Here Comes The Weekend!!!

I really should bake more often.
Andy's little face when he saw I had made a cake when he arrived home last night was so cute.....bless him. 
I have heard it said that cake baking is a scientific process.....ha, ha, ha....not in this house it ain't. I tend to add things even to a Victoria Sponge and yesterday it was three tablespoons of natural yoghurt which may well have got thrown away but it was in date so in it went.
It was the best VS I have ever made....so light and fluffy.
I was very impressed.

Back to the job list today so I will be taking up and replacing two carpet tiles and painting inside the fire surround to tidy it up a bit.
I will also be having a ferret in the salad and veg drawers to use up anything I can in a tomato based pasta sauce for the freezer.
I couldn't face going out for tea last night. We'll be going tonight so nothing to get ready for tea.

The bath arrived very early this morning so we just need to let the plumber know it's here now and ready for installing.
I am so excited to be having my bath back.

Really quite annoyed that once again we will be trapped on our estate on Sunday morning while the Ironman thing takes place. DD should be going to work but we are not allowed to use the main road at all between 8am and 1pm so she has no way of getting out and has had to ask a colleague to take her shift and she will have to do one of theirs at a later date.
We normally take Andy out for Father's Day lunch but we won't be able to go until later in the day. Andy likes to be there for 12pm while it is fairly quiet so we scrapped that and instead DD is doing a roast lamb dinner here.

So....we will be having a pretty quiet weekend.
What are you all going to be up to?
Sheila-x-

A Hard Day Or Two!!!

Yesterday it was four weeks since the last time I held Maggies hand and told her that I loved her before her life support was turned off.
Today it is two months since the last time I spoke to her when she phoned me on my birthday to take the rip out of me at turning sixty.
I know these kind of days are going to be hard. Last night I found myself sobbing as hard as the day it happened......all part of the healing process I am sure.

I will be pottering again today.
The heat and the crying are giving me headaches and my powers of concentration are absolutely zilch so I will just do whatever takes my fancy. I might even watch Fixer Upper on the tv instead of squinting at it on the computer screen......and that's me who never watches daytime tv.

There is illness at the Doodle House. DDIL, Ruby and Marlowe went down to London for the weekend last weekend and the first night Marlowe was taken ill with a dreadful sickness bug which London Grandma and Grandad then caught. DDIL and Ruby have somehow avoided it but it has been bought home to DS who looked extremely ill when I saw him last night. I hope he gets well soon and that he doesn't pass it on to anyone else.

I think despite the heat I will pop the oven on for half an hour and make a cake for Andy. I have some eggs that want using up so I'll use them to make a Victoria Sponge. That will be a nice surprise for him when he comes in tonight and I have no other cooking to do today as DD is taking me out for tea.

Weather is very mixed today....still hot but sunny one minute and dull the next and I think I felt some spots of rain earlier on but that won't worry me as I only have towels to dry today and they are always done in the dryer. I don't like them dried on the line as they always seem scratchy to me. I like soft fluffy towels.

Hope you are all having a lovely day.
Sheila-x-

Turn Me Over...I am Done!!!

Gawd it is hot here this morning.
I don't do hot.
Hot makes me cranky.
Hot means I can cry off cooking a hot meal and go for salad.
See....even if I hate hot....I can find a positive....lol.
The job list can go fiddle for today. I am pottering....and trying to pass the fan as many times as I can while doing it.
Roll on Winter 😄

DD and I managed to get to see The Mummy on Monday night. I gave it 5/10 and all five points were for special effects and CGI.
Note to the casting crew......Tom Cruise was an expensive plank of wood wasn't he....lol.

Right....I shall go and chop up some salad and slice some cold sausages.....and I might make a bit of cuckoo (cous cous) salad to go with it.

Hope you are keeping cool.
Sheila-x-

Busy Days!!!

Poor old Andy is in shock after returning from work last night to a house with a clean and tidy kitchen. He is allowed in there under threat of bodily harm if he messes it up.
The oven still needs cleaning but that will have to be tomorrow now as I have used it at lunch time and I need it to be cold. It seems to take ages to cool down.

The bracelet gifted to me by my nieces and nephew has arrived back from the engravers.......

It is on my wrist and will not come off unless absolutely necessary.
Gawd my skin looks awful but it is a cropped photo and certainly doesn't look that bad in real life.

The bath, bath panel and taps have been ordered and will be delivered on Friday ready for the plumber to come and fit when he has the time.
I can't wait for my first good long soak in a Badedas bath.

I was going to take some photos of the beautiful pink peony that we put in last year. Last year we had just one hand sized flower.  
This year it has been glorious and produced about nine tea plate sized flowers but they have been ruined now by the rain and wind so are not very pretty any more.

Today I am doing laundry. I will peg some out but there isn't much of a breeze today so heavier stuff will go in the dryer.

Okey dokey......a cup of tea and a quick read of the papers and then I had best get back onto the job list.

Hope you are all having a good day.
Sheila-x-

We Have Lift Off!!!

Fantastic news from the Doodles......Marlowe has taken her first unaided steps and is now walking.
I can't wait to see her do it myself which will probably be on Wednesday now when we drop Ruby off after tea.

My shoulders have eased a lot but will probably be back to square one once I have had a good clean in the kitchen today. It has been neglected somewhat over the last month but now I need to get it back on track and I will have a good few hours at it once Andy has been fed and gone to work because DD is out for tea with work colleagues tonight.
She is hoping to be back in time for us to go to the late showing of The Mummy.

The Loch was OK. A bit here, there and everywhere as the first of a new series can be but hopefully it will get better. Mind you it's worth watching just for the scenery alone.

Rightio....outfit for the day....apron and Marigolds accessorised with a black bin bag....very chic....lol.

Hope you have a fab day.
Sheila-x-