Sunday, 28-01-24

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another cold and frosty start to the day.  Proper winter weather, cold but fine, and fingers crossed it stays like this.

Lindsey's pop up clothes shop event went brilliantly.  As I said yesterday, it was crowded from the word go, I've just looked at the Giving Page and it's just a fiver short of £2,100.  Isn't that amazing?  That's pretty much it although there might be a few late donations, I don't know.  What's left is going to various charity shops or into drop off points so, hopefully, everything will be used one way or another.  It won't just go into landfill.

Brilliant, Lindsey, a resounding congratulations.

After that, I went on to Sainsbury's which is just a short drive down the road from Shimmy Studio and seemed to spend an awful lot but at least half is for next month - things like their dishwasher and washing powder.  I also found some of their sauce flour that I've been wanting to try.  Sadly, it looks like they've stopped stocking the Fage 2% Greek yogurt which I liked so much - they haven't had it in for more than a couple of months now.

Today, the biggie is that Beth and Alex are coming over for Sunday lunch.   When I went to Morrisons, I found a nice piece of silverside that wasn't too shockingly costly and that's now in the slow cooker.  Well, half of it is because it was big enough to cut nicely into two.  The other bit is in the freezer, of course.  How did we manage without freezers, eh?

I've been busy knitting.  I'm dividing my time between scarves for the homeless and tiny little hats and jackets for premature baby units - I have several 4 ply patterns now, thanks for your help, plus a new blog to follow.  This one - https://mariannaslazydaisydays.blogspot.com/  and it's lovely (if you like knitting, etc).

I need to read back over all your lovely blogs too - I'm so behind, all out of date and really sorry for not keeping up.  That's what I will do after doing below . . .

I really need to get going and sort out the jungle I call my living room.  I've prepped loads of veg so there will be lots of lovely leftovers to use for other meals, saving me time and power.  It won't take long to tidy up, I just need to get going with it so I will love you and leave you now.  Have a great Sunday.  xx