Living Life Like Thelma And Louise

SO what is it actually like when you are child free , foot loose and fancy free as a couple after you've deposited your child at university ,dried your tears , and visited a few times. Well of course you keep visiting it's not like you're going to let them going feral although I fear this might have already happened.And I love visiting York and I am angling to get my husband to visit Bettys tea rooms either in York itself or in Harrogate though I think he may eye roll at the price ( you can have as many sandwiches as you like but are limited on cake )

I am not ready to join Saga yet and when I am not getting sinus infection and having antibiotics , I am getting throat infections and then onto 10 days of Penicillin (which equates to 80 tablets ) or as my phone typed 10 days of penguins , though I honestly think 10 days of Penguins would be more jolly fun.

WELL it's like Thelma and Louise it really is , only without Brad Pitt and going off the end of a cliff and anyway I can't drive which I am sure is not an  issue if you following this particular course of action , it is being able to go to the Garden Centre without a teenager sighing or tutting or being able to go to visit a pottery at example at Middleport.

Middleport is a darling pottery and is sweet as the whiskers on kittens and chock full of atmosphere and history and well worth a visit as there is a lovely tea room as well serving of course tea and a basic range of food to fuel you for your visit.

It was quiet when I and my husband visited and I rather like that at times not having the throng of people jostling you , the ability to wander round and mooch is refreshing in this day and age.

Ever Think About A Kindness ?

Ever think about a kindness you didn’t  do but could have done ? I did and it was a hat I didn't return to a child at school but could have done .... I just saw it on my way out the hall but I was on my way home and half thought about returning the hat which would have taken time out my day . 

Now I do take time out of my day for  kindness in fact kindness is in my nature so naturally I’m kind but if I don’t do something on the odd ocassion I do feel a twinge of mini guilt like not completing that kind action will somehow impact upon the cosmos. Just the same perhaps as the person who doesn’t say thank you when I hold a door open then you get the folk who are opportunists and run through whilst you are holding the door open.

Kindness is simple and doesn’t have to be complicated it’s just with or without thought , the simplessness of kindness is just part of me but I can’t help think sometimes of the kindness I missed of could of done as if it might have some causality upon the world.

I’m of a different era I really am , I’m 15 years older then I really am in my soul I’m not old fashioned but my soul is of a different time and place.

Even when I was 4 I was aware that I had a different soul I wasn’t the average 4 year old watching black and white movies , having my own adventures and different friendships.

So you ever think about a kindness ?

Pork One Pot Meal

I feel it’s been January forever and ever but I thought I’d break through the permanent greyness of the sky and head out through the gentle sleet or so I thought. I convinced my husband to drive us to a Pottery near Stoke.No harm ever came of a simple trip out and a cup of tea.

That’s what I thought I mean the roads hadn’t been gritted which I thought they would of done if it was going to be so very perilous.

So after a bit we beat a hasty retreat to home after seeing a smart car that had gone into the central barrier and was being assisted by the emergency services.

Once safely deposited at home after copious amounts of tea I thought about getting organised for tea and it was to be roast pork with everything else cooked with it so I didn’t have to think about various other pots and pans.

So as I had a joint of Pork I thought I would do a one pot roast ( in a oven proof dish )

Ingredients 

One Pork joint 35 minutes per 500g then an extra 35 minutes

Potatoes

Sweetcorn ( I had mini sweetcorn )

Snap peas

Any veg of your choice really


Method

Preheat your oven to around 190 c

If you want crackling on your pork joint score the fat  and salt appropriately

Spending on the size of your potatoes add them around 45 minutes before the end of the cook ( you could par boil them if you want a really roasty potato )

Then as I was having mini sweetcorn and sugar snap peas I added the sweetcorn 20 minutes before the end of the cook and the sugar snap peas 10 minutes before the end.

The crackling was not quite ready so when the joint was ready I took that of and gave the crackling an extra cook.

I have never attempted crackling before but it turned out well and I used some left over crackling and pork in another meal which in my case was  pork noodle meal with the crackling on top.

Ever had an Ugggh day ?

Yesterday was the uggggh day when you just go ugggh and nothing will shift that ugh feeling , I drank tea drank more tea and had tea on top of tea . I felt  like I had been dragged through in a hedge backwards and words just seem to whisk past my ears without settling in.

I thought I really wish upon wishes that I could be my own boss but out the blue from my motivational fairy godmother I was told 

“You ARE your own boss “ 

And a few simple words that they were helped me sleep better and feel refreshed, I’m all for motivation that makes me think.Motivation doesn’t have to be endless quotes on social media but quite frankly it is what ever floats your boat.

Walking home today though cold as an Eskimos freezer I felt a lot brighter and I was wearing my new bargain scarf . I feel the need to look into the purchase of ear muffs as one of my ears is cold despite covering my ears and wearing a Bobble hat , I like Bobble hats and have spied a nice one in M & S that’s yellow a nice mellow yellow. 

I wish upon wishes there was such a thing as heated Bobble hats if there isn’t then there should be !!

So I’m Bobble hatting like a Boss !!

This is my mustard Bobble hat I really like Bobble hats ... 

Half Way Down The Stairs

“I’m only half down the stairs “ so sang Robin from the Muppets and of course it the poem based by A A Milne and how apt today it it Winnie the Pooh day.But everyday is a Winnie the Pooh adventure really in my mind anyway as I do love adventure.Life is an adventure with a cat and adjusting to one cat has been turbulent to say the least nothing out the ordinary has happened except we just have the one cat and it is coming up to a year since we lost Rollie and the places where Rollie sat or made him self an inconvenient pile of fluff are now sadly vacant. I don't think you ever get over the loss of a pet and I have lost a few pets over the years and I take loss so very hard.

So 

"Halfway down the stairs
is a stair
where i sit.
there isn't any
other stair
quite like
it.
i'm not at the bottom,
i'm not at the top;
so this is the stair
where
I always
stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up
And it isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!"

We make sure we always have the hall lamp on as a black cat on stair in the dark is not the best and I do really think that Jack should have a high visibility jacket.Rollie was a truly stunning cat and such a character  and Jack is a character to and does things at his own pace like when he plays with his ping pong ball it is you that has to fetch it back for him.

This was a few year back with both of them half way up the stairs looking also like a sketch from the 1960s , stairs seems to be the favourite haunt of cats , I am sure they are not looking to trip us humans up , least I don't think they are although you never do know what cats are plotting.