And now we go again...

EssexHebridean

Morning all! Yes - I’ve always been pretty impressed with the speed of 🐙 customer service but they excelled themselves this time, definitely no complaints! 

Well it seems we’re in for another roastingly hot day today - in fact it already is! I was intending to it off washing until tomorrow when electricity prices are forecast to be super low through part of the day, but in reflection I’ve decided that I am going to get a single load through today, hopefully giving me the chance for a couple more tomorrow as that then may mean I can get a towel load through at some stage too.

plans for today - because if I write them down here I’m accountable…
- my newly purchased trays have arrived so I’ll get the tomatoes rearranged to mean they are all standing in the trays 
- that will free up some saucers for other things that need them.
- get the kitchen island cleared, cleaned down and then only the necessary stuff put back! 

- use the carpet cleaner on another section of living room carpet,
- use the carpet cleaner on the spare room carpet including attacking the stains!
- shopping (Lil’s)
- claim my free bakery item and make use of plus app coupons on things we’ll use! 

- go back through the checkout to use the free fruit item as I won’t be going in there next week

at some stage over the weekend I must ensure that all my camera kit is ready for the airshow next week, and that I have the clothes I want to take earmarked for packing. May get the bigger suitcase out of the loft?

rtandon27

EssexHebridean said:

...plans for today - because if I write them down here I’m accountable…

Exactly this EH!!! I agree 100%

southern_chick

EH I thought you would appreciate this. Definitely not up to your standard of photo but they have just flown over my garden!! 

EssexHebridean

Ahh amazing - always great to see that people have spotted them out in the wild, as it were! 

So - weekend "to do list" then...

- my newly purchased trays have arrived so I’ll get the tomatoes rearranged to mean they are all standing in the trays Yes - this got done, although I have also shifted one back to a saucer so I can spread the others out a wee bit more
- that will free up some saucers for other things that need them. saucers suitably re-distributed
- get the kitchen island cleared, cleaned down and then only the necessary stuff put back! It's clear-er, but not absolutely clear, and I didn't get to the stage of actually giving it a clean.

- use the carpet cleaner on another section of living room carpet, It was warm enough on Friday that I decided it would dry fast enough that I could do the whole of the rest of it - and it's looking SO much  better!
- use the carpet cleaner on the spare room carpet including attacking the stains! Oh my - the difference on this one is just crazy! Even the stains that we thought looked oil or paint based have lifted out almost entirely. I'll be giving it a second go at some stage before too long to see if that brings it up even better.
- shopping (Lil’s) Yeo - done!
- claim my free bakery item and make use of plus app coupons on things we’ll use! Also done - Friday morning.

- go back through the checkout to use the free fruit item as I won’t be going in there next week queues were bad on Friday but we were in the area on saturday so went back in then - some glorious British cherries gained for nothing! 

at some stage over the weekend I must ensure that all my camera kit is ready for the airshow next week, and that I have the clothes I want to take earmarked for packing. May get the bigger suitcase out of the loft? Camera kit is pretty much there, I tracked down and formatted all my cards, tidied up backups and just have one remaining battery left to charge. Suitcase was indeed snared from the loft, and is now pretty much packed too - just final bits to add in this evening. 

I've done sufficient cooking over the weekend that MrEH is at least partly set up with meals for the days I'm away -

- a whole chicken was cooked and portioned, 2 lots for future risottos and one breast in the freezer, 1 breast set aside for using tonight, and two legs + thighs in the fridge for him to use
- Orzo broccoli cheese bake made - will feed us tonight (with chicken added), him one day later in the week, and one of us on another day as one hit the freezer, too! 
- home grown tatties turned into potato salad - half eaten last night and the balance to go with his meals in the week

We got an Al's TGTG bag which gave us a fair bit for our £3.30
- a punnet of raspberries which have been combined with our currants and turned into ice cream
- a lush sounding mango yogurt which I will probably nosh tonight on the excuse of leaving the rest of the ice cream for himself (and thus earning "good wife" brownie points!)
- 2 packs of prepped carrot, broccoli & cauli which have been blanched and half already frozen, I need to deal with the rest this evening.
- a ham & cheese wrap which we had half each of yesterday
- a "specially selected" butter chicken which we had for lunch yesterday - it was delicious!
- 2 packs of grapes, apple & cheese (snack pack type thing) - the fruit was eaten yesterday and I'll take the cheese with me for airshow snackage

The freezer is now - sigh - rammed again. I need to ensure that we really attack the contents when I'm back from RIAT and before we head to the  beer festival...honestly, this seems to be a permanent refrain! I may need to suggest that MrEH does a bit of tetris in there over the next few days...

Sunshine_girl2

I have been in your part of the world this weekend . I took the opportunity to call in to the outlet village you mentioned recently . I enjoyed my stroll round it’s a nice place . I did buy a couple of things . Heading North now on my way home . Enjoy the air show. 

Sun_Addict

You’re as bad as me with the freezer 🤣

foxgloves

Same here with the freezer. Mr F is excellent at freezer tetris but a downside is that I then can't find anything because he'll have decided it was the perfect fit for a small space right at the back of a different drawer.....in a different freezer.
F

rtandon27

haha - I just played fridge tetris with our grocery delivery as after a weekend of no cooking the fridge was not properly empty & surprise last night when I got home that OH was still to ill to cook so we succumbed to takeaway!  There are leftovers of that as well, so the fridge is rather precarious atm!