Whats on the menu for dinner these days??

[horrie hastings]

Just having guacamole, pickled onions and also pickled onion cheese, pepperoni and caperberries and a nice bellini. for starters.

[Crab]

Home made would be exceptional but I just use the Cobram estate one from woolies . It's the bees knee's :-)

[horrie hastings]

Home made would be exceptional but I just use the Cobram estate one from woolies . It's the bees knee's :-)

Robinvale Estate make one also, i have a Robinvale Lemom and verjuice dressing at home which i use to marinate octopus when i have cooked it.
Only made one pizza tonight because we had plenty of nibbles before hand, put the pepperoni on it with zucchini and roasted capsicum, it was bloody good.

[mightyrooster]

Where are you going?

Hi Jack. Currently in Scotland. I managed to get away on my UK trip. After a few weeks of ‘practice’ at home I worked out strategies on how to manage my latest medical issue so took the gamble and went ahead with our trip. After a few days of touristing my PF (completely different issue) is playing up like crazy, but I’m doing my best to ignore it and focus on the fantastic things we’re seeing and doing. By the end of the day my feet are making me feel like an 80 year old with arthritis though lol. But to keep on topic, not much cooking going on at the moment. We did buy some microwaveable meals from Tesco tonight.

[horrie hastings]

Hi Jack. Currently in Scotland. I managed to get away on my UK trip. After a few weeks of ‘practice’ at home I worked out strategies on how to manage my latest medical issue so took the gamble and went ahead with our trip. After a few days of touristing my PF (completely different issue) is playing up like crazy, but I’m doing my best to ignore it and focus on the fantastic things we’re seeing and doing. By the end of the day my feet are making me feel like an 80 year old with arthritis though lol. But to keep on topic, not much cooking going on at the moment. We did buy some microwaveable meals from Tesco tonight.

How was the flight over MR ? Sorry to hear your PF is playing up, hope you can soldier on as you are in a beautiful part of the world at the moment., i just checked our schedule and would have been in Capri at the moment
And to keep it on topic, have you seen any deep fried mars bars yet on any menu ?

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Hi Jack. Currently in Scotland. I managed to get away on my UK trip. After a few weeks of ‘practice’ at home I worked out strategies on how to manage my latest medical issue so took the gamble and went ahead with our trip. After a few days of touristing my PF (completely different issue) is playing up like crazy, but I’m doing my best to ignore it and focus on the fantastic things we’re seeing and doing. By the end of the day my feet are making me feel like an 80 year old with arthritis though lol. But to keep on topic, not much cooking going on at the moment. We did buy some microwaveable meals from Tesco tonight.

Great to hear you made the trip MR, hope the positive experiences outweigh the health issues.

Love Scotland. Visited in 2018 and keen to go again. Land of lochs and Glen's and lush greenery plus the world's greatest drink, and not to mention the bonnie wee lassies.

Enjoy and safe travels!

[Andrew Walker]

Hi Jack. Currently in Scotland. I managed to get away on my UK trip. After a few weeks of ‘practice’ at home I worked out strategies on how to manage my latest medical issue so took the gamble and went ahead with our trip. After a few days of touristing my PF (completely different issue) is playing up like crazy, but I’m doing my best to ignore it and focus on the fantastic things we’re seeing and doing. By the end of the day my feet are making me feel like an 80 year old with arthritis though lol. But to keep on topic, not much cooking going on at the moment. We did buy some microwaveable meals from Tesco tonight.

OH MR !!!!! I’m so pleased to hear this

[rented tracksuit]

Hi Jack. Currently in Scotland. I managed to get away on my UK trip. After a few weeks of ‘practice’ at home I worked out strategies on how to manage my latest medical issue so took the gamble and went ahead with our trip. After a few days of touristing my PF (completely different issue) is playing up like crazy, but I’m doing my best to ignore it and focus on the fantastic things we’re seeing and doing. By the end of the day my feet are making me feel like an 80 year old with arthritis though lol. But to keep on topic, not much cooking going on at the moment. We did buy some microwaveable meals from Tesco tonight.

