Comfort food - and a life-saving essential journey!
Perhaps I had better start with the second part of the title!
D-d rang up today just to catch up. They are fine, but Tegi is confused by her people being not only in the house, but at the dining table most of every day and assumes any time is dinner time... She also has been mousing, and regularly brings mice in through her cat flap, right beside the dining table. D-d says "She never tries to kill them, just brings them in and then plays with them." She commented that she finds herself saying "Don't play with the mouse!" and realised this is silly as at other times they tell her to play with her toy mouse.
Anyway, yesterday's mouse seemed to be totally unharmed, and so D-d took Tegi into the living room whilst the NYM captured the mouse and took it to the furthest corner of their tiny garden. D-d opens the living room door, Tegi dashes out, straight through the cat flap and within 2 minutes is back with, presumably, the same mouse.
So the second time, whilst D-d keeps Tegi in the living room the NYM gathers up the mouse and then went out and walked about 15 minutes away to the nearby fields to let the mouse go.
D-d said he decided that this counted as an essential journey - in fact it was definitely life-saving!
When she rang I was just cooking rice to go with our dinner - and when I told her what we were eating she laughed and sais she had made the same thing when it was her turn to cook a few days ago. Curried Meatballs!
This was one of my storecupboard dinners when she was a child - literally a packet of Swedish meatballs and a jar of Patak's Jalfrezi sauce with added red pepper and chopped onion if you were lucky:) Cooking the rice took longer than making the curry.
And we were both smiling on opposite ends of the call as, of course, we both know how to make curries from scratch, but she said that it really had to be a jar of sauce because "That's how you always did it," and it had only really occured to her recently that this was because it was something we ate when I was late coming home from work and we needed a very quick turn around! (It was often just her and I as S2C worked nights and often ate at different times to us.)
Both of us, when we were stocking up in case we wouldn't be able to shop for a while, almost automatically added Swedish meatballs and a jar of Patak's curry sauce to our stash - and both of us had needed to use them up as they were now approaching the eat by date!
To finish; today's pictures. First - spot the visiting bird spotter...
Top left of the picture is the bird feeder for the small birds, and in the foreground is a ground seed feeder. EvilCat from across the road is trying to disguise himself as a small shadow carefully positioned to keep an eye on both....
And this is the corner of the garden to the right of the first picture - I have decided to just let it become a little woodland corner. I really mean little, it is only an area about six feet either way.
D-d rang up today just to catch up. They are fine, but Tegi is confused by her people being not only in the house, but at the dining table most of every day and assumes any time is dinner time... She also has been mousing, and regularly brings mice in through her cat flap, right beside the dining table. D-d says "She never tries to kill them, just brings them in and then plays with them." She commented that she finds herself saying "Don't play with the mouse!" and realised this is silly as at other times they tell her to play with her toy mouse.
Anyway, yesterday's mouse seemed to be totally unharmed, and so D-d took Tegi into the living room whilst the NYM captured the mouse and took it to the furthest corner of their tiny garden. D-d opens the living room door, Tegi dashes out, straight through the cat flap and within 2 minutes is back with, presumably, the same mouse.
So the second time, whilst D-d keeps Tegi in the living room the NYM gathers up the mouse and then went out and walked about 15 minutes away to the nearby fields to let the mouse go.
D-d said he decided that this counted as an essential journey - in fact it was definitely life-saving!
When she rang I was just cooking rice to go with our dinner - and when I told her what we were eating she laughed and sais she had made the same thing when it was her turn to cook a few days ago. Curried Meatballs!
This was one of my storecupboard dinners when she was a child - literally a packet of Swedish meatballs and a jar of Patak's Jalfrezi sauce with added red pepper and chopped onion if you were lucky:) Cooking the rice took longer than making the curry.
And we were both smiling on opposite ends of the call as, of course, we both know how to make curries from scratch, but she said that it really had to be a jar of sauce because "That's how you always did it," and it had only really occured to her recently that this was because it was something we ate when I was late coming home from work and we needed a very quick turn around! (It was often just her and I as S2C worked nights and often ate at different times to us.)
Both of us, when we were stocking up in case we wouldn't be able to shop for a while, almost automatically added Swedish meatballs and a jar of Patak's curry sauce to our stash - and both of us had needed to use them up as they were now approaching the eat by date!
To finish; today's pictures. First - spot the visiting bird spotter...
Top left of the picture is the bird feeder for the small birds, and in the foreground is a ground seed feeder. EvilCat from across the road is trying to disguise himself as a small shadow carefully positioned to keep an eye on both....
And this is the corner of the garden to the right of the first picture - I have decided to just let it become a little woodland corner. I really mean little, it is only an area about six feet either way.