Easter Bank Holiday Monday, 06-04-26

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Easter Bank Holiday Monday.  The sun is starting to shine and the forecast for today round here is absolutely amazing, perfect bank holiday weather.  

First of all, thank you so much for all your helpful comments to yesterday's post.  It is all very much appreciated.

Our Easter roast was delicious.  The lamb went down a great for Alex and me and I have just finished dealing with the leftovers - I was just too tired yesterday so shoved it all in the fridge.  So now I can have another roast dinner this evening as everything, veg and all, is leftovers, plus five more portions of meat for roasts and lots of shreds for pasta, soup, etc.  The bones and other bits are just simmering gently in the slow cooker - the stock won't be amazing but it's all flavour and I can reduce the results down and freeze them as ice cubes.

I thought you might like to see the finished 'hampers'.  I forgot to take a photo so I've nicked Beth's.

And thank you, Annabeth, for sending me that alternative pattern.  

(By the way, those brown lumpy things in the middle are a couple of home made not cross buns).

Beth gave me this.  She belongs to a craft group that meets online.  She chooses what she wants to make, pays her dosh, receives everything needed and at a set time everyone piles in to one of those online meeting places and makes their thing together.  What a lovely idea!
The little box should have mini eggs but we're both avoiding chocolate so she put pretty pens in instead.  Just perfect.

I was so tired by the evening, went to bed early, slept through and woke at around half six this morning.  Perfect!

So - today.

Lindsey's loaves did fine yesterday but I knew I could stay awake long enough to bake them so I shoved them in the fridge overnight and will bake them this morning.
There was a load of whites in the machine but I left them there overnight because ditto and they're just going through a super quick wash to freshen them up before they go out on the line.  Must make the most of the sunshine!

Apart from that, the garden is crying out for attention so, given the good forecast, that's on the list for today too.

And I have books to read, TV to watch and crochet to work on.
Sounds perfect, doesn't it?  
Have a great bank holiday, everyone.  xx