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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Sipech:
L'organist, is it the adjective "sea" that you object to specifically, or is it an objection to grouping together various species of birds under the term "gulls"?
The usual complaint put a whole lot better than I could.
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Welease Woderwick
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...we had beans on toast and Champagne in the same meal. I feel very Bohemian.
Many, many, many years ago, when I was a student, aged 19[!!!], I met what can best be described as an old soak who was of the opinion that champagne was that rare drink that went with everything, he'd have been delighted at your choice.
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I understand that not long after moving here (before I made it over the Pond), D. was invited to supper with a rather grand (and very rich) old lady in the congregation, where he was given macaroni cheese and Champagne - very civilised! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I'm glad La Vie has converted Husband en rouge - beans on toast can be a dish fit for a king. They have to be proper beans though, in tomato sauce, preferably made by Mr. Heinz, and never been corrupted by the evil that is molasses. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Very lazy day. Heatwave abated and been replaced by a very strong wind. But it is still warm!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'm glad La Vie has converted Husband en rouge - beans on toast can be a dish fit for a king. They have to be proper beans though, in tomato sauce, preferably made by Mr. Heinz, and never been corrupted by the evil that is molasses.
I'm sure they've changed the recipe over the years. I used to love beans on toast, but they don't taste the same any more, even Heinz.
Arrived at the supermarket last night to see a dodgy-looking tattooed bloke and his friend checking out the beer aisle. I thought nothing of it until a few minutes later there was shouting and commotion as it turned out the dodgy bloke had just attempted to leg it through the doors with a couple of six packs of Stella Artois. As I left he was resisting being handcuffed by some burly policemen. No sign of the friend, who had presumably left the area in some haste.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
We are off to see Gypsy work and meet her for one last time.
You'll be in my thoughts and prayers -- I know this will be a bittersweet time for you. You'll be very proud of Gypsy doing the very important job she was raised to do, and proud of your part in that. But it has to be heart-wrenching as well. Luckily Twiglet and Tatze will be there to greet you when you return home.
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
We are off to see Gypsy work and meet her for one last time.
You'll be in my thoughts and prayers -- I know this will be a bittersweet time for you. You'll be very proud of Gypsy doing the very important job she was raised to do, and proud of your part in that. But it has to be heart-wrenching as well. Luckily Twiglet and Tatze will be there to greet you when you return home.
Thank you. I think the biggest wrench was when she left for big school - but I shall certainly be taking my tissues! Other puppy walkers say it's good - as it's when we realise they have moved on. I will let you know!
I am so very pleased she has qualified, only 75% do. I trust Guide Dogs to always have her best interests at heart and I know that they follow and monitor all the dogs life-long. I am in touch with 1000s of guide dog owners in a Facebook group, it gives an excellent insight into the lives they lead - I would love Gypsy's new owner to be one of them ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I dearly hope that her new owner will get in touch (I have sent on a photo book with all our details in the back - I know her owner may not be able to see it but his/her family will.)
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'm glad La Vie has converted Husband en rouge - beans on toast can be a dish fit for a king. They have to be proper beans though, in tomato sauce, preferably made by Mr. Heinz, and never been corrupted by the evil that is molasses.
I'm sure they've changed the recipe over the years. I used to love beans on toast, but they don't taste the same any more, even Heinz.
Try putting a fried egg on top.
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I hate molasses based beans. Blecchy. I used to fake illness to avoid eating beanie-weenies when I was a kid.
When I tried beans on toast on my 2008 trip to Portsmouth, I was so relieved they didn't taste like Karo syrup. Very yummy, and texturally satisfying.
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Try adding grated Mozzarella, or any cheese, when heating! But Mozzarella melts well.
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I've heard of people putting things like fried eggs and grated cheese on top of beans on toast, but I honestly don't buy it. I can be very specific sometimes about what I like with what; there are things that I love individually (such as chocolate and peanut butter) but I think are an abomination when combined (as in Reece's Pieces).
I think baked beans and either fried eggs or cheese would come into the same category. I even eat the components of a fried breakfast in groups: mushrooms and tomatoes with the sausages and/or black pudding, egg with the bacon, fried bread dipped in the yolk. No beans!
I don't have OCD. Honestly ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I've heard of people putting things like fried eggs and grated cheese on top of beans on toast, but I honestly don't buy it.
Fried egg? Surely not - that's quite the wrong combination of textures. If you're going to eat egg with beans on toast, the egg must be poached.
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Quiet day so far. Youngest GS left for Oxford to do a year house/games master at Oxford school. Its his gap year. I have been surfing - not the waves but the internet!
