Busy Sunday!

After coffee and a Wordle-off, I tackled a job I'd been meaning to do for ages - sort out our bed linen and store it all in a chest of drawers we have in the bedroom, rather than in the bed divan drawers where it is now. I hadn't got a clue what bed linen we had, so I sorted it all out and then transferred it to the chest of drawers, where it's more easily accessible. Several photograph albums took the place of the linen, as I don't get those out every week!

I found these two loose photos:

Mum and I - I'm about 19

Mum and I on a boat trip in Spain - I'm 12

Once this job had been done and I'd hoovered upstairs, we put the curtains back in the living room. While we were doing this, Sophie was preparing the vegetables for lunch. She'd asked if we could have roast chicken today, and Keith was more than happy to agree. Me, not so much!

Putting the curtains back wasn't as much of a chore as I'd imagined, and they smelt lovely from the laundry detergent! By about 12pm, everything was prepared, and the chicken went into the oven, stuffed with a lemon! Sophie cracked open a bottle of Cremant d'Alsace, and we had a pre-lunch aperitif. Now this, I did enjoy!

We sat down to eat at 3:00pm after a lot of hard work in the kitchen, and we all contributed. As well as the roast chicken, we had roast spuds, red cabbage, Brussels and bacon, roast parsnips, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings and bacon-wrapped chipolatas. Phew! The meal was delicious, and there was enough for squeaky bubble tomorrow and the other half of the chicken.

After clearing away, washing up and loading the dishwasher, Sophie and I relaxed in the conservatory with Mooney. We read our books and revelled in the warm sunshine streaming through the windows. Bliss! We even nodded off at one point. I loved looking up to see the fluffy, white clouds lazily drifting past.

In the evening, we watched Beyond Paradise, and it was a great end to a busy weekend! Back to work tomorrow!