Blue Monday?

It was back to normal today and a return to work for Sophie and me. Sophie said she'd wished she'd also booked today off so she could stay at home and cuddle the cats! If only!

I was expecting a large number of emails to deal with, but it wasn't too bad, and I spent the day wading through them. The chocolates I bought in France went down well with my colleagues and I should have bought a couple of bags as they were all gone by the end of the day!

Keith collected me at 4pm and we headed home through surprisingly light traffic. It was lighter tonight and we're looking forward to seeing more daylight now that the winter solstice has passed. I will be glad when it's daylight at 6am and I wave Sophie off to the gym. Those days can't come soon enough! I think today was known as "Blue Monday", which was hardly surprising. Christmas and New Year are over and Spring is still a fair way in the future. It won't be long, though!

I pootled around for almost an hour and did the usual evening chores. Sophie was adapting tins of tomato soup tonight and adding pasta and parmesan cheese. I got into trouble as I'd crossed garlic butter off the shopping list, but we made our own by grating garlic and adding it to the French butter we'd bought. The bread was delicious and went perfectly with the soup. I think we'll do that in the future rather than buy expensive ready-made garlic butter!