TUESDAY

Tuesday's soup

Is everybody happy?

You bet your life we are.

OK, we're not having soup tonight even though The Old Girl threatened it.

Those lyrics are from a song named 'Today's Monday' by The Scaffold.

Tonight we're having stir fry chicken being a good way of using up veges in the fridge - green beans, broccoli, carrot, capsicum, spring onion, garlic, cauliflower etc. before I do the supermarket run tomorrow ('Wednesday is roast beef').

I make my stir fries in an Asian way - Thai usually with flavourings of lemongrass, soy, chilli etc. Delicious.

Robert has deleted all of his posts again by the way. I'm not sure what his reincarnation will be as. His empty blog is still named The Village Idiot but with him, who knows. Maybe he'll call it The Last Catholic in Moera or something catchy like that.

Richard is planning to wake up his entire neighbourhood on ANZAC day with an unmuted trumpet call at dawn. Good luck with that I say. I hope that the said neighbours don't have hangovers.

Talking of hangovers I noticed a lot more empty alcohol bottles in the recycle bins around the streets. Yesterday when sorting through the neighbours bins up and down the street I couldn't believe the numbers of beer, wine and spirit bottles there were.

I'd better explain that last comment. I sometimes grab the NZ Herald and Advocate newspapers that people put out so that I can take out the cryptic crosswords and word puzzles. There were no obvious bundles so I dug a little deeper to no avail other than getting odd looks from passers-by. I guess that the newspapers haven't  been delivered because of the lock-down. We certainly haven't had a NZ Listener delivered recently.

One more week of Level 4 lock-down to go. I'm getting a little bit claustrophobic especially as it's been raining off and on for a week. I'm glad that I've got the PlayStation golf game to play otherwise it would be doing one of the Old Girl's bloody jigsaw puzzles which I hate.

She's been working so we haven't played snooker or pool which is a shame. Maybe in a couple of days when she takes some time off work. We normally share a bottle of bubbles while playing.