At last....something crafty!

At last I'm getting round to doing something crafty....it's been such a long time since I did anything remotely involving a needle and thread!

In true form this is another new project not a UFO (roll eyes)

It's going to be a little quilt for my cousins daughter (I can never figure out if this is my second cousin or removed or whatever!) who is expecting her first.

I have the fabric all cut out....



I hope to start piecing it this weekend...I've got plenty of time (famous last words!) as she's not due till August. I don't know if she knows whether it's a boy or a girl so I've put in a bit of everything! I couldn't believe how difficult it was to find suitable fabric for a baby quilt! I went to two shops, one of which was almost an hours drive....I searched on line and in the end I just had to compromise. The only one I found that was babyish was the blue one which has tiny teddies on it.

I am so bad.....

I have been trying to get back to low carb eating without much success. I might have to admit that I am a carboholic! (are there support groups for that!)

I had an awful day food wise yesterday…I had nothing but carbs!

An apple and cinnamon muffin thing for breakfast...biscuits with tea...chips for lunch, then a tube of fruit pastilles, and some more biscuits...I might even have had a cake as well but I’ve blocked that out...then I had pasta in the evening, with veggie tomato sauce and a couple of sausages. The sausages were very low carb so that, and the veggie sauce (which was actually ratatouille) were the day’s only saving grace.

Must try harder, must try harder, must try harder, must try harder....

Yummy....

Made some great stuffed chicken breasts for dinner today. From Dana Carpenders Low Carb Cookbook. Very simple, if a bit fiddly.

Mix some cream cheese with chopped spring onion.
Butterfly a boneless chicken breast and bash it out a bit so that it's thinner.
Spread the cream cheese on it, and tuck in the sides and roll it up. Wrap it with a couple rashers of streaky bacon.
Recipe says to chill well and then put on the "grill" that the BBq to you and I. I put mine in the oven till cooked through!

It was delish, and I had some leftovers cold with Salad for lunch although I did scrape out the cream cheese. Definitely one to remember...and so simple. I love cooking but I'm getting lazy about it now I'm on my own. Anything with more than a half a dozen ingredients gets the heave-ho!

Aaaargh!!!!(2)

More awful things that people do in public....this morning there was a woman who walked up to the bus stop, sat down and pulled a cotton bud out of her coat pocket and proceeded to poke about in her ears! Yuuuuck!! Not in public....please!!!

Why is it.....?

...that when I need to get to work early London Transport conspire to make me late!!?

I left home three quarters of an hour early to get to work half an hour early....and I was still late!!! Grrrr!!

Aaaargh!!!

Don't some people have horrible habits? Was just on the bus coming to work and had to sit next a woman who was picking at her ear, and then examining her fingernails and cleaning it out and then going back to some more picking.....yuuuck!!! I know we probably all do something like this occasionally....but not in public...please!!
Then she got off and another woman came and sat next to me and she was....sniff, sniff....pause....sniff, sniff....pause....sniff, sniff...get the picture? Every so often the sniffing would be interspersed with a weird little hiccuping sound! Aaargh!! Can you tell I'm not in a very good mood this morning?

The train was delayed because of a faulty train ahead of us...same thing yesterday evening....same thing at least twice last week as well, without the other ad hoc delays during the week. I'm so sick of it!!

OK rant over! Sorry about that!

Who knew....?

There's a Museum of Butter! Of course, it's in Ireland!!