Tesco do some great pre made meals.

[ism22]

I did a BBQ including a rack of lamb, some lamb koftas, bbq broccolini and a basic salad. The rack of lamb was better than I was expecting...

[mightyrooster]

How was the flight over MR ? Sorry to hear your PF is playing up, hope you can soldier on as you are in a beautiful part of the world at the moment., i just checked our schedule and would have been in Capri at the moment
And to keep it on topic, have you seen any deep fried mars bars yet on any menu ?

Singapore Airlines are fantastic. I couldn’t fault their service, but the second leg from Singapore to London seemed to go on forever. I don’t think I slept at all but if I did it would be no more than dropping off for 15 mins or so here and there. I was so relieved when it was over lol. It’s such a shame you can’t be enjoying your trip too. I really wish you could. Haven’t seen deep fried mars bar yet thank god. We’re in the Highlands at the moment and a cold change has come in and it’s supposed to be 10-11 degrees for the next 4 days and lots of rain! I had fish & chips for dinner tonight but didn’t touch the mushy peas as I hate peas and the thought of eating them puréed does not appeal at all. We’re having fun looking at all the different chocolate bars and snacks at the supermarkets here though.

[mightyrooster]

Great to hear you made the trip MR, hope the positive experiences outweigh the health issues.

Love Scotland. Visited in 2018 and keen to go again. Land of lochs and Glen's and lush greenery plus the world's greatest drink, and not to mention the bonnie wee lassies.

Enjoy and safe travels!

Thanks Jack. Yep saw some of that great landscape today as we travelled further west into the highlands. Just spectacular. Got to love that accent too.

[mightyrooster]

OH MR !!!!! I’m so pleased to hear this

Thanks Andy!

[mightyrooster]

Tesco do some great pre made meals.

Got the lunch meal deal for the trip today. Good value with a sandwich or sub plus a snack and drink all for £4.

[horrie hastings]

Singapore Airlines are fantastic. I couldn’t fault their service, but the second leg from Singapore to London seemed to go on forever. I don’t think I slept at all but if I did it would be no more than dropping off for 15 mins or so here and there. I was so relieved when it was over lol. It’s such a shame you can’t be enjoying your trip too. I really wish you could. Haven’t seen deep fried mars bar yet thank god. We’re in the Highlands at the moment and a cold change has come in and it’s supposed to be 10-11 degrees for the next 4 days and lots of rain! I had fish & chips for dinner tonight but didn’t touch the mushy peas as I hate peas and the thought of eating them puréed does not appeal at all. We’re having fun looking at all the different chocolate bars and snacks at the supermarkets here though.

The first leg of the trip to the Asian stop over is always the quickest and you think oh good we are almost there but then you realise you are only roughly a third of the way through the flight. I think the thing i was most looking forward to on our cancelled trip was the Scotland leg as i have not been since 1993, friends yesterday sent us photos as they were boarding the Hogswart Express , will get to Scotland again but not planning anything at the moment.

Sounds like some places still have the good deals on, when we were in London in 2000 one of the local chemist chains had similar deals of a sandwich or wrap with water and a snack or a piece of fruit which was great value when the Australian dollar was worth about 48-50 pence, another thing we did was a couple of times load up at the Pizza Hut all you can eat buffet which worked out good value back then and was filling.
The trip in 2011 the exchange rate was much better and you could pick up a great pub feed for about the same price at home, usually landing around $14 Aus dollars, sometimes a bit less but rarely even hitting the $20 mark, love the lunches the British pub provide. Of course the exchange rate is back in the toilet again so not sure how prices would stack up today. Oh dear about the peas, i love peas and also like the mushy version, just wish some of the fish shops would do it here more, seems to happen here more with pie dinners.

Enjoy the rest of the trip and i hope the weather fines up for you but it seems like you are getting typical Scottish weather while you are there.

[bondi.boy]

Thin sausage in a slice of bread x 2.

Pensioners are going backwards today.
Make sure y'all take a whole lot of money with you into retirement...because retirement money doesn't last forever unless there's a large stack of it.