Tops and Toes...

Didn't go out today, we don't usually on a monday unless there is something specific to go out for, so it was a bit of a daay of doing things. 
I needed my hair colouring so Vin did that for me this morning. He does a really good job of it too,I just have the roots done where it is going grey.  not an outstanding colour just the dark brown it always was.

Jane did hers at the weekend and then went and got hers cut, she sent me an email of her from her phone isn't she lovely.

She did some cooking yesterday too..glad to see she has learned something!

The other thing I did this morning was to get the nail varnish off my tootsies..all nine of them,! i have an appointment at the chiropodists on Wednesday, and they din't like varnish on your toes so it had to go. Put it on again afterwards.  Also have an appointment at the hearing aid place on Thursday too so it's one of those weeks.

Tonight we are having;

Pizza with mushrooms and cheese and pepperf or Vin

green salad  with avocado and baby yellow plum tomatoes

Potato salad for moi and a potato salad with vinaigrette for Vin.

Hurry Home!

Off we went to Tesco this morning to get our weekend thingies. Vin said very clearly before we went that it would be a quick whizz round and back for our coffee so it was a rush past Costa because we went for one yesterday. he did go later and get a £20 Costa card with some of our winnings from things though! (  I think he just likes seeing the girl behind the counter!)
The quick whizz round the store turned into quite a biggish shop in the end  I ended up with £55 worth of stuff, some stock up items though.
Got some petrol on the way out, he had a voucher for 2p off a litre burning a hole in his pocket, and that was £40 so spent quite a bit in the end today.
Jane rang up just after we got home, she was on her way to get her hair cut. She still has her cough, and rang the GP  the day before yesterday and got an appointment for a week on Friday!!!! What is going on these days?  we said go to a walk in centre but she said the only one near there was the one the students use and you have to wait for hours. very blowy today, nice bright sunshine but the breezey wind is making it cool.
Tonight we are having:
Not sure exactly!
something with the remaining Jersey Royals sauteed and..something out of the freezer.
Any remaining veggies left in the fridge.

One of Those Lucky Days...

 Got up reasonably, and the plan was to go over to maghull..have a bit of a mooch and go for a Costa coffee.  It's quite a nice drive and the traffic is light and it's a reasonable place to look round. First thing that arrived this morning was Vin's memory! not his actual memory but the one for his little netbook that he had bought two years ago from Maplins and had gone faulty. They guarantee it for a year, but it was well over that and it did have a ten year guarantee on it so he had sent it back to the manufacturers. My Vin is one of those rare people who keep receipts for EVERYTHING so that he still had it. This was one of the sti[ulations that you have to send proof of purchase, wh8ich of course he had. Wonder how many people could say that! Anyway that came back and he was well pleased because they had sent him a new one!
While I was getting ready to go out he was out doing something with his car and another postman arrived we get two posts now..the Royal mail and TNT..don't know what that is about! Then when he came back inside there was a parcel on the doorstep. It was some stuff that I had ordered from Bon Marche in their sale. A shirt/blouse and two nice bras. I nipped upstairs to try the blouse on and didn't really like it. Very thin material and there was something bunched up on the shoulder. It was only when I took it off that I saw it had a camisole underneath it!¬ Too faffy to put on, and we were gping to Maghull where there is a Bon Marche so I decided to take it back.
Which we did. Parked in the square and I went in there to take it back and he went into B&Ms to get a few things like cat food etc., I told him to look for toothpast..Aquafresh in tubes which we don't seem to be able to get anywhere. None of the supermarketys have it and indeed they didn't either.  I went into Superdrug and they didn't have it either1 so off we went for a Costa. Vin had a nice Toffee nut latte and I had a medium Americano. Got a lovely comfy sofa right at the back where we sat for about forty minutes apparently just chatting.
Back to the car, and Vin said he would just nip over to the Boots on the other side of the road to see if they had the toothpaste and he was back in a couple of mins with some. On offer too! three for the price of two. So..a really good lucky day today.

Tonight we are having:
Quorn fillets with a white wine and mushroom sauce
Carrots and asparagus,
baby Jersey Royals.

Looked Promising...

