Philip (Phil) England

Recipe: Soup Number 2 This one is a sugar snap and root ceg soup, so get your big saucepan out and start making nourishing warming soup.  This soup is, as already said, full of root veg Ingredients 4 carrots  3 parsbips 3 medium sized potatoes 1 bag of sugar snap peas Boiled water Salt, Pepper, Garlic Granules, Parsley Now, first of all prep your veg. Peel and cut the root veg in to small bitesize pieces, and tip the bag of sugar snap peas in to the pan, no need to cut or open these, just chuck them in whole. To the pan add your seasoning and a few dessert spoons of gravy granules. Boil a kettle of water, and pour about 2 pints into the pan. Stir all together and then turn the heat on under the pan, bring to the boil and let boil for 15 mins, then turn down to a simmer for a further 15. Turn the heat off, and keep the lid on, and leave to the following day. The residual heat in the pan will keep cooking the soup. The following day check how the veg has done, if the veg is s

Recipe: Soup Number 1 This time of year I get my big saucepan out and start making nourishing warming soups. These one pan wonders really warm you up and give you all the vitamins you need. This first soup is a cauliflower one Ingredients 1 whole cauliflower 1 courgette 3 medium sized potatoes 1 small tin of sweetcorn Boiled water Salt, Pepper, Garlic Granules, Parsley Now, first of all prep your veg. Cut the leaves of the cauliflower and chop them up and put them in the pan, cut the cauli up in to small bitesize pieces, and put in the pan. Then peel the courgette and cut in half lengthwise, then half again and then dice, and again put in to the pan. Now on to the potatoes, just wash under the tap, leave the skin on and dice then put in the pan. To the pan add your seasoning and a few dessert spoons of gravy granules. Boil a kettle of water, and pour about 2 pints into the pan. Stir all together and then turn the heat on under the pan, bring to the boil and let boil for 15

SATURDAY 18TH NOVEMBER: Off to bed, not feeling in the best of feelings right now, feel very down and on edge, got a feeling I just can't seem to shake, feels a bit like gloom mixed with some impending doom, thumping headache and pain all over (but it's not fibro pain) SUNDAY 19RH NOVEMBER: Well after starting to feel like crap on Saturday, today not been feeling ANY better, seem to have been going through the motions, managed to escape the flat for a few hours (thanks Carl, Cosmo and Harley). Was a bit of a struggle putting rubbish out. Earlier today I was swapping out ethernet leads when my good eye got hit by one end of a lead as I pulled it free (owch), eye still hurts, may phone Specsavers in the morning if it painful. Hope this feeling goes soon

I've been living in my flat for just over seven years now, and something is missing. I need someone to share my life with. I long for someone to cuddle up with on the sofa, someone to snuggle with under the duvet. Someone to make me smile first thing in the morning. There's not as many gay bars as there used to be, so where on earth do you meet someone? There's an app for that, Grindr, an app to meet guys, only problem is it's full of idiots and time wasters, no one wants to meet anyone on there it seems. Any suggestions? I'm single and don't look bad for 48yrs old. Please someone, rescue this lonely single male with own home and car, willing to travel, good in the kitchen, non smoker... 100% house trained

Recepie: Sausage Casserole Fry up some sausages in a frying pan, also fry up a little onion. In a casserole dish put a tin of baked beans and add some tomato puree and soy sauce, mix it up and at this point also add some garlic (a clove of freshly chopped, granules or ground) and some ground pepper, mix these together. Chop up a potato in its skin into small chunks, add the chunks to baked beans along with a cup (or half a mug) of water, mix together and add the sausages and onions. Cook in the oven for about an hour on grass mark 6. You could do this in a slow cooker or maybe an air fryer. Serve on its own or with a nice side salad. Enjoy!

Fireworks, noisy wizz bangy things, they really do scare the be-jesus out of people and animals. Two of the dogs I sit for, Nero and Harley are both scared of them, petrified of them even. Harley though, it seems, is no daft dog. She has discovered a safe place.in her owners apartment. It's the room with no windows, it is the bathroom, a windowless cocoon for a dog that is scared of the fireworks. She jumped into the bath to escape the noisy bloomin' things. Her master, Carl, wanted to make it comfortable for her , put her dog bed and a few blankets in there for her. I saw a photo of her in her comfy space, she looked very content. When will the government ban the private sale of fireworks? They should be for sale only to councils, community organisations and religious establishments.