What are you all up to
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Cooking a pizza at home does not necessarily involve any sweating over a hot oven.
You can buy good quality pizzas, or cheap ones if you wish, from various supermarkets and just pop them in the oven. 15 minutes and they are ready. Our, relatively new, oven is extremely well insulated and the heat lost into the kitchen is minimal.
Plus we have good ventilation via 2 windows, a large patio door, an extractor fan if necessary, and the kitchen faces north so is always one of the cooler areas in the house.
Were we to make from scratch, we have a bread maker that prepares the dough with no exertion on our part, and meantime we can still manage to assemble the toppings ourselves.
The main reason people order pizzas is that they just do not know how to make one themselves, closely followed by not having the correct ingredients or not having planned ahead and bought ready made ones, or just "cannot be bothered".
A takeaway pizza is not cheap, so if one is happy to pay then that is fine. As I am sure you know you could prepare a 3 course meal for 2 for the cost of a large pizza. Personally, we would rather spend our money that way.
No, work is not a dirty word, I spent about 40 years working so that I can now enjoy my well deserved retirement with the help of a decent pension and adequate savings. Instead of working, I now spend my time on my hobbies, taking long holidays in interesting places, and being with my extended family.
I could still be working if I had wanted to, the company did ask me to stay on, but we had plans for more interesting things we wanted to do.
We will never agree on this, you have your opinion on retirement and I have mine. There are people who prefer to carry on working, some out of boredom, some out of necessity, that is their choice.
Just like most people choose to live in a house rather than a caravan.
Please do not start up that debate again!
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Right, I see what you meant now.
However I would still never spend £13+ on a take away pizza when I can make one to my exact requirements, thin crispy homemade bread base, tangy homemade tomato sauce, and the fresh toppings of my chose for a couple of pounds.I make enough dough for 3 or 4 pizzas, portion it up and freeze it, same with the sauce. I always have cheese and plenty of things for toppings in the fridge, so I could make a pizza in the time it would take to order one and wait for it to be delivered and save myself a tenner into the bargain.
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Gosh that would have been a dilemma if they had been on the same day
Congratulations to both your daughters cornersteady. Our granddaughter's graduation is in Lincoln Cathedral next week. We are not going this time though as she couldn't get tickets for all of us.I agree with you KjellNN. Work is not a dirty word to me either. I worked for many years in various jobs until our children were grown up and I then worked for the NHS in quite a demanding job with long hours. When I retired from there I then did 'bank work' for them for 4 years and then did another 3 years working 2 days a week in an office. My OH worked for 45 years. He is now 81 and no way does he want to work anymore. As you say we all need to agree to differ on this and on life style choices. Each to their own. There is no right or wrong way. We all make our own choices as to what suits us best.
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Spoke too soon this morning, the rain lasted for 3 hours, and I'm sure the lawn and flowers sighed with relief.
In these modern times, "slaving over a hot oven" is a outdated phrase. There are gadgets and gizmos that make it easier and faster to cook a nutritious meal from scratch. Unfortunally too many people use that excuse for buying ready meals or takeaways. Same as with spending all day cleaning, everything now is a lot easier than it was for our ancestors who had to get down on their knees to scrub the floors, and beat the carpet on the washing line.
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Bet the rain smelt beautiful 😃. We have some cloud, a small amount mackrel type. I need to dry my washing 😲. We're not forecast any until Friday.
Housework, laundry, cooking etc all so much easier than in even my parents generation. So glad to live now rather than then or earlier from this point of view. Also the % of income spend on food is so much smaller than before. Housing and food meant we had little left over for entertainment in our early days and even less when the children arrived. Coffee/tea and biscuits at other friends with youngsters or a homemade picnic at the park in those days. Now it's tearoons/McDonald's etc and Lord knows what 😉😉. What is the world coming too??
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Just had lunch after a quick trip out to rescue a damsel in distress.
DD rang to request a jump start for her car as she had a flat battery, apparently "someone" had left the glove box open and it of course has a light in it.
Despite having both a battery charger and jump leads, I was shocked to hear that neither she nor SIL knew what to do with them!
