Slow cooker cooking ...

I am not a lover of sausages but I did enjoy this one ..... could not be simpler

SAUSAGE AND BEER RECIPE
	Ingredients 6 to 8  Good pork Sausages. Tin of budget tomatoes. 2 Onions sliced  or chopped. Red pepper sliced  1 Bottle of dark beer Salt and pepper A few chilli flakes to taste or any other flavour that you like ... to add zest
Brown sausages,  slice and put in slow cooker dish add all other ingredients. Cook all day in slow cooker. Serve with mashed potatoes and green veges

Another smile .....

HEALTH MESSAGE

As I was lying in bed pondering the problems of theworld,
I rapidly realized that I don't really give a damn.
It's the tortoise life for me!

1. If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.
2. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, and is fat.
3. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years.
4. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing, yet it lives for 450 years.
And you tell me to exercise?? I don't think so.

I'm retired. Go around me.

Finally finished well almost ....

The trials and tribulations of getting this together...
Firstly I was going to try and stitch it together but realised it would be difficult  .... yes,  it was ....
 so that was that and back to the drawing board.

Next came the idea to use the staple gun .... tried but  No!  did not work staples not long enough and it pulled the fabric  ...Umphhhh!!!

Finally out came the glues ....  yes, plural ..... which one to use ....now glue and embroidery is a NO NO !!
But I was at the end of things that could be utilised .... fabric glue,  tried on a small area did not work not strong enough ... next another craft glue  also did not work.
So the only thing left was contact glue ... So that was it ....firstly put the bronze fabric covered board on to the covered art board ... and a few hours later the board with the embroidery on was glued on the wrong side, a bit of a smear on the under board and finally  after 30 mins I placed them together .... with a weight of books  and a couple of hours later .... Viola!!! there was everything happily  stuck together,  

So the next dilemma is .... I think there is a need for a cord around the edge of the embroidery  to make the edge attached to the  bronze board clean and neat,

So need to take a trip to Spotlight and just try some cords ... but of course will actually make my own if needed.

A little one to share ...

There comes a point in your life when you realize:  
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore...
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

One step closer ....

I am one step closer to finishing my Corded White Work  piece........ all the boards are covered

Now !!! how the heck do I join them together ....??????
When I decided on this method of mounting I did not give this any thought silly me !!!!!

So  whats it to be .....  stitched  ... pins ...nails...staple gun ... glue or even araldite,  ties  .... oh what a dilemma !.....

First one of the winter

Brrrrr!!! the first frost of the year ... a touch early this year  normally a month or so before this happens. This was 7.30am and the sun is already warming up.

But the good thing about this picture is that we know that the day will be beautiful so  two hours later we have this ....





 not a cloud in the sky temps  will be 15 or 16 degrees  .




 Not bad for winter eh !!.

Oh No! .... it has happened

No not the computer .... it was the printer 

I went to print some papers Saturday morning  and it would just not print ... so checked the ink and yes one cartridge was low but not empty ... did all the maintenance it tells you to do and  NO JOY!!! so called a friend and he said " sorry sounds like it has died "

So  I took a trip to town and checked out who had what on sale .... I was so proud of myself as I knew exactly what I wanted ... not tall as there is a shelf above where it lives , front paper feed for same reason  , individual ink cartridges, WiFi if possible .... scanning yes ....  but fax was not necessary
Looked at all the electrical / computer shops as they are all on the same  Shopping Mall

Studied the price of printers in each shop and also of the ink.
One was cheaper than the others ... one gave Fly Buy points ... the ink was cheaper here but more expensive there ... in fact I thoroughly enjoyed the hour or so it took .....

Finally decided on this one Hewlett Packard, with WiFi and all the other things .....  not the cheapest but the best for what I needed ...  ticking all the boxes. Got it in the shop that was more expensive than the others  so bargained and they reduced it to the price of the cheapest shop .....

So bought it home and plugged it in to electricity and my computer ... wonders of modern science etc. my computer recognizes it .....  installed itself on to my computer and the WiFi....  asked me to put in a page of printing  and it scanned it and copied it ...  all this using the WiFi  ... Wheeee!!!

so here it is  my new printer....

Sunny Sunday

Although it is now winter the days are still glorious and today is no exception ...
So I donned the garden stuff and have spent 2 hours prunning and cutting back the Hydrangers  5 barrow loads to the green dump.

For some unbeknown reason the Hydrangers have grown like weeds this year  this one is 2ft taller than me and you can see it has reached the shed roof and the fence is 6ft 6 inches tall ...... and it is only one plant. I bet there will be 5 barrow loads  just in this shrub.

The garden is in a bit of a tizzy as it does not know what season it is there are spring bulbs  already ... but not a good picture....

Flowers that should have gone over ages ago .... Begonias and Antirrhinums  ( god bless spell check )

This my last Rose of the season ...I could not bring myself to  cut it  so will have to prune that branch when the Rose is finished ... I have no idea of the name it was here when I moved in.