Not Quite So Sore!!!

Thankfully the aches and pains seem to be on their way but I am not going to push it by finishing the Arfur job today....I'll do it at the weekend.

It's cold and damp here today so I am ditching another salad and doing grilled bacon and tomatoes with scrambled eggs for tea. No rush to have it ready for when DD walks through the door as she wants a bath before tea which gives me an extra hour of sewing time...yay.

Sewing Bee bought back a few memories last night it being 70's week. They showed a piece where people used to make their trousers flared by inserting a triangle of fabric into the side seams at the bottoms of the legs and I remember doing that to a pair of purple cords I used to have...so funny.
No flares to sew here today....I'm still working on the aprons.

Hope you are having a good day despite the weather.
Sheila-x-

Pottering About!!!

This morning I attempted to finish the job I started yesterday but my body just wasn't having any of it....useless old bag of aching bones....lol....so instead I have been pottering about in the kitchen and made some little individual puddings with orange curd in the base and orange flavoured sponge. I am hoping that they will go down well with Miss Ruby who will be here for tea shortly.
It's really quite warm today so just a light tea of crispy chicken goujons and a mixed leaf salad drizzled with passionfruit vinegar should be nice and refreshing.

....and that's about all I've done today. Not much but I'll make up for it when the aches and pains have gone.

Hope you are having a wonderful day.
Sheila-x-

Just Call Me Arfur!!!

The morning started well. I had a bit of spare energy to tackle a big job and I was doing quite well until my hands and shoulders started hurting so I'm a bit of an Arfur Job today....I've done half of the job and the other half will get done tomorrow.
I've been de-cobwebbing and washing the ceiling down in the sewing room as it gets a bit grubby being next to the kitchen with no door in between...one of the reasons that all of my sewing stuff is kept in boxes.

I just need to wash up the lunch pots and then I am going to go and have a soak in the bath to ease my shoulders a bit and then I'll have a think about what I am doing for tea to go with some salad.

The herb table was totally cleared out yesterday and I just need to disinfect it and give it a bit of a scrub before I make some new liners for it. You can buy them but I can't remember the make of my table to get the right size for it.

OK.....bath....here I come....and I might take a cuppa with me too.

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

The Sun Has Got His Hat On....!!!

.....and has done a much better job of burning off the mist than it did yesterday. So once Andy has been fed, watered and gone off to work I shall be donning a jumper and going outside to clean up the herb table ready for the spring.
A couple of sections will be left empty until I can sow some salad leaves in them.
Andy went ahead with mowing the back lawn yesterday which now looks like the poor ould sheepdog from the Specsavers advert but at least the sun can start to dry it out a little more.

There are leftover veggies from our Sunday lunch which DD and I will use up today for our tea. I'll cook a few new potatoes, make some lamb gravy and some mint sauce for one of our favourite meals which we call Sunday Dinner Soup......yum, yum, yum.

The fridge and freezers are all well stocked so no need to go out any night this week apart from Wednesday when we take Ruby home and as we will be near the supermarket we can pick anything up that we need then but that will probably be just salad, milk and bread which will make for a nice frugal week.

Have a lovely day in the sunshine.
Sheila-x-

Sunny Saturday!!!

Although I had no plans for going out this weekend I did end up going into the little town after doing a freezer sort out and finding some shortages on things I use all the time.
As we left the house it was misty and very cold but by the time we got into town it was like we'd travelled to another country and it was hot and sunny....absolutely perfect for a wander around the charity shops and the Maker's Market.
Iceland was visited first and the shopping left in the capable hands of the delivery man while we went and did our wandering. Bargains from the charity shops were purchased....books, two massive pieces of fabric for £1 and a blouse for myself for £1 so a good morning out.

Back home I did a little more sorting out in the sewing room until it was time to feed us all and then a very relaxing evening on the sofa watching Vikings....yes again....lol.

No lawns mowed yesterday as Andy says it is still too wet. We have very heavy clay soil and it does take a good while for things to start drying up.

Today DD is cooking lunch and once I have finished on here I will be sewing until it's time for Dancing on Ice and Call The Midwife so another relaxing day which should top up my energy levels for things I want to get done in the week.

I hope you are all having a wonderful and relaxing weekend.
Sheila-x-