{"id":2868,"date":"2021-08-09T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:59:26","slug":"monday-9th-august-2021-day-511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/09\/monday-9th-august-2021-day-511\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 9th August, 2021 [Day 511]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the start of another week and at least some of our friends should be returning from their holidays. After we collected\u00a0our newspapers, we made a quick call into Waitrose<\/em> because we had run out of one or two things that I forgotten to specify in the last\u00a0<\/span>order. As always, the staff in the store were delighted to see us (and us them) and we managed to tell a joke to brighten up their lives a little. \u00a0When we got\u00a0outside, we encountered one of the Waitrose<\/em>\u00a0regulars we used to see\u00a0regularly once or twice a week but we have hardly seen her at all in the last year (with the COVID-19 restrictions in place). \u00a0We now know that she often goes along to the cafe on a Saturday morning so we can visit and coincide a bit more frequently from now on. Once we got to the\u00a0park, we\u00a0bumped\u00a0into \u00a0one of the park regulars and we exchanged news and pleasantries. The weather forecast today indicated that we might have heavy showers in the morning but they would moderate in the afternoon. Asa it turned out, \u00a0the morning was a quite fine although a trifle humid – as Meg and I had put on anoraks in case we had a violent shower, we were feeling a little over-dressed considering the weather.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the afternoon, I decided to take the car and go for a mini-shopping trip to Asda<\/em>. I started off with a little list of about nine items and they are all things that I can only get in Asda<\/em> and\u00a0nowhere else. The first few items on the list I managed to get very easily but the last item \u00a0took as long to hunt for as all of the rest. In the past, I had bought an excellent LED torch from Asda<\/em> which I use constantly (I use it if I need to get up in the middle of the night but I don’t to wake Meg, or myself, up too much with a bright light). Needless to say, it wasn’t<\/span>\u00a0stocked any more and Asda<\/em> had reorganised the section from which I last bought it so I drew a blank. On the other hand, I did find one or two very useful things including a miniature (and cheap) sort of wastepaper basket which I am going to use in Mog’s Den<\/em> to store\u00a0things that will clean up my tools such as an old washing up brush, some\u00a0volatile oil (think WD-40) which I can use to clean off the tools before they get stored. Evidently, this needs a lid to prevent the\u00a0Ingress of rain but I have liberated a plantpot ‘saucer’ \u00a0which complete with a handy brick will serve the purpose of a lid. I also bought some extra bits and pieces from Asda I did not realise I needed until I happened to see them so, all in all, it was quite a\u00a0worthwhile little trip.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One thing I am trying to do for a variety of reasons is to try and increase the amount of fibre in my diet whilst also incorporating\u00a0some protein. One of the\u00a0best sources of fibre plus protein are beans and I seem to remember, years ago, I used to\u00a0particularly\u00a0enjoy little tins of Heinz curried baked beans. As I remember them \u00a0they were a combination of beans, some sultanas and a subtle, i.e. not overpowering, curry sauce. When I hunted around in Asda<\/em>, these did not seem to be in stock (or even\u00a0manufactured any more) soI am going to try and recreate the same.\u00a0Whilst in Asda<\/em> I bought a tin of mixed beans as well as a jar of\u00a0Chinese curried sauce and I already have some sultanas in stock. So tomorrow breakfast time will be an experiment. Incidentally, buying half-size tins of food is\u00a0always what I call ‘sad’ food. This is is because when I was commuting between Leicester and Winchester, staying in lodgings in\u00a0Winchester during the week\u00a0and\u00a0coming home for the weekends, I needed to go shopping to buy ‘meals for one’ which is generally a\u00a0half-size tin. You could tell the males who were in a similar\u00a0plight\u00a0because at about 5.30 on a Monday morning, you would see a succession of cars with shirts hanging up in the back of the car and evidently a lot of people on the road at that time were on a similar commuting\u00a0experience to myself (Annie Nightingale on Radio 2 produced the most\u00a0empathetic\u00a0radio broadcasts as well just for this group although I am not a regular Radio 2 listener). In the late afternoon, I finally\u00a0completed the\u00a0renovation of my spade involving a\u00a0radical de-rusting. Now that I have got it into good condition and protected\u00a0by a\u00a0volatile\u00a0oil, I am\u00a0tempted not to store it outside again where it\u00a0acquire new patinas of rust.So now I have got my Mog’s Den garden too;s on gapped condition, I really do intend to keep them that way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the start of another week and at least some of our friends should be returning from their holidays. After we collected\u00a0our newspapers, we made a quick call into Waitrose because we had run out of one or two things that I forgotten to specify in the last\u00a0order. As always, the staff in the store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}