Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 17: Calmly through the day

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Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 16: Calmly through the day

Sunbird so sorry.
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Apple purée with yoghurt is a great breakfast - we use up apples like that?

@Gingerwarthog

Apple purée with yoghurt is a great breakfast - we use up apples like that?

With muesli or granola as well, I love that for breakfast

Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver aww cute. I have my cardi on tonight (not looking so cute) with cosy socks

I’m so sorry Sunbird24

I love Eve’s pudding easy to make and the only cake (well sort of) I make that is nice (and I’m not fussed about how good a cake is)

Sunbird
So sorry x

So sorry Sunbird always an utterly awful thing to happen. Hope you get away for a complete break.

We have all our apples juiced and bottled, they will last us until nearly Christmas.

Sunbird sorry
We have an apple tree. I always stew them and freeze in takeaway cartons. Keeps us going in apple crumbles all winter ( as well as the small portion I serve with Christmas dinner, much to the bemusement of DH. I grew up in an apple sauce with Christmas dinner household , he didn't).

In other dull mrws I prepped the veg for today's slow cooker tea ladt night so only have to bung everything in this morning. While I was doing this DH was fitting a new bathroom blind. We have managed without one for 20 years but had a new window fitted which despite being frosted, looks suspiciously see-through

mrws? news!! Oh curse my fat fingers

Think I will stew and freeze apples and rhubarb today...inspired by Helena and Wandered.

@IWanderedLonely

Sunbird sorry We have an apple tree. I always stew them and freeze in takeaway cartons. Keeps us going in apple crumbles all winter ( as well as the small portion I serve with Christmas dinner, much to the bemusement of DH. I grew up in an apple sauce with Christmas dinner household , he didn't).

Could I ask how you stew them and whether you defrost them when using for crumbles?

Window- I peel and core the apples, chop them and place in a pan with a very small amount of water and sugar to taste.
Stir.
When soft, cool and place in freezer proof containers. Use small containers so that you can defrost amounts as required.
I leave in the fridge for a few hours to defrost then add crumble topping and heat.

@Gingerwarthog

Window- I peel and core the apples, chop them and place in a pan with a very small amount of water and sugar to taste. Stir. When soft, cool and place in freezer proof containers. Use small containers so that you can defrost amounts as required. I leave in the fridge for a few hours to defrost then add crumble topping and heat.

Excellent many thanks. Made my mouth water.

Sometimes I add ground almonds to the basic crumble mix. If you cook rhubarb nectarine is good to add as it adds some sweetness.
Enjoy!

@Sunbird24 - I am so sorry. As I'm sure you are aware, miscarriages are far more frequent than those who haven't had them would think, and I have no idea where I'm going with this except that I hope you recover well emotionally as well as physically.

Today's news is that I have been feeling terrible since yesterday (light-headed, headache, jelly legs, sore throat only assuaged by ice-cream) and the first rapid antigen test I've ever had was negative this afternoon. Knowing that has calmed my fears, and it's doubtless just a sort of summer cold, which is what I would have assumed pre-pandemic.
Apologies if mentions of the Plague are tabu in this calm area, just tell me and I'll stop.

Hope you feel better soon Jconn and fine to talk about medical problems, we have plenty of them on here plus dental issues and moaning about any temp over 20C for those of us of a certain age.

Thank you @Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver, I hope you feel better soon, but enjoy the ice-cream in the meantime!

So sorry to hear that, @Sunbird24.

I went to Glasgow on my own once for the weekend and spent it wandering around museums and art galleries and sitting in coffee shops. It was great. Other cities are probably available.

Bloody dog minders cannot have the dog while I go to my brother’s wedding. I’m sure there’s a solution to this, but I CBA to apply my brain to it right now.

Our LL has told us that the family want the house back and we will need to move out in January

It's not entirely unexpected but has thrown a huge spanner in the works as we were looking to move in a year or three when DS is at uni and our housing needs are altered. As it stands we now need somewhere in reasonable distance of his college as he is due to take his A-levels next year, and our area is extremely expensive and with little availability. We also have DDogs and ChampagneCat which is a further complication.

So today I have been a grown up and tentatively looked at applying for my first ever mortgage

I have not eaten properly since receiving the news yesterday and my normally unruffled persona feels decidedly ill at ease. I don't think adulting is for me.

In other news, my National Trust sticker has fallen off the windscreen and won't stick back on. My life currently seems to be a series of constant traumas

Champagne Does your LL have to prove that he needs the house for himself?

There are very few legal reasons for our LL to be allowed to terminate our tenancy, but if he did we'd have 9 months to find a new place (length of period depends on duration of contract and we have been in here 20 years).

There are wasps everywhere.

Sorry to hear that Champagne In our village people wanting rental with pets seem to ask on the village Facebook to get properties before they get advertised. Though if you are in a city there is probably a more sophisticated way of doing things.

Dh just sent me a message saying Which Ida yo air favourite 🐠 and 🍟 shop ?

Been on the cliff railway today. Hoping DHs message means he is getting fish and chips.