Bee Update

...in which the bees do not want to go away

The bees would not move into the pest force man's box. They seem to like living in our soffet. It does seem that they are not at all aggressive (the man's daughter went up the ladder to get the box down with no protective clothing on at all, and they just completely ignored her), so they're not really a problem other than preventing the elder teen opening his window, so we will get a flyscreen I guess.

The man did say that they might just decide to fly away by themselves now that they've been hassled a bit, especially if we can make life slightly unpleasant for them (apparently they hate certain smells, like clove oil and peppermint oil, so we can try spraying some of that under the soffet in the hope they'll decide to go live somewhere else).

So, diet; today I am making beer-breaded fish and chips (yes, that's a diet meal - Slimming World chips are done in the oven but they really are very nice). You can find a similar recipe (but without the beer) here if you're a Slimming World member (logon required). 

Since the fish only requires 2 tbsp of beer I have shared the rest of the bottle with the Elder Teen. It's a tough job, this cooking lark.

Wednesday 11th June

Healthy A: 250 ml semi-skimmed milk (used in coffee).

Breakfast

Grapes, apple, pear

Lunch

Bacon pasta salad; bacon, yellow pepper, onion, red onion, garlic, mushrooms, pasta.

Dinner

Beer breaded cod with slimming world chips, peas, sweetcorn & green beans

Snacks/drinks

Jacob's Crinklys (6.5 syns), Coffee, 1/2 bottle Bumble Bee honey ale (5.5 syns)

1/2 a jar of pickled onions, 3 apples, 2 pears, 2/3rds of a punnet of strawberries, 1/2 a punnet of grapes, 120g couscous with crushed chillies

Exercise

Having a day off today. Possibly.