Isn't that what humans say when there is no other explanation for food refusing to stay down?
It started on Sunday morning and lasted about 24 hours, but I'm feeling better now thank you for asking. I have some even newer food for sensitive tummies (the other new food, expensive stuff, was labelled grain free, no colouring, no preservatives etc etc etc, and it might not have been the food, but I don't want to eat it now having recycled a couple of different flavours of it.)
F is on holiday this week so I have an attentive nurse. Not that Mr B isn't attentive but he whisks me off to V-E-T and I get jabbed. I heard them discussing it on Monday but fortunately my rumbly tummy settled down, and there were no more surprises under the bedroom chair.
Mr B is doing stuff under the sink again but I'm not supervising. It is cold out and in my invalid state I have been permitted to hug a nice warm radiator and have found that preferable to hanging out under a sink inspecting leaking plumbing.
Given what the rest of the country is experiencing our frost photos look positively timid.
F is trying to prepare Christmas food - hors d'oeuvres I believe they are called. She has opted for half a dozen things that can be made now, frozen, all plonked on a tray together, heated in the oven and served up as finger food for supper. Today felafel. Tomorrow tiny spinach pies. I'm hanging out for the bacon wrapped chicken pieces or the muchli kari (fish balls), but hold the curry sauce.
Yesterday the project was a very late Xmas cake. It is going to have to be a hungry cake; there isn't time to feed it properly before Christmas.
Next Saturday a small human is coming to help make peberkager (Danish spiced biscuits), so I shall be making myself scarce. When the big small human arrives, the small small human arrives too and that one is like an exocet missile minus the guidance system.
Do you cook your own Christmas or get all those lovely decorated boxes and trays and stuff from delis and supermarkets and save yourselves the madness (and spend more time with your pets, and let them rip up the packaging)?
Homemade isn't necessarily cheaper either and there seems to be way too much of it for modern appetites. What used to be a regular xmas cake made by F's Mum looks like it could feed the 5000 now.
I cook my own main course for handsome son and me, HR provides the before cheese and crackers, the during soda usually ginger ale, and the after dessert. For two people you'd think we had a crew to feed. He takes home leftovers and leaves me a little something from his contribution too. Not too hectic these days.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an ideal Christmas. We used to team up with 4-6 other households without extended family and each bring one course of food, paper hats made out of newspaper and a £5 suit1anyone gift to put into potluck santa sack. Those were some of the best Christmas celebrations we've ever had. Great fun, no expectations, no pressure.
DeleteAnd it would have been nice of me to say I'm glad you're doing better, and that even house felines can get gi viruses.
ReplyDeleteGail tells me we are once again going for a walk and having a picnic Christmas lunch in Glen Tanar with our friends M&J, so there will be minimal cooking required.
ReplyDeleteBut, er, I believe it was -10C in that part of Aberdeenshire last night...
Hope your tummy has settled now Tigger.
Toodle-oo!
Nobby.
Picnic Christmas lunch Nobby? In Scotland Nobby? 🙀Crikey you blokes are hardy! F says picnic lunch on Christmas day is only for Antipodeans. ⛱🍸
DeleteTigger, I refer you to my predecessor Bertie's post from Christmas Day last year:
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I agree. Too much emphasis is placed on having all the “traditional” foods. And then everyone feels sick for days afterwards.
ReplyDeleteIf the weather decides to act more summer like. We I’ll have a bbq with cold salads. If not. A roast
Simple food to be shared with family.
I hope your tummy is feeling much better.
F's Dad insisted on it being a day off for Mum so he and the kids cooked. Bzked ham (done by Mum earlier in the week🙄) was ezten cold with boiled new spuds and lashings of lettuce salad with mustard dressing. Cold ham and lettuce salad is perfect Christmas meal - and an afternoon swimming.
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ReplyDeleteI'll have a picnic lunch too - on the Hutch's window seat! There's just me, and I do like to cook my own; I'll likely make some alloo bonda, vege pakodas, dahl chapatti and lots of nice spicey aachara (pickles). Or a vacon, brie and cranberry toasted sanger with chips and salad... and graze on nuts and dates and fruit... and mince pies! We have had that deep hoar frost like yours, Tigger, and no snow. Yet. Still very pretty. And cold. But my LynGmal is working hard to combat that.
