Soops kitchen, a place of reflection, refuge and at times revelry.

I have been reading on my lounger in the shade in the garden for most of the day #lazygran (you have taught me well FGT2)

DH will cook lamb steaks in the BBQ, I will sort the jersey royals, green beans and baby broccoli in the kitchen. Definitely eating outside in this glorious weather.

(((Hugs))) to all 🙋‍♀️

Hi all, marvellous breeze today, the blinds have been dancing about noisily and last night, after the great football, was cooler too.
Sat out for a while until flying ants started, that meant a swift move indoors.
Has a chat with Imogen, she has a p/t pub job but would like more hours, she has an interview Tuesday for a supermarket.
Our grandson is living the summer life at a local to us shallow river a bus/train ride from his home.
Smashing pictures Grannmarie.
Duck a l’Orange later, our early potatoes are nearly finished, they’ve done so well.
Enjoy your evening.

Is it flying ant day already? I must have a look outside. I nipped to dds to check for mail. Then hoovered again with my new shark. Simple things. Emptied and loaded the dishwasher and did a small washing and got it hung out. Dinner was a lovely jam salad then a deconstructed trifle ie jelly with sponge fingers in it and a little cream on top. All very nice. I wanted a glass of fizzy wine so took a bottle of cava out of the fridge. The blooming cork won't budge! It'll have to wait till dd returns home. Lovely photos Grannmarie

Ham salad. Should proof read

Thank you all for your kind wishes.
I can’t say today went to plan and it has been an odd day but things happen as we all know.
I am now going to have a glass of red wine and an early night.
I hope my 90th next year, if I get there,goes more smoothly and more to plan😉

Disaster with the wine Grandmabatty how frustrating!

Hello kitchen people.

Another hot day but ‘only’ 29 degrees.

I didn’t leave the house until 3.30 pm when I was due to do my stint on the WI stall at the village festival. OH and daughter had a look earlier but I didn’t want to go out in the sun until I had to. For some strange reason the organiser of the festival changed the weekend (the same one for years) to this weekend a couple of years ago, when there is a big event in a nearby town and Wimbledon. He has agreed to think about changing back as attendance wasn’t as high as it could have been.

I made a spag Bol and salad for lunch. We finished off some strawberries and cream for pudding and then had homemade orange ice cream and lemon ice cream.

I’ve just had a salmon and cucumber roll. There was a little salmon left over from yesterday’s barbecue so me and the cats shared it.

Have a good evening.

I’m sat on my little balcony having showered off my suncream and applied lovely cool after sun lotion (I keep the bottle in the fridge 😉) and have just eaten a bowl of cereal with cold milk - just what I fancied! I wasn’t hungry enough to dress and go downstairs. Sometimes the simple things in life can bring the most pleasure can’t they?

Thinking of all in the quiet corner tonight - and wondering how Blossoming is faring and other friends not posting at present.

You are indeed a model student GG13! Practice makes perfect I find.
#lazygran

A nudging 30 degrees sedentary day here. I did iron as early as I could haul myself out of bed then sat with a fan blowing on my back to sort some admin. Other than that and arranging some food not a thing. fgt you’ve taught me well 😊

Mr C sat in our at pizza oven hot conservatory for three hours moving ahead with his latest jigsaw. I did and am challenging his sanity and certainty his common sense. There’s no hope!

We’re wandering out along the coast to visit a pier in the morning. The forecast is less hot with a strong wind. Bliss!

Enjoy your evenings everyone, rest well.

grannygravy well done for being a lazy gran today! I hope the “treatment” is working.

Another hot day today with a lovely cool breeze. Windows are open and the curtains and blinds are flapping about. I went for my usual walk first thing, then did two loads of washing and got them dry. Just a few t-shirts to iron tomorrow.
Dd2 and family came over early afternoon, bringing bags of spare bedding which had been in their loft. They are having a loft extension starting tomorrow so had to clear out the stuff stored up there. It’s now in the back bedroom here for the next few months. Dd1 couldn’t come over, she has hurt her leg and can hardly walk, her DH and the 11 year old were at a birthday party, involving an assault course and a lot of mud. He called in to borrow a pair of crutches for Dd1, he’d had a brief shower but said he’d need at least one more to feel clean!

