Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Coffee with a friend

I saw Sophie off this morning and then went to bed for a lie-in, waking up at almost 9am! I didn't mean to be asleep for that long!

Keith and I were busy in the morning, preparing dinner and doing the shopping list for the rest of the week. I lunched on leftover cottage pie before getting a shower as I was meeting my friend Lynda for a coffee in the afternoon.

We had arranged to meet at the Weston Favell Centre and I needed to get cards and gifts for my Mum and pop into Boots Opticians to speak to someone about my contact lenses. I last wore them a few months ago and have frozen the payments until January, but I needed some advice.

I met Lynda at Costa Coffee and we chatted for over an hour over coffee. It was great to see her again, and we really should do it more often, especially as I can walk over from work on a Thursday. Before we said goodbye we had a look at an exhibition celebrating 50 years of the Weston Favell Centre. I didn't see the photo of my Nan and David Jacobs, but it was great to look back on the shopping mall when it was first built and see the shops that have since vanished!

I bought cards and a bottle of Chanel No.5 for my Mum as a gift from my Dad, popped into Tesco to buy some milk, and went to Boots, where I saw a friendly woman who replaced the multi-focal lenses with my previous ones, so job done! They will resume again in January when my payment freeze ends.

It was now 4pm, so it was no different to if I was driving home from work, and the traffic was busy on the A43, as it always is. Back home, I put the hoover around and pootled about until Sophie arrived.

Dinner tonight was a new recipe: a leek, ham and gnocchi traybake sprinkled with Emmental cheese. It was delicious but the tub of creme fraiche we'd bought for it wasn't enough (I'd doubled up on the other ingredients) and we should have used a pot of single cream we had as well!

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