I do hope your tummy trubs are just temporary, Tigger mate. You just keep hugging that radiator and lapping up the extra attention. Hugs and whiskries, YAM-aunty xxx
Oh YAM-aunty- we wish we could bring a christmas to you. F is going to make some chaat masala this week to flavour up some 'street stlye' food for the days after christmas. She found a great spice shop close to where she works and got loads of bits and pieces (all except blzck salt). They had grey, blue pink, smoked Malden.... you name it, but not black. It's not about the food, it's about who you get to share it with. We will have a house full of waifs and strays it seems.... family mostly but an otherwise unconnected bunch. Furrings and purrings Mr T
DeleteAnd we are a couple of antipodeans who have taken part in the ‘picnic lunch’ ritual for many years now. Just us - a bit of bush - and cold this and that. Forecast is for cool so maybe I might heat then wrap some items there might even be soup served!
ReplyDeleteWith the current state of health in our house at the moment (yes, it moved to another body) there won’t be any end of year gatherings for us either…..which means I don’t have to think of any easy ‘bring a plate’ items to take along.
Take care little one, make sure there’s an escape route - preferably to the top of a wardrobe.
Ooh 😿🤢🤧 sorry to discover it got you in the end. Golfer's turn to do the caring and cooking. We hope you fare better in fighting it off, and are recovered in time to enjoy your picnic. Xxx Mr T
DeleteMr GBT will make sausage rolls, mince pies and cheese straws. Humphrey hasn't been supervising either....his member of staff felt sorry for him and dug out a blanket. He turned up his nose and refused to have anything to do with it, but the human has noted that he's now snuggled down in it and snoring! Arilx
ReplyDeleteWe don't want to look too enthusiastic Aril. I was like that about my igloo, my condo, my tartan bed, and particularly my stripey friend blanket - they all had to earn their place in my routines. They have to build some trust. As for sausage rolls annd cheese straws.... can I come for christmas at your place? Xxx Mr T
DeleteWe went for a Christmas dinner staycation at a local hotel last night and now I seem to have your rumbly tummy problem. Mine could be too much of the sprouts and fizz.
ReplyDeleteThat defo sounds like a tummy rumbling combo.
DeleteCould you have ate a bad mouse Tigger? Hope your feeling better and back on your patrols.
ReplyDeleteHaven't been anywhere near a mouse recently (unfortunately) Dave. We did see an extremely overweight rat struggling over the fence into the overgrown place next door. I won't be chasing that one.
DeleteAnd I thought hairballs from Mittens and Millie were bad enough! I do hope you are on the mend now, Tigger. Sending you lots of gentle pattings, Mxx
ReplyDeleteF suspects the Greek vet was right when she detected a possibly inflamed stomach lining and predicted it might develop into something more serious. I fear I will be fed bland gastro food after this. Tidings to Mittens and Millie. Xxx Mr T
DeleteSorry about the tummy troubles. Happy Christmas. PS: I cook and bake year-round and I also get takeaways when the weeks move to fast and I can't catch up. On the whole though, I'm a baker and homecook because I just love doing the work.
ReplyDeleteF would bake all the time too but there is no one around to eat it all these days.
DeleteYou know, that's a common thing that I hear. I tell people though, that even a house of one or two is still worth baking and cooking for. When I was single, I did this all the time. It's an interesting topic, Tiger (great name!). There was this one lady who wrote a book and I cannot recall her name. After her husband died she had a hard time cooking/baking again. Then she started back at it. I remember thinking how much I agree with that and also, when my hubby dies, I'll probably go through a period where I don't want to cook. Not because I don't love cooking/baking for one, just from the sadness. Though it's important that we do take care of ourselves and bake and cook good things. House of one. Hose of one hundred. All the same value and worth the time.
DeleteF still cooks meals, but Mr B's diabetic diagnosis and acceptance at last that he needs to take seriously a change of eating, exercising and sleeping habits means that baking is not helping. That might change in time but for now cakes and puddings, biscuits and sweet treats are off limits.
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