Sarah Beattie's Pumpkin Soup delicious...

Sarah Beattie

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Happy Eat Your Pumpkin Day - this velvety soup is great if you're carving a fairly "neutral" tasting monster as there are such bright, intense, in it. Perfect to warm you through and through after trailing around behind the kids or going to fireworks.

Thai Pumpkin Soup

2 tbs oil 
1cm / ½ in piece fresh root ginger, grated
½ tsp chopped red chilli
1 tbs chopped lemongrass
1 red onion, peeled and chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
about 500g pumpkin, deseeded, peeled & chopped
1 tbs light soy sauce
2 tbs tamarind puree
400ml tinned coconut milk
400ml water

Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the ginger, chilli, lemongrass, onion, garlic and pumpkin over a fairly high heat, stirring constantly, until just beginning to colour. Add the soy, tamarind, coconut milk, and water. Simmer until the pumpkin is very tender (about 25 minutes). Whizz with a blender until smooth. Taste and adjust seasonings – if it is too fiery try adding a good pinch of sugar. Reheat and serve.
You can ring the changes with this soup by using an Indian curry paste instead of the Thai ingredients and you can swap coconut milk for crème fraîche or add yoghurt at the last minute.

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Healing weekend

Healing weekend with care from my GP - started all the medications she prescribed and have slept when my body told me too... had time with young ones that stimulate me with their studies... and sat Knitting for Family Link Up project....

So much stress and social pain around... we all need to be the eye of the storm that is brewing. 

Drawing strength from past pioneers for women

 It feels really empowering to wear the Suffragette sash every time I go out...despite feeling ageing with arthritic knees and exhaustion from the whole darn situation of being denied my State Pension and having DWP hassle.... Been down to the local library to print off the Parliamentary Ombudsman form to fill in for my MP & Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell to help present my case.  We have a duality of issues not only the Pension situation but left penniless by my rogue Moroccan criminal perpetrator.... so been through a lot as you can read in my Women's Voices to be Heard blog where I have been campaigning for a strong and stable pathway of support for women survivors... 
Wearing my Suffragette sash is really stimulating my neighbours to talk to me too about the pension situation. The are angry that Grans treated like this and very annoyed that our Shoulder to Shoulder rally was not on the mainstream TV news channels.  They open up on their DWP problems too... My heart has just gone out to one man tidying his garden and how he is a carer for his wife with multiple medical problems of which Harefield Hospital is the prime caring team.  He is having DWP hassle and been exhausted with the appeals he has put in and despite top consultant letters to support his case is struggling to get adequate financial support for his wife and children... I really do not want my motherland to be like this... Care, Compassion & Understanding is key to us helping one another as a nation.   But everyone is feeling that their cries for help are falling on deaf uninterested government ears.... TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT to WAKE UP and in the Brexit Mayhem to see how citizens are feeling let down. 

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London Visit with WASPI sash

Would have been my mothers birthday today and feeling her spirit around me.  She would have been over a 100 yrs old.  I was my mothers "menopause" lol as she thought....but me kicking around in her was happy surprise that she was pregnant 17yrs after having my step brother... My mother was a young girl when the suffragettes won Votes for Women. I had to go in to London today to meet with a friend in Haymarket.  So as my WASPI pledge wore my suffragette sash every time I go out. .  This I will do (and encourage ALL women born in 1950s to do so...)  till this darn PM Theresa May wakes up and realises how many votes her party will lose if they keep ignoring our voices and our pain. 
SHAMEFUL TO TREAT GRANS LIKE THIS AND ROB US OF OUR STATE PENSION.

The sash got folk talking on Trains at bus stops and on buses.  From Colombian tourists, to family lawyer to passengers on the train and shopkeepers... there is wide concern as to the UK government doing this to hardworking women that have paid tax all their lives.... There is alarm and anger as the public realise that TV news channels are not covering our plight.  There is alarm that TV are either ignoring the issue or being told to mute telling the nation of this unacceptable situation.  

I am walking badly nowadays with increasing arthritis in my knees,  I am going forgetful with the stress I am in fact ageing quicker with the dam situation I am facing.  I have had all welfare stopped....This is not the country I want my motherland to be treating the elderly and vulnerable like this... NOR is it what my mother fought for! TIME TO LISTEN MRS MAY!

Government minister tweets his coffee break!

