I kept A Cactus Alive

 It started with a cactus or 3  from Tesco and I thought I can keep them alive , I can be the hero that these cacti’s deserve .And for a while we were a happy plant family staring out through the kitchen window season s com in grand going .But then as lockdown stretched on and on without me even baking banana bread .Also I bought an airplant that has a post box in it , it was lonely in the garden centre which more than likely saw me coming .

I went out to the garden centre again , I masked up and it wasn't busy . The garden is valuable to my mental health been staring at 4 walls for bloody months. And I did pick some other plants in the reduced section as I believe on giving objects that are now on their luck a chance in life.

Oh and I got a knobbly bobbly cactus it’s called Gorden 

“ Gordon’s alive “

So it is all go in the garden even though the weather at the weekend was very much Fools Spring , but still a start is a start and Spring is a very hopeful month I mind after the bleakness of Winter at times.At I think at this very moment in time with can all do with a little seed of hope to plant in our souls , and I have just noticed the first bloom on my tree as well and it makes my heart and soul so very glad.

3 scraps craft challenge

I’m not sure if 3 things craft challenge is a thing but I thought I’d have a go .First was a scarp of lighthouse paper then it was a golden tassel lastly come coloured string.

I already had the white card blank . I stick the lighthouse paper at the top and in the white space I placed the tassel if it was a seed head blowing on the wind . Then I used the coloured string ad the stalk of the seed head .

3 Evils Pigeons

3 Evil pigeons that is the start to the birds appearing in my garden , I can see them now as I write this while I stand in my kitchen staring out in the wonder and the pigeons are there staring .I see them bobbing their heads will they look at my form varying positions on my neighbours extension . I think they're the neighbours that own the cat that look s like a serial killer because this cat is as hard as nails. 

I move into kitchen to make a cup of tea and they’re there staring making notes on when to try and kill me.I’m pretty sure they are there in the dark as well . You might think they’re all sweet a myth portrayed by Mary Poppins with that song 

“Feed the birds”

I go for my regular pandemic walk and I’m sure they’re stalking me . Pigeon s will take over the world I’m sure of it.

How I Came To Be Diagnosed as Autistic

How did I come to diagnosed as Autistic ? I mean I did not happen to pop into into my shopping basket one day as a 2 for 1 off or find in in the bargain bin with a CD of a long singer long past their Christmas prime.It was a gradual lighbulb moment like a cartoon symbol appearing over your head and it helped in my previous existence I was a special needs teaching assistant working hosting with Autistic children who had an infinity with me.

I was tripping to the doctors with various things thinking something in me didn't quite fit and at one stage a doctor did ask if I heard voices and it was at this stage I felt like turning round looking over my should and say

"We don't hear voices do we now people "

I was the free range child the one running about and climbing trees and jumping out of windows , I have to add these were ground floor windows.

I think I was very much the child who was like Wednesday Adams from the Adams family except I had bobbed hair fashioned by the hairdressers from hell.And I never really like my hair as it went in only 3 styles but in time I have learnt to like it for it is part of me and I won’t  be bent to the whim of anyone

I was sort of repellent to friends unless they were boys and I got on so much better with them .

I struggled with school work though despite being capable in thought , it was the committing those ideas to paper that was the chore . I always had on reports 

“ Claire asks very searching questions “

I could not at all get maths it is and still is like voodoo for me .

It’s is culmination of life events abs indeed working as a SEN teaching assistant that prompted me to see what that nagging issue was in my life .I’m the lost generation of Autistic women from the 70,80 90 s as everyone thought Autism just affected boys ,but we now know that isn’t true .

Use Up What You've Got Cottage Pie

 

Yesterday it was Turkey Keema with peas and jolly tasty it was too and I had some left over so I decided to turn the leftovers into a Cottage Pie , 

Ingredients 

Left over mince 

Tin of green lentils drained and mixed with some butter 

Gravy enough to cover

Mash to cover 

Method 

Put the left over mince in a oven proof dish 

Next add the gravy to it

Then add the layer of buttered lentils 

Bung it in the oven at 180 c for 20 minutes 

And while this is cooking prepare some mashed potato 

After 20 minutes put the mash potato on top then put back in the oven for 20 minutes.