A couple of horrors!

Today has been spent at home, with Sophie and me cleaning the house in the morning and preparing the ingredients for tonight's dinner, a Mary Berry recipe of haddock gratin.

Keith went to get the Sunday newspaper, then watched a couple of football games before returning home in time to see Newcastle play this afternoon. And the less said about that, the better! After lunch, Sophie and I went upstairs to watch the end of The Shining from Friday night. We'd hoped one of the cats would keep us company, but there's been no sign of either. The weather has been pleasant today with sunshine and a breeze. Maybe we should have gone for a walk in Salcey Forest as I'd originally suggested!

Before I prepared dinner, Sophie and I relaxed with a cocktail, and we looked at her new Tarot cards that I'd ordered from Amazon. They're beautifully designed with a cat theme, and we plan to consult them every evening!

We very nearly didn't have our planned dinner tonight, but I insisted. What's the point of writing a plan for meals and then ignoring it? I cooked potatoes and cauliflower, and skinned the haddock. I was shocked at the price for two packs of fillets, which weighed just over 500g - almost £12!

Once the potatoes and cauliflower had softened, we put them in the base of an oven dish, sprinkled Red Leicester cheese over them and arranged the fish on top. I had mixed cream with cornflour earlier, and I poured this over the fish, topped with the remaining cheese and put the dish in the oven to bake.

With a side dish of asparagus, the meal was delicious, and I was pleasantly surprised at how it turned out! We'll definitely do this again as it was so easy to make.

After dinner, we settled down to watch The Silence of the Lambs, another scary film starring the brilliant Anthony Hopkins and a youthful Jodie Foster. It was quite disturbing, to be honest!

Halfway through the film, my phone rang, and the care home said they'd called an ambulance for my Dad as he was unresponsive and hadn't eaten or drunk anything all day. That was worrying, and this has been the second time in a few weeks that the home has had to call the ambulance for my parents. At the moment I feel like running off and not coming back!