It looks very much as if the Big Thaw has begun. Now we can expect flooding as the snow melts. It's clear, from watching the television news this morning, that there are some areas of the country which have had far worse conditions than in the immediate Milton Keynes area. I went to Waitrose this morning and it was heaving. It seems people were shopping in there in sort of siege mentality. You could hardly move. The carpark was full and I found a space which was some distance from the store.
For some unfathomable reason I couldn't find jam, Carol wanted hot cross buns. For no particular reason. With butter. I would want them with jam on. Possibly raspberry. Whoever had the idea that they'd move the jam section? I hunted high and low. Had been on the further wall near the bakery department. I find it eventually. This seems the same in other supermarkets. You get used to the layout, where everything is, then they decide, just because Christmas or Easter is coming, they need more space for easter eggs or fluffy bunnies, so out goes the usual stuff, in comes the seasonal stuff, so whatever it was you were searching for is moved to a dark and secluded spot.
A near disaster with the electric cooker, just after I write a post headed 'When kitchen gadgets go bad.' We are having roast chicken for Sunday dinner. It went in the oven at around 2 o'clock, so by 3.50 approximately I decide to check it's cooked properly. As I open the door and use the oven gloves to take hold of the Pyrex casserole it's in, the shelf in the oven decides to come adrift from the wire arrangement in the inner wall of the oven and the whole lot slides sideways, almost tipping the whole lot onto the kitchen floor. I managed to lift the chicken and casserole out of the hot oven and deposit the whole lot on the hob. It would appear the wire assembly which has slots in to take the shelf has come away from the inside of the oven. It will need to be re-slotted into the oven wall once the oven is cool enough. We haven't encountered this problem before, but it will need to be reassembled before we can again use the oven.
Later. Looking out into the garden, half the grass is now exposed. The thaw is happening at quite a fast rate. Alfie goes out and seems surprised by the fact that he can walk on grass. He went out when there was snow and he almost disappeared into it. I'm so glad we have a bird feeder because we seem to be getting a lot of different birds visiting it.
For some unfathomable reason I couldn't find jam, Carol wanted hot cross buns. For no particular reason. With butter. I would want them with jam on. Possibly raspberry. Whoever had the idea that they'd move the jam section? I hunted high and low. Had been on the further wall near the bakery department. I find it eventually. This seems the same in other supermarkets. You get used to the layout, where everything is, then they decide, just because Christmas or Easter is coming, they need more space for easter eggs or fluffy bunnies, so out goes the usual stuff, in comes the seasonal stuff, so whatever it was you were searching for is moved to a dark and secluded spot.
A near disaster with the electric cooker, just after I write a post headed 'When kitchen gadgets go bad.' We are having roast chicken for Sunday dinner. It went in the oven at around 2 o'clock, so by 3.50 approximately I decide to check it's cooked properly. As I open the door and use the oven gloves to take hold of the Pyrex casserole it's in, the shelf in the oven decides to come adrift from the wire arrangement in the inner wall of the oven and the whole lot slides sideways, almost tipping the whole lot onto the kitchen floor. I managed to lift the chicken and casserole out of the hot oven and deposit the whole lot on the hob. It would appear the wire assembly which has slots in to take the shelf has come away from the inside of the oven. It will need to be re-slotted into the oven wall once the oven is cool enough. We haven't encountered this problem before, but it will need to be reassembled before we can again use the oven.
Later. Looking out into the garden, half the grass is now exposed. The thaw is happening at quite a fast rate. Alfie goes out and seems surprised by the fact that he can walk on grass. He went out when there was snow and he almost disappeared into it. I'm so glad we have a bird feeder because we seem to be getting a lot of different birds visiting it.
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