Just Humans Being...

As promised, here is a food & recipe post... We love food... Millet bake, steamed veg, dry baked potatoes & miso gravy. We cook millet the same way as rice, one cup of millet to two cups of water, bring to the boil, cover & simmer until the water is absorbed - which takes about 20 minutes with millet. This bake was just made from millet & leftover home made pasta sauce. We just mix it together & bung it in the oven for 20 minutes to warm through. We don't have a photo of the pasta sauce, but here's a nice simple recipe for this time of year: Bake 8 large tomatoes & 2 bulbs of garlic in the oven on a low heat for about an hour - we slice a cross in the top of the tomatoes & sprinkle in some dried basil. Whizz them up with about 3 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, a good handful of fresh basil, salt & pepper to taste. This just coats the pasta & is lovely with some roasted veggies too! We dry roast our veg, sprinkled with smoked paprika &

Some time off again today...  So we had a long walk. It was windy, but hot & very nice! Will post more photos tomorrow - now time for some aloe vera... Kay & Sime xx

I have a confession. I'm addicted to hot sauce. Now I've admitted it, I can begin the recovery programme. I'm enrolling with Capsicumists Unanimous. It's a six week rehabilitation regime, boot camp style at a secure facility on Bodmin Moor. Run and operated by ex-special forces Colonel Jonty " Doreen" Half-Nelson-Hyphen (Retired).  The six-step programme focusses upon issues such as "How to grow and nurture the perfect handlebar moustache" , " The practicalities of  ownership , maintenance and general running costs of a Jaguar XK 120" and  "Eligibility of the Balmoral Malt Whisky Society". Above photo depicts a selection of hot sauces I have consumed in recent months graded in strength left to right from weak to insanely hot. Bottle #1 is the pathetically mild and ironically titled Maggi Extra Hot Chilli Sauce. It's basically a mildly spiced ketchup. An all purpose tomato sauce. Put it on your chips or put it in the bin, it

St Ewe is another small village in our parish & is about 2 miles away from where we live. The country fair is a big annual event & our transition group had a stall, so we went along to help out. This is the first time we have visited the fair - we are not really keen on seeing animals being made to perform & this was the main attraction. As it was our day off & we were still exhausted from the last couple of days, we didn't turn up until the afternoon... After torrential rain early morning, it turned out to be quite a hot day... Dog Show Looking for our stall... The muddy man was saving or trying to save goals... Tractor Plate smashing... Such a bizarre waste of crockery! Craft marquee - people selling their wares... Alpacas on parade. Not really a typical British event... Shire horses... Cute lambs to look at & stroke. For us, it's sad to think what happens next to them... Traditional pipe organ which was playing 'Is this the way to Amarillo

Every year it seems to come as a shock just how busy we get in August. We are working incredibly long hours... Holiday home owners are heading down & all the properties we take of are full. So there's lots of cleaning to be done, things to fix & guests (not all nice either) to deal with. We are getting very tired, but happy to see money coming in... Occasionally, we get time to pop home for lunch between jobs. (Kitties like us being home) All our work is very close to where we live, so the furthest we travel is just over 2 miles!   Sime's colourful lunch... On the days we don't manage to get home - we still have a break... And eat lots of fruit & nuts. This week started out lovely & hot, although the sea was really choppy... Portmellon - we seem to spend more time down there, than at home! Portmellon at night... The Donks  We stopped for a chat with their human friends after work... They are all wearing some fancy headgear to stop the flies from