This is a McCains Frozen Ready Baked Potato and yes I know what you're gonna say because I have said it for a long time.......Why? Why buy a frozen potato when you can just buy a fresh one for a fraction of the price and microwave or oven bake that? Well let me tell you.....I tried one of these and put it in the microwave for 6 mins and there it is again, another product I've always thought there is no point to at all and have totally changed my opinion. I was looking for quick lunch ideas that were gluten free, Slimming World friendly and I do love a baked potato. It fills me up and you can have many different toppings on it to bling it up to spud heaven. This product won't make me give up on the fresh potato and when I have time I can pop a potato in and wait the hour it takes to cook it but for a quick fix and convenience I am keeping a packet close by. The thing is though:
Enjoy the great potato in whichever form that takes your fancy and I will catch you tomorrow.
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Well the day has come and the Billionaire business man Donald Trump has been sworn in (and I think we could all swear him out to be honest). President Trump, so funny really as for the non British here, Trump is another word for 'fart' here or more politely 'passing wind' and I want to giggle like a little child when anyone says President Trump (see just made me laugh again). I'm not in anyway going to go into in-depth politics here as there are other blogs that do a really good job at that but it is a massive event that has divided the nation completely and the world. It still seems like a massive dream, I mean we knew the day was coming when he got voted in but I think somewhere along the way we may have hoped it was a joke, there would be some sort of mistake or we'd find out we had all been involved in an episode of Doctor Who and wake up in a different time or dimension. I can see Peter Capaldi saying 'ha ha got ya! Donald Trump as president? Don't be silly'. The celebrities stayed away from the inauguration or as I renamed it the annoy-a-nation, there were protests and people watched it on tv just to see whether anything may go wrong or they may have cancelled it at the last minute but nope it's happened and there is nothing we can do about it. I felt a bit sorry for Hilary Clinton, for her it was like turning up to a party when you haven't won the person of your dreams and then you have to watch them snog someone else all night and the disco plays the song 'It Should Have Been Me'! We have to hope he might prove us all wrong and do a grand job (I'm always the optimist) and the rest of the world will spectate while he apparently makes the USA great. I think it may have been better to have sworn in Darth Vader, only because he has a fabulous outfit, slightly problem with his Asthma but anything is better than that haircut of Trump's. That haircut would survive a hurricane or a nuclear explosion, lets not say anything about that now he has the codes and let's hope he regularly forgets his pin numbers. For better or worse we will just have to wait but I'll hopefully still be here tomorrow to write some more, so be safe, try not to worry, congratulations if it's the result you wanted and bye for now. The new addition to the household and my feet now love me for allowing them a jacuzzi and massage all in one. The rest of my body is screaming out for a jacuzzi as well but it will just have to wait, I'll try and get to the rest of you bits and bobs at a later date, there are probably some bits now that would drop off with the ferocity of a erupting vibrating bath. My new friend is great and has a infra red facility to keep the water warm, it is light, easy to fill and empty, the massage wheels can be removed if not required I put some tea tree oil in and find it so relaxing. It's a bit on the noisy side so not sure if the neighbours can hear it but hey, it will keep them guessing, if I walk out the house with a permanent grin on my face they could be thinking 'that girl must have had a foot spa' surely??? I think we tend to neglect our feet a bit but if you think of how much work they do, they keep us up for a start if you're lucky, they come in for some major use with all the walking, standing and clock up a lot of mileage so they need a good service and an MOT. I did quite a bit of walking last year and two charity walks and would have loved this at the end of those, it is a good upgrade on the old washing up bowl I was using, it can be used with hot or cold water so in the summer (if we get one) a nice cold dip is going to be something I will look forward to. If we help our feet we can help other ailments throughout our bodies and reflexology is proved to be a great healer so give them some love and make your feet 'Happy Feet' This Mesko Foot Spa was from Amazon and at the moment is priced in a sale at £27.90. Have fun, feet up and catch ya tomorrow. These are courgettes and apparently there is a major shortage in the supermarkets all due to the bad weather in Italy and Spain. (ahhhh) The dieters are up in arms as they can't ribbon or pasta they're courgettes up and the search is on for the precious vegetable, show yourself you green eating machine!!! Now I'm no expert and have no gardening or nutritional training but am I right in thinking you can grow this vegetable in the garden??? Ok so it wouldn't be available instantly like people expect it to be, and I get the need for food to be convenient and to show up for the evening meal that same day but It really wouldn't take long to get them up and running and when your crop is on it's way to marrowville you can actually get 3 or 4 courgettes a week, They can be grown in a pot, grow bag or greenhouse if you have one, it really is that easy. I don't consider myself green fingered at all, heck I could kill a cactus but I have actually, and sit down for this, I have grown courgettes and tomatoes. I could give Alan Titchmarsh a run for his money, no.... maybe