Lockdown Antidote Day 2

 After yesterday when Joe Wicks tried to break me with his hip openers ( you have to read yesterdays blog post to get this ) I have decided to look for more gentle online exercise videos more suited to me and much to the happiness of the cat who look perplexed at me flaying round the floor like a Octopus in a Thrash metal band.I nearly walked outside yesterday but declared it too slippy and beat a hasty retreat instead with a nice cup of tea , I think it is also a bit of lockdown Stockholm syndrome .So today I will figure out the exercise bike and stop drying everyones pants on it.

My cat after he’s noticed we’re not going out as much...

Lockdown Antidote day 1

A lockdown antidote sounds like a very posh Aunty you might have stashed somewhere in your family.Another lockdown another whole heap of can of worms but I digress and today my sights are set on the mighty Joe Wicks saviour of Lockdown fitness and all round nice guy.

I thought as Michael Bubble returned to his Christmas cave then Joe Wicks would emerge and low he did like a prodigal Jesus and he can cook to boot.I thought that maybe just maybe I could do with some flexing up as the only excercise I’m getting is opening the front door to see the Amazon or Ocado person sprint off down the road like Usain Bolt ( they’re heroes and I’m grateful to them )

I found a 10 minute warm up which Joe assure me would be ideal before I threw myself into lunges and all manner of other athletic poses. Joe and myself started off well but then he got onto hip openers and I was 

“ Easy tiger we’ve only just met “

I think anymore hip flexing then my spleen would be able to be removed from my nose.

Feliz Navidad Tomato Potato Prawns

 

Ingredients 

Kind Prawns cooked

Tin of chopped tomatoes 

Onions 

Paprika

Garlic ( one clove crushed or dried Garlic granules )

Method

Put the tin go tomatoes in a dish 

Add a teaspoon of Smoked Paprika

Add some garlic 

add the prawns

Layer of sliced potato on top ( you can par boil the potatoes)

Plonk in oven for 40 minutes 180 c

How to Deal With Those Blighters Called Sprouts

How to deal with those blighters called sprouts 
Chop of the bottom of the sprouts 

Throw some butter in a pan and sauté them 
along with some carrots 

do this for about 10-12 minutes then throw in some stock and voila 

You’ve conquered those sprout blighters 

Salt and pepper to taste 

Courtesy of my kamikaze cooking 

I’ve just served mine with chicken potatoes and parsnips

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Photos are Like The Ghosts Of Christmas Past

 I caught myself in the mirror the other day as the mirror seems to be the only one capturing my image at the moment and it is only a fleeting hold.Wouldn't it be be beautiful if our memories danced on held within the world of the mirror like a pictorial book for ever posterity.If you catch yourself thinking gosh wasn't I youthful or beautiful then .. then stop you still are and your worth goes further than skin deep.Do let yourself be captured on images as it is so important and self reflection is one of the things that lets us grow.You can have all the Christmas blogging guides in the world telling you to buy this or that or go do this experience but I tell you go capture within your current covid tier rules the world around you.It could be that banana bread recipe that failed or that puzzle that had the missing piece in it.

I am forever in posterity with ones that have gone and ones that are still here , here I am prior to my diagnosis of autism bucking the trend that autistic people don't smile.But with kind hearts and loving moments I do smile and I am smiling now as I keep looking back on the time that was and the time that will be.

Photos can be like the ghosts of Christmas past in the best possible way , so go get captured and remember to live laugh and learn.