AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR! Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!<\/p>\n
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Got out and about this week. We hired a car for the day and went shopping. First of all we went to Frosts, a garden centre in Milton Keynes. Some of the shelves were cleared and getting filled with Xmas decorations. IT’S BLOODY SEPTEMBER!!!<\/p>\n
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There’s another garden centre just a few hundred yards down the road from there, Wyvale. They were doing the same bloody thing!<\/p>\n
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Anyway, we wanted to look around as we’ve got ourselves a council allotment (strip of land on council property we can use for growing plants\/flowers\/fruit and veg on). It only cost us about \u00a317.50 for the year. All we had to do was make a \u00a32.50 deposit for keys to get onto the site. It’s a BIG plot of land. I’ll provide a pic later on.<\/p>\n
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There’s quite a bit of weed on the plot and it’s over grown, so we’re trying to weed it without having to deturf the soil. Em says the soil is rock hard, and not of the best quality, so I’m not sure how we’re going to go growing on it.<\/p>\n
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We went to Morrison’s supermarket after the garden centre trips. AGAIN more Xmas stuff on the shelf already! Found a lovely cooking magazine there with some lovely recipes. Last night I had a chicken noodle stir-fry. Skinless, boneless chicken thighs mixed with red bell pepper, onion, garlic, chili, beansprouts, straight-to-wok noodles and oyster sauce. It was really yummy, and hot. I was careful only to use the chili flesh and NOT the seeds though, so it was manageable.<\/p>\n
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There some more fab recipes for us to try in it that can easily be adapted to vegetarian dishes.<\/p>\n
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Got some DVDs to watch. A BBC drama series called State of Play, with Blackpool star (and soon-to-be Doctor Who Xmas special star) David Morrissey, previous DW Xmas special star (and Life on Mars star) John Simm and Bill Nighy, among other luminaries. It was a highly acclaimed series, so I’m hoping it’ll be good.<\/p>\n
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Got the first series of Nighty Night to watch too. It was SO dark! I sort of missed it when it first went out and would catch bits of it here and there, but would like to see the whole thing proper.<\/p>\n
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The other disc is the movie Music and Lyrics with Hugh Grant and my mate Drew (Barrymore). Just fancied seeing it.<\/p>\n
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I’m SO peed off with the DVD rental place. Just when I got half-way through getting Medium series 2 from the friend of a friend of a friend, they get series 2 on DVD!!! I’ve added it to my rental queue though, as the “friends” copies are not the best.<\/p>\n
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Watched Ugly Betty last night. SSSOOOO loving that Betty’s back! Oh, and Mock The Week was on too, with Frankie Boyle being his usual dark self!<\/p>\n
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Sorry, this one’s a bit of a random post.<\/p>\n
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Bye…<\/p>\n
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AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR! Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Got out and about this week. We hired a car for the day and went shopping. First of all we went to Frosts, a garden centre in Milton Keynes. Some of the shelves were cleared and getting filled with Xmas decorations. IT’S BLOODY SEPTEMBER!!! There’s … <\/p>\n