August 14, 2009

• Lunches

  Most mornings, when my Welshman stays over, he makes me lunch (he also, rather wonderfully, makes me supper in the evenings: I am well fed).  My lunches have vastly improved as a result.  Whereas, if I was lucky, I'd manage to assemble boiled potatoes, some ham, some chopped lettuce/tomatoes/pepper and some sort of salad dressing of a morning, I now have potato salad (with extra chives cut straight off the windowsill plant), cheese, parma ham, cold sausages, mustard, salt-and-pepper on the salad (lush), and most days, some Hula Hoops.  In my world, if I am not in the mood to eat, Hula Hoops will almost always slip down nicely.  I have a dreadful tendency to fail to cook (or cook the same meal several times over) if left to my own devices.  Last night I had baked beans on toast for supper.  Other favourites involve scrambled eggs; plain pasta with marge and freshly ground pepper, and tomato ketchup and cheese; pitta bread pizzas; tuna pasta salad; curry; soup.

  Today I had to assemble my own lunch, and I did a pretty good job.  Hula Hoops, the last of the potato salad and the last cold sausage (with mustard), salady bits, a yoghurt and, wonders, I remembered that I'd frozen my last batch of homemade lemonade. 

  At least I thought I had.  Turns out it's frozen water.  Nice, even so, but not the same.  Which begs the question, where, in my over-full freezer, is the lemonade?

  I'm very lucky to have this dilemma.

  In other news, I'm reading Candide, I've got photos to upload again soon, and we are gearing up for 26th September, to assemble a blanket as part of Macmillan Cancer Support's campaign to raise awareness about cancer patients who suffer from fuel poverty.  I've started my second square....  The plan is that all the Guiding types I know, plus lots of other friends will help knit or sew, and we'll be able to assemble a blanket.  That said, I am having a wee worry about having enough squares.  So, if you are not hosting your own World's Biggest Coffee Morning, I'd like to suggest that you knit a square for us, as we need 40 squares per blanket, and there's about 15 of us who knit at varying speeds.  We're knitting in shades of blue and neutrals, with the odd bright square to 'lift' the blanket a little.  Washable DK is suggested - fine by us.  As the cancer got really eeeevil, Em's hands found that mugs of tea got a bit lurchy, so I think it's important that the blankets we make can go into the washing machine on a wool setting.

  xxx

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