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 […]
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? […]
The Girth Mother Sounds Off Again
What a food scary week it’s been! First we had the wonderful Hugh F. W. raising hen hell with the supermarkets and then our Jamie telling us the truth about junk and fast food. Photo by Hans Splinter Once I wouldn’t have bothered to watch all this, I’d have thought yeah, yeah but so what. […]
On Women
Practically every week I receive an email from a woman telling me to take comfort, women are wonderful. Not only are we wonderful we are better than men, endure more and work harder. I don’t know whether I have lost my sense of humour but isn’t this sexist? Why do we feel the need to […]
Shopped
I have mentioned before that I am reading the above book by Joanna Blythman, and I am still wading through it. As usual it has given rise to some heated debate in our household. Having sounded off to Whizz a few times and received his Capitalist Dog opinion on it all I am now ready […]
Carbon Footprint
Of course all this cooking will be adding to our ?carbon footprint?. This set Whizz and I on one of those discussions that make me feel like a woolly minded Socialist when in fact I am a woolly minded capitalist. I think! I am not really doing this Girth Mother stuff for Green reasons but […]
Oven Baked Tomatoes
These are fantastic and very simple to make. I make them when I have a glut of tomatoes or the tomatoes I have are not particularly tasty. 6 large round tomatoes Garlic cloves peeled and sliced into 36 slivers 12 Sage leaves Olive oil black pepper Method Preheat the oven to very hot. Slice all […]