Happy Friday!
KF, would the activity of teaching the class allow you to do less starvation in your diet, or is teaching young children not active enough? (I think you said somewhere that it would be young girls...?)
SCALES! Oh my gawd, my husband says that, and it is weird. I asked him why, and he could not explain it to my satisfaction, so I refuse to say it.
Good luck with your garden. For us, the weather is never cooperative.
My five:
1. On Wednesday, I had this idea that I would make meatballs and sauce, and potato gnocchi for dinner. I made the gnocchi, and it turned out reasonably okay (not pretty, but they were fine). Then I made the prettiest meatballs you've ever seen... started the sauce, and the meatballs disintegrated into it. So I ended up making a very weird Bolognese. The entire meal was destined to be a disaster. Then my husband came home and the brown-outs started. I needed electricity to pan fry the gnocchi just before serving, so we decided to wait a bit before risking getting halfway into finishing dinner and losing power. We played a few games of backgammon and the power stayed on, so we went for it. Fried the gnocchi, plated it, piled some of my "lovely" Bolognese on top, and my husband finished it off with a dusting of freshly grated Parmesan. We cued up a show on Amazon Prime and sat down to eat,... and the power went out.
2. The food wasn't too bad. What was bad was the two days of leftovers it delivered. I'm so tired of the weird Bolognese.
3. It turns out my husband works 4-1/2 days a week, now that he's out of training and into his shifts. Yesterday, he went in at 2pm and left at 7pm. It was strange to have a normal lazy morning with him, and then at lunchtime he went off to work. Going forward, he will have four 9-hour days and one 5-hour day each week. He'll be off every Sunday, and his other day of will rotate (as will his 5-hour day, and the start and end time of his 9-hour days). At least we know what the absolute latest he'll be getting home is, now, as this week his end time was the last shift. And, this isn't all bad, because it means he'll be available during business hours occasionally to take care of things.
4. Western Power came round yesterday (in the first half of the day, while my husband was still home). It was about the hedges that are getting fried at the top where they're coming into contact with the power lines (which could possibly explain the brown-outs we were having on Wednesday). Apparently, our neighbours behind us, who don't own the hedge, authorized them to cut our hedge down to head height. My husband just said, "No." Then he said that they can cut it to a clearance of 2m. from the power lines. Crazy neighbour lady came to our house and said, "blah blah blah head height". My husband just said, "No." One of the things we love about our garden is it blocks them.
5. This one's for KoD: I decided we'd have burgers and chips for a meal this weekend, and I wasn't sure if we still had French's yellow mustard so I went to check the 'fridge. Our mustard was best before 2015. The worrying thing is, I remember eating mustard last summer. I disposed of it and have ordered a new bottle to be delivered with today's groceries. No more old mustard for us (even if it is mostly vinegar and probably safe to eat)!
