Saturday 4 July - wow half the year gone!
Although there's been a gradual relaxing of the lockdown rules over the past couple of weeks it seems from the media both official and social that today marks the most changes and the country is almost unlocked but still with certain rules and restrictions! Although after relaxing a little Leicester was declared at risk and locked up tight again with the PM holding it up as a warning.
I may have to rename these posts again as there's no more mass isolation. I thought about "I'm still shielding" but I then feel the need to belt out the song Elton John style hahaha.
There was this.....
Sunday 5pm we were asked to clap for the NHS 72nd Anniversary, but it wasn't really advertised like it had been before and only a few of the neighbours joined us, but we could hear the bagpipes a few streets away.
Rolls for tonight's burgers and the loaf is rye. House smells amazing...... but I can't get the bloody things out of the tins ggrrrrrr
Monday's coffee morning started 10:30am as usual but finished early when we felt the first drops of rain, turned out to be more of a threat than a soaking but we'd said our goodbyes by then. Wednesday's neighbour's exercise session didn't even get started as it was raining and that's how it's been all week. Hubby gets the figits if he's stuck inside and has made a start cleaning windows inside and all the open frameworks.
And a slight delay posting this today (no I hadn't forgotten again) due to lovely visitors arriving this morning to sit in the garden drinking tea with, neither sibling knowing the other was coming, and Daughter brought pineapple upside down cake yummy!
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It looks warmer where you are than here. M is outside making huge holes in the kitchen windowsill, removing all the 2part filler he put in years ago ready for the resin compound instead. I toyed with walking into town to seek cake (yum to pineapple upside down cake!) but C is calling a friend this pm and I didn't fancy walking on my own.
Only a bit chilly when it clouds over today.
Maybe C will bake you a cake 😉
No oven at the moment. All baking is paused until it is turned back on in the autumn!
No oven does not mean no cake! If you have a slow cooker, pressure cooker, microwave, sandwich toaster or just a large pan on the hob you can make cake!
Nope, nope, nope, nope and YES! Of those we can do the large pan on the hob. Will investigate pan cakes as opposed to pancakes :-).
When you get a craving there will always be a way 😉
Having investigated it seems awfully complicated including sealing the inner pan or tin tightly to prevent moisture getting in and topping up the water every 15minutes so it does not boil dry. M killed one of our pans a couple of weeks ago by steaming some vegetables but not realising he had not put any water in the pan. He only realised when there was a dull thump sound which transpired to be the base of the pan separating from the main part. Irrepairable! So I'm not ruling out making cake on the hob but I'm not the most attentive person when cooking. Too easily distracted.
https://youtu.be/Lx8U9jCPvZo
This should be a link to dry pot cake. Steamed cake sounds wrong anyway. But if you've only got good pans then maybe you'll have to do without home made and have a trip to the shop.
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