Great celebrations everywhere, but not in our street. I confess, I even forgot to put our flags out... and by the look of things, so did all our neighbours.
We watched snips and snaps of it on television... but for us VE day might have stood for Very Easy Day.
Real Fast Food
Nigel Slaters 'Real Fast Food' is on offer on kindle for 99p... so I downloaded it and had a browse before going to make lunch. This was a 'fast food meal, but don't let Nigel know how I put it together;
Some frozen diced onions fied with some frozen grilled Mediterranean vegetable mixture, to which I added a pouch of Rana Sicilian-style pasta sauce and some cooked chicken picked from a roast. Meanwhile I zapped a pouch of Tilda rice.
Ta-da! A fast lunch. Reasonably 'real' as well; the sauce and rice didn't have any ingredients that I couldn't have found in my cupboard.
After lunch I attempted to deal with some outstanding admin. I think I need to try again tomorrow when I'm a bit more 'with-it'.
Gardening
What happened to last week's weather? It was cold and sunny, or cold and cloudy, and even, very briefly, cold and wet. Not enough rain to save us from watering the garden tomorrow, unless it rains properly during the night.
I nipped out and sowed spring onions at least, so I can put that packet away.
Music
Ronald Binge composed a massive amount of light music. I suppose 'Sailing By', played before the Shipping Forecast, might be one of the most well known.
This is called 'Piccadilly'.
"Sailing by" is perhaps Binge's best known piece, we had to sing "Elizabeth's Serenade" in music lessons at school.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea there were words to Elizabethan Serenade.
DeleteIt is very bouncy music.
ReplyDeleteGood job it is so short! All that trotting and jumping about!
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