A lunchtime treat!

Keith and I had two appointments at the surgery this morning; me for a follow-up blood test, and Keith for his spring covid jab. Mine was first, and the receptionist denied Keith's request to get his jab earlier, so he had to wait. The nurse had difficulty getting blood out of my right arm this morning, so she had to use my left arm. I still, after a fall in 1999 while eight months pregnant, can't fully straighten my left arm, and never use it for my blood donor sessions, but she managed to get a vial of blood for the test.

As we had an hour to wait, we popped to The Workhouse in Brixworth for a coffee. I also indulged in a pain au chocolat for breakfast. It was pleasantly busy, and we took our seats while the waitress served our drinks.

After enjoying our drinks, we drove back to the surgery, and I sat in the car and read the paper while Keith was being jabbed. From the surgery, we drove home, and I had a mad hour of changing the bed and putting together a box of donations ready for a collection tomorrow morning. We have been using Anglo Collections for unwanted clothes, books, CDs and DVDs, and some of the money raised goes to charity.

At midday, we set off down to Brackmills to pick up Sophie and went for a sandwich at the Costa outlet in Next. It was lovely to sit and enjoy lunch in the busy café, and afterwards we went down to the lighting department, and I picked out two lampshades for the living room, in a neutral colour. We had a look at the sofas and furniture and then returned Sophie to her office.

Before going home, we called back to Riverside and visited the new Wickes to look for the kitchen light fittings we need. They didn't have any, so I suggested we go to Screwfix and order them. We have managed to get an electrician to come out to install them at last... It's been a bit of a chore, to be honest! Similarly with our planned oven clean that desperately needs doing!

We managed to order a box of three (we need four), but they wouldn't be ready for collection until Thursday. We paid and drove home, glad that we had made some progress!

I spent the rest of the afternoon pootling about and doing all the jobs that need doing on a Wednesday. Dinner tonight was a chicken stir-fry, and I didn't realise that Sophie wanted to add loads more vegetables to the dish. I don't think she was too happy when she came home and discovered I hadn't cut up the asparagus, courgette or long-stem broccoli! 

Dinner was delicious, and after we'd eaten, we saw another episode of Masterchef. One contestant made a chocolate fondant, and Sophie and I screamed when she said what she was going to do! We both think she cheated a little because the inside was peanut butter, which did ooze, luckily for her!