Yawn Yawn Wakey Wakey 2024

Good morning everyone!

Getting there slowly.

 

Following on from conversations regarding air fryers, my Bestie has one and she swears by it. She has even made a cake in hers. My brother has one and I have been toying with the idea of getting one but my kitchen is teeny and one more gadget would need a major house extension. I abandoned using my gas hob on top of my dual fuel cooker in preference for a plug in induction hob which is absolutely brilliant and mobile so I am not restricted to where it can be used.
Like @Penny_Forthem I use my slow cooker frequently to batch cook and I can then freeze meals for later.

 

Good morning @Tui34. Good news regarding your progress.

 

I bought an air fryer last year from Lidl @Obelix-Vendée and asked at GW for opinions. I am pleased with mine BUT I am alone and cooking for one i.e. 1 sausage, 1 potato. You are three and maybe just as economical to stick the oven on for roasting. I have a slow cooked donated to be by an English resident here who returned to UK because of Brexit, and I use it to stew etc portions of which I freeze. I believe the air fryer is an economical way of roasting with a minium of oil. There is a good slot with Alice Bere on This Morning with air fryers.

 

PS It doesn't't do aubergines. They come out like a leather strap!!!

 

@Tui34, you could always make a pair of flip flops out of your aubergines!

 

Good morning all.

I'm rather stiff this morning, did a lot of gardening yesterday.

There is a sparrowhawk on the lawn eating a pigeon. Masses of feathers.

 

Hello everyone. Weekly shop done this morning. Main fridge has been cleaned before stocking it up. Little fridge in the kitchen - butter, cheese, juice, water and bits an dbobs - to be cleaned in a minnie. Pantry to be cleaned after that but it can wait till tomorrow when Possum's home as she's the one that says it all needs doing for the autumn equinoc Celtic thing.

@Tui34 Thanks for that info. I don't do aubergines either. Went off the texture after a very bad parmagiana years ago. I do oven chips about once a year and use very little oil for roasting so maybe I'll stick with my ovens.

I expected to be stiff today after yoga last night @Busy-Lizzie but am not. I did, however, discover I have bones in my hips and a yoga mat is not enough of a cushion for lying on them! My left hip and knee lateral bending muscles and ligaments are stiffer than the right side. Can't sit cross legged. Can still touch my toes tho.

Sunny and still bone dry here so more sanding and sorting for me but the forecast earlier on said we will have some rain on Sunday. Oh no. Changed again. Saturday now. I'll just wait and see. Meanwhile, bulbs keep mysteriously hopping into my trolley..........

I do hope you're making good progress @Tui34 . I found my second knee slower than my first.

Best wishes to everyone and especially anyone else recovering from ops or illness or just feeling blue.

 

@Obelix-Vendée , I've been doing Yoga for 20+ years and I still can't touch my toes without bending my knees., but I can do things some of the others in the class can't so we are all different .

We are just back from a trip out east, east end of London nr Barking. We went to Eastbury Manor house as part of Open London, it is NT but we have let our membership lapse again, but for this weekend it's free. Interesting place originally part of an Abbey estate, then farming, now (since 1920 ish) surrounded by a council house estate! Bit of a trek but worth it, never been that far east on the District line before

 

Sounds a good outing @Allotment Boy.

I tried yoga classes aeons ago but had a job to stop giggling. Not for me I think.

I'm stiffening up, particularly in the mornings when I get out of bed. It's very probably because my steroid dosage has gone down to 2 mg daily and my old aches and pains are reappearing.
I'm due to stop taking them entirely at the end of October, not looking forward to it although I do know long term steroids do awful things to your insides.

We've just had a humdinger of a rain storm, even the newly cleaned gutters couldn't cope. I knew it would rain after I'd watered all the pots yesterday evening!
Thankfully it appears to have now gone over and the sun's come out so might have a wander outside once I've finished my cuppa.
Have a good evening all.

 

@lizzie27, I'm glad it wasn't just me then! I too tried yoga several years ago but I set off giggling when the friend I went with relaxed so much that he went to sleep and started snoring. To be honest, being as creaky as I am now I would find getting down to lie on the mat very difficult and the getting up afterwards even worse.

 

@Busy-Lizzie, I have a sparrow hawk that visits my garden. I am sure he/she has learned where the bird feeders are and hides in wait. The last bird it grabbed was a collared dove.

 

Signing out for this evening. Does anyone else feel that these weekends are coming around way too quickly?

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My Yoga teacher always says , you need to start before you are too stiff to do it. That said I was always quite stiff jointed, never could sit on the floor with legs crossed and knees on he floor even as a child. Even so he says it's never too late to improve, just don't expect to mimic the poses as shown in a lot of books.

 

I've never been able to touch my toes or sit comfortably on the floor with legs crossed. Then in my 50s I started having dressage lessons with a Mary Wanless instructor in France and training my horse. I did pilates for dressage riders. I was told that I had short tendons which stopped me from being supple. My son played rugby and when he had a knee injury the physio also told him he had short tendons.

I went to Peter Beales today and I bought a yellow Leverkusen climbing rose, 6 hardy geraniums, Toprose and gardening gloves. We had decided to dig up the ancient honeysuckle that always gets ill and some of the geranium phaeums that seed themselves like mad and re-do that bit against the fence. I'll plant the Prince Charles clematis that OH gave me there too. 5 of the geraniums were for planting in the area that the huge ceanothus tree was that died. I did that this afternoon. It gets some afternoon shade when the sun goes behind the house. I dug in a lot of compost as the soil is quite sandy. OH cut down the tatty honeysuckle. The other geranium is for planting in front of the rose and clematis.