Cousin Matthew Returns with the Robbing Butcher

[TheMustressMhor]

A thread intended for menus, cats and idle chit-chat.

Mr. Yolo has just done excellent work with tweezers and removed bastard bramble thorn. I know you're all relieved to hear it!

I am the tweezer wielder chez fleas. DH can't handle anything more delicate than a hammer. And that's not the best way to remove a bramble thorn.

FrogMhor

yolo thank you for the recipe, I will try it! And are you okay?

That recipe feels like it would be a winner, but I am trying to eat fewer carbs and am not selfless enough to make it for the hungry hordes I cook for. Tonight we had the dullest sounding sausage and veg. But I have to say my shredded cabbage and sausage was lovely. Keeping it simple!

I do look in on the other thread from time to time should there be any news..

felicity it is lovely but very rich! recipe says serves 6, but I think more like 8. but you can freeze leftovers, which makes it a winner in my book.

I'm going to watch White House Farm part 5 at 9pm, with my bruised finger. Thank you for asking 7Worfs.

The last of the Christmas cheese went into a Stilton and cauliflower macaroni bake tonight. It was very tasty. DH is rattling with painkillers though so his appetite is a bit suppressed.

I ate rather more than planned and feel like I could burst. I am probably thriving but glad to be surviving for the moment.

Sounds a lovely meal, mischief
I can't eat blue cheese, it gives me instant migraine.

I'm surviving. Clocking about 5-6 total hours of sleep a night, in 2-3h segments.
Can't seem to fall asleep before 11pm even though I'm tired.

Sorry Yolo - your risotto bake looks lovely!

I've reached that appalling age where I fall asleep instantly, but not in bed, OH no. Sitting on the sofa, or typing on the laptop. Often I fall asleep with my fingers still on the keys and a line of mmmmmmmmmm across the page (or whatever letter). Then wake up a little while later with a stiff neck. Haven't started to dribble yet, which is a bonus, but the whole thing plays havoc with my sleep patterns! And I can't go to bed before 11:30pm or I'm awake again at 3am. Gaaah!

Very pleased to hear the SLABS are arriving, Mustress - will be good to hear how the planning turns out and whether you have many left over...

I am the tweezer wielder chez fleas. DH can't handle anything more delicate than a hammer

In that case perhaps Mr. Fleas would care to assist Mr. Mhor with the laying of the slabs?

The inaugural slab will be laid by me at 2 p.m. and the Press will attend.

That is always assuming that the slabs actually arrive today. There is, as yet, no sign of them. Mr. Mhor is anxious.

I have sent him to the kitchen to cook a mid-week breakfast for me.

I shall report on the egg in due course.

REPORT ON FRIED EGG 06/02/2020

It was perfect.

Mr. Mhor read the egg thread and was outraged that

a) his culinary skills had been called in to question

and

b) someone thought he was imaginary

So he made a special effort with this morning's egg and I have had to give it ten out of ten.

Meanwhile, in other news, it is not raining in Argyll at the moment.

And the SLABS have yet to arrive.

Mr. Mhor overheard two of our neighbours making opprobrious remarks about the amount of garden waste he had produced while getting the place levelled in preparation for the SLABS.

You would think people had nothing better to do with their time in small Scottish villages.

And anyway - the garden waste was removed promptly and nobody was inconvenienced.

@yolofish

I am going to make that risotto when the Mhor DC come for a state visit in three weeks time.

Are we all thriving?

I am merely surviving. Drove 8 miles to get an xray on my ankle, which I broke 11 years ago and is currently rather painful. Xray machine is being serviced and they "can't do ankles today". Presumably that means they can do any other part. Will have to go back tomorrow .

Then one of my neighbours is having some work done on our trees (because she wants them cut back and I dont, so she is paying for it - actually no skin off my nose, I just dont want to pay) and I very kindly said that her blokes could put the debris on our bonfire rather than track it through her house.

Said blokes are not the brightest - pointed at a pile of debris next to the fence and said "so that's the bonfire innit?" To which I had to point to the massive bonfire at the bottom of the field, carefully situated away from fences, trees etc. They've now lit it, because I pointed out that if they put all their debris on it it will be about 20 foot high and I think that's really rather large...

Now she is messaging me saying that they're charging £150 and that's a bit steep - a not so subtle hint which I am ignoring.

I think I'm thriving but it's nearly midnight so who knows!

I remember building a bonfire that was around 20' high years ago in a field on my boyfriend's stepfather's grounds - it was A-MAZing. But a bit tricky, yeah.

Have the SLABS turned up yet, mustress?

We no longer have bonfires. We cart prodigious amounts of garden waste to the tip and let them compost it. We spend more time at the tip than just about anywhere else. Mr Fleas is on first name terms with them...

The bonfire is smouldering very sullenly, dont think it will ignite. And it's about 15 foot now, and they've left bits next to it which I am obviously expected to deal with as they appear to have fucked off - and not removed further debris they were supposed to. NOT happy. Still, maybe they are at lunch and will come back and finish the job. Going to be tricky as they are not my workmen.

The neighbour is mad as a box of frogs, and I'm doing her - and them - a favour. I dont want to upset her, but oth she has been a CF, she put a gate into her fence into the corner of our field, and has been dumping garden rubbish there fore years. I couldnt get into that corner for a long time as massive brambles - now I'm clearing it, I dont want to clear her shit up as well!

Ooh, yolo, I feel a CF thread coming on! Does your neighbour still use her gate into your field?

THE SLABS HAVE ARRIVED

Mr. Mhor is so pleased. No sand and cement has been mixed yet, though.

I finally put some books on the new bookcase. I do not like the new bookcase. It seems to me to be the wrong colour of wood for the rest of the bedroom.

I thought that putting books in it would make me like it better, but no.

Yes, come on, yolo, we need a new CF thread. Your turn.

Any SLEBS yet mustress? he's going to have to crack on with the sand & cement, it'll be dark in your neck of the woods soon!

Shame about the book case - could you paint it? I painted one for DD1's room and she looked at it and said "oh mummy I love the way you've made it look as if an idiot did it!" Err, thanks - I think.

Not sure I have the courage for a CF thread.

and yes fleas up until the last 10 days she has been using gate to put her garden rubbish in the field - bad. And also to hang up bird feeders - not bad. DH planning a midnight sortie with a soldering iron, but I think that's probably not allowed. Although technically she is trespassing.

well I've done it, waiting for the pile on!

Lol yolo
You’ve said what we’ve all been thinking.

Yolo - is it your fence or hers though? because if it's your fence, then you need to "repair" it - and if it's hers, then maybe you need to put your own fence up over her gate - because she can have a gate in her fence, but no access to your property (cheeky bloody mare!) so no harm in you blocking it off.

I should have known the ceasefire on thread however-many was temporary....