Day 813

Day 813...

And once more our morning started with a walk and today we were back out over the fields for 2.3 miles in 46 minutes.

This morning I spent some time with my brother as we were having some carpet laid at my dads house. We also needed to chat about the inquest into my dads death to decide whether we wanted to attend or not. We have both decided not to attend in person but rather have the ability to dial in to hear the proceedings virtually, should we wish to do so at the time.

After lunch I was able to record an episode of the Disney Dream Girls podcast ready for release this coming Sunday. We hadn't planned on recording this week as Michelle had a very busy weekend ahead of her but unfortunately she has had to cancel her plans as she was not very well. So with an unexpected day off work Michelle decided that she could now manage recording a show...talking Disney always makes us feel better.

And then very late afternoon saw the delivery of my butchers order; 5kg chicken, 5kg steak mince, 4.5 kg bacon and 100 sausages. The delivery company decided that leaving the parcel at my front door wasn't an option and instead left it in a random spot near my house. This meant moving a very heavy and large box that was beginning to fall apart. There was no way that I could pick it up and asking Simon was out of the question so I had to 'walk' the box down some steps and into the house. By the time I'd got the box over the doorstep it had almost fallen apart...not happy with the delivery company at all!

But with all that I shall say see you tomorrow.
xx

Day 718

Day 718...

It was a slow and lazy start to this Saturday, for some reason it felt like the last week had seen each day have an early start although it hadn't really been any different to usual. But suffice to say I allowed myself a much more sedate approach to the day.

With breakfast out the way our focus was our upstairs bedroom that used to be Molly's room but will be turning into a study come craft room. Whilst we have cleared the room of all the unwanted furniture and had painted the walls it is now time to start the transformation.

On Monday we are having new wood floor laid and so today we needed to clear the room of the items that we have been storing up there, the mattress (soon to be replaced with a sofa bed) and of course the carpet. It didn't take us too long to move everything...well I say we it was mostly Simon as I was finishing off our online grocery shop order ready for collecting tomorrow. We lifted the carpet and the underlay and then Simon prised up all of the gripper rods. This then necessitated a hoover round as there was dust and bits of underlay and splinters of wood all over.

Next it was time to load all the carpet and underlay into the back of the car and take a trip over to our local recycling centre. By about 2.30pm we had done what we had set out to do and the room is now already for wood floor to be laid on Monday.

The afternoon was a relaxed affair. After a spot of lunch I moved a few more jigsaw pieces into place while Simon made progress with his latest piece of digital art. Towards the end of the afternoon I decided that the bananas I'd bought over a week ago were ripe enough to make a low carb banana bread. As this contains no sugar it is best to use very ripe bananas so that the natural sugars from them provide the sweetness.

Low carb banana bread

And with that all that is left to do today is see if we can find a stream of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 to watch!

See you tomorrow.
xx