by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
I haven’t done a recipe for you for a while. I did a soup earlier this week using the juices from some boiled beef, miscellaneous veg from the fridge and some pearl barley. I looked at the container with the pearl barley in, and thought I may as well cook all...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 20, 2017 | My Diary
Getting lost 3 miles from home I forgot to say last time, that I had a frustrating thing happen on Monday. I was supposed to go to the U3A committee meeting. It wasn’t at the usual venue, as that person was on holiday. I had been to this other house 3 or 4 times...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 14, 2017 | My Diary
Bumps I wrote in this post about how a friend had accidentally bumped into me. On Friday, I took the car up to the repairers and they did a lovely job. On Saturday, I picked it up again and we now have a beautiful, clean, shiny, sort of super waxed looking bumper...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 7, 2017 | My Diary
Fresh flowers, and silk ones I like to have fresh flowers in the house. Not many, just the odd bunch. Last year, I bought a lovely display from Bloom, which makes high quality silk flowers. They are so realistic, that, to start with, I felt compelled to say ‘you do...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 4, 2017 | Budgeting, My Diary
My first shower Earlier this week, the hard working plumbers changed our boilers over and I had the first shower using the new boiler. Well! The old shower was a mere dribble, I am invariably the second one to use the shower in the morning, and the heat had definitely...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 2, 2017 | My Diary
Lumps and bumps Last Wednesday, I went to WI garden group. I gave another woman a lift and as we were the first to arrive, I parked up tight against the garage to leave maximum room for others to park. We had a good and lively meeting as usual and at the end, one of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 1, 2017 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches, Other
Cutting back on sugars I’m trying hard to cut right down on sugars in my diet, even those in fruit. So I’ve not been having much fruit lately, replaced fruit with (even) more veg. Now, masses of fruit, with a generous dollop of thick Greek yogurt is one of my favorite...