Unavailable; carton of Yeo wholemilk (again?) and a white sour dough leaf (again?)
Unexpected tender stem broccoli; every so often one of us doesn't check the picture and description carefully enough;
and we end up with a surprisingly small packet! We could have returned it to the driver, but we weren't at our most brilliant.
Early Alarm
We have a regular early delivery between 7am and 8am which is usually fine.
But this morning we were woken at 5.15am by the alarm on the oxygen nachine in the bedroom. Just one plaintive beep, enough to make us open our eyes. The machine cut out, and restarted... we were both slowly energing from the depths of sleep when it did it again... we sat up and looked at each other... and a third time. It clearly wanted some attention! Luckily we have alternative methods for supplying me with oxygen so we switched the machine off and I used a portable concentrator to get up and dressed and downstairs.
We called the support number, went through the actions ad requested by the person on the help desk, and everything went back to normal.
We have a mains powered concentrator which we bought years ago for going on holiday, and it is all plugged in and ready for action should things not go smoothly tonight.
Early to bed tonight!
Cooking
This is a pan of tomato and vegetable and bacon sauce for pasta which I made properly, that is, chopping up a fresh onion and a fresh red pepper to go in with some bacon lardons and cook together, before adding chopped tomatoes, a mushroom stock cube (a daring new experiment!), herbs, lemon, tomato pureé and a teaspoon of sugar. It will be going in the freezer.
The pan is new; I ordered it for cooking bubble and squeak and other things. It's a decent non-stick pan, and the food sizzles and browns with just a tiny bit of oil or butter and slides right out onto my plate without sticking. Wonderful! I've only had it a couple of days and I love it.
Music
Almost everyone who gets to about grade 4 or 5 piano learns Für Elise and then goes on to play Solfegetio by C P E Bach, one of The Bach's many talented musician sons. Here it is a sweet little harpsichord, the instrument it was composed for
And here's what happens when a jazz piano trio gets hold of it! They are having such fun!
I remember the Jacques Loussier jazz trio playing Bach way back in the - could it be the 1960s?
That was a jolting start to the day, not one to be repeated too often. It's all too easy to overlook weights on packets. We live near one of the two main Waitrose distributors and don't often have unavailable items, fortunately.
I'm glad nothing serious resulted from the mechanical blip. I remember learning Fur Elise and Solefeggieto as a child. I still play them from time to time although I've not played enough lately to really do them justice.
I still love playing solfeggieto. Fur elise - I'll teach it but not play it myself. Like traumerei and that chopin prelude in a major... glad I'm a grownup (?) and don't have to play them anymore!
That was a jolting start to the day, not one to be repeated too often.
ReplyDeleteIt's all too easy to overlook weights on packets. We live near one of the two main Waitrose distributors and don't often have unavailable items, fortunately.
Somehow the Waitrose white sourdough loaves and cartons of whole milk never seem to make it as far as Sussex - at least not on the on-line deliveries!
DeleteI'm glad nothing serious resulted from the mechanical blip. I remember learning Fur Elise and Solefeggieto as a child. I still play them from time to time although I've not played enough lately to really do them justice.
ReplyDeleteI still love playing solfeggieto. Fur elise - I'll teach it but not play it myself. Like traumerei and that chopin prelude in a major... glad I'm a grownup (?) and don't have to play them anymore!
DeleteYou are obviously highly organised re the oxygen, so sensible to have one on standby. I did enjoy the Jazz piano group!
ReplyDeleteThey were a lively group!
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