Revenge is sweet

My beloved gets bored when he's not working and when he has nothing to keep him occupied. When he's bored he starts looking for something to reorganize, usually me!
Yesterday was a case in point, after breakfast I started to load the dishwasher, with, amongst other items, 2 small milk pans. He immediately started to lecture me about how, when we move, we will not have a dishwasher and therefore I need to consider this when I prepare meal.
I nodded vaguely but made no comment.
Yesterday we went to hospital to get the ends changed on his hearing aids, we stopped at a pub and had lunch, 2 meals for £7.49 and we bought  a new torch.
Every so often throughout the day my beloved would return to the subject of the 2 saucepans. I continued to ignore his complaints.
So this morning I prepared breakfast but this time I only used one saucepan.
I don't think my beloved was too impressed to be given porridge on toast with a rasher of bacon instead of scrambled egg, but I was having porridge as I always do. I couldn't think of only using one saucepan.

Lyssa and Witch Hazel

Lyssa thank you for your email.
Witch Hazel, thank you, as we are hoping to move soon and will be downsizing I shall not be replacing Henry any time soon, but it was very kind of you to think of me.

Oh I do miss Henry

I loved him so much, he always had a smile on his face and he worked hard without complaint.
He was very experienced and happy upstairs and down, the only place he didn't want to do it was on the stairs themselves.
So I was cruel, I was unfaithful, but I wanted to have my cake and eat it. A couple of years ago at Christmas I asked my L&M for a small powerful handheld vacuum to use on the stairs, I wanted this as well as Henry.

Never one to do anything by halves he bought me a GTECH Air RAM cordless vacuum along with the small handheld version.
I'm sure the GTECH is a great piece of kit if you are bald and never have children in the house, for me it is useless, I have to strip it down every couple of weeks to unravel the hair caught in the rollers. It doesn't pick up the bits of paper left after the children have finished cutting and sticking so I have to sweep the floor with a brush and dustpan. As for the small handheld vacuum, it isn't powerful enough to clean the stairs.
So my poor Henry went to a new home and I deeply regret my unkindness to him.

We finally went shopping

Oh shame on me, after all my insulting comments about people who rush to the shops to visit the sales we succumbed, we went shopping.

We went to the DIY shop to buy a pushfit plumbing connector.

Today we are shopping again, I'm going to the bakers to buy some fresh rolls as DS & his GF are coming for lunch.

You did what!

At least 3 of my work colleagues will have been on the pavement outside Next from silly o'clock waiting for them to open at 6am.

In the same queue will be the woman who's husband had to pay her bills last month as she spent £350 on Black Friday.

As she explained to me yesterday when I saw her, she needs to go to the Next sale to save money as she spent too much on Black Friday and again at Christmas!

One finished, one fresh on my hook today

 Fresh on my hook today a V stitch cushion cover.

Wavy stitch cushion cover just needs stitching up.

Leftovers

The turkey has been sliced and packed into meal sized portions with 4 pigs in blankets included in each pack, the stuffing balls were frozen yesterday apart from 2 to go with todays meal.

The ham has also been sliced and packed in to 6 slice packs, each pack will make ham, egg and chips plus sandwiches.

The scraps of turkey and ham were snipped into small pieces and mixed with a small amount of butter to make a sandwich filling.

The last few raw sausages have been skinned and the meat mixed with pepper, mixed herbs and garlic, the pastry is resting, I will make sausage rolls later.

Some of the vegetables have been prepped and frozen, the rest will be eaten this week.