by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2016 | My Diary
Did you have a good day today, Bank Holiday Monday? Every year, on this day, there is an Anglo French market in Heathfield, Le Marche. Building on all our walking from holiday, we decided to walk down to the town. It is always very crowded, even when it rains, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 28, 2016 | My Diary
Didja miss me? I missed waffling away to you over the past week. We’ve been away again and I’ve agreed not to talk about it whilst away, but I really don’t like it! We’ve been on a fabulous walking holiday in the Swiss Alps. We went with Great...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 15, 2016 | My Diary
today On this day, last year, Mike and I got married after 38 years together. So today is our first anniversary – everybody go aaah And it also means that next year it will be 40 years together. We need to organise something special to celebrate that! Mike went to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 14, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
One of Mikes most favourite things is a good Eccles cake. Note the adjective, just any old Eccles isn’t good enough. It has to be a good one. He knows what he likes does Mike. For ages, I’ve been meaning to have a go at making them and today, I finally got round to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 13, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Other
Another variation of pesto today – rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed. ingredients I’ve been tidying up out in the garden today and the rocket is one of the few things doing well this year. It is hanging over the bed in profusion, and getting in the way. So...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2016 | My Diary
Had a smashing day out today. Mike and I went down to Eastbourne for the Airbourne display. It is spelled that way, I checked on the programme. We parked up near the swimming pool and walked in to the centre of the front – another good day for steps, 11,291 so far....
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2016 | My Diary
When it’s treat time and you want to treat yourself, what do you do? And if it involves cash, what do you tend to spend it on? We spend a lot on eating out. We have several pubs we like to go to to have lunch, after a walk generally. Mike likes his Indians,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 10, 2016 | My Diary
Had some of these Beet Burgers yesterday for lunch. This time I used breadcrumbs from the freezer instead of oats. I’ve got some cooked aduki beans in the fridge to use in various things, so I used those instead of chickpeas. There was half a jar of fancy mushrooms...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 4, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
I really fancied something made with a lemon from the fridge and lots of mint from the garden today. But the mint is straggly and chewed. An alternative would have been lemon balm, but that was even worse, every single leaf had multiple holes. So I cut both of those...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 3, 2016 | My Diary
Don’t know if you could tell from my somewhat enigmatic Facebook posts over the last few days, but we’ve been away. It was my birthday and when Mike asked what I wanted, I light heartedly said – a weekend away! Well he only went and organised one...