A lazy day - starting with a lie in

So - yesterday I met up with my good fiends, Trisha and Julia - and came face to face with the power of this blog.  Originally we had arranged to meet up (which we do every couple of months or so) have a quick tea and then settle down to watch a film.  However there was nothing on that grabbed our attention so we agreed to meet up, have tea and a catch up.  That had given me a "no meat " headache and I started to research the different restaurants and realised that the choice for vegetarians is limited -  particularly if, like me, you don't like tomatoes.  I had even contemplated having a carbonara and picking out the bacon - but that would still have felt like I was cheating.  However - panic not - as Trisha walked up and we started to discuss where to eat she said - well of course you're not eating meat this week are you?  I had totally forgotten that I had given her the blog address and, apparently, she has been following the blog!! (NO photos I am afraid - my battery on the phone died!!). 

Dinner was, as described yesterday, jacket potato, beans and cheese.  But even then there was a grumpy old woman moment.  "Would I like a meal deal - the same jacket with diet pepsi and two slices of garlic bread for £5.49?"  " No thank you can I just have the jacket etc and the diet pepsi please" "Yes, of course, that will be £5.99 please" "Why - can't I have the meal deal for £5.49 but just not have the garlic bread?" "No, sorry, you have to have the garlic bread" " Okay then - may I have the meal deal then - my fiends will eat the bread or I will throw it
away"  So - I pay my money, am given the tray with the jkt potato plus filling and then question where the garlic bread is.  "Oh I need to cook that first" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I give up!


Before we met I had a chance to do some shopping for our holiday and bought a long dress.  Its only a simple cotton one but, with a shrug / pashmina, will do nicely - we are going to the outdoor opera - Aida - so it will be nice to wear a frock for a change.  I must wear more open tops in the garden, however, if I am to look less "white".  I also managed to nip into M & S café and get my much wanted spiced ice bun.  Unfortunately they seemed to overfill the coffee - it took three napkins to mop up the spill on the saucer!!





So - onto today.  I woke up at, ahem, 9:15am!  Must have needed it as they say.  So first on the agenda was a leisurely breakfast whilst catching up with some soaps.  Then it was onto cleaning the freezer.  Moving the freezer away from the side wall revealed a mess - Denise had said not to bother cleaning it but I couldn't let it go like this!  I am dreading the mess that will be left when the freezer goes though!

With freezer

Without!

guess what i'm doing tomorrow!!

Looking at the weather it was becoming a little overcast so I thought it would be prudent to mow the back lawn next and get that job out of the way.  After lunch it was onto some sewing - Trisha says that I sew too much - sorry Trisha!!  It was time to start the July block from the UK quilting bee and I can listen to the week's episodes of The Archers whilst I do it.

Dinner was smoked haddock risotto with a topping of poached egg - not only is the recipe from the third recipe book but the meal marks the end of the penultimate non-meat day - thank goodness.  Its not that I am a huge meat eater but knowing that you can't eat it makes it feel worse somehow. Dessert was raspberries n yoghurt - these raspberries are coming thick and fast now!