Sophie had taken today as holiday so we had a bit of a lie-in this morning. The grey weather of yesterday gave way to clearer, bluer skies and sunshine, so that was a relief! I hate heavy cloud!
At 11am we collected Mum and Binty and before going to the bank we drove to dad's care home as I had to take him more of his medication. The idea had been to see him through the window but we were really short of time and I knew how long it would take for them to bring him down to the reception.
In the end we had to give up as the bank closed at 1pm today, and when we got to the Weston Favell Centre there was a fair queue of people waiting to go in. It's always busy at the best of times (how much of my life has been spent waiting in a queue for this bank!) and we stood outside at two metre intervals for twenty minutes. Luckily, the woman we saw recognised us both from the old days and we did everything that we needed to without any fuss.
Sophie had gone to post a parcel, pay a cheque into her own bank and buy some hair colour for us both, and Binty had gone to explore Tesco, so Mum and I sat and chatted about money for a few minutes. She seemed a lot better today, which I was very glad about.
We took Mum and Binty home and then Sophie and I popped to Tesco at Kettering to get some ingredients for dinner this evening and some tinned food and pasta for the Foodbank collection tomorrow.
Back home we had a delicious lunch of Caesar salad, crusty bread and turkey slices and sat in the sunny conservatory. Today has been a mix of cloud and sun but it's stayed dry all day and the forecast is for more of the same all week.
Sophie did lots of prep for dinner tonight - a lovely-sounding Orange Chicken dish that we're going to serve with sticky rice. The sauce smelled delicious! At about 4pm we went for a walk but it was very chilly indeed! The wind was bitterly cold! I felt sorry for the poor shorn sheep as they must have felt the drop in temperature from last week!
Before doing the cooking, we briefly watched Tony Robinson on the Trans Siberian Express (a journey I've always wanted to do) and then made a start on dinner. We dunked the chicken pieces in batter and then shallow fried them in the wok. Once they were all cooked, we poured the sauce into the same pan (minus the oil) and added the vegetables and cooked chicken and coated everything before simmering for a few minutes. The dish was gorgeous!
After dinner I had arranged a WhatsApp videochat with Lynda and Fiona (Andrea never made it) and it was great to sit and catch up with them both for an hour!
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