Remembering, and Christmas Adverts

 

Remembering all the lost lives, the changed lives and the lives of those that came home, but were forever changed. 🌹

Today is a tough day for many, but it's important to remember.

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

On a lighter note -

https://youtu.be/WCcIy2mmKdY?si=wujujS73VPu7z3Ya

There are some lovely Christmas adverts already out this year, this YouTube video shows a really good selection of them.  

Enjoy.  🎄🎅🎄

Sue xx

Art, Food ... and Innocent Storage

 

Artwork by Gwen van Knippenberg

"Comfort food is the food that makes us feel good – satisfied, calm, cared for and carefree. It’s food that fills us up emotionally and physically." ~ Ellie Krieger

It's the time of year for hearty warming bowls of soup, pies of any description and a kitchen warm with the scent of food cooking.  I am really looking forward to working in my new kitchen.  I think about it while I am making all sorts of random meals in my current kitchen, in a bid to use up the oldest of the foods that I have in my cupboard.

I have to be honest and say I am shocked by the amount of food that I have somehow managed to cram into the bottom half of my Welsh cupboard.  I currently have four shopping bags full of food ready to transport to the bungalow on Wednesday ... and I haven't finished yet!!

How can something so innocent looking hold so much.  😄

Sue xx

Remembrance Sunday 2026

Sue xx

Eating Seasonally, and Riverford

 

The electric Riverford van glided silently up to the house mid-morning yesterday with this week's delivery.  This time I had chosen the 'swappable box' as there were a few things in my usual one that I didn't need.  I also got a free gift this week.  They seem to have forgotten that until I paused my deliveries, just while we were eating from our garden over the Summer months, I was already a customer, so last week an email pinged into my inbox saying that as this was my third order with them I qualified for a free cookbook.

Who was I to argue.  😃

This weeks box contents, including two bags of potatoes at the back that I had swapped out for something else, I can't remember what it was.

My fridge drawer is now looking a lot healthier.

This is the book I got.  

At first I thought it was a completely new book ...

... but it's actually an updated version of one that I bought from the used book section on Amazon a while ago.  I will be donating my old copy and having a read of the new one.

This weeks newsletter was interesting.

It explains why this will probably be the last of the Riverford tomatoes and cucumbers, and I think this is a great thing.  How wonderful to be able to eat seasonally, and to be encouraged to do so by responsible growers.  Will I be able to refrain from buying fresh tomatoes next time I am in Aldi or Booths for some shopping, I truly hope so.  I have plenty of tins of tomatoes to see me through the Winter months for all the wonderfully tomatoey meals that I love so much.

I think I will be making much more of an effort to eat seasonally in the New Year,  it would be a good resolution wouldn't it.

My Riverford Link

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Sue xx

We Can Each Do It Our Own Way

 

These last few dry, cold days have given us some wonderful mornings.  

The slight light outside my windows as the day slowly breaks, makes my current terrible habit of waking up so early and being unable to get back to sleep worthwhile.  I give myself ten minutes and if sleep doesn't return I am up and making coffee.

Then I stand outside in the dark warming my hands on the mug, while the central heating warms up my rooms inside.  When the sky starts to lighten I retreat to the now warm living room and debate more coffee, or maybe early morning toast.

Both usually win. 😊

It seems very early but Christmas is everywhere, it's in the shops and has been for a while, somehow it seems more forgivable now that Halloween has passed, and soon bonfire night will have come and gone.  I have actually seen a house complete with brightly lit Christmas tree in their window, and a wreath on their front door.  They are well prepared for the festive season to come.  I have no room to criticise anyone with my post yesterday all about Advent calendars, and I am never one to judge anyone that needs to bring some festive cheer into their lives early to brighten the short days we are shrinking into.

We can each do it our own way, and relish the quiet or the magic that we create.

Sue xx