Today is Mothers Day in the UK so Sunday Music had to be for Ma. So I picked a song from her current favourite album, which is Divided and United, it’s songs from the American Civil War and it’s grown on me because I’ve heard it about a million times already!
Here’s a video about it.
This is Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel
It’s Saturday and I’m feeling behind with everything, I have packed weekend and a dirty house! Next week, I’m having friends over so the house needs to be clean because, well just because! So this week’s list is the same as every week, but I actually have to do it all!
Kitchen
Cooking
Bathroom
Bedroom
Living Room
Hall
General things
The Rickey is a DC drink and Green Hat gin seems to have been made with it in mind. So I had to try…
What
Juice of half a lime
2oz gin
Soda water
How
Squeeze the lime juice into a collins glass. Add gin. Fill the glass with ice, top with soda water and garnish with a lime wedge.
1) Maybe we’re not as busy as we think. I’m not really, I just bitterly resent all time that has to be spent doing things I don’t want to do, like working and housework…
2) How often do you call your mother? I speak to Ma everday, weekdays I call her when I leave the house and then when I leave the office. Weekends generally she calls me around 10am and sometimes in the evening. Ben calls her at least twice a week. We are possibly a bit weird but we’re happy..
We also text. This week there was a lovely text discussion about how (not whether but how) she would kneecap me if I bought her cookware for Mother’s Day. Feeling the love over here!
3) Barry Lyga is wise. Adults should not have relationships with teenagers. I don’t care how mature the teenager seems to be, they are still children and just no. He followed this post up later on with another, which is also full of sense.
4) The idea of teenagers having sex (with each other) becomes more disturbing to me as it gets harder to remember what being a teenager felt like. However, if they are going to have sex, it needs to be safe. So more access to contraception is a good thing and handwaving about promiscuity isn’t.
5) An interview with Kermit!
Current nail colour…very blue
I’m thinking (and making lists) of all the things I need to do this weekend. It’s Mother’s Day and Laura’s birthday and there will be people in the flat next week so it has to be tidy!
I do get to see this chap on Saturday and he can tell me about his swimming lessons..
Wondering what to buy/make Ma for Mother’s Day. I know what not to buy her but it’s tough to think about! She has told several people that I’m really good at buying presents, which sort of adds to the pressure.
Wishing I was in Northumberland. April time is when we normally go but it was all rearranged due to my DC trip being changed so we won’t go until September this year.
The expression ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’.
What in the name of all that’s holy is the point of having cake if you can’t eat it? Cake is supposed to be eaten, it’s entire reason for being is to be eaten. Cakes can look beautiful but if they are inedible they are failure cakes.
If you have gone to the trouble of making or acquiring cake, it’s probably because you want to eat some damn cake. So why can’t you?
I’m assuming and it’s a big assumption that this saying is meant to convey that you can’t have everything you want. So maybe, ‘you can’t wear two pairs of shoes’ would express that meaning the same way.
Because if I have cake, I’m bloody well going to eat it!
This weekend was a bad weekend for being organised. I had a huge case of the ‘can’t be bothered’ and as a result I didn’t do food shopping over the weekend. I knew I could get through Monday with what was in the house and after a rummage around the freezer, decided that I’m only lacking vegetables and yohgurt so yesterday I bought those and this what I’m planning on eating this week.
Waffles with roasted rhubarb and yogurt for breakfast because I made too many at the weekend and might as well eat them.
I made these turkey burgers last night and they are really good. I made some minor adjustments, I didn’t have any dill so used 2 teaspoons of oregano. Also for those of you not in the US, British measurements. 500g turkey mince is slightly more than a pound but that’s how it’s sold here, 200g of feta, which is a pack or about 4.7oz and 150g drained black olives roughly equals a cup. I also made them a little smaller and got 9 out of them, which makes 8 for the freezer. The picture is them uncooked but don’t judge them harshly because of that!
Also making a comeback to the dinner rotation are lentils, ok so actually they never went away but stir fry with lentils and grilled halloumi did and is back this week. I know it doesn’t look pretty but tastes lovely!
Other meals this week are fishcakes or what you do with left over mash = answer you add vegetables and a tin of mackerel to them, cover them in breadcrumbs and put them in the freezer! and a batch of lentil bolognese eaten with pasta or maybe just vegetables.
Lunches will be leftovers or these baked falafel with salad
Over the weekend, there will be Friday Night Pizza, then on Saturday I’m out for family lunch to celebrate Mother’s Day and Laura’s birthday and on Sunday I’ll be cooking lunch for Ma (she’s already specified the menu!) Leek, Anchovy and Goats Cheese Tart, new potatoes and salad, for pudding I’m told that something with ginger and rhubarb would be good, so if you have a killer cake recipe with those two things in it, let me know!)
I had a very low key weekend, so rather than just write about that, I thought a brief review of last week was in order.
This week I…
…bought flowers
..watched the Veronica Mars and the second Hunger Games movies.
..saw King Lear at the National Theatre. If you can get tickets go or do the NTLive thing because it was very, very good.
…admired my living room, anybody else have that ‘I don’t spend enough time in my living room’ feeling? During the week, I hardly go in there at all, which at least keeps it tidy! (and yes I need to spend some time removing the melted candlewax from the fireplace!)
….ate pizza (spinach, leak, pepper and mushroom, with some of the leftover black bean, corn and squash taco filling)
and a Friday pain au raisin. Which may have been the only reason I got into work on Friday and yes bribery works even when you’re 40 and you have to buy you own bribes..
…drank cocktails at the OXO. They were essential to revive our spirits after the tragedy of Lear!
…finally sorted out photos from my holiday and put them in a set on Flickr
This weekend’s list. I’m off to the theatre this afternoon, the long awaited performance of SRB as King Lear and out on Sunday afternoon but I feel so much better when I can get this all done, how it something I’ll work out as it happens!
Kitchen
Cooking
Bathroom
Bedroom
Living Room
Hall
General things
This week I’ve been roasting a lot of rhubarb, which leaves me with rhubarb syrup and although the weather is set to turn back to horrible over the weekend right this minute the sun is shining, which makes pink drinks perfectly appropriate!
So this is a repost of the how we used rhubarb syrup it last year. Friday Night Cocktail
Other things to do with rhubarb syrup are add it to a G&T or make a summer in a glass, using the rhubarb syrup in place of the simple syrup.
