short post on cooking

I was a cook for a few years and in spite of the intense pressures that accompany such occupations, I loved it; still do!
I make mistakes probably more than the average chef; I sometimes miss a important partĀ  because I think that I know what I am cooking /doing..lol.
Anyhow the other dark and windy afternoon,I [...]

time change

I love when the time reverts back to it’s, “proper”, time in the autumn.
Not that I don’t LOVE spring and summer(in fact they are my favourite seasons) but it is really nice to have the “extra” hour and to feel like one has more in sync with the actual geographical time.
Last night we didn’t change [...]

Funny but successful day

This was a funny day; the beginning was, anyway.
I had thought that it was H’s birthday, and was pestering him with requests of a desired itinerary(the birthday boy, after all) He was laconic(but also thought that it was his day)
THEN we looked at a calender and realised that tomorrow was the day to celebrate! LOL.
Then [...]

Our autumn trip part one

Why does one have to endure early or LATEĀ  hours for travelling?
It seems that one is either getting up at some ungodly hour like 4am to catch an early flight, or else is having to keep awake to make a late night( the WORST are red eyeor overnight flights)
I know that the planes schedule have [...]

H and our scare

H went to his doctor today; just a normal appointment to get prescriptions renewed and to generally check that all was well.
Later this evening he confessed that he had noticed some blood when he wiped after going to the bathroom; “quite a lot, dripping,” he said.
Yikes.
He told me that it was light red not dark [...]