Apple Pancake

Fed up of coming down like a robot each morning and popping the bread in the toaster and waiting for the obligatory pop up , I thought why not do an apple pancake to add a twist and excitement to my dull January day. I know there are very recipes out there you could use but I just made one up as I went along and that for me is the best way as I can tweak it every time I come to cook it in future.

Ingredients

2 eating apples
1 and half table spoons of plain flour
a tea spoon of spread
Splash of milk to bind
Fillings if you wish , you are only limited by your imagination.

Method 

Grate the apples 

Add the flour combing with the apple into a paste , add a little low fat spread 

Add a splash of milk mix until smooth 

Heat some oil in a pan 

Pour in the mixture 

Flip !

Ensuring you cook all the way through a couple minutes on each side should do it .

 Place any filling in the middle and serve !!

I drizzled Candian maple syrup on mine.

This is my entry into this months Credit Crunch month as nearly everyone will have these ingredients in.As this January I had had to buy new furniture and my washing machine has just given up the ghost so it is definitely a Credit Crunch Month.

Blogging 5 Years

This year I have been blogging 5 years and that is a long time to earn my blogging stripes, I am pretty sure I should be a Dame of Blogging or be made a Blogging laureate or blogging advisor to the stars. I would like to be knighted by the Queen and have those little cucumber sandwiches and have a giggle with Prince Philip ( Did you know he once spoke to my mum ) so you see I feel connected to the Royal family.

I have been to all sorts of blogging events up and down the land which have been mainly fun , easy year I hardly went to any , I have been recovering from depression and it is my blogging that has helped me do that ( I won't get over the depression ) but the clem back from the blips are easier. I am grateful for the opportunities I have had , the opportunities I will have and never ever jealous of what I  don't have as I do like to pay my way in life . For being a blogging isn't a genies lamp to wish up what ever I want it is so much more than that I blog off the cuff what I enjoy and I believe that comes across.

Tonight I have watched Groundhog day and blogging can feel a bit like that , you keep going to get the reception you want and life isn't always like that . I take the rough with the smooth nowadays and I embrace my maverick ways as I type this from my doing room table there is a teddy bear to the left of me and a storm troopers helmet to the right.

What I take most from blogging is friendship.


I don't need fancy press trips though I did get offered one to South Africa but it was South Africa or paying my mortgage and I am not a freelance blogger. I would love to do this full time and be a blogger for hire roaming the land on my bicycle with a basket taking pictures.

Blogging may involve in different way but this is the medium I stay in as I don't want to be like jam and spread myself too thin.

I think my blogging birthday is in April I haven't got a giveaway planned or anything * blows up balloons and lets off party poppers.


I am highly unorganised  I mean I have only just found the Nintendo DS after 4 years SO Who knows where the blog posts I have planned are hiding , probably down the back of the sofa. I am the kamikaze blogger with cats for hire ....


What will the next 5 years bring ?

Who knows let's find out.

Is Anyone Actually Listening?

I do sometimes wonder If anyone is actually is actually reading this , I'm pretty much not bothered by comments ( they're nice and all that jazz) but is anyone really reading . Sometimes when you blog you feel like a false messiah saying , read this , do that, eat this . I'll genuinely only tweet , and write what I feel is right on my blog,I think I used to be afraid of having an opinion on social media and that is pretty much changing now.

Though is anyone actually reading this ?

Is anyone actually reading ( or indeed any interesting blog post ) this not to comment but pass on the information by word of mouth. I try and do this when I talk to people telling them about what I've seen , it's the equivalent of being a wandering minsterel or a story bard. 

I love reading blog posts and sharing them with people that I know including by word of mouth as I believe this just to be as important as the written word.

Go share today .

Have YOU broke your Resolutions yet ?

As you probably know I really don't do resolutions instead I have what I like to call revolutions , I've a couple one of which is not to get sucked in my click bait and I sticking to in and so far my life is enriched or is it empty I'm not sure sure. Though there's a certain friend whom I'm sure will suck me back into this before not to long , they know who they are .( but it is fun things they share )

The other revolution I'm struggling with is NOT to friendly heckle the Independent , seriously I'm trying not to do it ... but ....

So sit me in the naughty corner ...

The Tsunami Of Decluttering

The other day I have to say I felt a blot on my own landscape , as if the Cosmos was indeed against me , A social media Jack in the Box . At times social media can esxperate any problems within your life and at the same time it can help you , it is finding the balance without being all Gretna Garbo in your relevant status's on Facebook or twitter on where ever you leave your social media hat  9 sounds like a song form the 80's doesn't it that)


I suppose it didn't help I had an Ikea delivery disaster  (seems my Mac book caused a glitch on my own ) We  I had already cleared the area in a no methodical system in preparation for some Ikea cupboard to hide the junk back into , what should have turned up should have been 2 cupboards with solid doors and one with glass . This didn't happen and all the same turned up so I sent them all back as is my right , it really seemed too much of a hassle to get someone to swap out the one cupboard , as I wanted everything all in one go  ( have your cake and eat it syndrome I call it  and why not )


So with  confused Ikea delivery mentaking the order back it was to the phone to Ikea customer services to tell them of the glitch on my macbook ( which probably will only ever happen to me )

You don't get through immediately to customer services ooooh no instead you get music 

" I've been cheated by you "

49 minutes of ABBA  

I like ABBA but not for 49 minutes solid it's not as if I was watching an Australian movie ....

Finally I get through and sorted it.

Just got to wait on the refund coming through .

My dining room is in chaos thank the lucky ducks I've a sideboard from another company coming to me on Saturday.

I welcome you to the tsunami of decluttering .