The heat builds

Sophie was doing a 5K run in Brixworth this morning and met her friend Becky in the country park at 8:30am. It already felt warm outside, and both Keith and I urged her to take it easy in the heat. I stayed at home and managed to catch up with writing the blog, so that was a relief. I hate being behind!

I spent the rest of the morning pootling about, and Sophie arrived home after having a lovely breakfast at The Workhouse in Brixworth. We went over to Tesco in the early afternoon and bought some things my Mum needed, as well as a couple of bottles of wine to enjoy over the weekend. One was a Provencal rosé that Helen had recommended on Saturday Kitchen Live, so we hoped it would live up to our expectations! We also bought salads for dinner tonight, as we had abandoned our plans to go to Market Harborough for lunch.

After Tesco, we drove to the care home and chatted to Mum for a while. She seemed OK today, and I spoke to one of the senior carers when we left to ask how she was. She replied that she was fine, but had played up the other day when she was asked to go to the dining room for lunch, saying she couldn't walk! Naughty!

Sophie and I went home and spent the rest of the afternoon doing very little! The heat had sapped our energy, so it was lovely to relax! In the evening, we decided to watch the Eurovision Song Contest as I'd made sure I'd recorded it. We saw the build-up (we had missed Graham Norton's narration!) and the first song. We skipped through most of the songs, but watched the UK's entry again, Bulgaria and Australia. 

We then watched the voting in full, and we were surprised by the results but thankful to Ukraine for giving us our only vote!

Over the course of watching the show, we enjoyed our salads for dinner and the delicious rosé. It was hard to believe that we were actually in Vienna last week!