Planning A Kitchen

I'm starting to look at new kitchens and I'm gob smacked at the prices . I think kitchens are the Bermuda Triangle of money so looking around beckons you 've all sorts , one chappy has been round with his tape measure it was a big one and I got to hold it ; the tape measure that is.

My tops for kitchen planning so far :

1. I'd like to win one I have high hopes of this .

2. I believe in dreams.

3. See 1 & 2.

Despite me not having a kitchen till 2 years , I like to plan forearmed is forearmed as they say.


Now I know that kitchens are not cheap but I think I can plan well enough and cut down costs instead of having a breakfast bar replaced by cupboard , I can instead save money here by having a free standing unit. Also the cats will be mighty grateful as in winter they toast their little paws on the radiator sucking up the heat like a rather fluffy mad tempered sponge.

At the moment I am looking at Ikea for ideas I think I like things higgledy piggledy , from what I see from when other people have have there kitchen done , it is quite the hair tearing out process.


Have you got any ideas or recommendations where I can look? and any ideas how I can save money would be most welcome , I am not beyond getting Mr T to tile and lay a floor ( after all he has to work make sure we keep home)

I am going to make the most of those pesky corners and have a carousal fitted to make life easier for me !





I really want to keep a kitchen under £6,000 as about the same as the kitchen is going to be going on my son will be planning to go to university and then I really will have no money!

There's A Packet Of Dinosaurs On The Window Sill

Dinosaurs.

There's a packet of dinosaurs on the window sill , there's a charity bag I'm sorting. I can't let go it seems of summer days and video jamming days.

There's a packet of dinosaurs by the window sill you see.

Amongst the kitchen untensils they hide the packet of dinosaurs they survive ; seeking adventure and joy ooh to be dusted off please.

There's a packet of dinosaurs on the window sill you see.

You and I we've seen Toy Story 3 where the toys are gleeful at being free, free from the prison are they. The dinosaurs in the packet are looking at me , I feel a twang of sadness ooh when you were 3.

There's a packet of dinosaurs on my window sill you see.

I am a seeker

I love secret little invitations to walk and seek and explore :

I am a seeker of the hidden

I am seeker of those who are gone

I am a seeker of a door that beholds

I am a seeker of adventure

I am a seeker of me








I am a seeker of you




I love the countryside around where I am.

How To Make Apple Crisps

Apple Crisp

I must remember that any consolation is not always in chocolate and that there are healthy alternatives are just as good and easy to do such as apple crisps. A good apple crisp with start with a sweet apple ; after all it was hardly a tart apple that incite Cinderella after all! And whilst you might think that a tart apple will sweeten up with baking or putting sugar on it ( which is not really what we are aiming for her in a healthy snack) I want an apple crisp than will not make my lips pucker up in a Oh My Goodness manner.

I want my Apple crisps to make my lips an OOOh my that is SOOOO good , food talks to you and in turn your reaction to it will influence you and other people.


Ingredients


ERRRM apples

You can core them if you wish or just slice avoiding the core .



Method

Preheat your oven to 120 C

Now you'll either have slick sling skills or you have at your fingers tips a mandolin.


Having sliced your apples ooh so whisper thin.

Place them on a greased proof paper lined baking tray.

Bake for 45 minutes to an hour keep checking on them.

Leave to  cool until crisp <<<< laughs at own joke.

Never Forgetting The Holocaust

I'm not going to get into a page 3 debate , it is not my fight or my cause and I'm leaving it all well alone , one can be afraid of tackling subjects with a tinge of risk but when there is a back story I'm intrigued and beguiled. This is not going to be a post on that subject but the human primeval instinct has always been there and what I saw last on television is testament to this.

I can't possibly do justice in a short blog post Freddie Knoller and how as a young Jewish man he had a turbulent time and what he did to survive. He spent 2 years hiding in Paris's red light district showing the Germans to the night clubs and brothels , survival.

The quote below is from Freddie Knoller

'I was fascinated,' he says. 'This was the naughty district of Paris that I had read so much about. I was standing in front of the Folie Bergere which was in Montmartre and I saw these photos of the half naked dancers on the stage and I enjoyed myself.'

War made him  in his words selfish but it was survival , such as stealing a piece of toast from a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz , you see see the regret in his eyes when I watched the program. This is one of the most powerful programs I have watched in my life , how we as humans can do this is beyond me sometimes. Freddie shows us we shouldn't be letting this happen again , how idolised causes result in such barbaric death, suffering and destruction.

The holecaust went beyond everything we can know , to know it just happened isn't enough too loosely are the words " this must never happen again "

This was very much brought home to me when in Berlin visiting the haunting and disquieting holocaust memorial.

We must remember

We won't forget

We will remember