Slept til after 10, as it was a long weekend and I didn't get to bed til 3am.
I rang Cycle Heaven about the Weber trailer hitch I asked them to get for me, and the chap said there was nothing on my records about asking them to order a trailer hitch. He said it would be available in a couple of weeks... I protested, and he said he'd speak to the boss and see if things could be sped up. Later, I got a message on the answerphone to ring them... and apparently they DO have one in stock, and will fit it tomorrow! Brilliant, but a bit of a heart-stopping moment to think my trailer wouldn't be usable for a fortnight!
I did quite a bit of washing up, and wood stacking, and some composting, and later in the afternoon, because Gill was out, I made a nice tea. Boiled spuds on one woodstove, fried leeks and onions on the other one. Put the nearly cooked spuds into the leek/onion with the remains of the tomato soup stuff I made a few days back and has been in the fridge. This I cooked up with some Marmite water (cleaned out an old jar with hot water) and whilst that was cooking on the stove top, I made a breadcrumb/pumpkin seed/walnut/goats cheese crumble topping, which I put on top and put more grated goats cheese on top.. and 20 minutes in the oven to crisp off the top. This was ready just as Gill came in with our eldest, and it all went, and was appreciated.
In the evening I cycled round to Edward's for a York in Transition Directors' meeting. Good to see Barry and Colin too, it was a productive meeting.
Home to jarring up pears and turning out the pear leather, halving, coring and peeling more pears for drying, and answering composting and wormery queries on facebook.
I rang Cycle Heaven about the Weber trailer hitch I asked them to get for me, and the chap said there was nothing on my records about asking them to order a trailer hitch. He said it would be available in a couple of weeks... I protested, and he said he'd speak to the boss and see if things could be sped up. Later, I got a message on the answerphone to ring them... and apparently they DO have one in stock, and will fit it tomorrow! Brilliant, but a bit of a heart-stopping moment to think my trailer wouldn't be usable for a fortnight!
I did quite a bit of washing up, and wood stacking, and some composting, and later in the afternoon, because Gill was out, I made a nice tea. Boiled spuds on one woodstove, fried leeks and onions on the other one. Put the nearly cooked spuds into the leek/onion with the remains of the tomato soup stuff I made a few days back and has been in the fridge. This I cooked up with some Marmite water (cleaned out an old jar with hot water) and whilst that was cooking on the stove top, I made a breadcrumb/pumpkin seed/walnut/goats cheese crumble topping, which I put on top and put more grated goats cheese on top.. and 20 minutes in the oven to crisp off the top. This was ready just as Gill came in with our eldest, and it all went, and was appreciated.
In the evening I cycled round to Edward's for a York in Transition Directors' meeting. Good to see Barry and Colin too, it was a productive meeting.
Home to jarring up pears and turning out the pear leather, halving, coring and peeling more pears for drying, and answering composting and wormery queries on facebook.
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