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katkin

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Sunday will be spent overloading on chocolate after giving it up for lent.

:EasterBun

Perfect .

I gave up potatoes. So looking forward to having some on Sunday but cant decide whether i want baked, roasted, mashed, chipped or what! Ooohh the excitement of it :rotfl:

Living on the edge as usual

Enjoy the chocolate x

LameWolf

I'd forgotten it was Bank Holiday weekend! Since Mr LW retired in March 2016, BH weekends are the same as any other.
We don't celebrate Easter; we're Pagans, and celebrated Ostara back in March; we do have a small box of chocolates that were a present from Ronnie the Jack Russell Terrier, however.

Anyways, we shall do the usual weekend tasks - changing the bedlinen, getting the washing bin emptied, giving the bathroom it's weekly thorough blitz as opposed to the daily swish'n'swipe, including having the bath lift out and giving it a good scrub, and giving the car it's weekly oil, water, lights and tyres check over.

The grass wants cutting, so weather permitting, I shall get out our lovely new lightweight :T lawnmower and do that, and hopefully also some deadheading and weeding; and we have the aforementioned Jack Russell Terrier staying with us til 22nd April, so his needs will be tended to, and he'll get lots of fuss and cuddles.

Thanks to Ronnie being here, I've managed to winkle out of having to go out for a meal on my birthday (which is on 20th) so hooray for that! Mr LW always thinks birthdays should be celebrated, but I'd sooner he take over the cooking for the day and make something at home, because I really don't enjoy eating out.

Mr LW is just about to pop to @ldi for a carton of milk as we're nearly out, but apart from that, hoping for a NSW (No Spend Weekend).

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Have just this afternoon flown back from a few days in Berlin, the washing has just finished in the machine so that will be part of tomorrow as the ironing when it's dry and we've just finished harvesting the leeks in the garden bed so that is simmering on the hob now with a few bottom of the fridge veg for a batch of soup. He Who Knows has put the rotavator through the garden bed so part of tomorrow will also be planting out some everlasting flowers (Helichrysums) and some celeriac seedlings for next winter as we've just harvested (also in the soup) the last one of last years. Cleaning the house will be done, also a small shop to see us through to Tuesday. Food will be Lamb Curry with lamb from the freezer for Sundays main meal, tomorrow we'll have some Bean Burgers with salad for mains, Monday will be salmon, again from the freezer with a jacket potato and some peas and sweetcorn and we might do a boot fair on either Sunday or Monday but will definitely NOT be having 'Easter' special food, special trips out or chocolate. Let the world do it's own silliness, we'll join in again when life is back to everyday on Tuesday!

GreyQueen

I find the very idea of travelling around on Bank Holidays abhorrent, so much stress and aggravation, surely this isn't anyone's idea of fun?!

This morning before it got busy, toddle on foot to the supermarket and laid in supplies for the next several days. Other than going out early on Sunday toflog some kipple at the bootsale (weather permitting) I shall be a proper homebody and love every chilled out minute of it.

charlies-aunt

After a hectic few months at work, I will be spending the bank holiday at home - happily pootling around getting up to date with the washing/ironing/cleaning/gardening/baking with breaks for walking our dogs or riding my horses. Spending no money but feeling relaxed and content


(n.b. in my context, the term "riding my horses" means taking one of my rescued oldies for a very slow meander down the riverbank)

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To me trundling off to the coast to sit in traffic is not my idea of fun yesterday I went with my son-in-law to pick up my DGS new bike from Sittingbourne and although its only 6 miles down the road the roads were crowded. came home and put my feet up and watched Ben hur and did some knitting .salady stuff for lunch and crackers later on in the evening to top up.

Today I have been for a walk around my local park as I woke up with a head ache and a bit of fresh air is better than paracetamols every time. The washing machine had finished and its all hanging out on the line to dry it will be ironed and put away later I am just about to do some baking for my DGS for tomorrow.DGS Ben is home for a few days from Uni so need stoking up on HM cake

But pottering around, and staying away from traffic and crammed shops in the peace and quiet of my own home to me is bliss .
It will be a bitsa day bitsa knitting ,bista reading ,bitsa TV and bista cooking & ironing with lots of cups of tea/coffee in between.
Off to Dds tomorrow afternoon as I go there every sunday for dinner, I will contribute an apple crumble I leave the traffic jams and heaving shops to others I am a happy lady just being at home over the holiday.

JackieO xx

LameWolf

charlies-aunt wrote: »

(n.b. in my context, the term "riding my horses" means taking one of my rescued oldies for a very slow meander down the riverbank)

Oh, that sounds truly wonderful. Due to increased disability I haven't been on horseback for 15 years now; but taking an beloved oldie for a slow meander sound like bliss.

I usually have dogs booked in over the bank holidays, which is a wonderful excuse to let those that want to spend the weekend snarled up on the motorways get on with it; Ronnie and I had a lovely trundle out this morning (using my mobility buggy) as he felt energetic enough to do a reasonable distance on the Milton Keynes "redways". :T

Shropshirelass

We went into the village this morning to collect order from butcher, place was heaving, came back with a headache! Hope we can avoid all commercial premises now until Tuesday. I expect it's old age, but I'm feeling peace and quiet are vastly underrated, perhaps because big business would struggle to make a profit from them.

maddiemay

When OH and I lived and worked in the south-west (30 years) we were forced to join the throngs on the motorways on high days and holidays if we wanted to see anything at all of our families, as we lived 150+ miles away from all the oldies and the younger generation. Now that we are retired bliss is pottering around on bank holidays, doing all the normal stuff we do everyday.

No big meals or eating out arranged, but having been quite poorly for a long while and now feeling a little better I have planned to make Easter biscuits and try a delish looking recipe for GF hot cross buns, fortunately neither or us needs to count the calories, we enjoy our food, but don't (luckily) have a need to eat to excess.

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I am a homebody too. I went on a solo cycle ride, ten miles, along very peaceful and lovely lanes in open countryside. I crossed 9 cyclists in small groups or solo, 2 cars and 3 horses. It was blooming lovely being out. Yesterday I went to the tip and there were several caravans on the main road, I live in a tourist area but they tend to stay on the busy roads, the lanes are very quiet and we cannot hear the roads at all from the garden, just birdsong and bubbling water from my water features, they only bubble in the sun and the sun is out again

My car is empty of fuel but I am not filling up until next week, am going no-where. I have enough food and more than enough to occupy me, hobbies af all sorts and reading, radio and tv sometimes. No stress at all, no travelling. I feel so lucky