his own shadow and with one hand out of action, I have had to dress him too. So he has now gone for 2 units of blood as an outpatient at the Planned Care Unit. His INR is also sky high, probably as a result of being on a-b's , it's all just a mess. I do get very angry sometimes at the "hand" life has dealt him health wise. It really is not fair . Must stop, as I am getting self-pitying and there are many of you with worse problems!
Restoring myself with a free Waitrose and a teeny and a chance to catch up with GN

soop

I hope all goes well for MacS today and your journey is trouble free.

Enjoy your 'Chish and Fips'.

All the best for today soop and * MacS*. Take care and enjoy your fish and chips

Good Morning all !

I am up ridiculously early ( for me) , this morning it's hot buttered toast with homemade Gin and Lime marmalade ( never to early for a gin . Would that be more up your street Charleygirl I am off to help my youngest daughter hold a book sale at DGS3's preschool.

Years ( and years) of being in Marketing at the highest levels in global companies and I shall be using all that experience to cajole mums out of 20p a go this morning ! Probably the pinnacle of my success .

I hope the weather is kinder with you soop than it is here , and your travel safely.

For any Welsh kitchener's , Happy St David's Day !

I hope I`m not too late to wish MacSporran all the best for the morrow. And take care on that long and winding road! It`s a very pretty route, but hubby hates driving it, says it`s tricky. Moi? All I have to do is admire the scenery!
By the way Soop, have you read Denzil Meyrick`s books? He grew up in Campbeltown, and his books are set there, but he`s changed the name to Kinloch in his books. It`s interesting recognising places from his descriptions, and being able to say "that`s such and such place, we`ve been there!" There are 4 books in the series so far, I`m on number 3.

Hope all goes well tomorrow Soop and MacS. A lovely drive if it's a good day; but a beast if it isn't. Fingers crossed.

Very best of luck for tomorrow soop and MacS, I will keep everything firmly crossed for you x

soop I am on the telephone even in the obscure wilds of N Somerset.
If you like I'll pm you my phone number, but frankly my dear, the oncologist and haematologist will tell you all you need to know.

Hope all goes well tomorrow soop and that the fish and chips are particularly delicious

Good luck tomorrow MacSporran and soop. I hope you have a lovely lunch out too.

All the best to you both for tomorrow soop

All the best tomorrow, soop & macsporran. Will be thinking of you

I had my annual eye test today (my mother has glaucoma so I get a free eye test every year). Because I'm now sixty, they would normally have used eye drops that leave one's vision a bit fuzzy for a couple of hours for one of the tests, but apparently I have large pupils so it wasn't necessary. Next year I'll work around the not being able to drive straight away afterwards. It's useful to know about the pupil dilation in advance.

I hope I'm not too late to wish you and MacSporran good luck and a safe journey tomorrow. Enjoy your fish and chips! I envy you - having a gluten intolerance I have to wait until a local chip shop has a gluten free day. One close by does one every Sunday but fish and chips seem wrong on Sunday!

I'm exhausted having driven DS1 to a hospital appointment in Sheffield today - I arrived home in great need of but made do with instead.
Very nice to see so many people in the kitchen especially pompa. It must be the

Charleyg Rory will be very comfortable during our absence. There will be a gourmet lunch left for him. Also, MacS sometimes leaves the radio on, so that Rory has company. .

Alea a feast such as fish and chips at lunchtime tends to make me drowsy. The road between our home and Oban is, at times, tricky. It is the one road that I do not volunteer to drive along. MacSporran, on the other hand, is competent, and I usually nod off on the homebound trip.

I'm about to ride the exercise bike. After which I shall feed the cats. Another day has passed in a flash. I hope that you lot do your best to behave beautifully reasonably well in my absence. I know for certain that you'll not disgrace yourselves by having unruly bun fights...^us lot^ are far too sophisticated.

Alea they cannot stay in the lay by for long because Rory will need to be fed!

I am still imagining the 2 of you, snoring gently in a lay by!

Alea It HAS to be a small red, as MacS is driving. After our evening meal we may very well indulge in a wee dram. It seems like a good way to end a day of toing and froing...

Thank you Lona We shall not learn any details after the scan. Next step is for MacS to have bloods taken. After which...we await an appointment with the haematologist. I'm wondering, as MacS's lymphoma is grade 1V...what might have changed to cause concern? We already know that the cancer is in his bone marrow. I wish that Galen lived a little closer. I could bend her ear and possibly learn from her expertise.