Dot, very slow cook leg of lamb is one of my specialities. I have a slow cooker from Sunbeam that also browns the roast. So it gets set to brown first, for a good 20 minutes and that gives the lovely brown crusty edges. I turn it to slow cook on high for 4 hours, toss in half a cup of water, to act as a steamer and off it goes. Once time is up, I test for tenderness. If the whole leg doesn't fall off the big fork, it goes back in for another hour. Once done, meat comes out to sit under foil while I turn the slowcooker onto brown (super high) and make the gravy in the slow cooker juices. Veg get done in the air fryer, so no oven needed and no big dishes to wash up. The hospital meal would be similar meat just pour over a white sauce with parsely through it. Probably get a packet mix of that stuff, I used it when learning how to cook things properly. But the packet mixes were ok back in the day. enjoy xxxx
I had such a bad day yesterday that I stayed away from here. I had a long wait to get my call answered by the insurance company (50 minutes), only to be told that once the van is at the repairers they don't interfere. Suggested to ring the repairers and ask for a senior person. After another 25 minute wait, I was speaking with a different lady, but she didn't give her rank and number (as asked) The paperwork still has not left their assessment desk. You can only imagine how blue the air was here, but I didn't swear at her. I offered to go to their office and complete the forms for her, that finding a price online does not take a week. I got all the rubbish about, their system not working that way. She was most surprised when I told her that their system needed repairing and that they are causing us too much stress. She promised to get back to me by close of business. Not this month she didn't.
Next issue was our foxtel box. We have two of them. One is working with all the channels but the second one is only getting the very basic set and none of the two hours later ones. After an hour on hold, I was talking to a person who spoke unintelligable English who was very little help. It took us a long time to figure out that he was telling us that foxtel no longer has service technicians who come to your home. All service is done through the internet and that they no longer do things through the satelite. We should be using our set top boxes with the internet. No we don't have the internet as such. How can we get what we are paying for? You look up google and find someone local who may be able to help to change the wiring in the faulty box. It needs another lead into the wall to get the plus 2 channels. Apparently our main box has four wires from the wall and the bedroom one only has three.
I am sure that you can all imagine the answers that I wrote tonight in the survey, "how did we do?" If his lordship had no interests in horses and sports, I would have told them how to insert the boxes into their anatomy. He loves his foxtel, so I suffered the phone call but not from the stupid survey. Bet I will hear nothing from that survey either. No respect for people who have been customers for almost 40 years, so not happy Jan.
Today was just another cold, windy and crappy day in the lair.
night all xxx
The painters were here at 7am and finished at 2pm , 2nd coat tomorrow and all done. Good news from nagging, the specialist rooms got the info they wanted yesterday and today I rang to see if they got it and guess who has an appointment next Tuesday? The triage was done by the head neurosurgeon. 
Goodnight Jd hope you are feeling better today, keep up with those pain meds x 
in between the fruit trees along with our galah ) (Nora). Bernie pass on our best wishes to Carol for a successful outcome with her knee op, and you make sure the house is kept up to scratch for when she comes home. 