Paupers is only having its turkey dinner on the 24th and 25th so it was today or never. (Yesterday had too much snow to go out.) Crunched out over salt and/or untreated snow on twinging feet (feet do not like boots) and had a reasonable dinner with a lot of wine because wine is exempt in the HST holiday. Then discovered the wine store was ( Read more... )

Mercury dropping in the mouth of the dying day. Should do a laundry and hang to dry in the heat of the furnace that I will bump up to a giddy 18C tonight. Only, knees are unhappy at the cold and dank etc. and not wanting to use basement stairs. At least I got the recycle out in good time ( Read more... )

This is December Dead Days weather long before the Dead Days. Because of the postal strike there are no Christmas cards to look forward to, and because my weight refuses to drop in spite of daily bike machine usage, there are no Christmas treats either. I suppose I must stop eating pasta but carbs, precious carbs, are all I crave in these grey ( Read more... )

Had another Don' Wanna Get Up day because everything hurt so much, especially elbows, so stayed in bed till noon, difting in and out of sleep. Got up to find the snow that was to start midday had already fallen and my Good Neighbour had shovelled my sidewalk and walkway, which was nice of him. Was still a grey cold dank day that I've spent on the ( Read more... )

Back to the first day of the month weight gain. Shall blame chocolate and gingerbread indulgence because if it's wine I shall be very sad. Mind, daily wine disagrees with me and I could well lay off it. But also have discovered a new to me pasta, mafalda corta- a short and crinkly noodle that goes very well with the beef stew I've been eating all ( Read more... )

Someone on the FFL was reviewing The Man in the High Castle and remarked on the odd English used that was supposed to suggest either a second language Japanese speaker or a rendering in English of what people were saying in actual Japanese, neither of which sounded likely to them. I noticed none of this when I read it so many decades ago, so I got ( Read more... )

The rain outside is doing its raineth every day thing. Put out my garbage early but not the dead vacuum, given there's no guarantee they'll take it ( Read more... )

Finished ( Read more... )

Thought I heard a noise this morning as I surfaced briefly from sleep. 8:30, nope, not getting up at that hour. When I did get up two hours later there was an email waiting for me. 'Your package has been delivered.' When Canadian Tire says next day, I don't expect that to mean twelve hours. So I limped downstairs to check. Yes, my Dirt Devil was ( Read more... )

Project Tiddly continues apace, thanks to which I was able to do a tofu stir-fry today, with bok choy getting past its expiry date and healthy-looking mushrooms from the Used Vegetable department (the remainder of which I will roast soon, this time preheating the pan in the oven so it doesn't warp suddenly on me like last time.) Also tinned bamboo ( Read more... )