It is Saturday and John has said that if I am a good girl I will be stood down from cooking duties and we can have a takeaway tonight. This is a double edged sword because I love a takeaway and it I haven't had any real exercise for weeks now and I am feeling ever so slightly porky - so much so that there is more of a loaf than a muffin top hanging over my waistband. Next week, when we are allowed out three times a day, John is threatening power walking to Pittokopis and back - deep joy, I would rather have a bimble.
The challenge this week is "The view from my window" and I have given up trying to create something with my dodgy old watercolours and so I am trying to find THE picture, and because entries are short this week, I am trying to get John involved.
At this stage in the lockdown people are going stir crazy and inspiration is lacking. Some people are bored, some tired through work, some struggling to come to terms with the exclusion from 'normal' life and some whose lives have been turned completely upside down by what has been happening.
We are somewhat sheltered in our bubble which is Villa 10B - we shut the gate and just get on with our lives. The only difficulty is Mum because we are very conscious of her being on her own but I try to alleviate that with calls and suggestions for things she might find interesting to watch on the TV.
John and I were only saying today that actually we really have no wish to go down to Paphos at the moment and mingle with the 'great unwashed'. There are a couple of things I could do with getting in Jumbos but that can wait or I can find them elsewhere but with a price tag that I would not normally entertain.
We spent time today trying to sort out the fruit trees in the front garden which have been there nearly as long as we have been living here and which do nothing. The Lime (in the left picture) was coming back to life after the winter beautifully and had put on some lovely lush green growth and some blossom when we had a spate of icy cold winds which made it look like it had been attacked by a flame thrower. There was nothing we could do but but all the dead and dying growth back. The clementine looks even worse and we decided that we would move it into the ring which used to house the Rosemary before that got woody, got chopped back and never returned. It has, as Dad would say, two chances and one of them I think is slim.
I had some material left over from covering the garden umbrella and I decided to make some cushions for the furniture underneath to match. The only trouble was that there was enough material but only if I made an elaborate patchwork for the final cushion. I got so far with it and then decided to put it back and revisit tomorrow as I was getting very frustrated trying to make it work!
As John was going to fetch the takeaway from Kathikas tonight (including an order from Nathan who is still without a vehicle) I did the shopping in Paps.
Clearly many thought the relaxation to lockdown had come early. It was manic in there and there were so many more people inside at the same time that social distancing was impossible. I had the trolley from hell which had something caught in the wheel so it wouldn't rotate and I pulled a muscle in my backside trying to keep it in a straight line. I am not doing two peoples shopping at the same time again - it is a nightmare trying to keep an eye on whether I had everything on the list, not helped by the fact that my phone times out far too quickly and with a mask and gloves on I cannot reopen the screen due to the fact that it neither recognises my fingerprint nor my mush. The only saving grace to all this (as far as John was concerned) was that there was a mega display of Real Ales, all on offer and I was kind enough to fetch some back for him.
We had our takeaway. There would have been no need for heating had it been cold because the satay was bouncing - the sauce is spicy but tonight the chicken satay had a super spicy coating to go with it. It was delicious. I had honey chicken with extra chili which may have been a bit of a mistake as I could barely feel my lips halfway through and John had a chicken Madras curry. We only ate half and will be having the other half for lunch tomorrow.
Words from the Ration Book
On man rang his doctor and asked him to make an urgent house call, adding mysteriously that his problem wasn't a medical one. When the doctor arrived he was told that there had been an 'accident'. The man had a licence to kill one pig but had unfortunately killed two and he needed to get the second one off the premises before the police arrived. The doctor took the carcass away and sold cuts of it to his patients asking them to pay whatever they felt was reasonable. When he handed the cash to the pig owner that evening he was told he had made a much bigger profit than if the man had sold it on the black market!!
The challenge this week is "The view from my window" and I have given up trying to create something with my dodgy old watercolours and so I am trying to find THE picture, and because entries are short this week, I am trying to get John involved.At this stage in the lockdown people are going stir crazy and inspiration is lacking. Some people are bored, some tired through work, some struggling to come to terms with the exclusion from 'normal' life and some whose lives have been turned completely upside down by what has been happening.
We are somewhat sheltered in our bubble which is Villa 10B - we shut the gate and just get on with our lives. The only difficulty is Mum because we are very conscious of her being on her own but I try to alleviate that with calls and suggestions for things she might find interesting to watch on the TV.
John and I were only saying today that actually we really have no wish to go down to Paphos at the moment and mingle with the 'great unwashed'. There are a couple of things I could do with getting in Jumbos but that can wait or I can find them elsewhere but with a price tag that I would not normally entertain.
We spent time today trying to sort out the fruit trees in the front garden which have been there nearly as long as we have been living here and which do nothing. The Lime (in the left picture) was coming back to life after the winter beautifully and had put on some lovely lush green growth and some blossom when we had a spate of icy cold winds which made it look like it had been attacked by a flame thrower. There was nothing we could do but but all the dead and dying growth back. The clementine looks even worse and we decided that we would move it into the ring which used to house the Rosemary before that got woody, got chopped back and never returned. It has, as Dad would say, two chances and one of them I think is slim.
I had some material left over from covering the garden umbrella and I decided to make some cushions for the furniture underneath to match. The only trouble was that there was enough material but only if I made an elaborate patchwork for the final cushion. I got so far with it and then decided to put it back and revisit tomorrow as I was getting very frustrated trying to make it work!
As John was going to fetch the takeaway from Kathikas tonight (including an order from Nathan who is still without a vehicle) I did the shopping in Paps.Clearly many thought the relaxation to lockdown had come early. It was manic in there and there were so many more people inside at the same time that social distancing was impossible. I had the trolley from hell which had something caught in the wheel so it wouldn't rotate and I pulled a muscle in my backside trying to keep it in a straight line. I am not doing two peoples shopping at the same time again - it is a nightmare trying to keep an eye on whether I had everything on the list, not helped by the fact that my phone times out far too quickly and with a mask and gloves on I cannot reopen the screen due to the fact that it neither recognises my fingerprint nor my mush. The only saving grace to all this (as far as John was concerned) was that there was a mega display of Real Ales, all on offer and I was kind enough to fetch some back for him.
We had our takeaway. There would have been no need for heating had it been cold because the satay was bouncing - the sauce is spicy but tonight the chicken satay had a super spicy coating to go with it. It was delicious. I had honey chicken with extra chili which may have been a bit of a mistake as I could barely feel my lips halfway through and John had a chicken Madras curry. We only ate half and will be having the other half for lunch tomorrow.
Words from the Ration Book
On man rang his doctor and asked him to make an urgent house call, adding mysteriously that his problem wasn't a medical one. When the doctor arrived he was told that there had been an 'accident'. The man had a licence to kill one pig but had unfortunately killed two and he needed to get the second one off the premises before the police arrived. The doctor took the carcass away and sold cuts of it to his patients asking them to pay whatever they felt was reasonable. When he handed the cash to the pig owner that evening he was told he had made a much bigger profit than if the man had sold it on the black market!!
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