- I know why it hasn't stopped raining for weeks - I bought a new pair of shorts for our holiday. I rarely get my legs out and this is the first new pair I've bought in about five years. Sods law says I'll not get a chance to wear them this summer. (As I type the patio is flooded and at least 1 cabbage and 2 lettuces have got waterlogged and rotted - but thank God we haven't been flooded like other parts of the country).
- I'm stuck. Tonight is my turn to cook. The wife has cooked all week and quite rightly, can't be bothered tonight. I thought this would be the case but didn't think ahead and so have nothing planned. After making a couple of suggestions that didn't go down too well my only option was to get a take away. "Sounds good" sounded good to me but I then promised to put some thought and some effort into doing something delicious on Sunday (we are out tomorrow). I have less than 48 hours to come up with an idea and then shop. Help!!! (i.e. feel free to let me know your favourite recipe)!
Friday, July 06, 2007
Two Things
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Doctor Who?
This post was going to be about the weather but once I got started I just couldn't stop. Actually I forced myself to stop because I could go on for hours on this topic
More often than not I get frustrated during my drive home from work but today I was early enough to be ahead of most of the traffic. The potential was there for a relaxing half hour. It wasn't to be. Gillian McKeith (note the deliberate omission of her 'title') was on the radio advertising her latest TV programme. I may have ranted about the woman before on here but today saw me waiting at traffic lights in the middle of a city centre landmark yelling my head off at the radio and almost missing the green light.
She's not just irritating. She's frightening. And not in the way she would like to be! Some of the garbage she comes out with, dressed up as science, is just plain wrong. For example, today she was talking about how important a healthy, nutritionally balanced diet is. Now that makes perfect sense and I would never argue with that. But she followed up by saying that, as part of that diet, tea (ordinary black tea) should be ditched in favour of the likes of nettle tea because it contains various essential vitamins. So tell me please, if I am eating a balanced diet why should my delicious morning cuppas, which provide me with a good dose of antioxidants along with a splash of calcium and various other goodies found in milk, need to be replaced with crap that tastes like dish-water which provides nothing more than my balanced diet does.
And does a balanced diet really mean not eating protein and carbohydrates at the same time? As for smoothies for breakfast, why? The types of fruit she recommends for her smoothies are far too expensive, just eat a balanced diet! As for quick and easy (3 mins to make according to the 'good doctor'), by the time you've prepared the fruit, blended it and washed up I've had my tea and (wholemeal) toast and am half way to work.
It's crap. Everything she says is crap. And I have been known to stand beside her products in the supermarket and tell the wife, and anyone else within earshot, just how crap her over priced products are. Even the recipes she was talking about today contain various beans I have never heard of. I despair that people spend money on these sorts of products. Head round to the fresh fruit and veg aisle - it's cheaper, healthier and you won't be lining her pockets!
More often than not I get frustrated during my drive home from work but today I was early enough to be ahead of most of the traffic. The potential was there for a relaxing half hour. It wasn't to be. Gillian McKeith (note the deliberate omission of her 'title') was on the radio advertising her latest TV programme. I may have ranted about the woman before on here but today saw me waiting at traffic lights in the middle of a city centre landmark yelling my head off at the radio and almost missing the green light.
She's not just irritating. She's frightening. And not in the way she would like to be! Some of the garbage she comes out with, dressed up as science, is just plain wrong. For example, today she was talking about how important a healthy, nutritionally balanced diet is. Now that makes perfect sense and I would never argue with that. But she followed up by saying that, as part of that diet, tea (ordinary black tea) should be ditched in favour of the likes of nettle tea because it contains various essential vitamins. So tell me please, if I am eating a balanced diet why should my delicious morning cuppas, which provide me with a good dose of antioxidants along with a splash of calcium and various other goodies found in milk, need to be replaced with crap that tastes like dish-water which provides nothing more than my balanced diet does.
And does a balanced diet really mean not eating protein and carbohydrates at the same time? As for smoothies for breakfast, why? The types of fruit she recommends for her smoothies are far too expensive, just eat a balanced diet! As for quick and easy (3 mins to make according to the 'good doctor'), by the time you've prepared the fruit, blended it and washed up I've had my tea and (wholemeal) toast and am half way to work.
It's crap. Everything she says is crap. And I have been known to stand beside her products in the supermarket and tell the wife, and anyone else within earshot, just how crap her over priced products are. Even the recipes she was talking about today contain various beans I have never heard of. I despair that people spend money on these sorts of products. Head round to the fresh fruit and veg aisle - it's cheaper, healthier and you won't be lining her pockets!
Monday, July 02, 2007
Home and Away
I've not been completely lost, life has been storming ahead and I've been running behind. Apart from a holiday. The wife and I decided to escape to the other end of the country (via a short visit to my mum conveniently situated half way down - 420 miles might not seem like a long journey to some but here it is literally from the north east to the south west corner of the country. The journey was made that much more enjoyable by the compilation CD's the wife had put together beforehand). So here is Cornwall in pictures:
Tintagel and the remains of the castle which, according to legend was the home of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Or his birthplace. Or something like that. History/mythology never was my strong point and I was too busy looking at the ocean to take notes.
The harbour in the lovely little village of Boscastle - site of the huge floods in 2004. The shops on the main street had markers showing the height of the water and it reached the ceiling on the ground floor and whole buildings were destroyed. Work was still ongoing on deepening the river bed and this photo was taken two days before the town flooded again. Fortunately this time the water only reached 3ft and the town returned to business and usual the following day.
New York, straight on, 3000 miles.
At the end of the scariest lane I have ever driven down we were rewarded with views like this. The photo doesn't do it justice, the sea was so blue. After a stroll in the sunshine we had a bargain lunch in the hotel perched on the headland and just as we were leaving the rain started. I stopped the car and jumped out to snap this, getting soaked in the process:
This picture doesn't do it justice either, it was stunning, even in the rain.
It was a great week and just what the two of us needed. It's the first holiday with just the two of us for four years and although it rained a bit (the risk you take holidaying in England) we also managed to dump the coats and get some sun.
Tintagel and the remains of the castle which, according to legend was the home of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Or his birthplace. Or something like that. History/mythology never was my strong point and I was too busy looking at the ocean to take notes. 
The harbour in the lovely little village of Boscastle - site of the huge floods in 2004. The shops on the main street had markers showing the height of the water and it reached the ceiling on the ground floor and whole buildings were destroyed. Work was still ongoing on deepening the river bed and this photo was taken two days before the town flooded again. Fortunately this time the water only reached 3ft and the town returned to business and usual the following day. 
New York, straight on, 3000 miles.
At the end of the scariest lane I have ever driven down we were rewarded with views like this. The photo doesn't do it justice, the sea was so blue. After a stroll in the sunshine we had a bargain lunch in the hotel perched on the headland and just as we were leaving the rain started. I stopped the car and jumped out to snap this, getting soaked in the process:
This picture doesn't do it justice either, it was stunning, even in the rain.It was a great week and just what the two of us needed. It's the first holiday with just the two of us for four years and although it rained a bit (the risk you take holidaying in England) we also managed to dump the coats and get some sun.
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