Sunday, 22 December 2024

Day 5468 & 5469 (21 & 0/12/2024)

Feeling slightly better but we had a full day, as we drove Lee back to Worthing.


The journey was OK and thankfully Tim had made some lovely food for us when arrived, although neither of us could eat it all.



Salad and a lovely garlic mushroom macaroni cheese. 


Then a drive back .


Sunday we were both feeling better but still far from 100% but my wife was off to work and went to see my parents for breakfast.




Day 5467 (20/12/2024)

I had a good sleep but still felt rough in the morning.


I did some work and to save cooking in the evening, we got fish & chips, which was nice but neither of us had much of an appetite.




Day 5466 (19/12/2024)

I woke feeling even worse but dosed myself up and went off to Bath for a works Christmas Do.


So I had to dress-up, which I don't like and I cut myself shaving, so I wasn't feeling at my best but caught the train. 



Got to Bath a bit early but was soon drinking and eating.





Forgot to take a photo of the table, and of my soup.


I even forgot to take a picture of my afters, it may have been the drink :-) 





It was a great time but I was flagging at the end and went straight to bed when I got home.



Day 5465 (18/12/2024)

Annoyingly I've gone down with a cold, and I've had work come in, and probably worse of all, we have never been so behind in our preparations, and it was clear that we just wouldn't have time to get the normal decorations down from the loft and to decorate the house, so I popped out to "Propper job" and bought a load of decorations and had the front-room decorated for when my wife came home, which I think she appreciated.


In the evening I did a Mexican, with lots of Quesadillas.









Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Day 5464 (17/12/2024)

My wife is still full of a cold. 


Doing a bit of work and we finished of the curry in the evening. 




Day 5463 (16/12/2024)

My wife was still full of a cold & cough. 


I did some work and made a curry in the evening, using the leftover lamb in ours and lots of vegi's in the one for the kids.










It wasn't perfect but it was OK.






Saturday, 14 December 2024

Day 5461 & 5462 (14 & 15/12/2024)

I got up to do some work,letting my wife have a much earnt lie-in but unfortunately when she did get up she wasn't feeling great.  


Thomas had been out shopping after work and when he came home found a box of biscuits had been delivered to us but left out by the side of the house and was soaked thru. 



Luckily the biscuits inside were all individually wrapped & perfect but we have no idea who they are from. 



Did some work but tried to relax a bit. 


In the evening my wife was feeling well enough to go to her Christmas Do and Thomas made a very tasty Asian broth, tofu & noodle diner.



I took Lee with me to see my parents for breakfast.  

Did a nice roast leg of lamb dinner in the evening, which annoyingly my wife was too ill to really enjoy.




With vegi options for the kids. 



It was lovely. 





Friday, 13 December 2024

Day 5460 (13/12/2024)

Just about caught up with my sleep. Made me & Lee some nice poached eggs on muffins for breakfast, then had work to do.



In the evening made quick salmon & new potatoes, with veg & hollandaise sauce.  As we had a fairly big & late lunch I didn't do many potatoes.   



It was very tasty. 




Thursday, 12 December 2024

Day 5459 (12/12/2024)

It was nice to have a lie-in, then do a bit of work. 


Made a very lovely vodka rigatoni in the evening, used single cream instead of double (as my wife did the shopping) and I think it was better than normal.




Plenty of Vodka :-)


Then, when the Vodka has cooked off, add the cream.


And then the cheese.


And lastly the basil.






It was one of my best Vodka Rigatonis, enjoyed by the whole family.




Day 5458 (11/12/2024)

We were up really early to get to Plymouth for 7:30am for Lee. We dropped them off and went for a nice breakfast at Plymouth Hoe. 




Everything went well and we were all back in Taunton by 1:30pm but unfortunately there was a power-cut, so we were sat in the cold & dark, so at least we could relax. 


The power came on after 7 by which time we were about to order dinner, so carried on and ordered a McDonalds.