Plans for today (2024)

SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Our awful pub was good once.
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It's a crying shame what the "chains" do to traditional pubs. They're only interested in making loads of money at the expense of creativity. You'd think they might just muse "how about we just let the landlord/landlady do their thing with the food? " instead of "let's just dump the same old burgers, nachos, halloumi and bleedin' chicken wings on everyone". They're actually doing the same with "Pub Grub" as the Big Five did with their "beer" in the 1970s, before CAMRA formed, although in the 70s, pub food was crisps, toasted cheese sarnies and maybe, scampi & chips.
I was a bit of a CAMRA radical in the 70s. I'd get 10 mates together and we'd walk into a Courage, Watneys, Bass pub and order 10 pints of Real Ale. When the Watney's Red came out, we'd say: " That's not real ale, that's gnat's p***", and walk out.
There are so, so many wonderful British snacks available that people seem to have forgotten about. Homity pie. A creative sausage sarnie. Vinegared prawns. Cheese, bacon and leek scones. Faggots. Cock a Leekie soup. Welsh Rarebit on a thick slice of toast. A Cornish pasty. Glamorgan sausages, - to mention but a few.
But no - we have to have grotty nachos, overcooked halloumi and "wings".
Pathetic, I say, because no-one seems to have any creativity left.
 
The plans for today were to buy a new mattress.

No one ever told me that when I had my hips replaced I'd end up needing a new mattress which was a real pain because we'd only had that one 18 months. But my hip shape changed remarkably and the nice firm mattress we had was suddenly useless. I ended up with pressure sores on my hips. And every time I tried the 18 month old mattress I couldn't even lay an hour on it.

So new mattress time and this time one fitted to us using technology rather than guesswork on our behalf.

We succeeded.

Now we wait for it to be made.
 
karadekoolaid said:
It's a crying shame what the "chains" do to traditional pubs. They're only interested in making loads of money at the expense of creativity. You'd think they might just muse "how about we just let the landlord/landlady do their thing with the food? " instead of "let's just dump the same old burgers, nachos, halloumi and bleedin' chicken wings on everyone". They're actually doing the same with "Pub Grub" as the Big Five did with their "beer" in the 1970s, before CAMRA formed, although in the 70s, pub food was crisps, toasted cheese sarnies and maybe, scampi & chips.
I was a bit of a CAMRA radical in the 70s. I'd get 10 mates together and we'd walk into a Courage, Watneys, Bass pub and order 10 pints of Real Ale. When the Watney's Red came out, we'd say: " That's not real ale, that's gnat's p***", and walk out.
There are so, so many wonderful British snacks available that people seem to have forgotten about. Homity pie. A creative sausage sarnie. Vinegared prawns. Cheese, bacon and leek scones. Faggots. Cock a Leekie soup. Welsh Rarebit on a thick slice of toast. A Cornish pasty. Glamorgan sausages, - to mention but a few.
But no - we have to have grotty nachos, overcooked halloumi and "wings".
Pathetic, I say, because no-one seems to have any creativity left.
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Yes and aaaargh!
I understand their overheads are high and their margins are low but if I see another menu with nachos, wings or some lump of protein swimming in supersweet BBQ sauce I'll cry.

Theres little middle ground left, it's awful low quality fare you can't eat or it has pretensions of grandeur and a price tag to match.
There are exceptions but they're rare as hen's teeth - and packed I might add.
I'd rather go back to the day where the landlady cooked something and that was what was on offer.
You know - "we've got shepherds pie or shepherds pie, what do you want?" 😂
At least back then the mash potato on the top of the pie was actually mash potato and not some weird aerated concoction designed to microwave easily.
And the only response to that fearsome lady's question "how was it?" regardless of how good or bad it was is "Lovely thankyou" 😆
 
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Off to Bristol to the Cosy Club for a bit of breakfast with my sons and then 'kitchen shopping' with my youngest.

I think that might be painful on the wallet as he has been hankering after a cast iron casserole for a long time and I'm a total soft touch when it comes to anything kitchen related 😬 ..must.. be.. strong..
 
TastyReuben said:
What did that involve?
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They have a special double bed, connected to a computer. You answer various questions (age, male/female, preferred sleep position, if you do anything other than sleep in bed such as read or watch TV (predefined options for those with dirty thoughts), where hurts you the most at night and so on and then you lie on your back whilst it measures you and turn on your side and it repeats. It then tells you which mattresses and what firmness each of you need, giving about 6 options in our case. It also measures neck and shoulder etc and recommends a pillow for each of the mattresses its suggested.

We stuck with the same firmness rating, though hubby was told he needed slightly less support than I do.

The ones it recommended were without doubt the most comfortable if the ones we tried (they were our 3rd bed shop and I had had a bad night last night so was hurting. I reckoned if I could lie on it for 5-10 minutes and not be hurting after last night, it must be pretty comfortable. It comes with a minimum 30 night use, maximum 90 night use policy of free exchange if it isn't working for you.

Not cheap but not desperately expensive, but then the one we can't use wasn't cheap either, the preferred option in ikea wasn't cheap it as comfortable and we're currently on ikea day bed foam mattresses with a topper so it had to be better really.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
The plans for today were to buy a new mattress.

No one ever told me that when I had my hips replaced I'd end up needing a new mattress which was a real pain because we'd only had that one 18 months. But my hip shape changed remarkably and the nice firm mattress we had was suddenly useless. I ended up with pressure sores on my hips. And every time I tried the 18 month old mattress I couldn't even lay an hour on it.

So new mattress time and this time one fitted to us using technology rather than guesswork on our behalf.

We succeeded.

Now we wait for it to be made.
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My wife had a double hip replacement about 25 years old. She replaced our Mattress not long after that. And since again. It was very expensive .

Russ
 
Thinking Panna Cotta today.
Might experiment with making some gluten free cookie dough, hoping for something that cooks from frozen nicely to help Mr SSOAP with the evenings when he keeps asking me if we have anything "sweet" after having eaten everything sweet 😝

Have some steak and some vegetables that will roast nicely so probably that for lunch.
As Sunday is the day of rest I think I'll mostly be doing a lot of that!

edit: Also going to go and find my Easter frippery and review what I have. I love Easter, it's like Christmas but compacted into a short stint and with just the people you love.
I may well beat TastyReuben on the Easter madness as I have some new Easter frippery incoming! 😂
 
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TastyReuben said:
You likely will as all we do is decorate the tree. Easter is one of those holidays where I never know when it is until it’s the day, because they keep changing the day on me!
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Just as a clue, don't wait until April this year otherwise you'll miss it.
 
TastyReuben said:
Easter is one of those holidays where I never know when it is until it’s the day
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Easter is a moveable feast.
Think of it like this:
You go to your local Diner for breakfast, and the waitress says "Hey, hon - we'll be serving you a T-Bone, fries, onion rings and a side salad, in about 9 hours time"
:hyper::hyper::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
Got a click n collect food order in a minute, pick up some flowers then up to Bristol for Mr SSOAPs hospital appointment about his shoulder, hoping they can do something about it as it’s impacting him quite a lot.

Then its cr*ap family admin day (amazing how fast those annoying days of the week come around).
Hopefully I’ll have time to get stuck into the gravy and biscuits recipe too but I’m not holding my breath on that one!
 
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