Hors d’oeuvres
Tref
Beef curry (can you make it hotter than usual)
fried rice
Webs
Chicken with cashew nuts
Boiled rice
Tadcu
Peking king prawn
November 28, 2020
November 1, 2020
alphabetically speaking
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k kay
l el elle
m em
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p pea pee
q cue queue
r arr are
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October 30, 2020
The lost wallet is the story of Tref
One Friday morning in Autumn. I couldn’t find my wallet. Or my facemask/buff. Then I remembered where I left it. Now it is found. The story of Tref.
October 26, 2020
October 24, 2020
leaf surrounds shed
Sat in a leaf surrounded shed. You will rightly be thinking that surrounding a shed with a leaf sounds implausible and you would of course be right. We are talking more than one leaf here. Leaves. Thousands of the buggers. The cedar shed blends nicely with the leaves. It was meant to be.
October 23, 2020
October 22, 2020
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January 19, 2020
random shopping list
Idea – random shopping list button. You have your usual list stored with the relevant shop but also a random button that selects something you don’t find out about until the shopping is delivered.
January 12, 2020
December 31, 2019
The tea is mine
The tea is mine. There is no room for unfounded spurious claims of ownership. Time darkens, purposeful brew. The fire flickers, roars, shouting at the hand that feeds. My attention is grabbed, enlightened. Background noises comfort. There is peace.
Shopping lists 2020
31st dec
Oil
Milk
Peas
Mar ma lade
More bread?
Bargs
Maybs a few breakfastey items
Castor sugar (for welsh cakes)
24th dec
Birthday cake
Milk
Spray on carpet cleaner
Icing sugar
Croissants
Bread
Hannah starter xmas day
1 bag ice
Every day mature cheddar
Lettuce (check fridge)
honey
Vegetable spring rolls with mint leaves and sweet chilli dipping sauce
15th dec
Bread
2 x packs butter (to make shortbread biscuits)
Flowers for iris (£5 max)
Frute
Frozen peas
1 fresh green veg (eg beans or broccoli)
Milk
Potatoes for chips
espresso
Xmas mkt party (partial)
Diet lemonade 2 bots
Pink wine
Coke x 2
Diet coke x 2
Diet tonic x 4
Summat vegetarean
6th oct
Cranberry juice (or raspberry juice or both)
Shampoo
Butter
Lunch stuff for tref
17th sept
Peas
Onions
Spuds for frites
Anything I see that will go with white fish
14the sept
Oj
Bread rolls
Bbq meeet
Milk
Onions
HP
Smoked paprika
coriander
Petrol for mower
Tomatoes
Avocado
5th sept
Bread
Ad blue
Diesel
Coffee for Anne
Anything else I fancy
Anne toothbrush
1st September
Bread
Fresh pasta
CIF cleaning stuff
Normal sized bin bags
Ham
Fresh basil
21st August
Bread
Oj
17th Aug – Keralan vegetable istoo
Baby new pots
Broccoli
Carrots
Green beans
Cloves
Cinnamon stick
Black peppercorns
Fresh curry leaves
Onion
Ginger
Garlic
Green finger chillies
Tin coconut milk
Ground turmeric
peas
Mango paneer skewers
Chickpea flour
Hard paneer
Ginger
Garlic
Chilli powder
Mango chutney?
