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I'm a thirty something food-loving professional who has decided to write a food blog rather than bore my Facebook friends with my constant food updates and photos. I love food and cooking and wanted to share my recipes and experiences with fellow-minded people. I am no chef but enjoy good, hearty traditional fayre at home and the occasional treat away from home. I am learning all the time and this blog will hopefully see my skills improve over time. It is documenting my progress if you like and giving me some motivation to improve.

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Sunday, 25 March 2012

Spring Saturday & First BBQ of the Year

What a fabulous day Saturday was, well apart from the fact that I had brought some urgent work home (booo) and I had to take my beloved cat Sky to the vet for the fourth or fifth time in the last few weeks.  She has a nasty ulcer on her eye and we've had two courses of antibiotics, four lots of different drops, and still no better :(  I spent nearly an hour at the vets on a lovely hot sunny afternoon, where they took swabs to send to the lab to see if they can identify the cause and also gave her more antibiotics and another type of drop.  The vet is worried that it could be a 'melting ulcer' which will eat away at her eye and will require emergency surgery so please cross everything for her, poor little mite :(  I only have £750 left on my insurance too, didn't check that when I signed up...£1000 maximum per condition.  Don't know where they get their prices from to be honest, we're all in the wrong jobs! 

Anyway, after a very sad (and teary when we got home) afternoon Mr W cheered me up by making his famous home-made burgers (beef mince, herbs, spices, breadcrumbs) and putting the BBQ on.  We had the burgers with cheddar slices on sesame buns with salad and various sauces, sausages, sweetcorn, sweet potatoes, tabbouleh, and pasta with pesto and pine nuts (the latter two bought from Tesco because I didn't have much time yesterday).










Had a few beers in the sun and everything seemed a lot better :)  Had a few rums later on and everything felt even better but made sure we got an early night ready for the B&Q run and gardening on Sunday, clocks going forward and all, and me having to get up early to do some more work first :-/  Missed my tabata class today due to work but also found out that my gym is closing on 15th April due to council cuts.  Gutted, as there isn't another gym near enough for me to have the motivation to go very often so will probably cancel my membership and just run outside.  I do have plans to get a treadmill in the garage but we shall see....

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