I am so glad this procedure has been done and is behind me. Unpleasant but not painful until I was driving home full of wind (which they pump you up with) and I felt like the Michelin Man and since I had over an hour's drive was really worried about making it before I exploded! The Dr said that she could see nothing worrying. Phew.
The motte (or where it was) and bailey of Builth castle, long gone.
The girls are on their way home and just stopped to stretch their legs and get coffee. I will be glad when they are back here, and even more glad when Tam is back home in Aber.
I stopped at Oakchurch Farm Shop on the way there. This is what good food costs. The couple in front of me had bought carrots, parsnips, sachets of custard, bread, and a couple of other bits - came to over £43!!! The sausage roll was my lunch, but I chose it on size (smaller) and didn't read what was in it and only had a couple of bites before leaving it. Remember the 100s of ingredients on that other Garage sausage roll last year? Well, I looked at the back of this one, out in the car, and dang me, if there weren't just as many!!!
Perhaps marginally healthier . . . The Cornish pasty is to keep Tam going and the cheese is for Gabby, who is a proper cheese hound.
As I'm reading this at 2:30 in the eastern US, I hope that your 'girls' are both safely where they need to be fore the night.
ReplyDeleteNearly home now. At Abergavenny (35 miles off) when last in touch. I have the curtains partly open so I can see the car lights when they arrive. I shan't rest until Tam is back in her own bed in Aber though, and I am sure Rosie will be so happy to have her mum back.
ReplyDeletegoodness - and you drove yourself there and back? I hate sausage roll disappointment - really, any disappointment in the food and beverages bought while out and about is horrid.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it went well. I am always edgy when anyone in the family is travelling.
ReplyDeleteOh yes. Last year when I had my health scare which prompted this check-up, I had to drive myself there. They didn't even suggest an ambulance!
ReplyDeleteShan't bother with sausage rolls any more! Cheese was given the thumbs up and Tam said the Pasty was good.
Tam is staying the night here, so that's a relief.
Glad it's over and went well!
ReplyDeleteI reckon it's the 10p carrier bag that made the bill big!!! lol
The trouble is, I don't think companies these days can just say "flour" {for example} they have to list all the other "add ins". Which, in turn, has resulted in me Googling said subject and discovering that one needs an ology on the labeling of flour. I found this https://www.gov.uk/guidance/bread-and-flour-labelling-and-composition.
Hope the girls have made it home safely.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Yes they did, and Jon told Tam to stay over here and get a good night's sleep for once.
DeleteI'm glad your safely home and that the procedure went as well as could be hoped for, w good immediate results.
ReplyDeleteYour groceries seem very inexpensive to me, tho I m not sure what some things are.I don't think the extra chemicals would be so harmful once or twice a year, it's not like you eat the sausage every day.
Well, the Granary/Cobber Bloomer was a good loaf of bread. The Heartsease can is a good quality fizzy drink with Elderflowers for flavour. The Wessex Cobbler bread flour is a granary flour (with seeds in and partly wholemeal, malted wheat flakes and malted barley). The Organic Cote and Pecorino were cheese portions. The Apple and Cranberry sausage roll was disgusting! That's why I left it, rather than the ingredients. DO you have sausage rolls in the States? Sausage meat in pastry jacket, basically. A Cornish pasty is small pieces of beef, little squares of potato, onions and sometimes carrot although authentically it is swede added. Very tasty - and originally from Cornwall.
DeleteSo far as I know sausage rolls aren't sold in US, tho there's things like breakfast mufins that are a sausage patty w cheese and egg on a roll [I think]. I don't really eat takeout food tho, so who knows. Your flours and breads are very different too. Sounds lovely.
DeleteI will have to do a post so folk overseas can compare what I get with what is on offer there. I was surprised that the flours might differ that much. I've been following an American lad who travels to England regularly and he has been trying foods/restaurants recommended here, and everything seems to be better over here. Even bread in America is apparently really sweet? When I make a loaf, it has just a teaspoonful of sugar, and you can make it without even that. Boughten ones not sweet either.
DeleteI don’t think bread is sweet here but I’ll look at the label and report back I only use bakery chiabatta at the present. And a potato flour bread As for flour it’s pretty basic white or whole grain or bread flour in my market. Online when baked bread I ordered from King Arthur flour. You can look online. There may be artisan flours. I’ll ask my friend who waits tables at a local bistro and bakery it would be a great post
DeleteLizzy
That is good news, now you can relax at home with everybody safe and you taken off the 'might be dangerous' list. The Michelin affect of you in the car was funny.
ReplyDeleteWe had a nice late evening together, lifting a glass of wine to my late b-in-law's memory. Gosh, I soon saw why they said wear loose clothing!!!
DeleteGood to hear your family are back safe and sound and that your procedure went well.
ReplyDeleteIs the Wessex flour any different from Allinsons?
A cranberry sausage roll just doesn't appeal to me at all and that list of ingredients is even more off putting.
The Wessex flour is one I like to use (being a Wessex gal!). Good quality, and has this Granary variety that I like and can't always get. I have just got an idea for a post from chatting to Lizzy and explaining what some of the things on my shopping list were. I went to this expensive shop to get special cheese for Gabs (they have a wonderful selection) and got edibles for Tam and I whilst there.
DeleteGlad your procedure went okay and the family got back safe
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
Yes, I was very relieved that Tam wasn't driving on to Aber last night. She was tired emotionally too, so it wouldn't have been ideal.
DeleteGlad both your girls are safely home. Also your procedure is done and dusted. I find anything with pastry disappointing these days as it sits so heavily in my tum. We have jacket spuds, cold meat and salad tonight. Take care. Xx
ReplyDeleteI went to the bakery at lunchtime and my lunch was a gorgeous patisserie tart, with huge blackberries, strawberry slices and manderins. YUMMY!!!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about you. Glad it is over. I'm due for more tweaking at the end of the year. Last time was my first so I was reasonably calm pre-op. Now I know what goes on it rather looms over me. I think the worst part is finally being allowed to go to the toilet after several hours on a drip, my old lady bladder bursting and trying to hold on as I wobble to the end of the ward. I might see if I can get the bed next to the toilet, that request should amuse all the perky young nurses.
ReplyDeleteYou have my sympathies, having anything like that done more than once. Gosh yes, a bursting bladder is no fun. I couldn't even stop when I DID spot a roadside toilet yesterday, as I didn't know if I could walk those few paces without exploding!
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased you got a good result, that would be a load off your mind. that product sounds expensive, mind you it's very expensive here too unless you grow it all yourself.
ReplyDeleteYes, bad enough to have the wretched diverticuli, but as long as they behave . . . I gave my girls a little treat because they had represented Danny and I at the funeral of my b-in-law. Wine too. They deserved it.
DeleteI'm so glad to hear that you survived and that the girls got home safely.
ReplyDeleteThe Greggs vegan sausage roll which I get once a week on the way back from visiting Mum is the only sort I eat now. I used to buy the Aldi box of four, but when they went down to two 'jumbo rolls' I think they altered the recipe as well, so no more.
Yes, it is so good to have that behind me. I sometimes grab a Greggs meat sausage roll if I am away early to Tam's and don't have time for breakfast. I quite enjoy their crispy onion/tuna/salad baguettes for a lunch if I'm out too. I'm not a total purist, but try not to have too much HPF stuff.
ReplyDeleteMy chicken and veg curry is cooking nicely - used up a ripe tomato, and some cauliflower/carrot/broccoli/French beans. It will do three meals.