Well,
I was writing a completely different post earlier and this kinda just popped into being all by itself
So this one is first, as it’s about home comforts and food.
Being the Taurean lady that I am; a comfy sofa is the ultimate in pleasure for me 😀
My other sofa – bless, is looking a little tired and it just wasn’t long enough (it’s an important consideration as I have long legs), even though I have fallen asleep on it a million times and squished too many people on it!
It was time for a change
So it comes to the time when a new sofa is to be acquired, luck would have it that my sister was selling hers and I said to her first dibs on it.
It was my birthday last month and my dear dad helped by getting it shipped down to me (we live 300 miles apart)
So after scrubbing the floor and moving the other sofa (might put it in my therapy room, need to measure it to see if it fits first) I haven’t contemplated how I’m going to get the other sofa up the stairs…. eeek
I won’t discuss the state of my stairs after dropping a wardrobe down them (well it was heavy and yes I did it on my own)
It is very loungable on, so I just watch my fave tv programmes like Without a Trace, Dr Who, Taggart, and Star Trek Voyayer (I like watching stuff that has a detective/murder element  and Sci-Fi) and I love to listen to music on my squeezebox receiver/duet as it’s on top of the tv, plugged into my surround system.
My foot stool is humongously ridiculous (it can be moved anywhere, as it’s not attached to the sofa) I had a few friends over and we all sat (5 of us) on the sofa and we got 3 pairs of legs on the footstool alone, my own little round pouffee is great and complements the new sofa rather well
I love relaxing as I can be uber busy and to be able to chill out is so important, I used to hang out in my bedroom as that’s a great place to write blogs but I also need a change of scenery and I wasn’t really using my living room that much ( I live with my 16-year-old son and lucky for me I have a 3 bedroom house) the other bedroom is my therapy room
It’s taken me a long time to get my home the way I want it, I’ve recently redecorated the livingroom (I got bored one weekend and just started painting) Now to decide what pictures to put on the walls – I haven’t a clue …. yet
I am getting my stairs fixed soon ..Yay! Next on the list is my hallway – painting it and sanding & varnishing the stairs and putting a nice runner on them.
Smoothies
Now I also love making smoothies off the top of my head, I had some random ingredients but not enough to make a pie or worth eating alone so I made a vegan smoothie

Scottishsiren’s Banana & Yogurt Smoothie

1 and a half bananas
2 small soya yogurts ( I used forest fruits)  You can also use plain yogurt
Half a block of firm tofu (about 200g) I use Cauldron Tofu
Some Juice (big dash) (I used this time – red grape, raspberry and cherry juice) You can use any juice
Some soya milk ( Big dash)
Squirt of agave syrup
Whizz it all up in a liquidiser, it should be thick but pourable, add more agave/soya milk /juice to taste if needed
Pour into glasses and drink
You can use frozen fruit but it will feel it’s got ice in it (I don’t like that, but you might)
It will keep but the bananas will go brown (doesn’t affect the taste, so add lemon juice to counter that)
You can add any fresh fruit I just like to keep it simple, the basic ingredients are the tofu, soya yogurt, soya milk, and juice
It’s a good way of sneaking tofu into meals for fussy kids, being doing it for years!
It is also rather filling so you might not eat your dinner if like me and my son you scoffed the smoothies first …oops
Music listened to while researching/writing this blog post:
Part of my 500 playlist, though not sure why it has over 3000 songs
Gang of Four
Pnau

Television

Porter
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Devendra Banhart
Gustavo Cerati
The Presets
Siouxsie and the Banshees
T. Rex
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Black Sabbath
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Air
Bad Brains and Sublime
The Cure
Joy Division
PJ Harvey
The Stranglers
Threats
The Horrors