Saturday, 18 October 2025

Day 5767 (17/10/2025)

Thankfully finished all of my work but still setting up my new laptop. At lunch time we popped out to do a few things and have a coffee. Then in the evening I made Jamie's quick and easy savory pancakes, with mushrooms and sweetcorn.







Which I served with some salad and kippers.



All very tasty but again hard to present nicely.










 

Day 5766 (16/10/2025)

Still busy with loads of work and finishing setting up my new phone and laptop. 


In the evening I did a Jamie meal, which was a very green (healthy) pasta dish, which was tasty but hard to present nicely. 














Tasty but very filling and veery healthy. 





Day 5765 (15/10/2025)

Still very busy with work and busy setting up the phone & laptop. 


When my wife came home from work we had a slice of some banana bread / cake that she made, which was nice. 



Then in the evening she made a Jamie meal, with tofu & dumpling soup / broth, which was very tasty, and also looked lovely. 







Day 5764 (14/10/2025)

Still two sickly people in the house. I made my wife some bagels with cream cheese brunch, which was nice.



Then I got busy with work, and setting up my new phone and laptop. I had forgotten what a pain it is. I had a flu jab in the afternoon, which was unbelievably painful, with a needle much bigger than the fairly pain-free Mounjaro ones.  

In the evening we just had some leftovers, which were really nice. 







Day 5763 (13/10/2025)

Monday, all back to work, to of them with colds but Thomas is covering the office all week, so can't even go off sick.  


I cleared out some old devices from my office, which were cutting edge and essential on our courses only 10 - 15 years ago but now are museum items. 



Odd how I used to have to cart a dozen of these things round, making sure al the sim cards were topped up, which was an expensive pain. Ordered a new phone and laptop for work, as my other one was about 6 years old and starting to have issues. 


We have been watching a new series of Jamie Oliver, and are doing a few of his meals this week, with my wife (wearing a mask) making his cod wrapped in courgette, with tomato & pepper orzo, which was really tasty and very well presented, but did take a while to make and left my wife quite stressed. 







Sunday, 12 October 2025

Day 5761 & 5662 (11 & 12/10/2025)

I was up early to finish off catching up with my work.  My wife was still full of a cold, so I made her brunch and in the afternoon, we decided to have a lazy day, watching the telly and relaxing. 


We finished off the leftover soup in the evening and a made some cardamom rice pudding for afters. 


My wife felt a bit better, so went in to work on Sunday. I saw my parents for breakfast, them tidied the garden a bit when I go back, but had a slight accident with on of the gnomes. 





Then I made a nice roast pork dinner, but my wife and now Thomas had colds, so I sat alone eating my dinner :-(  


It was very nice. 






Day 5760 (10/10/2025)

Another similar day, with my wife full of a cold and me with loads of work to do.  I made a tasty and rather overly filling egg & bacon roll for a brunch / lunch, then in the evening I cooked some tasty salmon parcels, with new potatoes and a some hollandaise sauce. 



Very tasty. 




Day 5759 (09/10/2025)

My wife was off today but her cold / flu really him home and she was full of it, so spent most of the day snoozing in-front of the telly, whilst I made us breakfast & lunch and did my work.  


In the evening I turned the leftover cauliflower & broccoli cheese into a tasty soup, with the addition of some vegi single cream and some vegetable stock. 







Obviously topped off with my signature giant cheesy croutons.




Very nice. 




Day 5758 (08/10/2025)

My wife had the start of a cold / flu but went off to work, whilst I was still snowed under with work. 


In the evening I cooked some pizza's for dinner, I turned my margherita into a tasty tuna & onion, with red chilli's. 




Day 5757 (07/10/2025)

Had quite a bit of work come in, so was busy in the office from first thing. 


Had some crumpets for brunch. 



And in the evening my wife made a nice sausage & onion dinner, with a cheesy cauliflower & broccoli




Day 5756 (06/10/2025)

Monday I was up early to do some work, then off to Bristol, on the train, to meet up with some old colleagues, one of whom I hadn't seen since about 1985. We spoke for hours but I forgot to take a picture of us but did take on of my lunch.



Then home to catch-up with work.  In the evening I wasn't that hungry, so just had some tea & toast, with jam for dinner.  






Sunday, 5 October 2025

Day 5754 & 5755 (04 & 05/10/2025)

It was a very windy day in Taunton, not because of the curry but a storm. I did some work first thing, then we had some nice brunch.



We went out in the afternoon to buy a few things and have a coffee and share a cake, then in the evening I made a vodka rigatoni.  












Sunday was my parents Wedding Anniversary, so I saw them as I usually do but took over a card and some flowers and other bits. 

In the afternoon, we had some leftover curry bits for starters. 


Then in the evening we had some leftover vodka rigatoni.