Today’s overnight oats were particularly delicious. Although I put so much fruit in them I’m starting to think I should refer to it as fruit salad with oats.
Rusty Raven
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
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There is - I have one! It actually has a tower/stand that has the bag in it, you put it away on the stand and it opens the dust canister, sucks the dust into the bag and closes it again. I think you can have a robot vacuum that attaches to the same tower.
The one I have is an LG vacuum but there are other brands too.
I put a mandarin in my lunch bag a couple of days ago and ended up not eating it because I took some leave. I figured it would still be fine for a snack today, but I was very, very wrong. I haven’t seen such strong mould growth on a piece of fruit in a long time 😬
I did mine this morning too. I was very glad that things like ‘occupation’ had free entry, not a forced choice from a drop down list. They never actually have anything that fits.
Lots of people at work today so I have a bonus afternoon off. I can now do those things I was supposed to do yesterday and never got to because the lure of the couch was too strong.
Opening it was a matter of peeling the envelope off the letter instead of actually opening it, but it held up pretty well. The vouchers for the tip are drying off, the letter telling me I’m old and should be doing things to ward off dementia is in the bin, and the envelope of junk mail went straight in the bin.
My package turned out to have just fit into the mail box. Which turned out to be not particularly waterproof when there is heavy, wild rain. It’s a bit on the soggy side, and the letters that were with it were absolutely sopping - they were litterally dripping water.
Varies dramatically based on the type and size of cartridge. I have a laser printer with massive toner cartidges that I’ve changed once in 20 years. Many thousands of pages for it. But I’ve had inkjets that seemed to run out every 5 seconds.
A what three words address? There is a ‘disco fish hunt’ and a ‘dodo fish hunt’, maybe it’s the Prime Minister’s next holiday plan.
i’ve got some cheese & herb scrolls I made to go with it. I think they need to be a bit cheesier though, and the next batch I might add some bacon too. If I don’t have something like that cheese on toast is my preference for vegetable soups.
I was never given soup when I was sick, so it can’t be that. Sick food was always dry crackers and flat lemonade.
Pumpkin soup is often pretty yucky. I don’t mind it with a reasonable amount of curry in it, or the one I had today had a lot of chicken stock to give it flavour. Pumpkin on it’s own is just boring mush that is often a bit too sweet. It also had a fair few other vegetables in it, so it wasn’t just watered down pumpkin puree like a lot seem to be.
Why does the thought of soup for lunch always feel so unappealing, but then you have it and it’s delicious and you wonder why you don’t have it more often?
I managed to trigger my bank’s fraud detection last night by transferring some money to myself. Apparently not having a description/reference can be a red flag, so from now on I’ll be putting in reference notes for the benefit of the fraud dept. 😁
Pizza night

Grilled salmon pizza. Mr Woof got a few bits and was very impressed.
It should keep moving - it’s beautiful and sunny again here!
Breakfast muffin assembly went well. I bought some ‘muffin top’ tins that are perfect for cooking eggs in the oven, and I can fit a dozen eggs and a tray of bacon in the oven at once. Assembly and wrapping is still a bit tedious, but I’ve now got a dozen breakfast muffins in the freezer with a lot less mess and effort than cooking in the pan took.
Now I just need to clean everything up, then vacuum pack all the meat I bought for the freezer.
Hopefully your weather is a bit better than mine then, it’s freezing cold and raining this afternoon. I took out the compost bucket earlier and that’s as close to gardening as I’m coming today.
I was a bit disappointed that the ham I ordered was not available and they refunded me instead of giving me a different type of ham. But then the ham was in the order anyway, so now I’m very happy because I got free ham. It’s a total rollercoaster of emotions this morning!
It has been surprisingly sunny considering the forecast. The morning dog walk was surprisingly pleasant, it was 4 degrees and felt like -2, but there was sun which makes it much more acceptable.












I guess I use a hybrid version. It’s as you go for the first part of the meal, then towards the end I’ll start focussing on making sure that everything is divided up into portions to make sure there is a bit of everything to go into each bite. I’m the opposite of the people who want all their food segregated and eaten separately, I want all meal components to have equal representation throughout the meal.