Monday

Today's garden happy - my breakfast today, with bacon and mushroom.  Yum.  And there should be more to pick by the end of the day or tomorrow morning.
(Coming second is a proper sized yellow courgette, not the titchy ones the plant has been offering up so far.)

 Good morning!  Yesterday turned out to be a very pleasant day.  Not too hot, plenty of sunny intervals and a lovely breeze.  Even better, today sounds like being much the same, according to the Beeb.  No complaints here.

Yesterday was good.  As expected, very quiet and peaceful.  I put in the Just Eat order good and early amd got the early slot I asked for.  None of us are particularly stay-awakers so a five thirty delivery was just perfect.
So in the afternoon, I got out the tables, plates, etc, etc, etc, and organised the kitchen - not that it took all that much organising!

Sadly, one of us couldn't make it but we still had a really great time.  Loads of chatter and laughing and we thoroughly enjoyed the food - I will definitely order from them again - the lamb bhuna was so good!
There were leftovers, of course.  I had rather stupidly ordered some tandoori chicken (in case we didn't have enough!!) and that never got to the table - we had loads having gone from four to three.  And there were the usual leftovers plus what I'd ordered for the one who couldn't come.

However - Alex likes curry/Indian food so Beth went home with stacks of bits and bobs for him and the chicken in now in three portions in the freezer, being a pretty SW-friendly kind of thing, once it is de-skinned and de-boned.  I might even then boil up the bones to make a spicy sort of stock.  May as well.

Beth helped me clear up afterwards so it didn't take long.  That's one of the joys of a take away - no pots and pans!  And there was quite a pretty sunset too.

Today is back to the normal routine thankfully.  I'm going to start the day with strawberry and raspberry picking at Lathcoats and I might make some wee pots of jam for the girls with some of what I bring home.

Later on, it's Monday circuits - there may not be many of us there today.  The school holidays makes things tricky and, in fact, next week, Lindsey changes to a 'blended' delivery of classes in the studio at her home and live online, to accommodate those who have children to be with.

And then I will probably go straight to the pool and do my last fifteen lengths for the GOSH fundraiser.  I didn't swim at all last week so it's time to get back into the pattern again.
Usually, at that time, the pool is pretty empty but it might be a different matter during the school holiday.  I will go and find out!

So that's today.  It should be a good day, all in all.  I hope yours is too - enjoy it and have a really happy time, whatever you do.  xx