Friday

Sometimes it pays to ignore the housework. When he was tidying away yesterday J hoovered all the upstairs carpets and all of the stair carpet. He’s back today working on the downstairs doors so I have my fingers crossed that he will do the living room carpet today!

Thank you all for your comments yesterday and yes, I am feeling much better. I'm still being sensible and not rushing about but I'm ready to get on with things once J has finished and is out of the house. I think I need to learn to pace myself!

Here's the latest addition to the house ...

... a small folding glass topped table, intended for the garden in the summer but doubling up as a side table until it is warm enough to sit outside. It's just the right size to fit into the space by the reading chair and has made me rethink what I'd like to have there. Up till now I've been looking for mahogany tables but haven't had any luck finding either the right size or shape, and it's been on my mind that solid wood next to a radiator is not the best idea. I like this idea of a coloured table (but not this one as it is too blue) and have been looking online at better quality glass topped tables. There's plenty of choice and that's what I'll go for if I can find one that I like. If not, there are lots of small round side tables with coloured tops, relatively cheap, which would also fit nicely - there's even pink topped ones!

There's now five portions of pea and ham soup in the freezer, with very little effort on my part - slow cookers are wonderful things! I didn't do the breakfast muffins as there was too much dust flying about from sanding the doors so I wouldn't have been able to leave them on the side to cool. I'll have to do those tomorrow, so today I'll cook up a chilli and possibly a chickpea curry (new recipe), and also roast pork for my evening meal. Then I can freeze lots of bubble and squeak to use up the left overs.

I'm soldiering on with the book group read ('The Secret Place' by Tana French) but it hasn't really grabbed my attention. I'm about a third of the way through and it's gone a bit weird with some of the characters being able to make lights switch on and off, and move object without touching them! It's not quite the detective novel I thought it was going to be but I'll keep going with it.