not. The only people who are laughing at the moment are serious vegetable growers, allotment owners and Terry Walton, the Radio 2 Gardener. He will tell you how to handle your produce (cheeky) or go to the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) website at www.rhs.org.uk, they do give some handy hints, and you will never be without a courgette again. maybe we should all grow our own to have a personal supply (says she who has a very redundant greenhouse in the garden) and help the community with it's needs in case of famine such as this one. Where's Bob Geldof when ya need him. Lets keep everything crossed and hope Italy and Spain's weather improves and we have an end to this awful disaster but for now.......wiggle your green fingers and get them gardening gloves on them. You may enjoy it! Bye bye, and catch you tomorrow. Yes it's back!! A new term at Rock Choir. What better to beat those January blues but to sing out la la la la loud! I have been a Rockie now for a year and have loved every minute of it, it certainly makes you feel good. They say singing is good for the brain, it alleviates stress and anxiety. It certainly gets my brain working. learning lyrics and remembering my part to sing. It makes me laugh as we learn different harmony parts and as soon as I listen to another part being taught after mine, It's gone! woooosh, just as I thought I'd mastered it and felt quite secretly smug with myself and inside screaming' Yes! I've got this' it's just evacuated my brain in some sort of emergency fire drill. I feel like Dory from Finding Nemo with a two second memory, one moment I''m singing like a proud bass and then the alto part appears and it's 'oh that's a nice part I'll sing that instead'. I'm like a rabbit in headlights when it comes back to bass's and asked the magic question 'so can you remember what you just learnt?' No! but I'm gonna sing anyway because I'm in my happy place, and I am. The other Rockies are lovely and we are led by a wonderful teacher. If you want to laugh, sing, socialise and perform or not perform it really doesn't matter. There is really no pressure, only the pressure of realising you CAN remember the lyrics after a few weeks, and it's ok to put the lyric sheet down, it really does become like a security blanket. Put my song lyric sheet down?!!! I won't need it? Are you sure? I'll just hang onto to it just a bit longer for that all important 'whoa' 'ooh' or 'ahh' I might need to read because I just can't remember that bit. Love it. So many songs and yes many lyrics but we get them in the end and after a bit of practice and polishing we pull it off and sound fabulous!! So grab the diva inside you and sign up for a go......you can have a free taster session and we'll all look after you, you will never look back. All the info you need is on www.rockchoir.com Bye Bye for now and catch ya tomorrow..... So how was it for you? Apparently today was the most depressing day of the year. The day when your supposed to have fluffed on the diet, realise you did in fact spend far too much over Christmas and want to hide under the duvet for the rest of the winter with a mahooosive bar of chocolate. We are a nation that lives with the rain but secretly would love an affair with the Caribbean. Blue Monday I think though is a clever marketing ploy by holiday companies and in my case handbag shops to make you think you are feeling blue and that a bit of retail therapy would just do the trick. Go on, bet you know someone who's just gone and booked an all inclusive and bought swimwear to match. For me it would be the dream handbag, sitting on a shelf like a prestigious award, waiting to be presented. My Oscar! And the award goes to Sue for her performance in 'Handbags and Gladrags'......then I wake up, realise I'm in Tesco and get offered a rather nice but disappointing 'bag for life'. It's been rainy, dark and dismal today but I didn't feel too down, the worst thing that happened today was realising I couldn't eat a packet of Monster Munch, they are not Gluten Free!!! Can you believe it? I think last week was more depressing with a full moon and Friday 13th, that was a bit of bad organisation for the earthlings. For some it is a blue day every day, I know how that feels, I've suffered depression on and off myself. That is one of the reasons for writing a blog, I wanted to try and write a bit of light and pass it onto people, and if I make just one person chuckle a bit I like to think that's my job done. So today I'm actually going to kick Blue Monday's bottom (kick it's ass) and look towards a Tip Top Tuesday! Who's with me? See you on the other side. The BBC test card, oh remember when it marked the end of the tv time for that day. Yes kids of today, there was no telly through the night and at one time I only remember three channels!!! The music tv show 'The Tube' back in the 80's would hold a special night of 24 hour music which was prime excuse for teenager sleep overs and midnight feasts. It was so exciting. After the test card appeared which would either be accompanied by an annoying constant beeeeeeeeeeeep or I am pretty sure it eventually progressed to some kind of music, I would listen to the pirate radio station Radio Luxembourg, which just had the best selection of music. Now there is just too many channels, I still only really stick to the five main ones now, force of habit I suppose. I have the regular flick through them all and by the time I get through my tv package, all the radio channels and I've hit the 'what to do with my tv now you've hit channel 999' moment. I'm lost! I could randomly see how to change my settings or learn how to get the most from my provider which would probably be more riveting than Supercasino on Channel 5, who plays that? and who's idea was it? I would rather watch the test card - probably be cheaper than a gambleathon. I like the 'catch up' tv facility now, I can watch my programs when I want, binge watch a series if I fancy and on all the teccy mobile devices