After yesterday’s two posts it seemed fitting to feature a normal lunchtime at home involving
a salad based meal eaten from a plate placed on our knees in front of our television, watching
Antiques Road Trip which pits two experts in the field travelling together across the UK, each beginning with £200 to spend on items taken to a series of auctions, after each of which accumulative profits or losses are calculated, the winner being the one emerging on the last afternoon with the most money in their kitty.
Today’s “Really” recording featured Stephanie Connell, seen here, and Charlie Ross. Sometimes I sleep through the final stages and wake up to ask Jackie “who won?”
In the rare event that I remain awake for the whole programme we might catch ten minutes or so of the much dumbed down
Bargain Hunt, in which two pairs, each with a £300 starting sum, have one hour in which to spend their money and take their items to auction. The team that finishes with the most profit or the least loss is the winner and takes home any profit.
Today’s location was Newark Showground, which I often visited when we lived in this historic midlands market town.
Sometimes I even sleep through BBC’s One o’clock News which I like to follow.
Today Ben Brown features the England Women’s rugby squad, who are favourites to win the current world cup.
This evening we dined on Jackie’s succulent sausage casserole, crunchy carrots, creamy mashed potatoes, and tender green beans with which she drank Hoegaarden and I drank more of the Bordeaux.
Delicious meals at home and dozing in front of the TV sounds like a typical evening here. ?
Thank you very much, Merril
At first glance I mistook the red object for a pomegranate! It seemed an odd accompaniment for the rest of the supper. LOL. We have a similar show about people spending a set amount of money, refurbishing the items and having to sell them at a flea market. It is very calming though completely irrelevant to my life.
We have Antiques Road Show in the US. Delicious meals today.
Thanks very much, Pat. The Antiques Road Show is different again from these two shows.
Oops. I didn’t look closely enough. ?
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Sounds like a nice relaxing day with some delicious meals! YAY! 🙂
The shows sound fun and interesting! 🙂
Growing up, when we’d catch my dad sound asleep in front of the TV (usually a sporting event or game) and we’d change the channel…he’s wake right up and say, “I was just resting my eyes.” 😉 😀
(((HUGS))) 🙂
That’s what I say to Jackie. 🙂 Thanks very much, Carolyn X
Jackie is an excellent cook like my wife Janine .!
In friendship
Michel
Another similarity. Thanks very much, friend Michel
Antique Road Trip hasn’t played out here since before covid. Charlie Hanson against Phil Serril was a favourite episode.
Bargain Hunt is a week nightly tea time program but the episodes are all mixed up. A Tim Wannacott episode is rarely played. Anita Manning and Natasha Raskin Sharp presenters are the most played episodes but Eric Knowles isn’t popular here with us or our neighbours.
Ooohhh We haven’t had a sausage casserole for a long time.
Thanks very much, Chrissy. Charles and Phil would be an excellent pairing. Natasha really irritates us – although she is growing into the role.
Natasha can be over bubbly.
Quite so.
I find falling asleep in front of the TV to be quite an enjoyable experience.
Thanks a lot, Liz
You’re welome, Derrick.
Sounds as though you had the kind of day that is my guilty pleasure!
Yep. Thanks a lot, Mike
Looks like a nice relaxing day!
Thanks very much, Jill. We needed it
I often wonder who it is that buys all the antiques. Is there a world of dealers where goods just go round in an endless circle or do some end up in actual homes?
Strangely enough, I was given a birthday present by my sister in law that she bought from the shop of one of the experts on these programmes. My sister, Elizabeth buys from other dealers to stock her own rented cabinet.
As I am now an antique myself, Mrs T thinks that this is quite enough for her to look after.
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I hardly watch TV Derrick, but I would really enjoy both of your lunch and dinner meals … and a glass of red wine too!!
Thank you very much, Ivor
Falling asleep with the TV on can be strangely comforting. That’s a good-looking lunch.
Thanks very much, JoAnna
Your description of the reality show and its somnolent supervision by you is amusing. Having been a keen watcher of women’s cricket, I am tempted to watch women’s rugby championship.
They really are very good – and haven’t yet developed the violence of the men’s game. Thanks very much, Uma
Your recent focus on food has been interesting. Several times over many years I have wished to be a fly on the wall of the neighbours in our suburb to see what we have all chosen to eat on a particular day. This is often prompted by the interesting smell of food cooking. We all eat, yet we choose different combinations. It is those combinations that I find interesting.
Thanks very much, Anne. I may have said that very early on in my blog I once added our evening meal, and afterwards my niece, Danni, commented that she couldn’t sleep until she knew what her uncle had for dinner. There began a custom which echoed Pepys’s “and so to bed”
Dinner looks good, Derrick and Jackie! Rick does most of the cooking here, I am blessed.
Thanks very much from both of us, Lavinia
I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who falls asleep in front of the television. This week I even missed about an hour of Manchester City playing Copenhagen. Unforgivable!
Thanks a lit, John
Both meals look delicious!
Thanks very much, Sue. I hope you are feeling better today
I’m dosed with paracetamol and I feel a little better than I did yesterday. Thank you, Derrick.
I’m planning a day at home doing nothing.
But it’s business as usual for your images.
Haven’t yet reached the age where we eat our meals and snooze in front of daytime tv. Something to look forward to?
Your dinner looks delicious, Derrick. My husband likes to watch these same shows.
Looks delicious! The Roadshow and good food!
I envy you your dinner. It looks so good. You can keep the beer, however. Do you serve gin and tonic?
No gin and tonic for me. The first time I ever drank spirits was a half bottle of gin neat, I had no idea and never touched it again. Thanks a lot, Judy
We often eat and doze, too. 😉
Derrick, what is that great-looking pie on your luncheon plate?
A Cornish pastie – meat and veg lunch for the tin miners of the past. Thanks very much, Dolly
Both meals look delicious! Any day that I can avoid the evening (or morning) news is a good day. ?
Thanks very much, AnneMarie
Delicious foods enjoyed in front of the TV! Sounds like a relaxing day ☺️
Thanks very much, Ribana
You and Bob must be related. Staying awake all the way through a TV program is hard for him, too.
Thanks a lot, Jan. I knew he was a kindred spirit