Friday, 20-03-26

Good morning, everyone!  Thank you so much for your very kind and understanding comments yesterday.  I feel I've made a mountain out of a molehill really but it's not something that happens all that often (thankfully).  I think I was more shaken than I realised - I had another rough night last night but, apart from a slight hip twinge (foot on pedal???), that's the worst of it now.  I will be able to have a rest this afternoon, maybe out in the garden if the sun shines.  Wouldn't that be nice?

Yesterday was a pottering sort of day really.  In the afternoon I went round to Beth's with her loaves and we had a chat.  She came home later than me because she went to her friends - she set out just after she got my message saying I was home.
Poor Beth - by then the traffic had really built up as the M25 was still closed.  She usually gets off the M11 at Bishop's Stortford as she, unlike me, is not a wuss with complicated roundabout systems but the traffic was backing up along the M11 so she decided to go on to Harlow too.  It was a lot worse by then than it was for me so she had a very slow last part of the journey too but all's well that ends well.

(Just to add, the Bishop's Stortford junction used to be so easy and Stansted such a happy, friendly little airport until 'They' decided to make it London's third airport - we always went that way to see our friends in Mildenhall and on to Elveden Center Parcs when my two were young)

On to today!

I've pulled out of SW as I'm not feeling great but as long as I take things gently, I will be fine.  Dave and Anna are coming round this evening so I have a menu (that sounds posher than it really is) and a Little List.

I'm doing:

Hummus, olives, sourdough crispbreads and carrot dippers
Lasagne, salad, coleslaw and garlic bread

Grapes and pineapple with coffee.

See - not posh.  I have made the hummus, the crispbreads, the red sauce and pasta for the lasagne, some mini rolls for the garlic bread and the rest takes no time at all

Dave and Anna bring the drinks.

So - my little list is . . .

Sort out kitchen

Chill

Clean and dust downstairs (won't take long)
Chill

Ironing - there's not much and I can always hide it in the cupboard if I want!!!

Chill

Make cheese sauce (good old Thermione) and construct lasagne, make salads, get food onto serving plates, etc, set table . . .

And chill.

See - easy peasy!

Happy Friday, everyone.  xx