The Buckingham Blog

Today was the first of 3 days off school for half term so Mummy & Daddy planned a day trip for us, but wouldn't tell us what it was apart from that it was in Dundee.

We got up early and headed to down the road, arriving in Sensation's carpark.  This is Dundee's Science Centre. 

We went in and started looking around, then our friends Leah & Hannah arrived as a surprise with their Mummy & Daddy (Melanie & Liam)

We spent the moning doing lots of fun things to do with the senses, like smelling and touching things before watching an experiment demonstration using liquid nitrogen.  I enjoyed that. 

We were a bit hungry after that so left the museum to find somewhere to eat.  While we were looking around, we met Desperate Dan!

We finally found a Jimmy Chungs which is a chinese buffet restaurant and yummy.

After we'd eaten lots, we headed back to Sensation.  We had to show our stickers to get back in as we wanted to see the Planetarium show.  We had to wait a while and it was an eventful wait. 

First of all, Mummy met a lady she's been friends with on the computer for 7-8 years.  This was very strange as she lives in the middle of England and didn't know we'd be there. 

The second thing was that there was a wee show on and Krystal volunteered to go on the stage.  This is pretty amazing as she hates doing things like that. 

Finally the planetarium opened and we could go in to watch the show about the stars and planets.  We had to sit on the floor unlike the Glasgow one, but it was good anyway. 

Just Hangin' Out with Daddy

We then went for a quick cup of tea before it was time to drive back to Aberdeen. 

I had a really nice day out and hopefully we'll do something like this again soon.

Love
Kory
xxxx

I've had this recipe kicking around the kitchen for a few months now so I thought I'd slap it on here to keep it safe, that and the fact we all thought it was yummy :-)

 Ingredients

• Fry Light Spray
• 1 Onion - Peeled and finely chopped
• 2 Garlic Cloves - Peeled and finely chopped
• 1tsp finely grated ginger
• 2tsp cumin seeds
• 2tsp milk
• Curry Powder
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2tsp crushed cardamon seeds
• 1 clove
• 110g/4oz dried split lentils - rinsed and drained
• 200g/7oz brown basmati rice - rinsed and drained
• 1 carrot - peeled and cut into 1cm 1/2 dice
• 110/4oz fine green beans - cut into 1cm1/2in lengths.
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 3tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves.
• To serve: 4 eggs - boiled and halved
• 200g/7oz very low fat natural yoghurt, whisked
• Chilli Powder or Paprika.

Method

Spray a large, heavy-based saucepan with Fry Light and place over a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and ginger and stir-fry for three to four minutes.

Stir in the cumin seeds, curry powder, cinnamon, cardamom seeds and clove and stir-fry for one minute. Add the lentils, rice, carrot and beans and mix well. Pour in 700ml/24floz of water and bring to the boil.

Lower the heat, cover and cook gently for 30-40 minutes, or until all the liquid has been adsorbed and the mixture is slightly sticky (do not be tempted to uncover the saucepan during this time).

 Remove the pan from the heat and stand, covered, for 10-12 minutes.

Fluff up the lentil mixture with a fork and season with pepper. Stir in the coriander and spoon into four sallow dishes.

Garnish with the eggs and serve immediately with the yoghurt, sprinkled with chilli powder or paprika.

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This is really filling and although I probably wouldn't eat it without the yoghurt it wasn't bad for a veggie recipe.

James. 

Look at this. It's me doing a blog on our daily going-ons for a change .

I've been on holiday this week so I don't have an excuse not to do it this time. Not that I try to avoid it but the rest of the family tell these things better than me anyway.

Right, enough waffle....

A busy little week so far. Yesterday started with Julie going to the doctor's to get Krystal checked over again. Her rash on her face still hasn't gone yet and apparently it should have by now. We've now got cream for it which seems to be doing the job so far.

Rather than waiting for them Kory and I went down the supermarket to buy some yummy ingredients for dinner. It's only the second time we've cooked it but we decided to make Mango & Chicken yummy!!

After lunch and the kids had their sleep we headed off down the beach. We thought we'd try and avoid the need to park in the city centre and then have to walk down the beach for this year's fireworks display. Instead we took Kory down to Rambos for an hour to let him have a play and build up an appetite for dinner. 

When his belly did start to rumble we headed off to Jimmy Chung which is a local chinese "All you can eat" buffet. It's the first time we've been to the one down the beach and it was actually quite nice and the range of food was HUGE! We had loads and Kory, although saying he was full-up, managed to polish off 3 tubs of jelly. "1 Red, 1 Green and 1 Orange" as he kept reminding us all night!

Once we were all stuffed we headed back to the car to get all wrapped up for the fireworks display. 

In case you don't know everyone in Aberdeen goes to a large field just at the side of the Amusements.

 
We didn't tell Kory but we had a surprise for him...Glow Sticks. Here's a wee picture of Julie and him with them. He was chuffed to bits!

The fireworks were slightly late in starting but once they did start they were actually quite good for Aberdeen. Usually they're rubbish! The rain stayed away long enough as well which was good.

Kory was a bit scaried of the noise but even with his head buried in my shoulder he still couldn't help but watch them. Krystal slept through the whole thing until the very end. Typically when we had to head home  .

The kids were completely knackered by the time we did get back though and Kory actually did seem to enjoy himself. He's still going on about it today and pretending to be a firework hehe.

Anyway it's getting late and I've gone on long enough.

James