Its been a strange but productive day

Last night I was watching an old "Have I got news for you" which finished around 11:15pm.  Since today would normally have been my pay day and I was awaiting for some travel expenses - I thought - shall I wait up until after midnight and see if the expenses are in?  Now I have no idea what time the bank payments are made - but let me tell you - its not 12:10am!!  When I woke up this morning part of the expenses had been paid in - but not all.  So I emailed school who told me that there was a glitch and that some people had not actually received any wages today - they will all be paid on Friday.  Now clearly I can wait for travel expenses - but wages being late in these days of 24/7 communications????

All of the above is just really to indicate that today should have been another tired mooching around day - made all the worse by Katie barking at 4:30am!!!  Trust me they were put straight back to bed after being let out!!  Instead I set to completing some of the jobs that had been hanging around.  Firstly there was the topper for the small set of drawers - a topper to match the table runner.

Next there was today's random act of kindness - I baked two cherry and almond cakes using a recipe that I first learnt when I was much much younger and had a day off poorly.  The cookery program (some form of country kitchen) on tv showed you how to make a cherry cake without the cherries falling to the bottom of the cake - its my go to cake recipe when I need one.  I thought that I could take one tonight when I go sewing and give the other one tomorrow to Jean when I pop around to see if she's okay.  (I also have another idea for a RAK for her but will reveal all tomorrow).




After lunch  (a very strange affair of mixed veg, chicken off cuts and instant cheese sauce - can't you tell that I am trying to run the freezer down?) I then set to using some oil cloth to line a wicker basket that is in the conservatory holding my gardening shoes, gardening gloves and pruners.  I have so much fabric around that I am trying to use up what I've got if I can - but was lucky to find a red check oil cloth which seems to match the red / brown strange combo that's going on.   I also found some green / brown striped woollen fabric that I am going to "audition" to see if its suitable to cover the chairs at the dining table.









I don't know about you - but its freezing here - definitely jumper time.  But the weather forecast says that it will be dry for the rest of today but raining tomorrow.  Therefore after walking the dogs I set to filling the green garden rubbish bin which is due for collection this Thursday morning - I am blowed if I am paying £25 a year to not have it emptied - there's a lot of garden to get rid of!

Dinner tonight is roast chicken - a luxury for a Tuesday, I know, but another let's empty the freezer meals.  That should take care of some meals this week - soup tomorrow if its this bad again.  And then its off to sewing - just two classes to go before we break for the summer holiday.

Toothwatch - the salt washing seems to be working - or I am getting used to the pain - the tooth is much better today - only hurts when ..... I am washing it with salt water.  Go figure!!