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Frankly all 'baked beans' in a tin taste hideous to me (quite happy to make my own though). But cheesy beans on toast is a very popular lunch for the ferijenet.
In order to comply with the thread title: more rain here. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain... My windscreen was a little bit iced up this morning though.
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Yes, first frosts this morning. That's a change - especially as I was looking at the daffodils in the tubs on the station platform yesterday evening. They're just about to bloom. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) And we haven't even had snowdrops yet.
I just hope there aren't going to be fledgelings who will be caught out by the return to traditional winter cold.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Yes, first frosts this morning. That's a change - especially as I was looking at the daffodils in the tubs on the station platform yesterday evening. They're just about to bloom. And we haven't even had snowdrops yet.
I just hope there aren't going to be fledgelings who will be caught out by the return to traditional winter cold.
S'nothing. We had daffodils in bloom outside Newport station before Christmas! Do the railways use an early flowering variety?
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A FB friend who lives in Jersey posted a picture of a daffodil the other day, but according to the Telegraph there's an icy blast on its way to the UK. Not quite time to ditch the duffel-coat, methinks.
Over here it's been cold but dry with just the odd snowflake for the last couple of days; they're forecasting rain for early next week, but there was an ominous-looking flock of snowflakes on the long-range forecast for the end of next week and the beginning of the week after. We've been very lucky so far this winter - we've only had one snow-day, and there was a warm-up over Christmas that cleared most of that, before we had a few inches on New Year's Eve.
Definitely not holding my breath ... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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What a day!
We went to a hotel and met Gypsy's trainer, then followed them at a distance while she worked for about twenty minutes. She was amazing, she didn't put one paw wrong. It was a very busy town and she was as steady as it's possible to be. She's only 18 months old.
She got our scent on the wind towards the end of her walk and kept looking back!
Then we met her at the hotel - she knew us instantly and jumped all over us. We gave her her presents and her trainers told us about her new owner. We spent over an hour with her.
Her new owner is a young woman in her 40s who has a very active lifestyle, she works afternoons and she has three children and a cat. Just what Gypsy needs as she's a busy, active dog. They will stay together for two weeks at the hotel while they train, going home at weekends. They start on the 18th of January. Then two more weeks training at home. Gypsy will be her first guide dog.
It was very emotional and incredibly special. She has grown up SO much and darkened a lot in colour, she's fox red now! - while her nose has pinkened even more!
I was proud and thrilled. I shed a tear as we left her, of course, but - at the same time - I can see that she's ready for an amazing job ahead and I wish them both all the joy in the world.
Here is a short video of our afternoon.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
S'nothing. We had daffodils in bloom outside Newport station before Christmas! Do the railways use an early flowering variety?
I don't know. The tubs are new, but I've been enjoying seeing the progress of the daffs and crocuses, day by day.
(Well, you have to fill in the time between connections somehow. It's that or appraising the graphic design of all the advertisement posters.)
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Gypsy is 100% adorable - that last picture of her brought a lump to my throat! I hope she and her new human have a wonderful life together.
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off to Fish Hoek this morning maybe for a swim. Sun blazing down so should be a nice day. Had a fish meal at a restaurent last night - they served the fish & chips & spinach up in the frying pan!
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Fish & chips & WHAT??!!
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Spinach is either an interloper, an outrage or a clear incidence of heresy. Or possibly all three.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Gypsy is 100% adorable - that last picture of her brought a lump to my throat! I hope she and her new human have a wonderful life together.
I'm wiping a few tears away now too. What a beautiful dog. She'll be such a blessing to her new owner, and you deserve to be very proud of your part in that.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by shamwari:
They served the fish & chips & spinach up in the frying pan!
I hope you were properly indignant and got a refund. I wouldn't put up with that kind of nonsense #wewantplates
Have just taken the Christmas decorations down. The place looks so very January now, especially on this cold dark day when it's raining.
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shamwari
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Back from a morning at Fish Hoek beach. It was hot and sunny but quite a strong wind off the sea. Its years since I was last there.
Still recovering from the skock of spinach with fish and chips served in the frying pan. Nor was it a cheap restaurent. Shipmates' incredulity is understandable.
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Boogie
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We had a meal at the hotel restaurant yesterday - the meal was served on bread boards. The food kept falling off the edges.
What is this fashion for using things which are not plates? Plates have been devised over 1000s of years to be just the thing to eat off. Stop messing about! If I could put anything into room 101 it would be plates that are anything but plates!
