The Holidays Are Coming!



Shrieks out loud, all round, please!

 

 

Saw it for the first time this evening!

Woop! Woop!

Oh, yes!

 

Happy weekend

Z xx

Pearl Shots - the firework



 

This is what we found in our £4.99 bargain box from Aldi. I have written a 'Post for Pearl', but now I've found a firework too! 



 

 Me and Mr B had a little party for 2 with homemade potato salad and coleslaw.

 

 

Everyones' favourite...cheese and pineapple on sticks!

(Check out my groovy salad servers too!)

Carry on Camping beakers. (That's a pound, Mr Fiddler)

Plus the obligatory mini sausage rolls from Iceland.

 

Extra fireworks enjoyed via The Saints Rugby Ground! Hurrah!

Zxx



Un-packing List

I always write my 'packing list' after I've come home. I put down what I took, adding in if I didn't wear it. 

*Gold coat is not as gold as it sounds! But I know which coat I mean

I've got these lists going back years; they don't change much. Plymouth in March is pretty much the same as Plymouth at the end of October!

Most of the time!

 

I remember when Vix was doing her last trip abroad and I commented her she had got it down to such a fine art that she could fit all she needed for 3 weeks into a wash bag! A slight exaggeration, I know, but as she replied, it is SO awkward packing for the UK. You need to cover all bases...wind, rain, sun and, on our earlier return trip this year, snow! 

 

I try and sort out 'little outfits' than can be layered up and down depending on the weather. I need to try and pack something smart-ish for going to see the show; can't let the side down and go in looking like a tramp.

 

That happened once to me and I felt really uncomfortable!

I'd gone to 'The Wells' to drop off a costume I'd been working on for a friend for this gala he was taking part in with Diana, Princess of Wales, as Guest of Honour. I'd turned up in sweatpants etc and then was asked if I wanted a guest ticket. Well, I wasn't going to say no, was I?

So, there I was, tucked in the audience, looking like a bag lady, surrounded by bods all dressed up to the nines! It's funny now, but I did feel a bit mortified then!

 

Who'd have thought, a couple of years later I would be stitching stuff for PoW, (as we called her), myself?

Certainly not me!

 

Funny, this thing called Life, eh?

Zxx

 

Bus Stop With A View

A choice of views from one of the bus stops that I use to go into Plymouth city centre!

Even better coming home last night...the driver had to stop up on the Esplanade,  by the Gary Rhodes' restaurant,  as he was going to be too early at the next stop; oh, what a view.

Mind you, a couple of minutes later, when I got off the bus - phew, I had trouble standing upright, it was so windy. And the rain...got soaked on the 30 second walk home!

By the time you read this we should be on the train home.

'Til next year!

Z xx

When I'm 64

I had to take a sneaky snap of this couple, who came and sat in the theatre foyer this afternoon,  whilst I was waiting for Mr B.

I looked at them and hope this will be us at their age.

Happy days!

Z xx

Misty/Murky

A bit different than the other photo!

Damping, as an old theatre digs landlady, from Plymouth, used to call it. That drizzly, damp weather.

The mist rolling in off the sea, at times so thick you can't actually see across to the other side of the inlet. This is where the big ferries dock, coming in from France and Spain, (I think). Giant white beauties that defy the idea of being able to float. And that wonderful honking noise as they leave for yet another Channel crossing.

Today was supposed to be a trip to Totnes,  but was spent eating yummy toasted bacon baps and drinking Americanos at the local cafe.

Way to go!

Z xx

Heaven On Earth

Driving myself nuts trying to post from my tablet. So, just a "postcard" from Plymouth, to say 'hello' and let y'all know I'm still in the land of the living!!

(And it's taken me all week to get this done! Just how many things does it take to download just to be able to blog?)

Shoe Symposium

 

Fabulous time spent at Northampton Shoe Museum today, courtesy of Pearl.
Thank you, and all who made it possible.
More to follow...
Z xx

Edible Earrings

 

 

Teeny weeny bunches of home grown grapes

 

 Madeline Angevine.

Taste so sweet.

Maybe next year I might be able to get them to grow a little big bigger!

Zxx

Oaty Goodness

 

My fave 'oaty ' recipe from Lucy at Attic 24.

(And check out all her beauteous creations and colour-loveliness while you're there)

 

 

With added almond slivers and coconut shavings. Which I toasted beforehand in a skillet. Makes them so much more tasty.

 

 

A rather solid slab of flapjack!

 

 

Could find my usual recipe, which, really, I should know by heart. So, I tried one from Anthea Turner's "The Perfect Christmas" (The most pretentious video ever...worth watching for the 'curl-up-with-embarrassment' factor, but quite a nice book really!); a bargain find at TK Maxx ages ago.

 

This had shredded coconut in which is okay but with no timings given it was a bit-play-it-by-ear; I think if I'd put it into 2 baking dishes rather than the 8" one suggested, making it thinner, it would've been so much nicer. But it won't go to waste...these are the only ways you'll get me to eat porridge oats, so it's a pretty good breakfast meal!

 

I've been rather unsociable blog-wise recently. Stinky cold-type thing and feeling as though I've fallen at the third hurdle of my CBT, so not been in the best of places since coming home.

 

But...cooking, at least that's a start!

Z xx

You Say Tomato, I Say...

 The cutest little squeezy tomato ketchup dispenser.
Ever!

 

He has eyes, a smile and 'feet'.

And here he is with some real cousins from our next door neighbour.

Mr B ate most of them last night when he got home.

 

Along with pasta, I don't like tomatoes either.

(I would, sadly, make a rubbish Italian!)

So

I

would say

“So I have to find a theme that has enough meat to it - pardon the cheesy pun - for me to able to write a solid episode. That being said, one of my favourite episodes this [second] season is ‘Bitchin’ Booty Camp Extreme,’ and from last year it’s ‘The Breakup Bonanza.’ That has one of my favourite lines that I ever wrote - ‘Even if you and your ex don’t agree on the little things - like he says tomato and you say, go f**k yourself - you’ll both agree that this salad rocks.’ I love that line so much that it’s actually on a new limited edition t-shirt right now in our store. If you want to check it out, it’s a really beautiful and hilarious t-shirt.

 So says Nadia G!
 

 

 

Byeeee!

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Morning, Glory

You cannot imagine the joy this morning as I looked out of the kitchen window and saw this.

I do believe I let out a little squeal!

 

 

I have wanted to grow one of theses for years!

 

 

 

Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' aka as Morning Glory.

 

Its' less fancy looking cousin, convolvulace,  is treated as a weed and we get a lot growing through from next door, wrapping itself around the pear trees, which is a bloomin' nuisance! But, oh, these blue beauties...sigh, I am in love.

 

Morning glory is also a slang term which I had never heard of until Mario said he was 'suffering' from it when he was in the Celebrity Big Brother house!

 

Trust 'men' to call 'it' glory! Pah!

Z xx

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