Lovely photos grannmarie, good that the sunny weather has spread over most of the uk, although I hope it’s not too hot where you are.

grandmabatty how frustrating about the fizz, it would have made a nice finish to your meal!

Enjoy the rest of the evening everyone. I think a cooler night is forecast so hopefully we’ll all sleep well. I need more than the 5 hours I’m getting at the moment.

Well done to you cornergran another student of mine who has passed the exam of ‘life’s ease’ with flying colours! 😁

FGT a bowl of cereal had been my birthday meal.
A far cry from the meal out I usually have but it was just what I fancied.
In bed now with a book.
Enjoy the rest of the evening everyone.

They are having a loft extension starting tomorrow so had to clear out the stuff stored up there. It’s now in the back bedroom here for the next few months
Oh dear Redcar
DD3 and her husband started a loft conversion about 6 years ago, it over ran and littlest DGS.was born at home in the middle of it all. The contents of their loft went into our garage, taking up about half of it. They fell out of love with it all, largely because of Covid, materials stuck in the Suez canal and because their builders subcontracted some of the work . Dd and SIL are perfectionists and their design was unique and they were not happy with the standard of the finish.
Anyway they put the house on the market, moved to a bigger version of the first house, but a do-er upper and it’s been a work in progress for the last four years.
And yes it has a loft but somehow the contents of the first loft are still in my garage.
A cautionary tale

mawsrosie DD2’s littlest was born while they were having a huge extension built on the ground floor of their house. Fortunately they were staying at her mother in law’s at the time,but littlest was three months old before they moved back. That extension took 6 months. This one is scheduled for three months but we’ll see! The stuff is in the bedroom only because it’s spare duvets etc.
Some years ago our garage accommodated the contents of our next door neighbour’s old kitchen, while they had a new one installed. Naturally it took many months longer than planned.

A cautionary tale indeed, a good thing that mum’s have garages and don’t put their cars away!

The trick is to downsize drastically as we did and leave things with your children ‘just for now’. We did retrieve a lot, some we simply forgot 🤣
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utbb not quite the birthday meal you usually have, but hopefully you can go out and dine when it is cooler.

Many years ago, after I moved here, I decided I was no longer paying to have the valuable items (junk) stored in lofts and spend a fortune moving it. My loft is totally empty. The "stuff" is in a double bedroom, and slowly I am wading my way through it.

I still have heaps of my mother's towels, still in good order and she died in 1979!

I can’t believe how fast my nails grow when I’m on holiday - does the sunshine or different diet play a part I wonder?

Knowing this always happens I’ve pre booked an appointment at the nail salon for this Thursday morning when I will get these irritatingly long nails snipped off!

I’m having my juice downstairs and the ‘anklet man’ is having a beer. He has his back to me today! He’s wearing shorts again I suppose it’d look odd if he wore jeans in this heat but still … 😮

Weeding has commenced! I've been out twice this morning. Im concentrating on the front. "Fur coat and no knickers," my gran would have said. It's warm but breezy and I can live with that. In now, for a rest before lunch. I've emptied the dishwasher, cleaned it and loaded it again. After lunch I will hoover then mop the floors.
Dd has sent videos of the boys going down water slides. Dgs2 wouldn't go down the baby slide at the start of their holiday, now he's going down the slide for 6-12 year old. It looks like they are all having a great time

Oh that’s such a splendid holiday memory Grandmabatty! Thanks for sharing about your now fearless wee boy who will be so proud of himself!

To some it’s a badge of honour FGT.
More washing out, the only plus is the drying time recently.

Oh the anklet!For a minute there I thought you meant coming down a big slide! 😁

Just had my lunch.
At these prices eating out is very doable.

Did you ever notice him before he became ‘anklet man’ fgt?
I like the name you’ve given him.

Nope. Never seen him before Beechnut.