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Originally posted by Boogie:
We had a meal at the hotel restaurant yesterday - the meal was served on bread boards. The food kept falling off the edges.
What is this fashion for using things which are not plates? Plates have been devised over 1000s of years to be just the thing to eat off. Stop messing about! If I could put anything into room 101 it would be plates that are anything but plates!
Absolutely useless for chips, as the gravy would all run off. Sometimes I despair.
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Ariel
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Well, yes, pitta bread was devised with that in mind as well. But a group of us from the office went out for lunch last year to a pub where most of us were given our meals on large slates, of the roof-tile variety. Luckily what I'd ordered came on a plate - I'd have asked for one if it hadn't.
Some of the pictures I've seen of this kind of thing are quite amusing but at the same time a bit alarming - how hygienic is it serving chips in a flat cap or a trainer (shoe)? Do these things get re-used and are they properly washed in between?
I think the crowning photo I saw, and it may well have been on the We Want Plates website, was where the meal was served with no plates at all. Spaghetti was dumped on the table and the sauce poured on top of it, with a family of four looking on, a bit nonplussed as they clutched forks and spoons. I'm assuming the restaurant did warn them in advance.
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Sometimes when working with a group of children, we put tin foil on the table and drop the chips and mayonnaise on there. They love it!
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Gypsy is gorgeous, what a lovely video. I had to swallow hard one or twice. She is a credit to you, Boogie, and may she and her new owner have a long and happy life together.
I too dislike having my meals served up on wooden boards, or pieces of slate, but apart from roast dinners I seldom use plates on which to serve the meals at Casa Nen. A couple of years back I was introduced by my daughter to the joys of pasta bowls and now we use them at pretty much every main meal. Casserole and vegetables, salads and salad dressing, stir frys - all contained admirably in the pasta bowl (not all at the same time, you understand).
In other news, it's raining hard. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Ariel
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Many years ago I had a Japanese flatmate who was in England for EFL reasons. We got on very well and had fun with the differences in language, customs etc, including one day in the kitchen when she looked at the bowl with lunch I was about to take back to my room and said, "In Japan that is a soup bowl."
In turn I looked at the dish containing her lunch and said "And in England that is used for baking flans."
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Originally posted by Nenya:
A couple of years back I was introduced by my daughter to the joys of pasta bowls and now we use them at pretty much every main meal. Casserole and vegetables, salads and salad dressing, stir frys - all contained admirably in the pasta bowl (not all at the same time, you understand).
We have recently invested in new "everyday" tableware. We didn't want to spend too much money but definitely wanted pasta bowls as we too use them a lot - but not many sets have them. Eventually (a week ago) we went to a "retail outlet" where they were selling Denby "seconds" at highly discounted prices. We arrived home well pleased with our purchase!
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My last birthday present was a specially commissioned hand-thrown bowl, about dinner plate size and shallowish. Originally it was meant for microwaveable porridge, but now it is The Lunch Bowl. It holds exactly the right amount of soup or salad or noodles or whatever I'm having.
Dinner chez Firenze otoh comes on square plates - which have the effect of making the most ordinary food look terrifically stylish.
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Firenze: My last birthday present was a specially commissioned hand-thrown bowl
I hope you managed to duck in time
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I'm with you all on the no boards, no slates thing, but curry definitely tastes better eaten from a banana leaf, although it's interesting trying to eat sago (much stickier than the English kind) with nothing but a poppadom.
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
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Originally posted by Nenya:
A couple of years back I was introduced by my daughter to the joys of pasta bowls and now we use them at pretty much every main meal. Casserole and vegetables, salads and salad dressing, stir frys - all contained admirably in the pasta bowl (not all at the same time, you understand).
We have recently invested in new "everyday" tableware. We didn't want to spend too much money but definitely wanted pasta bowls as we too use them a lot - but not many sets have them. Eventually (a week ago) we went to a "retail outlet" where they were selling Denby "seconds" at highly discounted prices. We arrived home well pleased with our purchase!
As a user of Denby seconds pasta bowls, I can highly recommend them...
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Yes, I've just eaten Polish "bigos" off one (sadly my wife being in bed, indisposed with a "bug").
[ 09. January 2016, 18:36: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Ariel
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Dinner chez Firenze otoh comes on square plates - which have the effect of making the most ordinary food look terrifically stylish.
I love mine - they're black, and have replaced the smoked glass ones I used to have for daily use.
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Firenze
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White. Always white.
Ceramic fashions may ebb and flow, but the real cook will always want their productions to go out on the classic purity of a smooth white glaze.
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So does the cook who tends to break things - replacing White is so much easier than anything else.
