Feb 26

Project 52 - Week 28

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A picture from a Plus event.  I was going to use a photo of the band, but when I saw this one it struck me as odd how some people are blurred because they are dancing, but one person is perfectly in focus.  Obviously because she was also taking a photo, but it just makes the photo look a bit weird and slightly surreal!

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Feb 26

Sausages with Lentils and Roasted Peppers

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Time for another recipe - this one comes from a calendar I got from Sainsburys - not tried it yet but looks good.

1 tbsp sunflower oil

8 good quality sausages

1 onion peeled and sliced

few sprigs thyme

200g dried puy lentiles

2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped

1 x 415g can beef consomme or same quantity beef stock

1/2 x 450g jar roasted red peppers, drained and chopped

handfull of chopped parsley

Heat the oil in a casserole and brown the sausages.  Add the onion and cook over medium heat until softened.  Stir in the thyme, lentils and garlic and cook for a minute then stir in the consomme or stock.  Add a can of hot water and bring to the boil.

Lower the heat and partially cover with a lid.  Simmer for 20 mins.  Stir in the chopped peppers and simmer for another 10-15 mins until the lentils are tender and the sausages are cooked through.  Season to taste, then stir in the chopped parsley to serve.

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Feb 26

Satin sheets are very romantic……

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So Madonna said.  Not sure I can comment on that, but I saw a full bed set in brown satin in a shop the other day at a very reasonable price, so gave into temptation.  Duvet, pillowcases and fitted sheet, all in chocolate satin, means I wake up in the morning feeling like I am in an advert for Galaxy!

That provides me with week 27 of Project 52 - I know its a bit sad that the most interesting part of the week is buying bed linen…..

Actually the most memorable part of the week was when I decided to trim the growth of an overactive climber on the pergola down to size, and managed to trim the cable on the hedge trimmers instead - whoops.  Now we have a pergola that is only two thirds trimmed, and no hedge trimmer - not a very productive day all told.

What else has been going on since I lasted posted (yes I know it was quite a while ago!)?  Lots of Plus stuff, group AGM, Area AGM, National AGM all have taken place in the last few weeks, the most recent being the National, held in Walsall - an interesting, positive meeting and a great evening do too.  Work on Project DS has also carried on - all the pink parts are now hemmed, that leaves only 40 black bits to hem and then carry on with assembly.  There is progress, slow but sure!

Anyway….Project 52 photo:

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Feb 09

Project 52 - Week 26

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Halfway already!!

A photo from the weekend that really captures the mood.

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Feb 09

Cars, Kites, Archery and Geocaching

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A  busy, fun weekend in all, although the cars bit involved a lot of time spent outside in very cold weather helping fit electronics to two cars, so not so great.  After sorting the cars out, we went to a Portsmouth shoot with the archery club at Holbeach, where I shot a new personal best, I’m getting more practice these days and seem to be continuing to improve.  Still striving for the 500+ point Portsmouth though - that may be a way off yet!

There was a kite club meet scheduled in Bedford for Sunday, and despite an obvious lack of wind we decided to head off in that direction anyway.  We arrived quite late due to an unscheduled lie-in, and we were the only kite flyers at Priory Park in the snow.  The star kite had its first flight with its new tails, two at first, then four - it flew ok with two in quite a light wind, but four were just too much for it.  I’ll save all six for another day! 

Also having its first proper flight was the swan kite I made just after Christmas - in virtually no wind at all it gained some lift from somewhere and was beautiful to watch.

The sun came out, and it actually got quite warm despite the snow - when we finally decided the wind had died too much to fly, we packed up the kites and went to find a geocache.  For those not in the know, geocaching is a sort of treasure hunt using gps and co-ordinates given on a website to find hidden “treasures”.  The one we found in Bedford was quite straightforward to find and we signed the log and put it back into its hiding place before heading off to a pub for some light refreshment, and then returning home.

Once home, I started work again on Project DS - put aside for some time now, but today resurrected.  I’ve managed to sew 20 of the pink pieces tonight, and will carry on during this week to see if I can get all the pink done - that just leaves hemming on 40 black pieces and then we are properly onto assembly - thats when the real challenge starts!

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Taken on my mobile phone so the colours are a bit odd in some, but that will teach me to charge my camera battery regularly….

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Feb 07

Project 52 - Week 25

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Everyone has photos of snow this week, so not wanting to disappoint…..

 

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Thats the Project 52 photo, here are more snow photos….

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Feb 07

Project 52 - Week 24

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Not a lot happening this week - until we decided to go out for a drive…and got caught in the snow. Not a snow picture though…..

I was actively looking for something to take a photo of this time, and while looking around all I could think of is that there was nothing here to take photos of, it is so bleak in the winter! Then it occurred to me that I needed to take a photo of the nothing…..so here it is - Gedney Marsh area in the middle of winter - definitely the middle of nowhere!

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It was shortly after this that it started snowing - driving back wasn’t my idea of fun exactly!

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