Helping out

The weather was atrocious this morning, and Sophie almost didn't go to the gym, preferring to stay at home with the cats, who refused to go out. In the end, she did go, leaving Gomez and Mooney in the house, with the living room door open. I heard them stampeding up and down the stairs, so I went down and let them both out. Before going back up to bed, I looked out of the living room window to see if it was snowing, and heard a miaow... it was Mooney who had come straight back in, bless him!

As a treat, I took him up to bed with me, where he climbed all over me, purring and head-butting me! In the end, he settled down and started to wash himself, but then jumped off, letting me have a little lie-in!

Sophie had asked me if I could collect her from work and take her to Northampton to pick up a cake for their CEO. I was more than happy to oblige and picked her up at about 10.30am. We called into Bewiched Coffee on Moulton Park first and enjoyed a coffee and chocolate twist. The earlier rain had given way to a beautiful day, but it was bitterly cold, with the wind coming straight from the Arctic. We picked up the cake and headed back to Sophie's office. I went up to her new floor and said hello to her colleagues before returning home. 

I had a long list of things I had to do, one of them being to change my bed, and I arrived home to see that Keith had stripped it completely, even removing the pillow protectors! It made for a lot of washing, and although I was very grateful, it made for a lot of work later in the day when I had to put it all back!

I also prepared tonight's dinner of salmon stir-fry, a recipe we'd found in one of Mary Berry's books. I had to skin the salmon (nasty) and prepare a marinade and a sauce. The marinade was soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce and Chinese Five Spice, and I coated the salmon and covered it with cling film before chilling. The sauce consisted of soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce, chilli and ginger, and it smelled delicious! Finally, I cut up an onion, a pepper and carrots into thin strips to stir fry later.

I had called my Mum earlier in the day to discover my Dad had come home from the hospital again in the night, which I was relieved about. I said I would go and see them both tomorrow when I finished work.

Along with the usual Wednesday chores, I was kept busy until Sophie came home from work. I made a start on dinner at about 7pm, and it was an easy meal to make. It was a lovely change to have salmon rather than chicken or beef, and the meal was delicious. It's one we'll definitely try again!