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There was a fad about 20-odd years ago for "steak-on-a-stone" restaurants - the stone was a square about 8" x 8" and about 1½" thick, which had been heated, and you were given a steak, just seared on the outside, which you proceeded to cut in slices and cook on the hot stone to your desired degree of doneness, then dip in the assorted sauces provided. It was quite fun, once in a while, but it suited me better than D: I like my steak medium-rare, but it was hard for him to get his to "cremated" before the stone lost its heat ...
I'm happy enough to have things like cheese or charcuterie served on boards, and our "everyday" side-plates are actually little rectangular wooden boards which D. brought back after his godson's christening in Norway nearly 30 years ago. For main courses (especially anything involving sauce) though, you really need proper plates.
I've been a v. lazy piglet today; it's amazing how much you can fail to achieve when you've got a sofa, a blanket and an unputdownable book. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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went early to Kirstenbosch gardens not far from here. amazing collection of plants etc. son and his wife went for a !run! from there up and along the slopes of the mountain. Thats it for today! lounging beside the pool is next on agenda.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Ceramic fashions may ebb and flow, but the real cook will always want their productions to go out on the classic purity of a smooth white glaze.
I don't think my family or I have ever used plain white plates. I quite enjoy china with patterns on - most of the family crockery has some kind of pleasing design on it, and I'm old enough to remember my Dublin grandmother having a dresser stacked with blue and white delf on display. (Delf is the Irish term for what would be Delft.) Plain white always seems a bit institutional to me, and just not something I'd buy.
I don't usually achieve great culinary feats these days, sometimes a fry-up or something-with-toast is about as good as it gets.
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Ah, the delf on the shelf. I have one surviving willow pattern plate from my childhood - doubtless bought in Woolworth's. And one of my parent's wedding presents - a teapot in a lumpy green pattern meant to represent cabbage leaves. That and a glass lustreware pudding bowl - sadly damaged by my mother using it as a planter for years - are all that survive.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
There was a fad about 20-odd years ago for "steak-on-a-stone" restaurants - the stone was a square about 8" x 8" and about 1½" thick, which had been heated, and you were given a steak, just seared on the outside, which you proceeded to cut in slices and cook on the hot stone to your desired degree of doneness, then dip in the assorted sauces provided.
I never saw the point of this. What's the point of going to a restaurant just to cook the meat yourself?
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LeRoc
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This is where I spent my New Year (I thought you'd be interested in knowing that )
I'm in England now, the wheather transtion is, erm … interesting.
Something interesting happened. During Carnival 2009, I was in Brazil. I was mostly playing, and backstage I met some musicians who said to me: "we'll be recording some stuff on Thursday, come join us." So that was the day after Ash Wednesday, when everyone in Brazil has a hangover (but recording studios are cheap). But alright, I went to the studio for about on hour and played a bit. The following week, I was off to Cape Verde and mostly forgot about the whole thing. Last week, I was in a rather obscure CD shop in Brazil, saw a cover and thought: "I remember the name of that band." I opened the booklet and there it was on page 2: "[My real name], trumpet on tracks 2 and 16". After seven years, I'm finally able to hear what I played on that moody Thursday
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
This is where I spent my New Year (I thought you'd be interested in knowing that )
I'm in England now, the wheather transtion is, erm … interesting.
You can go off some people ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Spike:
I never saw the point of [steak-on-a-stone]. What's the point of going to a restaurant just to cook the meat yourself?
I suppose it was the novelty value, a bit like holding fondue parties; we once invited a couple of elderly friends for a fondue bourguignon and they were tickled pink at the idea of being asked for dinner and cooking their own food.
I'm a bit confused by LeRoc's link - when I click on it, this is what comes up - a games site?
On the subject of serendipitous CDs, we were at a party at my boss's house a couple of Christmases ago, and there was a festive CD playing. D. said, "that sounds familiar" and sure enough, it was The Bells of Dublin, a CD made by, among others, the Chieftains, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull and a choir from Belfast for whom D. was the accompanist. My boss (and the assembled company) were suitably impressed. I understand it sold in its squillions, but all D. got was a flat fee, if that. If he'd got even a tiny percentage, I could be kept in the style what I'd like to get accustomed to ...
Singing Evensong at 4 o'clock instead of 6:30 seems to be a Good Thing - D. reckons we sing better at that time of day, and I even managed to get in an attack of goddessishness when we got home. Chicken casserole made for tomorrow's lunch and a batch of French sticks.
And I started on the third book of the trilogy that I've been having trouble putting down.
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