Then it all went downhill. The day started off very bright and sunny this morning. The cats woke Vin up early so he got up to feed them and get our coffees.
When we had got up and had our breakfast, he went off to block up the hole in the entry door so that rusty can't get round the front.  So that is what he did. he also took the ccover off the bench in the garden so that he could wipe it down and maybe wax it. What happened was that it started to...rain..typical! You just can't plan anything in this country given the british weather. No wonder that the English are so obsessed with talking about the weather.  At the time of typing this it is now pouring down. A beautiful Spring Day...Not !!
Tonight we are having:
Escalope with gruyere cheese
Baby jersey Royals
Green veggies, beans peas and mange tout.
Sauce of some sort.

Back for Coffee...

Lovely sunny Spring day here today, had a nice surprise from John and Ann today, with a letter, and a photo album in it. John had included a notebook with it, and he had written on every page what each photo was. The one on the first page was the most fantastic one of him taken by his son in law, and lots of family ones too.  Will peruse them tonight.
We took my money off to Sainsbury's in Crosby this morning, all we needed were the veggies for the week, so didn't intend to stop for long. You only get  1/2 free parking otherwise you have to pay so it's a quick rush round and grab jobby. Got a nice selection of veggies and home in good time for our morning coffees. Vin had a Kenco with milk and I had a Carte noir cafe crema. Very nice.
Did a bit of computering after coffee and Ruth had posted online that someone had bought her a Muzz Buzz. I replied  "What is a Muzz Buzz" quick as a flash got a reply it's an expensive coffee sold at intersections on the roads from stands  Vin looked them up later and found they are a franchise in Perth and are spreading. Sounds good.
Little Rusty has been a bit naughty the last couple of days. She has taken to going under the back door and then round to the front and sitting on the doorstep!

Naughty girl...stay at home in yur basket! The front doorbell went after lunch and it was our next door neighbour and Rusty had been in her front room!!! getting cheeky now as well!!
Tonight we are having:
Quorn cottage pie with gravy
Mushrooms and green veg with carrots

Bank Holiday Weekend..

Can't you tell. grey skies and a very cool breeze blowing. hardly a sit out in the garden sort of day really. In fact we haven't had the cover off the bench yet this year.  Vin was looking at his diary and he says that it seems that it was much the same last year too. maybe it will warm up for the next one in about two weeks time.
Didn't gop out, but we never do on a Bank Holiday, so stayed in and did bits and pieces. That involves me catching up on the computer and Vin sorting out his papers and doing the Monday crossword.  We are still having fires so he did the fireplace this morning in case it goes cooler later on which it probably will.
Grrr...Just broken a nail! Why is it that you just get your nails looking halfway decent that you go and break one. Not too bad though, just a little break and I've managed to file it off.
The garden is looking lovely at the moment, there is a clematis bush between us and our neighbours on the fence and it is in full bloom at the moment, doesn't last though, so by the time the weather warms up it will have lost its flowers.

Really pretty, and a mass of blooms for a short time then they drop off.

Back garden in the sunshine..not at the moment I might add but maybe in the future eh!
Tonight we are having:
Pizza with mushrooms and cheese and peppers for Vin
Green salad with baby plum tomatoes and avocado
potato salad for moi and a Morrocan potato salad for Vin.

Busy friday...

Mostly because it is another Bank Holiday weekend of which we seem to  have a lot these days. We tok my money off to Tesco's today, because we needed things for the weekend..not specifically Nank Holiday things but normal things. Vin had a look at the vouchers before we went but the only one we had was for £10 off £60. I said there was no way I was going to spend that much !
got everything on our list, and some extras and ended up spending £57 !!! Yep Tescos did quite well from me today.
Of course...we had to stop off at the Costa on the way out!! Yes of course we did. Vin used one of the cards he had, and I had a very nice Americano and he had a Caramello with soy milk which looked gorgeous. It had a deep frothy top with a caramel drizzle all over the top of it which overflowed the cup and looked really good. i wish I had one of those smart phones I would have taken a pic of it it looked so good.
Quite a lot of news today, the main item was the sentencing of Max Clifford the publicist, who had been sentenced to eight years for sexual assaults on women and gorls in the seventies and eighties.  Showed no remorse at all and was arrogant throughout.  The second was the sentencing of a woman judge to sixteen months for perverting the couse of justice.  She was one of the first black woman judges and a "role model" for young black women apparently.  How hath the mighty fallen eh!
Tonight we are having:
Cheese and onion pasties from Waitrose
Any left over vegetables
Rice puddings from Waitrose.