They do now!!
As she was on her way out to meet friends for lunch, it seems I was a quicker option than calling out her breakdown company.
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Suddenly I feel guilty about going into town to collect takeaway pizzas.
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But if I’m honest I enjoyed it more than the quiche I made the night before (rather well done, squishy, and a soggy bottom all at once) - it was cheap though as I used up a lot of lingering leftovers in the fridge.
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While we were at DD's on Saturday, for lunch, she was busy making a "to do" list for the, hopefully, new house. It sounds like I am to be quite busy.
The list includes redecorating where necessary, shampooing carpets, dismantling and re-assembling various flat pack cupboards, measuring up for and fitting blinds at 4 large windows, finding somewhere to install a bath, then most likely crawling under the floor to do so, plus plus plus........
Apparently SIL's dad has a painter friend who could be called on at "mates rates", so I may escape some of the painting if their funds can stretch to that.
Only about 6 weeks till we are supposed to be going away again, so no time to do everything before that, I think the bath project will be on list "B".
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Rather oppressive here today compared with the last few days. I think we have a bit of rain on the way. Used the car to get to Burton Agnes Hall and Garden. It would have meant synchronising two buses.
Gardens were bearing up well despite the drought, they really do cram a lot in, makes our efforts at home look distinctly second rate. Decided against going in the hall today, will keep that for a future visit.
A few pictures of the flowers / veg. The butterflies were being a bit uncooperative😂
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Lovely photos Steve. Yes it makes our efforts at home look a bit second rate as well. But then I expect they have a lot of help! It is very oppressive here today as well although there is no rain forecast unfortunately.
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Nice photos, hope we'll see Burton Agnes in the future, garden plants are now getting hard pressed in the dryness and heat. We've just had some rain, not much, it went dark and thundery but it may be an illusion...
Waiting for another furniture delivery from son, not much, just a "few" more boxes and bed frames...
I was thinking of KJ and the budgies, then realised a hamster will be joining us soon, the cat will be most interested about that prospect.
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I don't now how many gardeners they have, but watering alone this summer must keep them fairly busy. They were just clearing up today from a jazz and blues festival over the weekend. There were still a few vans packing up on the temporary site in the fields alongside. A very convienient stagger from the event.
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Took MIL to see her siblings in Bury today. More potholes on the roads around there than we encountered in 8 weeks in Germany. Our roads are a national embarrasement.
Just had over an hour of quite heavy rain. I can hear the garden sighing and I think I heard it burp once.
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Thanks, just got back, very emotional and lovely day, you see them grow up and it's over in a flash.
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Thanks, yes lucky we got that right
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And thanks also, yes full days indeed, today was at 1.30 but on Thursday it's at 9.30 and it is suggested you're there two hours before so an earlier start for us
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yes thanks, we were worrying about that but fate was on our side. A great day, loved all that pomp and circumstance.
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Yes its definitely a lump in the throat and a tear in the eye day Cornersteady. You must have been so proud. A lot of what your daughter has achieved is down to you as well. So well done. You have it all again next week.
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Congrats to all graduates! Quite a while since we have been to a ceremony, that was a niece at Sheffield City Hall. We were there next evening as well, to see Kirov Ballet!
Nice photos of Burton Agnes Steve, it's beautiful the Walled Garden, glad to see the Wire Gardener is still there. Can recommend inside the Hall as well, very interesting, some lovely pieces of artwork. Some old, some contemporary, a nice mix.
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. Best of luck with that brue.0
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After a fairly relaxing morning we went a drive across the island to the Needles and took a boat trip. It was wonderful seeing them uP close although the water was a bit choppy we then took the cable car back to the top. After all the pizza talk on here this morning we went and got some pizza and cooked them on the Cadac delicious as usual. Now just sitting outside the vamn watching the sun just about to go behind the hills. Congrats to all those graduating
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I bet the ground at Daresbury could be heard sighing as well, WN. Just hoping it recovers in time for the farmer to get some remuneration, after all I'd hate them to junk next years Cheshire Steam Fair due to a shortage of the where-with-all
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