Phalaenopsis

This is a plant that Karen bought me when I was 60. It flowers all the time and was like this when we came back from America in January. I love the colour.

little house on the prairie.

Look closely "near the funny looking tree" and you will see our little house from across the field.
Enlarge the photo and our house is in the middle.

Banana Milk Buns.

These Banana Milk buns are delicious. The recipe is;-
3oz butter
2oz sugar
1 Tablespoon Condenced milk
2 Tablepoons honey
2 eggs
1 Mashed Banana
6oz S/R flour

Gas mark 4
It makes about a dozen.
Sheila x

Elaine Bennetts big salad!

For all you food police out there this is a hugh salad made from lettuce, spinach, rocket.Celery, tomatoes, Red peppers Cottage cheese and nuts. when I've eaten this for lunch I won't feel so bad about eating one or two Apple cream puffs that I am making for dessert!

sheila x

P.s For those of you don't know who Elaine Bennett is..........Watch Seinfeld.

Think on this!

research has shown that:-
Women do Two Thirds of the worlds work.
They earn One Tenth of the words wages.
And they own only One Hundredth of the worlds properties.

orange tart

I made this on a whim and it turned out nice,
Liquidise 1 Orange ( take out any pips )
2 Eggs
2oz butter
2oz Sugar
Pour into a pastry case and bake on a low setting( gas 4) for about an hour or until golden brown
sheila x

Quacking breakfast

Mr and Mrs Duck enjoy their breakfast.

mr and mrs Duck

Today's quote.

I saw this quote whilst reading the paper this morning and it has been in my head all day.How true is this? " Evil is not the absence of righteousness but the absence of empathy"
Just been watching Britains got talent. It's an amazing show as the acts are not as manufactured as the others such as the X factor etc. Anyway I was impressed by a singer called Madonna and I predict great things for her.
marysue, don't work too hard on the room painting. It's more important to make some bread!

It made me laugh!

In bed last night, reading Bill Bryson's "The short history of nearly everything" I laughed aloud
when I read "He was exceedingly bright but untroubled by anything as inconvenient as a scruple ". This sounds very much like someone I know!
The weather today is nithering. I want to go to the shops but daren't go out!
more later
sheila xx

The Staff of Life

Not to be outdone by Sonia!!

Jerk beef Pasties.

I made a batch of Jamaican Beef patties for the W.I. so we decided to bake a couple for lunch. Very nice too

Lovely salt

I forgot to say that I sprinkled the Foccacia with this New Zealand smoked salt.

Foccacia.

This will accompany our pasta this evening.

Gainsborough.

This morning I googled for the nearest branch of Marks and Spencer. It was either at Grimsby or Gainsborough. As we go to Grimsby sometimes we thought it might make a change to go to Gainsborough and make it a day out. Well yes, there was a Marks and Spencers at Gainsborough
when we got there but it turned out to be only a food outlet so that was a wasted journey as I wanted shoes! However on walking around the town we found a shop that was selling wine at a third of the price of any other shop that we know of so of course we decided to save some money by buying a few bottles!! I bought Martini at £3.99. later when we called at Morrisons the same bottle was £7.99 .
Phone call to my neighbour. They were all supposed to be going to London tomorrow. Her son had booked them into a hotel, booked flights on the London Eye and booked two shows in the west end as well as first class rail tickets etc. However they can't go as George has been ill since Sunday. They are all so disapointed.
Graham has more or less recovered from his misadventure of Tuesday but I am still suffering from stabbing myself in the hand. Gina can't believe that someone could be stupid enough to try to prise a bottle top off with a pair of scissors. Not until Andrew told her that he once tried to get the sauce bottle lid off with a hatchet!!!
Not much else to report. I am going great guns with my family tree but am going to wait until winter before paying to go further. It is so time consuming.
A lot of wildlife activity when we were coming over the wolds. some of the birds we can't identify
and off course there is always a lot of road kill. Anyway the birds are all very busy getting the nests ready.
more later. Sheila xx

Poor Postman!

A somewhat rude awakening this morning by an impatient postman. He was bringing me this book that has been sent to me by my nephew in Kansas. I did half read it before when we were in Kansas but I shall give it my undivided attention ( Just as soon as I have finished wading through Bill Bryson's "The history of almost everything") and will let you know what I think of the ideas he promulgates.
Yesterday was a bit disasterish again. First the water pressure needle was dangerously in the red on the central heating boiler. Edward ( of bowling club fame) came along and mended it in no time. Then Graham came into the house dripping blood everywhere. Once again he has fallen off a ladder. This time he hit his head on the lawn and not on concrete but he has a cut on every finger. A huge graze on the back of his leg and a large cut on his elbow along with various other
cuts and bruises. I then rang Gina to tell her and was scolded in no uncertain terms for allowing
him to climb ladders in view of what happened last time!! Protestations that I didn't know he was up a ladder fell on deaf ears! I should be watching him at all times!
It's lovely weather just now so I might have a walk on the sea front.
Love Sheila x

Hey watch out!

Couldn't believe this dog was driving!! I bet the cops daren't ask him to produce his documents!!

My yorkshire pud.

Here's my version of Yorkshire pudding. We are trying to cut down so we have 1/2 each instead of full one.
Not much to write about, not much happening. Our friends are coming tomorrow so that will be good!
Love Sheila xx

A Bon Bon Dish

I bought this lovely hand painted Bon Bon Dish at the coffee morning. Its Hand painted on fine bone china and it cost me 50p !! click on it to see it better.

I am just waiting for my yorkshire pudding to come out of the oven. Will it be as good as Sonia's?

Love Sheila xx

Ah!!

I never say "Mint Sauce" at this time of year!

chocolate brownies

It was Sandra made me do it!!!

the taming of the shrew!

I forgot to tell you that every time I take the peelings etc to the compost bin, two little eyes, like shiny buttons, look at me before darting away. Don't they have cute little pointy noses?
Sheila xx

dessert!

Peach custard flan for dessert. I fancied something juicy.!

disaster strikes!

We have had hardly any sleep last night. When I came back from the W.I. I found that the toilet was blocked. At midnight we went out into the pitch black night to discover that the whole bathroom system was blocked and the excess water was overflowing into the garden. What a mess! We naturally tried to plunge it etc but only made it worse. we poured bleach, Bi Carb and other cleaning fluid all around to no avail. Then we went to bed but couldn't sleep. I was afraid that the waste would back up into the dishwasher and washing machine, both of which were going, so decided to get up and wait for them to finish their cycles. Well......have you ever been waiting for something? It takes hours!! Eventually about 2.30am we retired to the bedroom but didn't sleep for ages. Anyway I phoned the drain man Dave at 8am and he came soon after. He did his best but he wasn't able to get to where the blockage was so he and Graham had to dig away some concrete. Hurrah!! with a mighty swoosh the blockage was gone and now we can use the bathroom again. However...We are now waiting for a builder to come. It looks as though we will have to have a complete new drainage system!
Graham is naturally suicidal. Why does he insist on believing that bad things only happen to us?
Anyway he is going bowling now so that might cheer him up a bit.
More later Sheila x

Shall I put a cherry on top?

I have made these Bakewell type tarts with some leftover Hazel nut flour.