We were so very late picking the apples, the birds had got most of them. We couldn't get the enthusiasm to make cider this year, and we had so few apples left we couldn't face dragging the scratter and press out of the loft.
I drank a lot of the juice while I was juicing. So very easy to drink.
Next lot of beer on
DH ran out of beer! He bought some upgrade to the Grainfather programming, which required him to do a lot of work with the individual recipes. He made a batch of beer which is currently standing on the kitchen counter fermenting. Brewing. Whatever it is. He's since bought a little jacket for the Grainfather, which should help it heat more quickly. As soon as the current batch is done, he'll be making another.
Finger Rolls
Home made hot dogs with home made batch-baked bridge rolls. Bridge rolls made with egg and milk. Lovely! We sliced the remaining batch of buns to make toast for breakfast, it toasts really well.
Mega Bol
I got some a huge quantity of mince out of the freezer on Tuesday to make a mega bolognese on Wednesday to eat on Thursday. I finally made the bolognese this morning, its simmering in the slow cooker now.
Vet Trips
More trips to see Uncle Tim with Izzy.
Pre-Christmas Clean
Boring domestics. The house looks like a tip, mostly down to me having iles of sewing related paraphernalia almost everywhere. I've started in our bedroom, ironically one of the few rooms not to have sewing stuff in it. It didn't take too long, actually. It wasn't an "everything out of the cupboards" clean, but it did include taking everything off the top of the wardrobe, everything out from under the bed, everything off the windowsill and bedside cabinets, and everything moveable out of the room so Ryamondo could vacuum properly.
I have, finally ,emptied and removed the box of "stuff" that has been temporarily sitting on the floor on my side of the bed since........erm.... Spring I think. It was mostly "stuff to sell".
There is a small box of "I have no idea what to do with this" stuff, currently sitting on the bed. The contents will undoubtably increase as I go through more rooms, so I've decided I'll wait until he end before revisiting it.
I've started on the smallest "bedroom". It's going to be my temporary dumping ground, so I thought I'd clean it first. That way, once I eventually remove the dumping from there, there won't be any unpleasant surprises. At least, that's the plan.... I guess it depends on how long it takes me to re-empty it.
Strange flavours
I bought some stuff from Approved Food. They had Raffaello on offer, and I love Raffaello. I love it too much. I normally only letit in the house at Christmas. Anyway, while I was mooching around on the AF website, I popped a few other bits and pieces in my trolley. A bottle of wine (which was rather pleasant); some Twix and Maltesers (for Christmas); and some Cucumber and Salad Cream Sandwich crisps. I couldn't help myself. They were 4 for £1, and I was really intrigued. Usually, "new" crisp flavours are just rehashes of old ones.
I ate a bag while I was unpacking the box. They tasted just like salad cream. I'd forgotten quite how much I disliked salad cream. When I was a child, I loved it, I ate loads of it. At some point in my young adult hood I went off it, probably when I started liking mayonnaise. The crisps (to me, anyway) really tasted of salad cream (and possibly cucumber, but that might have been wishful thinking on my part). I kept the other three bags - my mum loves salad cream, so I thought she might like them.
The other day I ate another bag. My dislike of salad cream hadn't diminished, I suspect it was a bit of the Twiglet effect. That, and the fact that I was trying not to open a(nother) box of Raffaello.
Bother. I wish I hadn't thought of either of those things.
I'm going to shut myself away until the calling passes.
