Get a grip !

BLIMEY have just seen weather forecast - Dry but cloudy 15 degrees Saturday & sunday but then


ARCTIC CONDITIONS AND SNOW next week !!! even in the south :eek:

I'm sure if you can cover them they should be ok SW.


Well the forecasters were right, it is cloudy today, but there is a brisk wind and someone over the back from me has their sheets out on the line already and they are blowing well so it should be good drying weather. Will do DS's bedding today when he gets up to go to the gym & go to work.

I am going to do some batch cooking today. I think I will make the following:

- 400g cubed beef will make 2 x beef madras with cauli, broccoli & butternut squash added

- 500g minced beef will make 4 x burgers = 2 meals for DS

- 700g chicken breasts will tray bake 200g tandoori, 200g x sage and bacon and 200g x teriyaki = 3 meals for DS, I will include the other 100g in with the tandoori for my lunch today.

I have a huge sage plant growing in my garden and each year it produces lovely spikes of purple flowers, then I chop it back when it has finished flowering and it just keeps on growing - one of the few survivors in my garden and good for cooking.

DS has breakfast from freezer today & chilli for dinner from freezer to take to work on late shift. He is having lunch provided at the gym today.

I want to wash down my living room window this weekend as it is splattered with bird poop similar to my car Long handled sponge comes in handy. Hopefully once the kids are back at school next week and running around on the school field there will be less birds around ! Other than that its hoovering and ironing ready to go back to work on Monday.

To be honest I am sick of cooking and I didn't do any yesterday lol. Curry was nice, I had a portion for my tea. Didn't get round to making the burgers, I will do those tomorrow.

DS put his work clothes on to wash and went to the gym at 10am. I hung them out for him and then I put his bedding in and hung that out too. I'm planning on doing mine tomorrow.

I did a bit of pottering in my garden. A friend gave me a rose last autumn time, I'm not sure what kind it is but it sends out long stalks so may be some sort of climber. I found some canes in the shed today and made a wigwam rose frame with some string also found in the shed. I found some cable ties in DS's tool kit so used a few of those to tie up the bottom of the long stalks and then wound them round the canes. Hopefully that will do the trick and best of all it was "free" using stuff I already had

I also weeded a small area round the rose and can hardly move now, I am hobbling like an old woman

When I brought the washing in I found a hole in one of the pillow cases where the seam has come undone so I turned it inside out and did a bit of make do and mend with some hand sewing. Not great, but its fixed and you can't see my terrible stitching when its turned the right way out again

I've been relaxing watching tv for last few hours. It is still sunny out, hope its nice again tomorrow.

Not quite managed everything I wanted to do over the last 2 weeks, but am happy with what has been done. I think you have achieved loads SW considering you have been ill !


Sun is shining this morning so I am going to put a wash on and do my bedding.


I've started using MSE advice to get home insurance quotes but I need to measure how far away next doors tree is !! One of the questions is whether the property has any trees over 10m tall within 5m of the property... I have no idea how tall it is, or how far away it is !! It is at the bottom of their garden so there is nothing nearby to compare it to, but I think it is roof height and google tells me a standard house is 20m.


I've done some other quotes that don't ask about trees and also co-op offering £50 food voucher, but they are all coming in much more than the direct line quote I did the other day. Will get outside with my tape measure once I've got dressed