ever invented. Brilliant! Live tv, so last season unless you are the type of person who goes on social media a lot and curses the people who don't know what a 'spoiler alert' is, after watching 26 episodes of a crime thriller till the end somebody always announces the murderer 3 mins after the programmes finished and you have decided to 'catch up' later!!! Just rebound on the spoiler alert and tell them who got kicked off the episode of X Factor you've been watching on the other side (sorry channel), they'll thank you for it. I wonder what television will be like in another 10 years.......probably still nothing on and I fear Christmas telly will never change. We'll be shouting out to change channel just like we do with Apple tv, I know! your voice is the remote!! Siri will be overworked and cursing back at us for not finding a channel but as long as I can find an old episode of Only Fools and Horses or Vicar of Dibley I'll be happy. til' tomorrow....... Well this was it, our snow fall and slightly disappointing, please try better next time weather. The weather forecast always makes me wonder whether the snow will actually fall in between those lines on the map, we always look where we live and if we will be in the snow zone but what if you just live on the line? it's a case of panic isn't it?. Are we getting it or not, will they have it just down the road and not reach us, the lines are a bit bendy but so disappointing when they just don't edge towards your patch. The weather apps are very similar too, when I see a snow cloud or a 45mph wind arrow at 11am I want it to do what it says at that exact time, otherwise it's just let me down and completely lied. I remember in the 70's when they had the weather maps on the tv, you would watch it not just for the suspense of a forthcoming hurricane they said wasn't on it's way ( yeah remember that one?) but you just prayed that, for a bit of excitement, the magnetic clouds would fall off the map or when it got a bit more technical, they would press the fancy button and nothing would happen. I loved looking for the panic, but the likes of Michael Fish were just too cool for that, they knew their stuff and could carry it on without any map. Barbara Edwards became the first female weather presenter in 1974 and now if I'm honest I love to watch the whole added glamour aspect of what outfit was trending or even now still trying to pronounce the Polish-British meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker's name without it sounding rude. I am fascinated by the weather though, I love a warm front and have learnt about thundersnow this week which is a term I've not come across before. Is it someone sitting in the clouds a bit indecisive about when to send down in a thunderstorm.....oh shall we throw snow or rain, can't decide - oh send the snow and call it thundersnow, they'll love it! Personally I thought it was a new rock band when I heard it on the radio but hey it sounds dramatic. Whatever your weather - stay safe and catch ya tomorrow. Well I gave in and have joined the fitness tracker squad. This little device resembling some digital watch now informs me how many times I put one foot in front of the other, the distance, which kind of sleep I'm having (if any), how many calories I burn and it will tell me when my phone rings or texts me and will also wake me up at my chosen time. I'm so glad. Yes I may sound sceptical because I am trying to prove why anyone would want one. I'm not sure the pedometer, or any pedometer for that case is in the remote bit accurate, I actually worked up about 200 steps just putting my mascara on this morning, that doesn't even involve moving my feet so how do I justify that? Ha it hasn't programmed mascara fitness sessions in yet - that's one for the future. Mascara always causes a commotion, I remember buying that new 'vibrating mascara', well I did have to think for a minute 'this is supposed to be used on my eyes right?' The mind boggles sometimes, well mine does most of the time, maybe my fancy new bracelet will tell me how many times I have boggled, danced, jogged, sat up, sat down, it even buzz's me if I've stayed still for too long, well good luck with that one. I do quite feel the need to check it and make sure I've done my step target so it's on it's way to helping me to keep fit, which can only be a good thing. I did start off absolutely hating the Kindle and thinking it could never replace a real book, but now I read most of my books on my Kindle app. I am a woman for changing and time will tell, I will always know what the time is and with that I bid you a good evening, a great weekend and will catch you hopefully after ten thousand steps tomorrow, not counting the three thousand I will use to type this blog. These are single socks getting together discussing how they have seperated from their partners and the woeful story of how they left. Well I wish they would explain it to me!! It's one of lifes big phenomenons, the mystery of the missing socks! I've tidied bedrooms so they are not visible around the house unless there is a game of 'sock hide and seek' I don't know about. I'm pretty sure as well that everyone takes their socks of one pair at a time and everyone on the ark seemed to manage to go everywhere 'two by two' so why can't socks? I think there is a secret door at the back of the washer and they all go out to Club Soda, sink a few cocktails and dance their socks off (see what I did there?). Maybe we'll just never know, the old scrap washing machines will get taken apart and there lurking behind every drum will be our socks. A sock orgy!! I could buy one of those clever laundry netting bags to keep them altogether while they spin at 1400rpm, I mean I'd lose more than my socks if I spun round that fast.....OR I could give the mystery to Sherlock Holmes, but I fear even he wouldn't be able to solve this one. Anyway, keep an eye out just in case and I will catch you tomorrow. |
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