Here I am at the edge

 Living the simple life I have never been a man who had to keep up with the latest trend . If I had a trend, it was that unless I saw the purpose for upgrading an item, the upgrade was unnecessary. A good case for this is the change of phone I had put upon me. My children considered that as my previous phone was over 10 years old, I should have a new one. I could have changed my phone several times, but as it was doing what I requrited, I saw no need for change. I used to get great enjoyment in going for a walk, these days, I get enjoyment listening to the birds. My greatest enjoyment in recent times was coming face-to-face with a fox. I didn't see the killer that the hunting fraternity would have believe; I saw an animal afraid we would hurt - nothing could be further from my mind. While some people upgrade their computers, I am happy with a sinple laptop, my requiremnts for a laptop do not need a high-powered performer as I don't play PC games these days. If I did, the type ...

 Healthier Eating I am not saying what I am writing will work for everyone, or it will be to everyone's tastes, but it worked for me - so I will impart a few cooking tips to my audience. Years ago, out of curiosity, I checked on a few of the diet sheets you can buy. What did I find? One of the diets made me laugh, the lady running the diet was telling her customers to cut back on things and eat things that I had been doing for years. Oil or fat? Oil is better if you can use it, all you need to do is look at your frying pan after using fat to cook with and see the fat in the bottom, that is in your body. I grow herbs , partially to help the bee and butterfly populations, but also for my cooking; so changing from cooking fat to garlic oil was a natural for me - you have to enjoy garlic, as I do - or you can use nut or sunflower oil. Sunflowers also help the bees. I am debating cutting back on my coffee drinking, drinking tea has improved my mental health , but it relaxes me too...

 Food Porn 2 I do not enjoy walnuts, dates, or figs, but I do enjoy walnut and date cake. Strange. but true, the incident I am about to tell di d happen, and to this day my wife and I have no reason for it; we have a couple of possible reasons but nothing definite. We had bought some chopped walnuts dipped in honey and a yogurt mix; this was something we had done several times before with no unbeknown effects, but this was not the case this evening. On the night in question, I added the nutty mix, as usual, and then the unexpected happened; for some reason, there was a chemical reaction and the yogurt exploded, covering both of us and the wall behind us in the nutty goo.  All we could do was sit and laugh.

 A varied palette One of the pleasures of being able to travel    https://hereiamattheedge.blogspot.com/p/the-virtual-tourist.html   for me was the opportunity to try various national dishes.   The only countries I visited    https://hereiamattheedge.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-virtual-tourist.html   which were a disappointment were the Netherlands and Switzerland . In the last few weeks, my wife and I have enjoyed watching cooking videos on YouTube .  There was a restaurant in Cheltenham I wished I had tried, they served Thai food. I did try food from Mexico , which is fine if you like spicy food; a good thing I enjoy Tex-Mex food. The ironic thing about our day out in Italy, when I went to Switzerland, as we'd had so many types of food that week; we were served the dish of the people who were leaving the next day, I bought of all things the shortest meal on a menu Ham, eggs, and chips - fries - (MNX) :) Food in the Netherlands was bland, i...