A Productive Day

Well, yesterday turned out to be a productive day if not quite in the way I'd expected. I dusted and hoovered the bedrooms and then, lack of sleep forced me back to bed for a while ... two hours as it turned out! Back downstairs I started a load of washing, turned on the radio, made a coffee and did a bit more of the jigsaw puzzle ....

... actually quite a lot of the puzzle! I spent a pleasant hour or so singing along with the radio while I lost track of time working on the puzzle. It's not as hard as I initially thought, once I worked out how to tackle it.

All of this meant I had a very late lunch, by which time the sun had moved round to the back of the house so I used the airing rack to dry the washing in the sun and then sat outside to enjoy the sunshine while I had a leisurely meal. My neighbours were doing the same so we chatted through the fence (my chair is about 8 feet away from the fence) and ... it sort of felt normal. It was lovely.

I was going to make a late start on the garden, honestly, but I answered the phone to a friend when I took my mug and plate indoors and we spent the rest of the afternoon chatting. We eventually put our phones on speaker and I made a couple of batches of sauce bases for the freezer (tomato, onions, peppers, and lentils, onions, assorted root veg), while we continued to talk. I've frozen them in individual portions and will use them for easy meals adding leftovers, whatever odds and ends of veg I have in the fridge, and seasoning, so every portion will be different.

It was too late to think about gardening by the time we stopped chatting, so I tried the baked cucumber recipe which I served with fish and baked tomatoes ... it's a keeper. Then I finished drying the washing in the tumble dryer, folded it and put it away (it didn't need ironing!) and then settled down to watch the Merchant of Venice on YouTube, which Divers and Sundry recommended on her blog yesterday. I can distinctly recall studying this play in my first year at senior school and it's fondly remembered as the play that first made me fall in love with Shakespeare's work.  

Today, I don't really know what I want to do except that I need to fit in some music practice as I didn't do any yesterday. It's also the virtual quiz so I'll be linking up via WhatsApp video with J and L this evening.

Hope you all have a good day, whatever you have planned.