Using up

The time has come to once more work our way down the fresh food items in the fridge. We’re off on our hols soon so from now on it’s a case of use up rather than gain any more fresh food or half tins that will go off in our absence.

So it is that the Fox is cooking up some fishcakes today. They will be served with the half tin of sweetcorn in the fridge. Tomorrow is going to be Chicken & Egg Sauté using up various coloured peppers & some eggs. Tuesday is going to be something like chicken pie with plenty of carrots. Then what? I’m not sure. Ultimately I suspect Thursday will turn into a stir fry with any oddments of veg & possibly some prawns for a change.

Our excitement is growing. We’ve now arranged to join my stepbrother & his wife for dinner the night before we fly. As we’re staying overnight in a hotel near Manchester airport that night, & they live not far away, it seems a good idea. This must be quite a record for us. I can’t remember us ever meeting up twice in one year since before the Fox & I got married 38 years ago. We certainly haven’t done so for a very long time.

Though when I think about it I suppose we did meet up that often at the time of my brother’s death &, for that matter, my father’s death. Both were living in Manchester at the time of their demise. Like any family we inevitably we all met over funeral arrangements.

One nice thing did happen last night. We had just finished our dinner when the doorbell rang. It was the clock repairer back with our kitchen clock. It is so reassuring to hear its distinctive tick once more. It is positively gleaming after its clean-up. Well worth the cost of doing it. Now our lounge clock has gone off for its service. We look at the wooden casing with its dark empty face & shudder a bit. It will take longer to be done than the kitchen clock so we’re glad to think most of that time we’ll be away. Hopefully it will be ready for us when we get back.