Rain for most of the day.
We didn’t do very much for most of the day. Before lunch we started a clean out of the freezer more to see what we had than to do any serious defrosting. Along the way we found some dodgy stuff, like two pots of chicken stock that are now defrosting in the fridge, ready to make soup tomorrow perhaps. I also came upon a pack of chicken livers dated December – no year, just December. I don’t think it was December 2023. They are now defrosting in the bin. The thing we were looking for was a packet of breaded prawns that Scamp was sure was in the freezer, but we couldn’t find any evidence of them. A mystery.
After two pork sausage rolls for lunch, I walked down to the shops, to walk off the stodgy sausage rolls and to get bread and milk because we were running low on necessities. I was hardly out the door when I found today’s PoD. It’s a bunch of Rosehips at the corner house. The one that will always be Bobby Flavell’s. I just liked the bright red colour of them, even if a few were torn apart by the birds.
Those few photos were all I took today, but I did walk down to the shops and came back with milk and bread and also some raspberries for Scamp’s breakfast. It was Scamp’s turn for cooking today and she chose a couple of chicken fillets we’d found in the freezer and turned them into a Coconut Curry. It was very hot, I thought, although surprisingly Scamp said it was ‘alright’. I had mine with a bottle of Seven Giraffes which cooled my mouth down nicely as did the ice cream we had afterwards.
We watched a Celebrity University Challenge later and then the inevitable “Death in Paradise”. I’d been reading last year’s blog yesterday and had found I’d described it as “Tedious” and “a home for retired actors.” Not much has changed in a year. It’s still tedious with a few out of workers still cluttering up the unrivalled scenery. That’s all we watch it for, really. Just something to remind us that there are places where the sun shines almost every day.
The rain did stop tonight around 8pm, but only for a while. It’s raining again now and I’m sure it will rain tomorrow too. I’m intending to meet Alex to take some photos and also to have some lunch. I’m not expecting to take many photos in Glasgow.