Zippeddy Do Dah Day!

Continuing my theme of having more get and and go, Saturday was a day of getting things done. Would you believe I got up at 8am, that's right read it again EIGHT AM! ON A SATURDAY!!!! UNBELIEVABLE.

Here's a list of what I did. First I painted the outer side of my garden gate. While I was painting (really gloopy undercoat) the sky turned from beautiful clear blue to very overcast dark grey. I told it not to rain on me and after a couple of spitty attempts, it obeyed. By the time I'd finished doing that painting I was freezing cold (because the wind hadn't dropped, oh no, it was having a mad old time whipping up the dust and the leaves and the crisp wrappers) so I packed everything up and went indoors, taking my drying washing with me (it had been on the airer since the night before). I walked upstairs into my study and looked out of the window to see the rain coming down like stair-rods. So it didn't rain on me but it didn't waste a single second once I was indoors, making up for lost time.

Drinking my tea, checking my email (nothing of importance) and staring in dismay at the rain wasn't getting me anywhere so back to the kitchen. Time to cook. First breakfast - cheesey toast (I have started eating bread again since I've been ill - this will not last). Next, in the oven, mushroom tartlets a la Shiralee (nothing special but I like them), a tomato tarte au tatin (Tesco recipe) and finally some couscous with additions (roasted vegetables, dried apricots, currants, harrisa paste, just to jazz it up)

While the tomato tart was cooking I settled down in the living room with the photos I'd finally got round to printing. Way back in the spring, I'd bought some small picture frames from Wilkinson's. Each frame is 3½ inches square (or 9 cm to you metric types), I bought sixteen of them and plan to put them in the upstairs hallway in a grid (an idea I nicked from H in Milan).  So, Saturday I finally got around to cutting out the individual photos and putting them in their frames (I won't bore you with the lengthy process of getting them printed to the right size on the right paper).  Now these are sitting on a unit in the upstairs hallway waiting to be put up.  My final job of the morning was to clean said unit and take it upstairs where it is currently displaying a small wooden mannequin in a Tai Chi pose and acting as a storage place for the small photos.

My afternoon was all about R&R, a long lazy shower, another face mask, mucking around on the internet and listening to music. At 4pm I went to my parents for a cup of tea and a chat, At five-thirty my cousin V picked me up and the evening began...