Sorry about the lack of application but I’ve had another action-packed day.
First off, a lie in, followed by a late breakfast of sausage, bacon, beans and potato cakes. It was an excellent breakfast cooked by my dear, kind wife.
I feel I have to call her that because (a) she is dear to me (b) she is very kind and (c) she is still grumbling that I forced her out of bed to make me breakfast. It was 14 hours ago, can she not forget?
I’m arranging breakfast tomorrow. McDonald’s, eaten in the car on the way to work. We can pretend we’re high-powered executives.
Next, we went to Men in Sheds to have hot cross buns with the old codgers. They are looking forward to Spring. Julia has been hatching plots and extracting help and equipment for the MENCAP garden. We heard the tractor running and watched the plough go up and down on the newly repaired hydraulics.
I didn’t take any pictures because I was feeling miserable and in pain. It was, I suspect, a combination of too much walking the night before, and the thought of returning to the farm.
Whatever it was, a couple of hours later I was feeling much perkier and navigating my way round a bookshop. I have a new Janet Evanovich whodunit to read and a book about Great War tanks. I’m being very careful about book buying these days, as I’m still giving bags of them to charity, and I want to make sure I’m giving more away than I buy.
Finally, we met up for a family meal as my uncle and two of my cousins were down in Peterborough visiting my Dad. It was a convivial party, ending with the male faction taking on the pudding menu as the female contingent looked on and thought virtuous thoughts.
Uncle Tom tried the Gin and Tonic trifle and the rest of us stuck to apple crumbles. The apple crumble was excellent. The trifle, we were told, picked up towards the bottom half. That would be the half with the gin-soaked sponge…
I don’t know Janet Evanovich – I must investigate.
She’s very funny but a little racier than Jane Marple. 🙂
Ahhh! Sounds good – thank-you 🙂
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Looking forward to spring: will it ever arrive this year?
We had a week of Spring last week – then it disappeared.
Janet Evanovich…very fun light reading. You are a man of assorted tastes! Sounds like a great family time.
I’ve not been reading much recently due to eBay and the need to read various catalogues for work. JE is great light relief, as is an evening out with my uncle. 🙂
“What does your father call your mother?” “He doesn’t call her anything, he likes her.”
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Action-packed indeed. I hope there will be no after effects
None at all, I’m skipping round like a spring lamb, albeit a spring lamb with a morose attitude.
I came for the Battenberg cake, but it seems there was a lot of other stuff to eat….
Yes, the proliferation of comestibles has been my downfall. 🙂
Gin-soaked sponge sounds like quite a kick.
He seemed to enjoy it. 🙂