Backdating.. cause I'm a slacker!
Monday. Usual Monday Stuff. Having trouble keeping up with UK photo labelling. Just hard work. In the afternoon David came home with a Lego Yoda to build! Someone at his work had conceded defeat with it and given it to David to do. He sat down in the late afternoon and didn't move until he'd finished yet - like five hours later (I brought him dinner of leftovers). Although the first hour was pulling apart the beginnings of the work that had been done, and finding the mistakes which would have made it very hard for his colleague to have progressed with.
As usual, there's always a tonne of new Lego pieces I've never seen before!
Tuesday. Leftovers for dinner. Started watching season 12 of BBT (David brought up his Blurays). Then watched 101 Dalmatians - the Glenn Close version, with Mr Weasley and House as the thugs :) None of the animals speak in the live action remake so it's a little more human focussed, but not bad. Pretty sure I've seen it before a long time ago. Also tried out Coles shopping online which we haven't done in a few years.
Wednesday. Catching up on photo labelling from the past couple of nights - labelled nearly four hundred photos, although over a hundred of those were of the bird of prey show at Warwick Castle. Ended up only 67 photos behind for the week. Also made a random gnocchi since David wasn't home and I could use tomatoes.
Thursday Stumpy was being naughty and trying to get out. He'd actually gotten on top of the light before he slipped off when I got this picture.
Friday we had the Coles delivery. Some of the meat I ordered wasn't available, and they gave us a block of cheese because they didn't have cubes. Pretty sure you can set replacement options, but ultimately shopping online is a bit of a pain because if something isn't available you don't find out until they're about to deliver it. In store you could just get something else, but online you end up going without.
In the evening we headed out to the club. Got the fire going, and had some drinks and snackages, which turned out to be dinner. Whoops.
The owners of our old van were trying to burn out a big stump.
Went up to the shed and chatted to people for a bit, then went to bed.
Saturday. Terrible sleep. Was awake from 2-4:30 or so. Had a bit of a sleep in and a very slow start. Got a fire going again.
There was a working bee on the day. I asked John for a job and he pointed me at the glass sliding door to the sun room and said see if you can get the concrete spatter off that (from when they poured the slab). So I spent ages with a fingernail, a paint scraper and some vinegar getting it looking beautiful.
Others were redoing the pool decking that was completely rotten and very dangerous.
In the evening we were supposed to have a bonfire, but it threatened rain so we just hung out in the shed (just under the covid people limit for the space). Didn't stop me from cooking marshmallows in the fire!
I was pretty bummed that I wasn't doing my Christmas in July dinner that night - have done it every year for quite a few years now. I even took some roast pork and stuff for a potato bake, but I wasn't sure who was going to be using the oven so it was all too hard so we just had snackages, although did have some of Nick/Tab and Dee's food which was nice of them.
Sunday morning we came home. I was feeling lost, after having lost over half my weekend at home. In the afternoon cooked for several hours straight - cooked up taco mince for later in the week, the roast pork, brussels sprouts with bacon, epic potato bake, a rocky road and some cheese and bacon balls, using cream cheese that was best before May. It was totally fine. I'd picked the wrong thing from the Coles order (another disadvantage of shopping online - too easy to make mistakes and pick the wrong thing) - taco shells instead of a taco kit - so had to make my own taco spice. I think I used about a teaspoon each of chili powder (bit less of that), garlic powder, herbs, paprika, cumin, corn flour, salt and pepper. I was already feeling delicate when David snuck into the kitchen at one point and scared the hell out of me. I might have had a meltdown on the spot. And then everyone was sulky with each other all night. Hurrah.
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