Alok Sharma Minister for Employment and DWP tweeted earlier in the week
"Nothing like a cuppa to get through the red boxes! Busy week ahead ⁦@DWP"
My response

Yes I have busy weeks campaigning with the WASPI women for the right to our pensions and to get Women's Voices Heard it is disgraceful the way the DWP is putting women's lives at risk... with the failings of support for women survivors and those now in their 60s that have worked all their life paying tax. How can Mrs May ignore this situation as it is a political suicide to do so... with just the WASPI situation alone.... a lot of votes to lose as women are shoved into the pain of poverty! I have two campaigns for all women survivors of DV and then the double yammy I am in that now 64yrs denied my state pension because I was born in 1954!  Glad the Parliamentary Ombudsman helping us fight for all..!

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Beautiful expression

Love this banner that one of the Waspi women embroidered..... so creative and was therapeutic for her and for us all...Women do not deserve this treatment by government....  

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Feeling my parents spirit today on WASPI situation

Been very upset over the last few days since our Gran Revolution rally in London on Wednesday.  Feel a real identity crisis as to what my country stands for now!  
The pain and hurt in me and the 3.8 million women born in 1950s being denied their state pension is an utter disgrace... This is surely not the values of our land?  We not only helped to rebuild the UK after the WW2 but are the daughters of those that served in WW2 to defend liberty to liberate those that were being persecuted.. The values to care for others and help those in need of help. To care for one another as a nation.  To care for the weak, the sick and the elderly.  So it is totally incongruent to treat women over 60 in this way. Stressing them, shoving them into poverty. Forcing them to work again when they have worked near on half a century for this land. Having ESA stopped when ill and suffering the ravages of getting older. We brought families in the world. Families that care for their mothers and has our generations come along..... grandchildren that care for their grandmothers. All angry at the government treatment of all women born in 1950s like this. 

My mothers first husband was batman to Montgomery he survived the war but died of cancer after..... then my father came along in my mothers world and they married. My father was keen on nursing & was one of the first male nurses permitted on the register, if you look in history nursing was primarily a female occupation.... In the war he gained experience as an ODA - Operating Department Assistant helping surgeons to put back broken soldiers bodies from the war.  He after the war was in the nursing team of Charnley the orthopaedic surgeon that developed the hip replacement.  

It really does not sit well with me and all the values my parents were examples of.  My mother would fight for justice and fairness....one of the first Labour Party members from the hardworking mills and factories in the North of England that built the wealth of the nation that the few pocketed! Both of them must be turning in their graves at this situation of this Torturing Tory Government abusing women born in 1950s among them their daughter.  To think we have a woman PM Theresa May and this year 2018 the centenary of women's votes.... can she not see that this is political suicide to ignore women nationwide shouting for their pensions..... and to what appears try to mute the media in the main news channels not reporting our rally and the traffic standstill in London on Wednesday.  But we are 1950s women and we will not be MUTED we will stand tall and stand our ground.  We paid in you pay out! We have paid in near on half a century tax and in that pay the wages of politicians... so we pay your wages you pay our pension... We will not forget the pain inflicted upon us.... many of the Conservative members and supporters are uncomfortable with the treatment of older women in this way.. so angry with government for not listening.   There is a lot of votes to lose this figure of 3.6 million can be xs at least by 10 with all our families that are angry at mums and grans treated this way! But also traders not happy as they can see we have lost our spending power and their businesses are suffering as a consequence.... 

Rose Blooming beauty

The lovely rose my elderly neighbour gave in the week is in full bloom now.

Was lovely to help me and support me for the Gran Revolution.

No need to tidy this weekend then....

Do not want to disturb my ideas lol... love this found in my fb newsfeed.

#shouldertoshoulder Day today

Some photos from today's Granny Revolution for our pensions. All groups from around the UK standing shoulder to shoulder.  I am home now posting this feeling a great inner sadness.  I have heard so many stories of hardship today.  I have done the zip zapping around London working shifts in hospitals - 12 hours sometimes with no breaks and up next day to do again.. All that effort put in over my years... with first job in 1969. Today my legs ached and felt heavy and I kept feeling dizzy with the stress of all this situation.  It would be so much easier to give us our pensions and leave us alone.  But we all feeling targets of some torturous badly thought out policy. We feel robbed of our money and our financial dignity. It was good to see menfolk coming along to support their women and young ones too. Many simply do not want Grans and Mums hurt this way. We are their loved ones.  
I cannot understand why Mrs May is refusing to see that this is a major vote loser for her and her party!! Sheer political madness to ignore the women born in 1950s pain. 

Even nature supporting Grans

Even nature around me coming out with the WASPI campaign colours as if to give support to all us Grans affected by the retirement age increase and no state pension. Giving strength to tomorrow march on parliament. Love the gladioli colour it is a survivor after the heatwave in summer... that is what we will be survivors...  Gran Revolution!