Every day's a school day...
So, having totally messed up my plans for doing anything nice this half term, I spent most of the week sorting out my house, throwing things away, sending things to charity shops, visiting the tip etc. I learnt many things this week so fasten your seatbelts!
- Diaries are there to be used and it is your own silly fault if you mess up your holiday by failing to consult one.
- I need not buy any t-shirts for many months.
- I need not buy any socks for many months.
- It is extremely demoralising trying to iron a king-size duvet cover on a small ironing board.
- Changing the hoover bag is a much more cost-effective way of improving suction than buying a new hoover.
- Keeping loose change in your jeans pockets is not "easier" it only results in much time spent scrabbling under the bed retrieving aformentioned change.
- I have far too many 2p pieces.
- Sometimes when you tidy your house you can find £85 pounds in loose change, unpaid-in cheques and freshly washed notes; this is not to be sneezed at.
- The dust under my bed is something to be sneezed at. So I did.
- "Magic Lemon Pudding" actually IS magic (or at least some very cunning science).
- According to the critics, my Magic Lemon Pudding is "fantastique".
- Charity shop collection bags never come through the door when you need them.
- Charity shops are always situated as far from public car parks as is physically possible.
- My downstairs toilet is a good place to keep donated clothes until a charity bag arrives.
- I need not buy any more necklaces ever (unless I find one in a colour that I haven't already got, or it is REALLY pretty, or I buy some new clothes and none of my current necklaces match).
- I cannot play piano music in 3 flats. 2 flats - Yes, 4 flats - Yes, 3 flats - no.
- My cake tins produce a cake that is slightly too big for my tupperware cake storing box, no matter how much you squeeze.
- "Magic Lemon Pudding" makes a delicious and nutritious alternative to breakfast.
- So does slightly squashed coffee cake.
- Housemaid's knee is a very real problem for the modern girl about the house, even if she only does house work once every 18 months.
Well, that's about all I can think of at the moment but I'll keep you posted if I remember anything else.
posted by Amy and Amiability @ 6:16 PM
9 Comments:
The things you have learned on a weeks holiday is amazing Miss Coward, you are a little older and a little wiser. I think I need to try some of this mentioned lemon Cake though ;-)
You have had such a productive week of learning!!! I am so impressed! All I learnt is that I value sleep so much!!!
Also - get you being able to play 4 flats!!!! I cannot cope with flats in general as you know!! (Does is have a d flat in that intro or not again?!!!!!)
Point 5 is of particular note..... unless you have a dyson which will last until you are called to Heaven, where you will spend all of your time eating magic lemon cake.
I think I must be a bad mother if you did not learn at least some of those things before you grew up!
P.S. remind me to give you the recipe for magic chocolate pudding!
I have actually got a recipe for magic chocolate pudding in that cookery book you gave me at Christmas (that's where I got the lemon recipe from too) and I was initially going to make that but then I thought it might not go with what I was having for tea. Also the chocolate version required semolina or something which I couldn't face using at the time!
I am reading a lot about cakes but not much is arriving at Church or the Vesey?
it's amazing how many people comment when cake might be in the offing, isn't it? thought i'd join the bastions of the under-caked... magic lemon (or chocolate) cake sounds goooorgeous!
liked your juxtaposition (good word, well done!) of weather forecast and reality snaps in previous blog, too. reality rarely matches up to our forecasts, does it? in the case of the snow, perhaps it was much better? perhaps it is always much better? or maybe just much real-er, which makes it sometimes better and sometimes just much colder and wetter (and/or more difficult to take).
enough wittering.
the wibbly one
It's amazing when 2 brownies are given to someone that neither make it home!!!
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