Turmeric
Tomato puree
Fresh coriander
Tamarind and caramelized red onion rice
Basmati rice
Sesame seeds
Curry leaves
Red onions
Cumin seeds
Tamarind paste
chilli powder
7th Aug
Pick up fosters meat
Brown bread
Yogs
Multi packs crisps
Apples
Butter
Chicken pieces
sensodyne
Castlegate order 4th aug
4 popadoms
Ctm
2 x Plain naan
Pilau rice
Lamb dopiaza
Festival run
Kettle
Ice bricks
Gas
Cheap oj & aj
Bacon
Sliced bread – 5 loaves at least
spreads
19th july
Brown rice
Double cream
Cucumber
Butter x2
Joint for Sunday
Frozen peas
Clothes washing tablets
Orange juice & any other breakfast items NOT beans or sausages
Bread
Toe may toes
selsun
6th July
Baking powder
15th june
Apple juice
Carrots
Frozen peas
Cheese
Vino
13th june
Marmalade
Mushrooms
Bacon medallions
Ham
Veg
30th may
Baked beans
Tomatoes
Tin plum toms
Jack Daniels bbq marinade
1 pint Milk
Tonights tea for tref – lamb neck fillet
Asparagus
Jersey royals
Bacon medallions
Mushrooms
Frute – strawbs and nectarines
Something else
Sat 25th may
Berries
Bacon medallions
Mushrooms
Small spuds
Peppers
Grean beens
Small wholemeal
Natch yog
Big bags compost
Bananas
Tuesday 23rd – waitrose
Bread
Milk
Green beans
Baycon
Any bargs but not pork cos we already have a load
Good Friday 2019
Boneless shoulder or leg of lamb
New potatoes
Tonight’s tea
Salmon or simlar
Bbq stuff
Sat
More of same
Chicken
Low fat mayo
Thursday 18th April
Cheese
Mixed veg
Gas cylinder refills
Dust pan and brush
Ham
Stuff
Voltarol gel
Find out Tesco Easter opening hours
Sat 13th April
Peas
Carrots
Coriander
Garlic
Tins Tom’s
Tuesday 26th March
Smoked paprika
Tomayto ketchup
Bread
Ham
Cheese
Stuff for pylons at the weekend
Fruit (peaches?)
snack a jacks Salt n vinegar rice cakes
Coleslaw
Thursday 21st March
Bananas
Blueberries
Mushrooms
Meat
Chicken
Diesel
Cottage fromage
Boxes
Shopping list sunday 17th march 2019
Compost
Wickes Pine Parting Bead Moulding – 20mm X 8mm X 2.4m
Passport photo
Small screw lightbulb
Cleat hook
Shopping list wednesday 13th march 2019
Frozen peas
Tandoori powder
Cumin powder
Ham
December 16, 2019
the 3 guitars
In this room there are three guitars. One of them, my Takamine, stands proudly and comfortably on a guitar stand. It was a 40th birthday present from my sisters and is loved. One of them has a broken tuning key and is little used. I bought this guitar in Cadiz whilst on holiday. I keep meaning to fix it as it is a useful enough Spanish guitar and complements the steel string Takamine. It will probably need new strings as does the Takamine, so I’m told. The third guitar is of unknown provenance and has in fact just been noticed. What is its story? Tucked away in the corner behind some other instruments. From the perspective of the sofa it doesn’t look full sized. Perhaps I should dispose of it. I will take advice when everyone is home for the Christmas holiday.
November 30, 2019
the clock that ticks
It’s 4.30am. Downstairs in the front room I hear a clock ticking. I did not know we had such a mechanical device. There must be a battery involved as clock winding does not form part of our daily routine. The clock has been identified. This must be a device new to the house or why have I never noticed it before? We have no real need for this timepiece. There is always a computer of some sort near to hand with a highly accurate representation of the time. There must be a decorative element to the horological deployment, an aspect upon which I feel largely unqualified to comment. The responsibility of a different department. At this time of day the ticking, soft and barely audible though it may be, represents an unnecessary intrusion competing with the sound of passing cars outside.
The allegorical nature of the ticking clock is also unwanted at this time.
The sound of the traffic reminds me that we live in an urban environment. With the curtains drawn it should be possible to imagine I am sat in a remote cottage. Outside it is pitch black and devoid of sound other than the wind and rain beating on the window pane. All sensible life forms have their own curtains drawn to the outside world. Heads down. This is not the case where I am sat.
November 5, 2019
leaves me alone
Leaves leave my lawn alone
Grass killer compost fodder
Unwanted dead wind drift
Shrivelleduglybrown