Today I shall be Mainly...

[Julie in Norfolk]

As mentioned elsewhere, my most exciting holiday experience was Campylobacter poisoning. Anyway, NOT TONIGHT, tonight we are out for a meal for our 41st Wedding Anniversary.

[Sue]

Happy anniversary. My hubby and brother share a birthday today

[PanBiker]

Happy Anniversary Julie, enjoy your meal.

[Wendyf]

Happy anniversary Julie, and commiserations on your illness Sue.

[Stanley]

Congratulations to all of you for simply surviving!
I shall be keeping my mind occupied in the shed trying to avoid thinking about some potentially bad news that has come in this morning..... There's always something!!

[Sue]

Flying home from a 4 day break in Iceland. What a shame I have been ill for half of it. I just want to get home and go to bed. Nasty virus infection

[Stanley]

Just what you need on a holiday! Hard luck Sue.....



I shall be starting a new phase of my engine. The basic winch is finished now and I have to address the entablature, the drive from the engine and the relative levels. All good absorbing stuff!

[Stanley]

I hope you are improving Sue......
Shopping day today and other matters which will interfere with shed work but I shall get what I can done.....

[Sue]

Afraid not Stanley, I now do have a cold on top of the laryngitis.

[Tizer]

Take it easy Sue, don't let anything cause you mental stress while your down.

[Stanley]

Fingers crossed for you Sue.
I have a morning of cooking, washing, writing and an annual eye test. The shed will lose out today!
Later at 08:00. Writing may go by the board but the washing is done and Wendy would have been cheering me on. I put a lump of mutton in the slow cooker last night with the usual suspects and allowed it to cool overnight. This morning I de-boned it and de-fatted it and cut the meat up, then back into the pot with a can of beans. Then I set to and boiled carrots, steaming chopped spinach and kale at the same time. While all this was going on I fried some lardons and chopped cabbage which I put in another pan, seasoned it, added a drop of carrot water and then added the cooked and browned lardons. That is all mixed together now and cooking slowly on the stove. The steamed kale and spinach are in with the meat together with most of the carrots. The remainder of the carrots are in with the cabbage and bacon. All the pans and the Kenwood cleaned and put away! I feel good, a morning of honest endeavour and I am ready for the optician now.The mutton stew tastes great and will do nothing but improve. As I lower the level in the slow cooker I shall add the cabbage and bacon. No cooking for a day or two. Nobody will eat better!

[Sue]

Voice a bit easier today but another sleepless night coughing. It's been worse since taking the medicine for a dry cough!

[PanBiker]

I hope you are feeling better soon Sue. Sally is full of cold and the aches that go with it at the moment, I have background catarrh but am still functional. Mock exams are over and today is attack planning day for Jacks kitchen, got to break some eggs to make an omelette.

[Sue]

Good luck with the kitchen refit .

[PanBiker]

Thanks Sue, we made a good start today, photos will be in Kitchen Refurb

[Stanley]

All I can say Sue is that in your place I would be on lemon, honey, whisky and cinnamon..... Good luck with it!
I shall not have any cooking to do and will try to resist the urge to write articles..... Only next week's left on the stock pile though so I really should write!

[Sue]

Well Stanley I am afraid I do not like lemon honey and whiskey so it has to be over the counter cough medicine. The voice is returning slowly but I have been coughing and throwing up with it all night. Every time I lie down I start to choke with catarrh and unfortunately it's the medicine for the dry cough that has given me the catarrh . Now I can't get rid of it.

[Stanley]

Old fashioned Covonia Original Bronchial Balsam is good Sue and it tastes nice as well as being very effective,



Pushing on with my winch......

[PanBiker]

Removing architraves.

[Sue]

Going with Claire for the last fitting of her wedding dress. Just over two weeks to go

[Sue]

Ah, still too long, another fitting next week.

[Stanley]

Having a couple of hours in the shed and marvelling at the fact That I have survived this far!



Another small step forward with the winch.

[Stanley]

Usual jobs and a couple of hours in the shed, we are making slow but sure progress....

[Sue]

Cancelled walking and Pilates, still not up to it. My do a bit of sewing

[PanBiker]

Buying a ceiling and other incidentals.