I am not keeping up with writing my blog. Expect it is because of winter. We had a visitor this week, well two actually but the little one won't make it to our world till March next year. Anyway Mary, who is Andrew's child went down with a bug a couple of days ago and we all worried a bit about the babe but Mary went off yesterday safely. Today Lillie is coming down from London, basically to bring some of her stuff back for Xmas and also a sleepover tonight.
Matilda is off to Paris with Lucien this weekend for her birthday. She had just won a voucher for Air B&B but too late to cover accommodation this time round.
And my phone has just pinged with a message from my daughter. She wants a link to my Xmas present, I have decided on a yarn Swift, it is a bit like the inside of an umbrella. The art of knitting is very fashionable at the moment and there is a lor of wool out there being sold as hanks. A swift helps you unwind the hanks. Easier than winding from your feet;)
A knitting book for babies should be coming soon! Also thought I would try out some Japanese cooking. I have Miso soup quite a lot, chopping the vegetables is soothing and the cooking only takes five minutes and no fat used. I eat noodles and the various sauces have to be learnt as well. I do not like Japanese dumplings or their jellified sweets but love bamboo shoots and I am now growing beansprouts all the time. I use mung beans for sprouting. Very easy to grow in winter.
Actually it is quite hard to get into Japanese cuisine when we eat so much in the way of dairy food. The cheese that is eaten in this household is far too much. Also I noticed on a vlog someone making butter out of cream - because it was cheaper.
Politically keeping an eye on Zack Polanski. He got a real drumming from Rory Stewart on economics and I have definitely gone off Rory, middle-aged twat. Trouble is I worry about how the Green Party are going to figure in the bright light of publicity. For instance is there only one speaker for the party, where are the 'promises' written down? As always like sheep we follow the man with the best promises such as Farage, which we know of course will never be kept and he is in it for the money, following his hero across the water. Not sure if the latest truth about his racialism at school will knock him off the voting ballot, we will see.
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Your use of the term "middle-aged twat" shocked me as I previously thought of you as a sweet grandmother who spent her days knitting, reading books about archaeology and gently reminiscing about times gone by. To your accurate description of Rory Stewart, I would also add the terms "pompous" and "Tory" as well as "up his own arse".
ReplyDeleteI heard Farage has sullied himself by his actions when young. My view from afar is he is a single issue prospective leader, who attracts those who want lower immigration, which I honestly think in England, has been out of control. If an African refugee reaches France, Portugal or Spain, they are in 'safe' countries, where they can apply for refugee status. But they go on to England because they are treated more generously. I can see how this would get up the nose of local English people. A taxi driver in Newcastle pointed out a ten storey building on the West Road, saying, 'The Kosovan male refugees were housed here. They destroyed the building, pulling the radiators off the walls (that would be an own goal) and ripped the place apart'. Anecdotes can be dangerous, but I do get what he was saying. I want to say something about Australia, but this comment is already too long.
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