Dear Cat

Dear Cat

I am starting to get a bit paranoid as every time I enter a room you walkout all nonchalantly as if I was a death eater from Harry Potter. Perhaps it was because I stood on your paw 3 weeks ago I'm not really sure or that I 'm constantly telling you off for hogging the duvet.

Perhaps it's the cat food you were all excited and very purry when I brought 2 boxes on special offer of brand X oh how happy you were chirping away in excitement at the first box . This was until the second box when a switch was flicked and you no longer liked that food , currently it's a Mexican stand off at feeding times. 

I will not bend , you will not win.

Cats don't give a flying wallaby.

Simply Roasted Carrots

All my son ever wants with his meal vegetable wise is sweetcorn , sweetcorn and yet more sweetcorn and I thought a change was order and plus there was no sweetcorn in the freezer. I think as a family we must purchase the worlds quota on sweetcorn I see yellow in my dreams. So I thought the humble carrot needed to be thrust into the limelight yes "come on down " I really do adopt the game show mentality when I am thinking of what to do with my fruit and vegetables asides sticking googly eyes on them.

Ingredients 

Carrots ( well there's a surprise) cut into batons.

A glug of olive oil 

Method 

Turn on the oven - no brainer 

And preheat to 180 c

Now some chefs will be telling you to coat the carrots with honey etc but you really don't have to. Also you can speed up the roasting process by either slightly cooking by whacking the carrot batons in the microwave for about  7 minutes or by a quick boil on the hob ( same timings )

Drain

Place in a oven proof dish

Glug some olive oil over it all and roast for about 20 minutes.

Upon The Autumn Light

Sometimes you just have to grab the Autumn light and seek the glow of the evening fall.

And see the tractors pull and plough.

And wish upon an Autumn sky "Oh please do be kind to be keep me from the dalliance of the modern life and pray to keep my soul a wondrous sprite "

Life is life the countryside is an an open book and you write you own adventures and seek your own truths.

The Digital Dance

I  think in all the blogging whirl I have forgotten my roots and the people I started with. I think that needs to change * why follow the herd. Just because I am no longer flavour of the month in 'some ' quarters. You can get sucked in and be the blogging bunny in the headlights. I have forgotten how I started but not why and you might think that the early posts I did have a naivety about them but you know what I think that was an innocence that was lost . You can be quite mournful of what you have lost ,as you do the digital dance and the hard cold fact is that it is a digital dance that can spiral out of control. This however doesn't have to have the alarm bells ringing you can bring yourself back on track that's what friends are for.


I am most glad of the fiends / friends ( I mean of course ) that I've got and the opportunities that have come my way . How refreshing it is to breath the clean air and realise where I can take my blog and more importantly myself.

Power Slide Into Your Age

So you are counting down to 30 or even 40 well jolly good for you , I am sliding towards the age of heated foot warmers , life insurances emails , and more emails like "stair lifts have you planned for this" Stop just stop . I refuse to be old before my time I really do  and when I saw a local undertakers were doing glitter coffin that really took the biscuit , they even had an open day where you could take a trip in a horse drawn hearse.


So this is the year in which I am 43 and I am not liking it one little bit , there seems to something glam about turning 30 and 40 , When you hit 41 that is still ok as you are in the vespers of being 40 still and you are jolly with it.

You can have your cake and eat it too ~ a moment on a lips a lifetime on the hips. Trouble is there is quite a few moments at the minute ....