Just Some Lovely Images

 

I used to have lots of scrapbooks, I saved clippings from magazines, pages from books that had fallen apart and little bits and pieces that would be stuck in to decorate the pages.  Then lots of house moves happened and one by one the books and folders were no longer with me.

Now I see a lovely image on the internet and save it for me to pore over in the computer memory.  It takes up a lot less room and I can save at the press of a button.

And when we next move house there will be no heavy box to carry.

Anything can catch my attention, but beautiful houses, rooms or china are pretty much my favourite things to save.  For a few years I tried to save things on Pinterest but it simply wasn't as easy to me as it is saving them into my photo folders on my memory backup box, and I rarely went back to visit them.

  So it was just an online version of dusty photos in a box at the back of a cupboard.

Isn't this lovely cool looking bedroom inviting after all these hot nights we've been having recently.

  Although in the dead of a cold Winter you would have to hang some lovely rich looking curtains, and add cushions, throws, and rugs on the floor to cosy it all up.

Yes, photos make me think and plan.

I think I would look forward to washing the pots, if these were the pots that needed to be washed. 💖

Of course it's not all just staring at pretty photographs and 'pie in the sky' dreaming.

It was looking at photos like these that helped me design my own kitchen when we moved into our current homes.

Useful and beautiful ... William Morris would be proud.

Sue xx

 

While I love the thought behind this graphic, and agree with all that it states are the real luxuries of life, the spelling mistake and the spelling of 'colorful' make it grate slightly with me.

I do wish people would proof read before putting things out online, or perhaps they are now doing it on purpose so they can gather in comments from everyone telling them that they have made a mistake.  Of course, if the person that made the meme is from the US the spelling of colorful would have been right for them, but my spellcheck is hating me at the moment.  

Gosh, I had better really proof-read this post before pressing publish hadn't I.  😄

I've now opened the jar of Aldi strawberry jam that I bought here a couple of weeks ago, when my Compost Heap Jelly was about to run out.  This one had been highly recommended as a good non-UPF but very affordable jam, or conserve as the label calls it.

The ingredients are:

Sugar

Strawberries

Lemon Juice

and the gelling agent is Pectin.

So exactly what I would use at home if I were making it myself.

It's very tasty, a bit sweeter than my usual homemade jams or jelly, but it's very nice to have a jar of shop bought jam for a change, and at £1.49 for a jar it's very good value for what you get.  I will possibly be buying it again, as I rarely make my own strawberry jam.  It always seems a bit sacrilegious to boil some lovely fresh strawberries to death when they could just be eaten as they are with some lovely ice-cream. 🍓

Sue xx

The View from the Loo, The Naked Civil Servant and Freebies

 

The view from my loo, or toilet for those not from this part of the UK. 

 I know my Uncle from Chicago was horrified during his visit to England many years ago, when my Mum kept calling the toilet 'the loo' ... but then his name was Lou, so it took some getting used to!!

Anyway, this is my view.  When you live on your own the door doesn't always need to be shut, and especially when you are visiting first thing in the morning and are in almost 'zombie mode'.

Looking at my lovely books makes me happy.

Ignore the Easter egg, this photo was taken quite a few weeks ago, it's long gone now.  In fact it was looking at this photo after taking it that reminded me that I had an Easter egg ... it's destiny was then sealed.

Talking of books, I picked this up off the charity book table in Booths on Friday for the usual £1 donation.  I was meeting Alan for a coffee after having my haircut and took the opportunity to browse the book table before going upstairs, well I had to pass it so it would have been rude not to.  This book was immediately picked up, and in fact I started reading it while Alan was in the queue getting the coffees.  I had no idea that Quentin Crisp was born in 1908!!

Does anyone else remember the television film The Naked Civil Servant starring John Hurt?  Seemingly it was first shown in the UK in December 1975.  

Wow ... that feels like a lifetime ago, I must have watched it a few years later as I don't remember watching it with my Mum and Dad. 😀

We ended up having a coffee and a sandwich, so as usual I brought home the extras.

Then yesterday on our way home from Manchester we were both desperate for a coffee after an afternoon visiting Mum for the VE Day celebrations in the Care Home gardens.  

Unfortunately, Mum can no longer get out of bed so we didn't want her lying there on her own while the celebrations went on outside her windows.  Me, Alan and my brother stayed with her for a while, although my brother had to leave after an hour as there was a football match on ... priorities!!

Anyway on the way home we had to get a coffee, so we stopped at the services and I had a free Greggs coffee available on the App.

I really am enjoying collecting my freebies. In fact I have just had a major sort out of my not-so-little stash as a lot of them are being brought into use soon.

Sue xx

A Virtually Free Meal

 

This recipe popped up on a Facebook Group that I am a member of a few weeks ago, and I photographed my screen so I would remember to have a go at making them.

I haven't as yet, but I am going to for sure.

It would be virtually a free meal wouldn't it as the ingredients are so minimal and cheap.  Schnitzels made from just oats and flavourings.  I hope they stay together well, I'll let you know once I make them.

I thought of them the other day as I was dividing a tin of beans into my usual three portions.  I usually have one of the portions on a baked potato, one on a slice of toast and then a spare, which I now think would go perfectly with my virtually free schnitzel. 😊

Sue xx

Things That You MUST Do if You Star in a Film

 

Well I found it funny.  😄

Sue xx