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499, Good Friday and Pea Soup

I'm not sure what post 500 will be about (my recent holiday perhaps) but I'm going to begin with an invitation. I have Skype but have only used it to converse with one person. If you feel like a chat send me an email [see About Me] and we'll go from there.  If you feel like meeting up in the flesh let me know too. (Steve?!)

I had to go shopping today.  I didn't want to, luckily I'd done a little yesterday. You'll find the reason later.

Warning - Religious bit.

Given that it is Good Friday - the day when our Saviour died on the cross - I have to say I was disgusted with 21st century consumer society.  Tesco was crowded (as it is for the other sales opportunity religious festival of the year: Christmas. Now, who am I to judge as I was there myself?  I did feel the more sullied because of it.  No, I haven't been to church this Holy Week and I didn't give anything up for Lent.  I shall go to church on Sunday - probably.  I'm not setting myself up over the rest of the population of Northamptonshire, but some folk had so much grub that their trolleys [not 'trollies' apparently] were actually overflowing.

Religion is not right for everyone but we all have a spiritual side and this offended mine, that's the point.  It wouldn't have happened when I was a kid. Proof that I live in the past, the Good Old Days, whatever.

End of Religious bit.

Mrs TS (who is away with her mother) left me a list of what to buy and I meant to do it on Thursday.  When I went to the freezer in our garage to double check items we needed - I found the door open. Nearly everything had to be thrown away.  I kept some sausages which were still stiff, but the chips were soft and the ice-cream had melted [serves it right as this is what had prevented the door from closing properly - that and negligence on the part of Mrs TS]

I also kept a whole bag of peas, not to freeze again but to make pea soup.  Here's my own recipe.

• A large bag of frozen peas
• 6 leftover sticks of celery, cut up
• 2 onions, chopped
• 4 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 3/4 pint of water, hot if you have it.
• 1 teaspoon Marjoram
• A few left over boiled potatoes (optional)
• A small glass of sherry (well it was in the kitchen)
• One (and one only) teaspoon of mint sauce - added at the end.
• seasoning

Place all ingredients into a pressure cooker and bring to pressure for 10mins (while you wash up the tea things)

Reduce pressure, add the mint sauce and blitz (failing to find the liquidizer I used the hand blender.)  Check seasoning.

Cool and freeze half, place other half in fridge for lunch over the next two days.
 

Pausing

I am not feeling myself today.  I've had a two bad nights. A bad dream (quite a stupid and bizarre example) about work made me wake up breathing very rapidly last night and, the previous night/morning I simply woke up at 4.30am to go to the bathroom and then I felt wide awake. [I had a cuppa and did go back to bed]

I was planning a trip for tomorrow to research family history in Lincolnshire and was going to take a friend along for the ride, but he would have to be back just after midday; in view of the day I'm having I shall need to work tomorrow - we teachers do plan lessons during the holidays, you know.

Today I am taking daughter #1 back to Cambridge [for long-standing readers of this blog, she is in her 4th year doing an MSci] and then I am popping to a pupil's house on the way back to check that a piece he needs to perform early into next term is ready, and fits with my accompaniment.

So it's one of those days when not much seems to be getting done and my head is saying 'SLEEP'!

I have done a repair - SEE HERE and I still plan to blog a little about my holiday in Dorset.  When I have settled down a bit I will do so; I am all on edge.

 

In the meantime

I've been on holiday so I will post something later. This will have to do for now - a short video I made.

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