Good morning, everyone. It's not yet three o'clock and I'm wide awake. A right pain, this is! I have learnt that there's no point tossing and turning and vainly trying to get back to sleep but it's best to come down, do stuff and wait for tiredness to return. I don't have anything to wake early for so that's OK. I used to hate it when I had a day's teaching ahead of me but now - no problem.
I had a very pleasant time at the 'do' yesterday evening, despite there being very little I wanted to eat. It wasn't a problem though, I held off until getting home and I was rather pleased that I didn't actually want it. Big progress! What was great was seeing old friends again. I haven't been into school all that much this term, you see. To my delight, the hearing aids did their job; I could hear and engage in chat for the first time in ages and didn't feel at all isolated. Happy!
Earlier in the day, we sorted out some cupboards and Beth took away some stuff to see if she could sell it on eBay. I wouldn't really bother but if she wants to have a go, all power to her. A bit of cash is better than no cash at all.
Today is likely to be an easy day. Beth and I might be going to the allotment to do a bit of planting and make a list of what needs doing which I can then work through in the next few weeks. It's allotment bed time for the winter now.
I might prep the roast potatoes for Christmas, not that I really need to do all that much prepping this year. It's to save time on The Day and that's not going to be a problem but it is always nice to have a few roasties in the freezer anyway. I need to dig out any frozen cranberries too and make some sauce at some point and I've printed off our favourite sausage roll recipe - Delia's vegetarian 'sausage' rolls. We MUST have some of them; they are an all time favourite.
The other thing I have to do is deal with a full washing basket. It's one of those certain things to go with death and taxes - washing (and the resulting ironing)!
I can feel tiredness returning so I will stop now and see if I can get back to sleep. When your day starts, I hope it's a good one.
I do hope you managed to get back to sleep. It's the same here, if I wake up at some ungodly hour, I come downstairs. 5.30 this morning, which is practically a lie in for me!
ReplyDeleteI did, thanks, Sooze. I don't mind four o'clock but before three was a bit of a slap round the chops really. Still, if we need extra sleep, a nap during the day is very much on the cards, isn't it?
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I have spells of wakefulness and I can’t function during the day. I just accept it now and try some mindfulness to put me back over. Happy weekend.
ReplyDeleteI was able to have a good snooze this afternoon. It certainly did the trick! :-)
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Prep the roasties for Christmas! Are you bonkers, Joy? It's November, or hadn't you noticed, ha ha! We do such things on Christmas morning, we might prep the rest of the veg the day before but we like spuds freshly peeled, and freshly cooked. They're not the same after being in the freezer, girl. But if you feel like doing this, being one step - nay, several steps - ahead, then do it! But I still think you're bonkers - go out and smell the roses or whatever you can smell in November instead! (Oh perhaps not, you might just prick your nose on a flowerless rose bush!) Only joking, dear girl!
ReplyDeleteI often wake in the night like you did, husband and I often have sleepless nights now, I think it's an age thing as when I chat to other elderlies they say the same. Perhaps we simply don't need as much sleep as when we were younger, I know I don't.
Glad your hearing aids are up to snuff!
Margaret P
PS I can be smug about the roasties - we're going to son and daughter in law's for Christmas day; neither husband nor I will have to prep any spuds, ha ha!
:-) Not bonkers at all
ReplyDeleteOh, I love my home made frozen roasties, they are delicious. I suppose it is how one does them that makes them different from shop bought ones. They're not just for Christmas.
It's ever so handy to just be able to lift a few from the freezer and pop them straight in the oven.
I started doing this when I had the whole family over for Christmas and wanted to enjoy Christmas morning with them - anything that gave me time out of the kitchen was a Good Thing. It worked so well, I have done the same every year since.
I think in winter I'd rather smell the roasties than any roses that are brave enough to still be in flower. lol
How lovely to be away for Christmas. You will enjoy it so much.
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Well, Joy, I must try your frozen roasties. I make roasties by par-boiling small potatoes and then draining them, and adding a little rapeseed oil to the pan in which they have boiled (so all is still hot). I give them a swish around in the pan, add flakes of Maldon sea salt and put them onto a tray and into a hot oven. Do you do yours differently? Perhaps using beef dripping which would make the truly the best roasties in the world, but so few people use dripping today.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm very fortunate. I have my sous chef here (aka Husband) and he preps all the veg at Christmas. Under instruction, of course, ha ha!
Margaret P
I was awake at this time too - wish I had known you were I might have had a chat!
ReplyDeleteI spent Saturday morning until lunchtime like a zombie because of the lack of sleep.
Interested in the potatoes please will you say how you do them? I am slowly reading through yòur blog- love it!!
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