Caption Saturday 28/7/2012 #satcap

They really will just about open a Coffee shop any where nowadays is no where sacred?!

Gallery Street Photography

These are some of the views I have taken recently on the street when I have been to London. I love the vibrancy of London there is so much life and detail everywhere you look. I just take what I see , going with the flow nothing is out rightly planned.

I haven't joined in much before with the gallery but I shall get involved more as soon as I saw this topic I thought I've done that! And looking ahead it will push me to experiment more with photography.

Tilda kids rice review

The four pouches, which are available in the shops now, are aimed at four to nine-year olds and come in Cheese & Tomato, Sunshine Vegetable, Sweet Vegetable & Wholegrain and Mild & Sweet curry flavours (rsp £1.15).

Each of the pastel-coloured packs contains one of the recommended five-a-day and features suggestions of a protein to accompany the rice.


I have to say I tried this myself and it was perfect for me also even adult sometimes I don't always want huge meals. I added a packet of the pouch Tilda Kids Mild & Sweet Curry rice make a family friendly meal with turkey,red Pepper and Onion.

Tilda Kids Mild & Sweet Curry rice with turkey

Ingredients

Serves: Two children

1 pouch Tilda Kids Mild & Sweet Curry Rice

1 turkey breast
red onion
red pepper

1 tsp mild curry paste

1 Mango & Pineapple Fruit Tube

1 tbsp crème fraiche

1 pack of your favourite fruit snack, such as apricots or mango

1 tbsp. sunflower or vegetable oil

Method

1.     Mix the curry paste, fruit tube and crème fraiche together.

2.     Heat the oil in a pan and then quickly fry off the lamb.

3.     Once cooked stir in the fruit tube, crème fraiche and curry mix and stir well.

4.     Add 1 pouch of Tilda Kids Mild & Sweet Curry Rice and mix through.

5.     Add the fruit and heat thoroughly.

(Disclosure I was send packets of the Tilda Kids rice for review)

Pocket Love

With how the weather has been recently it not been the weather to wear summer clothes really not that at my age I would be wearing the tight shorts and skirt of my youth. You know when it was cool to wear black tights underneath denim shorts and high top trainers. 

It was raining yet again when has it not stopped raining ! I am not at all down beat about the rain .. yes I would like some sun especially as I am taking a UK holiday soon which cost as much as a  foreign holiday. I normally go to far flung places but for the last two years I have stayed with the UK though my feet as getting somewhat twitchy.

I  needed to go out food shopping or some other mundane task like dusting, hoovering and finally putting the sealant round the bath that Mr T hasn't got round to yet.

Reaching into my pocket of my rain coat I pulled on a plastic puzzle the sort you would find in a good Christmas cracker but it was modern it was 1950's in style and make. Somewhat quirky , a fun little item that on closer inspection was made in England.

It was an item from my childhood My grandparents used to give it to me to keep me amuesed I loved it, it was pure joy to me much more than the electronic toys that beckoned to me. I had not seen it since my grandad had died  so sadness and elation combined. You can have all the tea in china as they say when the simplicity of a cheap toy can provide the trigger of memories forever.

Toys as heroes

For children their toys can be their heroes , I am not talking about the toys role within play. But who can it shape and guide their very lives from  emotional solace  to offering up hope. It is belief in our toys that can see us through some very dark times. As soon as a child is born many a teddy is thrust about them , they soon sort out which is their favourite  and other others are merely guest at the imaginary tea parties they may hold!

For my own son it was his toy rabbit  called "Bow tie bunny " that was his favourite who arrived one Easter Morning to guide him on an Easter Egg hunt around our house. It was the very same bunny he took on holiday with us to Center parcs with a label around his  Neck * Paddington Bear style * just in case he or more likely I lost it! And again it was the money who helped him through his endless trips to hospital for his operations  for glue ear and his countless blood tests and other medical traumas!

J with Bow tie bunny his hero!

What's your childs toy hero ?