Grumpy Old Man
It was Mavis’s 9th birthday last week and much to our delight she decided that instead of a party she would like to take a friend to see The Sound Of Music on stage at the London Palladium. Whizz was away in Minnesota so it fell to me to get us there and back taking […]
On Compost and the like
I’ve bought a new gadget. Well it isn’t strictly a gadget I suppose, if gadgets are things with buttons and batteries or electrical connectors. This is very much a bucket. It’s succinctly named the Bokashi Kitchen Waste Compost Bucket and of course it was sourced by my darling husband. In our house text input comes […]
On Time
It’s strange to report that the more available time I have the more I seem to find to fill it. I have given up paid employment and relinquished most of my voluntary responsibilities to those younger and more diplomatic than I and promptly filled the time with Girth Mother activities. After whinging to Whizz about […]
On Creativity
“Do you know what a tumbrel remark is?” Whizz enquired this morning. There was a pause while I tried to dredge from my memory the meaning of the word tumbrel. Was it some kind of geographic feature, a hill perhaps where someone might make a lofty statement? No, that was tumulous – I think. Defeated […]
No Brain
I know I go on about my memory but, really, it’s beyond the pale! I have recently undergone a somethingorother ablation;in other words I have had the lining of my womb burned off and am now attempting life sans HRT. The idea is that I should be able to tell how many of my symptoms are […]
On Eyesight Again
I’m sorry Whizz; I know you think I am always picking on you but this was too good to go unblogged. So: We are great aunt and uncle, roles I approach with mixed feelings. I once had a great aunt, she wasn’t a maiden aunt, well at least I don’t think she was, she was […]
On Eyesight
I have been told that your eyes start to deteriorate when you are 40 so, being me, I was feeling pretty smug when I needed my first reading glasses at around the age of 50. I wasn’t prepared though for the speed at which they subsequently declined. Now 52 I have to have X2 magnification […]
Coronation Quorn – 3 syns per portion (Slimming World)
As always I am trying to create new and interesting recipes that I can eat on my Slimming World ?eating plan?. I am a spice lover so many of my recipes contain spices to make low fat food more exciting and tasty. I have only just discovered quorn fillets and I can’t decide whether I […]
Fab Soup
I’ve just made a really brilliant soup so I’m writing it down while I remember what I did. It makes a lot so you can alter the quantities for your needs, or freeze the left overs. Spicy Butternut Squash and Potato Soup Ingredients 1 tsp olive oil 1 1/2 tsp black mustard seeds 1/2 tsp […]
The Girthmother gives in to the Diet
Dear friends, sadly I must relate that I have been to Waitrose. Not for a major shop you understand, just to get some low fat things I can’t get anywhere else, namely, cottage cheese, 0% fat greek yoghurt and Quark. I kept my eyes straight ahead and bought nothing else. What else could I do? […]