Good morning Mick and all GN's on a lighter but grey and still morning home in North Yorkshire. I drove back yesterday starting with headlights and fog lights for some time, and then that rather more annoying bit where you go through patches of thick mist or fog and then out to sunshine, so it was lights on lights off, sunglasses on sunglasses off! There was nothing like that when I got home. I felt very weary but pleased with my trip, and arrived home, and began to unpack all the bits and pieces. Had some bread and there was food in the freezer, but all of a sudden I thought, no blow it I will go and have sunday lunch at a nearby pub. They are like a home cooked place and do a couple of different meats etc.
The thought of having to first go to Tesco or wherever and then shop and come back probably feeling past it decided me to see a) If I could park b) If there was a space for me as they are usually pretty booked out and I know that lots of families who come to see grannies regularly book there so that the family can enjoy a good meal together without the granny having to do a main meal for everyone and c) If they had something I wanted to eat.
Well for once I did well as it was just before 12 noon, so space in the car park, hardly anyone arrived yet and hurrah they were doing roast beef. Doesnt matter how long you have been cooking and know what you are doing, I think beef is so much better when cooked in a larger piece as they do there and I thoroughly enjoyed my roast beef and a lovely yorkshire pudding - home made too , with good veg and lovely horseradish that bites back and even went mad and had a small glass of merlot to go with it. An extravagance but very worthwhile as I really enjoyed it , with very few people arrived , so was able to go home with no washing up and got some milk on the way home and that gave me the energy to unload the car and begin to get sorted here.
Once everything was put back where it belonged I didnt attempt to do much more than check on emails and post etc and in the evening was happy to watch the last of Call the Midwife for some time I gather. Just what I felt like watching, didnt need a lot of thought but all very well done especially by Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan. There are certain actors who, if I see their name in the cast I would most likely watch as they are always in good plays so people like Judy Dench and Micheal Gambon and Billy Connolly and Stephanie Cole, would get me marking it as something worth watching. Do any of you remember the Dennis Potter Blue remembered hills or the Singing Dectective from years ago?
Today is going to be a "sorta" day . There are plenty of things I need to do including checking some insurance dates and getting some basic shopping in. I dont think I have any appointments but need to check on the calendar and see if I need to put in a prescription, so a very local day. Not moving very well yet but never mind, it was worth the trip and I hope to feel less creaky later on.
Lovely to see a few more daffodils out - I have put groups of miniature daffodils in my borders and they are cheering the borders up but there are plants still sat in pots waiting to be planted and of course the wretched weeds are growing higher than most stuff and annoyingly right in amongst my plants. When I can do them myself I take the time and trouble to carefully go through the lavender or whatever to get to the root of the weed and gently get it out so that the plant is not harmed or roots broken, but if I have to get someone else to do it cant say they will do it to my standard!! Anyway it is quite nice to have no set plans for the day and take it easy.
Hope you have a good trip in to Bicester Mick. Frustrating when the one thing you have asked for help with doesnt get done isnt it? I am totally with you Grandmabatty, as it is bad enough to have to ask for help anyway, and then to see it not done you are frustrated by not being able to flounce out and do it yourself as "the little red hen" used to say. To be reminded that you cant do something easily any more adds to the annoyance factor I think!GrandMattie hope you can drop off for a little more sleep and wake up feeling a bit better. Karmalady fingers crossed for good news on your boiler today. Baubles do hope all goes well for your husband at the hospital today.
Well no sign of any sunshine, no squirrel rushing by but a lone pigeon wandering round under the tree pecking at I dont know what. In fact think that the mist is getting more not less, so at least a morning of domesticity looks likely as not lured away from jobs by a wish to get outside.
Hope to day brightens for us all, and we can manage to tick one or two jobs off the never ending lists!
