Put your lamb chops/shanks/roast in a casserole dish, add whatever veges you want. I usually add chopped up onion, potatoes and carrots. Then pour one or two bottles of Whitlock's Thick Mint Sauce over the lot (depending on how much meat you have) ... add a sprinkle of salt and put in the oven at about 210 degrees Celcius for at least 2 hours. *Check every so often to make sure it's not burning or running out of fluid*, add a bit of water if it needs more fluid.
When the meat is literally falling off the bones, thicken with cornflour, or whatever you are used to using.
DONE.
Serve with fresh veges on the side.
Today: Lacy has her Glucose Tolerance Test at 9am... Bex is taking her and staying with her for the 2-3 hours it will take.
Stew is returning the furniture trailer.
The kids and I? Staying home and doing housework I suppose. What fun.
Maybe later on Stew and I will get to spend some time together? It would be nice.
ONWARD...
Stew had an easy run into town to return the trailer this morning... which was great as he got it back within the 24 hours, so we didn't have to pay for extra time. This little venture to collect Lacy's furniture has cost several hundred dollars!
Sore throat... is not as sore now ... but now I have the cough, cough, cough. Spent part of the night on the couch so I wouldn't keep Stew awake .... So tired! Three nights with broken sleep now.
And it's NOT helped by Brylee screaming at Griffin first thing in the morning... I swear that little shit deliberately tries to wake me up. Oh well... I get the last laugh... cos now she gets to go to bed straight after dinner. Yeah yaaaa.
LYNDA: Luckily for US, we are not trying to eliminate carbs to the degree you are. We like our food to be tasty, nutritious and balanced. I will not eliminate something just because of it's carb/sugar content... as long as we keep our portions modest, we feel we can eat ANYTHING. Even a few JELLYBEANS.
Stew and I decided to leave the kids with Lacy and Bex and go out for lunch. So we had a lovely lunch down at Mission Bay... the weather is glorious today... so we sat outside with our seafood chowder, followed by a really yummy pizza.
Almost home and I get a call from Lacy.
She had left her bedroom furniture and all her baby clothes, blankets etc in a house in Henderson prior to moving into the motor camp... and Housing NZ wanted her to go and collect it by 3.30 TODAY.
So poor Stew had to jump in my Highlander, go down the road and hire ANOTHER TRAILER to drive all the way over to Hendeson RIGHT NOW to get yet more of Lacy's stuff.
I feel like screaming! What the hell else are we gunna have to do for her?
No wonder she wanted to come home.... so WE get to do all the bloody running around FOR HER.
And when you read this Lacy... you better not pack a shit, cos I'm already mad as hell.
How many of you have noticed the inclusions/ rearrangement of my side bar????
So.. Stew, Lacy and Bex are over in Henderson, at some random house where Lacy's stuff is locked in the garage. And they don't have the key.... next thing... Lacy has to ring Housing NZ again... to get them to come and unlock the garage.... so they wait.... to see if they will come and do it.
And it's getting dark...
Just got a text from Bex. Seems Housing NZ will not come out... UNTIL MONDAY now.
So Stew hired a trailer and drove over to Henderson FOR NOTHING. He is beyond livid. Now he has to drive all the way back in Friday night rush hour traffic and return the trailer we didn't need afterall. And Pay for it and the petrol.
PENNY: I'm not 100% sure who stuffed up this afternoon, Lacy or Housing NZ. But no matter who... it still cost US.
***Apparently the Housing NZ man said he would meet them at the house at 3.30. So, my lot got there at 3.40... after ringing and leaving a message saying they were running 10 mins late (which is quite normal for Auckland roads). And Stew, Lacy and Bex ( aka : my lot) arrived and waited, and waited, and waited... NO Housing NZ man turned up.
'My lot' spoke to a man across the road who was working out the front of his house, and he said NO ONE had been at the house at all this afternoon except them!
So... my lot rang him again... and he LIED through his teeth and said he was there at 3.30 and when my lot didn't turn up he left!!! What a BLOODY LIAR. Fuck I hate Liars.
Anyway, now they are meeting him there on MONDAY afternoon... and Stew is going to bill Housing NZ for the trailer hire and 80 km round trip they did TODAY for NOTHING... and write a letter of complaint to Housing NZ about that man who LIED.
I almost feel sorry for the guy, Stew can get VERY ANGRY when he's provoked!
End of Day: nothing else is going to happen today... except I'm gunna have a tipple or two!
ON TRACK: yes. Everything in moderation.
nite nite!
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