Get yourself a cup of tea, you are going to be here for a while!

Have been doing some thinking today.... it's what I do when out on the back of the motorbike.... decided instead of just rabbiting on aimlessly I am going to make a list of the things I want to talk about and tell you.........then, if I forget where I am I will just look at the list! so.............I want to 1. Tell you how the meal went.....and my first attempt at ice-cream making! 2. My supermarket campaign 3. Review of my New Years Resolutions! 4. Update on the Garden. The Meal Great success! Although I was looking for a recipe, in the end I decided to just use what we had in. Afterall, no point in making a special journey for ingrediants. I must tell you though I had a proper blonde moment when getting the giblets out of the duck... would you believe I was trying to get them out of the wrong end! We had a great meal! The icecream was an absolute disaster! All I can put it down to is the bowl was not cold enough! We decided to have a walk to our village pub. This would be about 10.30. The pub was empty! Normally it is heaving. It is all down to te new owners. To be honest I can't see it being able to continue, it can't be making any money. Some neighbours who use to go in every week said it is just going down hill. I knew things were getting bad by the number of cars in the carpark. Normally, especially on a Sunday the carpark is full and the cars are parked right the end of the village. When we pass now there are many spaces in the carpark. The previous owners built up an excellent reputation for the Carvery. They sold out a couple of years ago and moved to a little village on the other side of the moors. Not only were we the only people in the pub, we were in effect keeping them up! It became quite clear they just wanted to lock the doors. I would have thought they needed our custom, but obviously not! We wont be going there for quite some time! My Supermarket Campaign Our local supermarket, Somerfield is closing the deli counter and will just be selling pre-packed cheese and cold meats. This has infuriated me and I have decided to launch a cmpaign. The thing is with there just being the two of us I dont buy huge portions of cheese, I just buy what we need. I do not like waste. Also I like to see the cooked meat I am buying. I am writing a letter to Somerfield and am going to see if our butcher will start selling cheese. He is going to benefit from Somerfield's brainless scheme anyway. I was thinking about this whole supermarket scam and felt I needed to be more organised. I can't keep shopping everyday...we have no bus service to the local market town which means I have to use my car all of the time, so I may start shopping via the internet and have it delivered...we'll see. Review of my New Year Resolutions This is embarassing! I made 3, and have just to say kept 1. My New Year Resolutions were as follows.......... 1. Visit Alice more often! 2. Go to church every Sunday. 3. Make our home my main priority. So 1/3..................and how do you think I feel at this moment in time about number1! The resolution I have just to say scraped by with is number 3. I have spent a lot of time thinking about Alice. One neighbour, now moved away used the words... "Well I've done my bit for Alice!" Yes they visited her more than I did, but Alice had lots of visitors and it would be naive of me to think Alice was lonely, therefore dependant upon myself. If that had been the case I would have visited regularly. The church issue. We have a lovely church but the vicar had mental health problems. As hubby pointed out........quote "It must be stressful working one day a week!" Well he has finally handed in his notice. (The vicar not hubby!) so we should be getting a new vicar soon. I can honestly say the main reason for my poor attendance of late is due to the improved weather, hence the motorbike. With hubby's work situation we can never say for definate what we will be doing. However, if the weather is nice we go out on the bike on a Sunday. Hubby tries to keep the day free, and we spend the day together...... now I think God would approve, we spend time together keeps our marriage happy. Update on the Garden! The plot for my greenhouse takes a step towards progress! Remember it looked like this.... well tomorrowI will take a photo and show the progress! Meanwhile.............look what hubby got working! We are both really excited! So.....................watch this space! Have a good week! Dx