Low carb cooking and a dear friend ♥

Back to doing more low carb cooking and here is bok choy, with garlic, spring onions, onion, sesame oil and dash of soy.....love this ☺

we ate it with this crispy pork belly......yum 

hooking another fingerless mitten and watching "Pan".....

some crispy skin salmon for lunch which I love, but the man not lol 

still working on that sock......think my sock mojo has taken a big walk 

more crochet while watching "Bates Motel".......anyone out there seen this series?

chicken avocado casserole and this was delish.......recipe here and we froze the leftovers for another day ☻

low carb pizza made with almond flour recipe here and instead of plain I put some salami/mushroom/tomato/cheese ☺☺

on Tuesday 20th June we caught the train to the city as I needed to collect a ball of wool which I had left there......on my tablet I  had downloaded "Call the Midwife" so was able to enjoy 2 episodes on the trip down ☺☺

the next day this special friend also caught the train into the city to catchup with me ☺♥  we have been good friends for many many years and met via our (now ex) husbands lol  Even if we don't speak for a year it is still like we saw each other yesterday.....☺☺ 

and as for that ball of wool......did not match what I was working on 😒😒 and another ball I bought which matched in the shop from a piece I had ditto 😖😖 oh well......

later that day we caught the train back home and again I watched 2 episodes of "Call the Midwife" sure makes train travel easy ☺

on Thursday I was asked for a recent pic of me still doing the low carb thing and at least maintaining my weight ☺☺

November 2015

November 2016 so I am very happy indeed 

and on Thursday picked up these skull boots which arrived all the way from china ☺☺ and they are so comfy and LOVE them......going to be wearing these even when 70 lol 

I made us some zucchini parmesan fries for lunch and a bit crispy so rather nice 

and for tea that night a zoodle matriciana.....which is zucchini made into noodles and a yum sauce with salami/tomato/onion/cream/cheese ☺☺

on Friday we got zucchini lasagna out of the freezer and heated and enjoyed with salad....

good eating we have had lol 

we then drove to a motel we were staying at for something I/we were going to enjoy on Saturday.....we ate at a place called "Lazy Moes" and boy are the meals massive.....tried to stick to low carb with NO fries so they gave me TRIPLE salad and pita bread.......this was a chicken kebab style dish with capsicum/onion on stick.....very nice but WAY too much lol 

and yes here is what I did NOT eat......oh well was going to give me energy for next day.....

love to you all out there and any UK family/friends seeing this we are COMING BACK in September and Paul would love to here from you ♥♥ Nigel/Paul/Margaret/Clive/Liz/Colin ☺☺

New gates installed in the carport and lunch with friends

Hi there my family and friends....just look at this old gate, which I actually loved but it was time to update to something we can open and shut easily 

The man got to work on removing the timber panels, piece by piece....

These were 2 very large sturdy gates, but they had dropped so the opening and shutting was getting very hard to do.....

Gates removed and you can see MY car...I have had this Nissan Patrol for 14yrs and still love it....

The other side of carport and what I call, the man's car DX Max although we do share and this one tows the Winjana ☺

All ready for the fencing guy to come and install.....

You can see the new green colour bond gates on the side

Another distance shot looking in..... 

New gates closed and looking good....

From the other side....very happy we are with these, and they were installed while I went to visit my Mum and also catch up with some friends for lunch last week ☺

I was meeting my friends at this very large park called Jells park....

And they had booked a table at the cafe here called Madeline's at Jells 

I had not been here before and was looking forward to lunch with friends....my friend Loo Loo took this for me with my new mobile phone which I love....

There is a selfie of the 2 of us ☺☺

And another with my dear longest friend, whom we both have birthday's in April ☺☺

I got everyone to do a few selfies around the table ☺

There was supposed to be another face in this pic also but someone ducked back......

And there she is with the glasses smiling sneakily lol 

Do you think my dear friend will mind me putting this pic here lol Luv ya besty xoxo

I had a yummy chicken burger without the roll or chips....

She had a great beef thai salad....

There was also some yummy vegetable soup too 

The waitress took this shot for us, so you can see us all together....

It was good to catch up with them all in between my visiting Mum....I saw her before lunch then drove back to visit again for a bit longer....

All I can say is she is going ok, not great, but ok and thank you for your well wishes.....

Lots of driving back and forth but that is ok, just missing from my blog a little ♥