Monthly Archives: November 2012

Coconut Dhal

Thanks to a recipe recommendation on twitter, by Martin Black I decided to try out a new dish this week.

Coconut Dhal.… it was cheap,quick and easy to make, I had mine with some naan bread and it was very filling.

It will be a great to cook for Geoff too as its a vegetarian dish and it will give me the protein I need, which I feel I miss out on when I eat a lot of vegetarian food.

 

Its a great comfort food for cold winter nights and I will be certainly be trying out some more dhal recipes !

 

with a little bit of help !

With a little bit of help I baked our Christmas cake tonight, it took just over 4 hours to bake but it was Geoff’s electric I used 🙂

I used the Delia’s classic christmas cake recipe and at the moment the house is smelling devine.

Preparing the Cake tin is the first job and makes for an evenly baked cake…

 

 

 

 

 

Mixing in the fruit can be a tough job but I had some help with this…

 

 

 

 

 

This year I wont be icing the cake, as it has to travel to Les Gets with us, so instead we decorated it with Almonds

 

 

 

 

 

I shall leave it to cool in the tin over night then take it back to Kings Lynn with me as Isla is worried that granddad may eat it !!

A walk down memory lane

I really wanted to be here  or here today, but diesel is expensive its getting closer to Christmas and I will have a fuel bill to pay soon,so I decided to be sensible and stay home 🙁

The forecast was for good weather today so I planned a walk from RAF Marham, it was a route that I used to cycle/run when I lived there, interestingly not all of it is marked on open street map.

Not much has changed over the years, although I see Pentney Priory is now being restored by The English Heritage so no nice views of the Priory today !

I found a lovely sunny spot by the river Nar where I enjoyed my coffee, I then decided not to walk back by Shouldham Warren but to enjoy the River walk back to Marham fen.

Once back at RAF Marham I could not resist having a look at what was our house, I wanted to see if the Honeysuckle,that my Dad had bought for me, was still there and although all the wire fences have been replaced by new wooden ones I could see the honeysuckle was still going strong 🙂

So almost a 10 mile walk in beautiful sunshine but I really did miss some company today.

Photos can be found here

 

Andrew has a Job !

Its been a long 10 months since my son lost his job…. but we or should I say I have struggled through the best I can 🙂

Getting my job transfer with Tesco has made a huge difference to my life… better than I could ever have imagined.

Now thanks to the Job Centre and the governments apprentice scheme, Andrew, after having to work for a month with no pay seems to have himself a kitchen apprenticeship at the Sandboy Pub in Bawsey .

He could never have done this with out the help of the job centre and the owner of the pub and I felt I just had to blog about it, to let everyone know that the Job Centres can get it right, its not always bad news..

Hopefully Andrews run of bad luck is over and I may finally get weekly board money 🙂

Peter Scott Walk

Yesterday I had a plan to walk the Peter Scott Walk but when I woke nice and early, only to find out it was raining, I went back to bed in disgust 🙁

I finally got out of bed 3 hours later and it seemed a little brighter and for once the saying “rain before 7 gone by 11 ” was true.

So 3 hours later than I intended I set off to walk some of the Peter Scott walk, in March 2007 this was the walk of the month in the Telegraph 

Luckily for me I can do this straight from my front door 🙂

First part of the walk was from home into Kings lynn where I then caught the little ferry over to West lynn, the ferry runs every 20 mins from 7am till 6pm and costs £1.50 for a return ticket

As I set off late I was not sure I had time to walk all the way to Sutton Bridge so I decided that I would just do part of the walk.

Its a huge wide open green walk right down the wash, very peaceful, which was lovely after the hectic, hustle and bustle of work.

Not a human being was seen but there was plenty of birds and boats, an owl and what might have been a peregrine followed me for quite a while !

I will certainly be going back to complete this walk, hopefully on a nice frosty morning 🙂 and next time I will finish at the light house and catch the 505 bus back to Kings Lynn.

All photos can be seen here

 

Ready for collection

In a passing comment to my Dad it was mentioned that I would like a bird table for my garden

I was told not to rush out and buy one !

This week I found out why, he has been busy giving an old Bird table a make over, and its now ready for me to collect.

It has a felt roof and has all been water proofed, it will just need nailing to one of my fence posts.

 

I have a feeling the squirrels may like it more than the birds, but I wont mind 🙂