Plump up the yam, til your beet are stompin, and the jam is pumpkin - 10/10 Club

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Oh!

You're all sick!

I do hope this is not related to excessive consumption of vegetables, hmmmm?

Franny I'm not going to tell you anything about the foodstuffs that helped me when I was sick. They were universally vile and comprehensively unhealthy - probably illegal for pregnant women in a number of countries. Instead, I am wishing you many happy deliveries of boiled potatoes and orange juice.

Now, to take your mind off things, what do you know about veg curry? I have started one of those vegetable curries that seem like a good idea after a glass of red wine, only to discover I have run out of cumin, coriander and bayleaves. So my dream of a pseudo-korma is dying rather. I do have some chilli, but that's not much help because I'm hoping to recycle some of the pseudo korma for DS2 tomorrow. So commercial 'mild' curry powder mix it is. Which would be fine, but the potatoes, sweet potatoes and cauliflower are all cooking at different rates.

Sigh. It's going to be horrible. On the bright side, DH is away this evening, so I don't have to give him any further reasons to be fearful when I announce brightly that I have cooked something 'experimental'.

Lully! frost fair wasn't exactly crap, just too busy and not as much to do as we thought.

And lucy irving was very very nice, my uncle thought so - she just went of to have the adventure, no disappointments there, all fine.

Carry on.

It gets worse.

I have now managed to burn the veg (while mistyping previous post) and have discovered that I have less than a child size portion of rice available.

Gizmo that sort of thing often happens chez FK. I end up with three saucepans of different rice cooking because I only have two teaspoons of basmati, one of wild and so on, all requiring different cooking times

Am also glad of a very stoical DH when faced with a "creation".

Is anyone else finding it hard to explain to people in RL what they are up to this weekend ?

er you start the longest one first and then just drop the others int SAME PAN at the correct time

Thank goodness, FK. I am secretly in awe of 10/10ers' kitchen skills - you always seem to be eating exotic sounding things that require sophisticated handling.

Meanwhile I am now eating Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie from the carton. Curry turned out adequate if a little brown around the edges.

When you do tell people, what do they say?

Ah Zippi, a woman after my own heart

About the meet up, I mean

I am eating stewed apples. Yum.

Y'see, Zippee I meant to do that but then I saw a potato lurking in the veg cupboard after I'd started the onion and, being as I was in a reckless mood, I slung it in. And it all went a bit, well, Pete Tong from there.

i have eaten a whole caulifoer with grated cheddar again lol

no one has told me yet if that is one portion or ten

Wow.

Was it bigger than your head?

lol no a small one

unlike my head

Probably only 3 portions then

So does the whole brassica family do it for you or is it just cauliflower?

well i did gt tempted by the fresh youhng broccoli stalks from a foreign place

Ah. A holiday romance?

in my dreams lol

Hello

Oh no Franny, I have got everything crossed in the hope you will be feeling better by Sunday!

Thanks for sharing re co-sleeping, everyone. I agree that we need to watch for overheating. DS is 7 months, and has been ending up in our bed from the very beginning. I think I will try him in a sleepsuit or pj's under our light duvet & sheet.

Possumm, he always ends up tucked up under my arm too!

Frothy, sorry you were so sleep deprived, me too, but co-sleeping means ds is more settled, and i get more sleep, and don't get cold having to get out of bed all night!

hope you feel better soon, Frank...

Thanks Aitch (and everyone else)

will try not to whinge so much today whatever happens. Slept about 10 hours again last night which set me up for a good day last time it happened. Fingers crossed.

And I am eating a mango. Can't be bad.

Wombling sorry I didn't chip in with the co-sleeping - ask me on Sunday if we get a chance. We also co-slept from day 1 as ds whimpered every time we put him down, and went to sleep every time we picked him up. Dp said "well let's just stop putting him in that basket thing and hold him, it's obviously what he wants." I was like NO you are not ALLOWED to do that

glad you're getting some sleep franny

I didn't

dd2 (2.10) was in bed all night with us with a boiling temperature. She kept waking up and asking for things "pink milk" "a fruit bar" "my grandma" etc etc and then wailing when she couldn't have them

so now she is off nursery this morning so I can't have a sleep to catch up as my mum is busy this morning - this will be the longest I have looked after her for nearly 2 months and I am already tired at the thought of it

LOL Franny I was just the same with the co-sleeping thing and picking ds up. Dp was much more instinctive, whereas I wanted to do things 'right'... he kept telling me, "but ds hasn't read the book!" I worked it out in the end though I think

Oh poor dd frothy and you