Phew, it really is a life of glamour for Deb at the moment - did a bit of house tidying, took the rubbish out, visited the hens and the piggies - rumour has it that one of the sows has had babas and that somewhere there are little piglets but she obviously doesn't want them to be papped just yet, armed as I was with the camera. I wondered around their enclosure for a while but there was no sign of any of the oinks, mind you I'd be inside too if I wasn't so keen to see the little ones, too damn cold to be out so I'll have to try again tomorrow.
Spent the afternoon studying - identifying herbs and thinking of recipes they'd go with, working through the dreaded Technique List for the umpteenth time making notes and then just for the hell of it (and because I really am a bit sad) dismembered a chicken and a fish - rescued Kuku and Haddock from the fridge where they'd been bonding since yesterday, sharpened my knife, got my board ready, thought of McDreamy and went in with the knife. Wasn't too bad - Haddock took me 8 minutes so I'm getting slightly less pathetic, and to be honest most of that time was spent fighting with the gills, trying to get them out the head, sharp little buggers and then Kuku took me 18 minutes which is a vast improvement on my first 40 minute special so there's a small glimmer of hope - not quite up to Ready, Steady, Cook yet but it's not like you need to check the machine anymore to see if it switched to slow motion mode all by itself................
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Off to the Playroom now for dinner with Laurie and Nat who've just got back from Galway - apparently the Mini decided to take a long weekend too and broke down just out of Galway but after a llllooongg wait, they finally tracked down the local mechanic and got her back on the road and home. More roast chicken I think with cauliflower and broccoli cheese and rice pudding for dessert, sounds good.................I'm going armed with a bottle of red!
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