Saturday 25th January - the book model is finished

 It looks brilliant! We made room for it;

And it is lovely when it is lit up;

There are two cats, and a little bird, and all kinds of little details. Worth zooming in. BB complained about how fiddly it was, with many pieces needing to be painted white on all the edges before being glued in place. I thought he'd say 'never again' when he had finished it, but no, I think we'll be looking out for another one!

At lunch time, 'now me' was very grateful that 'yesterday me' had made today's lunch already; an old favourite, 'sausage supper'. I started making this about 20 years ago, as an economical way of feeding 4 adults with a packet of 6 sausages. 

You just fill up a roasting dish with a large selection of vegetables and stir in a tin of chopped tomatoes plus a tin of stock. Then cut the sausages into quarters if you can't be bothered to skin them and make 4 meatballs from each sausage (I like them it either way) and spread them out on top. Cook for about 45 mins at 180 ish. 

I added in the potatoes too this time. Because there are only two of us, I reheated half today; the other half has gone in the freezer. It meant it was an easy-peasy all-in-one meal. 

Cook once, eat twice.

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Yesterday's 'meditation' was very appropriate; we are travelling from birth - Christmas - to death - Good Friday. And also I've been choosing the music for my father’s cremation ceremony. 

The planting and harvesting idea has also been timely, thinking about the garden... because life goes on, it doesn't stop.

Granny Marigold commented yesterday she prefersxa more modern version.  So here it is in 'The Message' 

Today's meditation was verse 3; I was thinking of the Israeli-Gaza and Ukraine- Russia tragedies, and praying for resolution and peace. Tomorrow I shall focus on verse 4. Where will that lead me  I wonder?