What are you making for dinner?

goldfinches

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Oh @Brie you do sound fed up and thoroughly disenchanted with home life at the moment. Perhaps you should go on strike for a couple of days or even go away for a weekend on your own. Could you fancy a residential art or craft course this May? Hope you feel better soon.

I had another portion of the marry me cauliflower with some salt and pepper tofu and cous cous.

Brie

@goldfinches - thanks for the kind thoughts.

fed up with my covid/cold not disappearing quickly and feeling tired. but I know I'm getting better just not as quick as I'd like.

also annoyed that bits of life can be so unnecessarily stressing. i.e. I finally got round to contacting a gardener as my last went just wasn't reliable cancelling for emergencies every other time which stretched a monthly visit into every other month. I had bought bulbs to be planted in October and she cancelled then we were away and then I got a vague text about was I wanting her back in January….. So I got hold of a different gardener last week who does the neighbours and he said he'd book me in for next week and text me the details, costs etc. Nothing received. I'll send him a msg to ask what's happening. It should be easy but often isn't. I'd like to get a cleaner as neither of us is great at keeping things reasonable but the OH thinks it will be too intrusive (for him).

so to amuse myself I'm looking at booking a holiday for my birthday (ending with 0) but that wouldn't be until December. OH always books the holidays and always grumbles about how hard it is but I think he makes things overly complicated by booking different locations with concerts at each and restaurants researched. They're always lovely but the "woe is me!" beforehand I can do without. So considering either a drive to Leipzig and Karlsbad or a flight to Prague. We were in Leipzig last December which was lovely but have never made it to the Czech State. (I keep wanting to say Czechoslovakia, which shows my age)

p.s. last night ended up with me making pasta sauce from scratch - shallots, mushrooms, courgette, passata, slug of left over red wine, fresh basil etc. OH cooked the pasta and served up and I told him strictly just a small portion for me which meant there was pasta left over (chucked out as we wouldn't use it) as well as some of the sauce. I saved that as there's enough to go on a jacket potato which I know I will enjoy.

and on the plus side our chiropodist is expected shortly which is always nice and relaxing. and I will think about the "days away" if I can find something I like.