Fingers The Size Of Bananas?

 

Today I wanted to be up and out early, and with something home baked for one of my Recycled Teenagers.

She can't have any fat whatsoever, so I am regularly experimenting for substitutes.

Today I decided to make some rock cakes, adding two eggs in place of the fat and a good spoonful of ginger preserve, knowing she loves anything ginger.

I also added a couple of handfuls of oats, another one of her loves.

 

 

They aren't any lookers, but did taste rather yummy.

They were still warm when I arrived just after 9am and she was doubly delighted to receive them as she hadn't  felt well enough to make her weekly whisked sponge.

I left a couple out on the work top for the Teens to have with their brekky and they received the thumbs up.

I spent an enjoyable couple of hours with my dear friend, and as always came home with the odd treat, including a brand new M&S towel!

 

 

Back home again, with the sunshine peering through the clouds, I got the Teens to make themselves some sandwiches and headed out to a disused railway line for an afternoon stroll.

 

 

For most of the walk we had the entire place to ourselves.

With the sun peeking through the shaded path it really was a lovely walk.

 

 

With the birds singing and the sound of trees swaying in the breeze ( and the odd crack!)

it was a peaceful way to spend the afternoon.

 

 

 

I had hoped to find a picturesque place to stop off for our picnic, but as this was our first walk on this particular trail, I didn't know how far we would have to go, so after an hour we stopped off by an old bridge...

 

 

 

 

...I do love the way nature cheers up rather ugly man made structures!

 

 

I also loved the weaving effect many of the trees had from creepers of various sorts, it reminded us of our walk through the Australian rainforest earlier this year and the amazing shapes their creepers created.

 

 

 

 

I thought Teen One's auntie would like to see an upcycled bag she made a few years ago is still going strong!

 

 

 

After our walk we headed out to one of our favourite shopping centres...and what a treat, it had Teen Two's favourite farm with their travelling petting farm.

We haven't been there this summer yet, and as the animal holding is his favourite part of the visit, we saved ourselves some pennies as this session was free!

 

 

We had a wonder round the shops, and aside from some confetti for a family wedding this weekend we managed not to spend any money...which is just as well as plenty has been going out of the bank account this month that's for sure!

Teen One has been our taxi driver once again, so today was experience in town, country and motorway as it turned out!

We needed to fill up with fuel, another new experience...but just one hiccup...I couldn't work out how to open the fuel flap!

Thankfully a friendly chap in the next lane was able...second time round, to open it, who knew there was a lever under the steering wheel for such things!

The evening has been spent trying to transfer the data from my old phone to Hubby's old swipey Samsung.

You would think it would be easy wouldn't you...but nope!

Finally  with the contacts all transferred over there is just the small matter of learning how to use a swipey phone!

I am pretty sure I have worked out the basics...which is all I am likely to use, but the discovery I have fingers the size of bananas has not done much for my self esteem!!

A stylus has transformed my earlier gobbledegook into legible texts, but practically taking a stylus everywhere is just not going to work, so I will need to practice  more if my texting life is to resume to some sense of normality!