Sunday.

We both got up at 7 and while I was putting on a load of washing H made a pot of tea. We had our breakfast and then a coffee. We sat about for a bit playing scrabble on our phones. I hung out the washing and got ready to turbo while I was listening to the Archers omnibus. I did over 21 miles but the best bit was my first hour when I did 20.1 miles in 59 minutes,! I have only ever done over twenty  miles an hour once before but now I am 79 years old I didn’t think I could ever do it again. This week I have done 101 miles. When I finished I had a shower and we had a pint of shandy with a cheese sandwich and a mince pie for lunch. I watched a film in the afternoon while H had a turbo. He only did 15 miles but his average was 25 M P H !!!! For dinner we had turkey drumsticks ( our Christmas turkey) with potatoes, sprouts, carrots and leeks and gravy. we had a glass of wine and a cup of tea and now I am watching dancing on ice.

Saturday

I got up 6.15 and had my breakfast. As soon as I was done we got ready and went shopping. I had another cheap week! When we got home H made us a coffee then went up for a bike ride. I put all the shopping away, emptied the dishwasher and put everything away then I finished taking the tree down, put it away and other Christmas decorations. After H had finished he had a shower and we went out to buy a bulb got our outside light and collect my prescription from the chemist. As soon as we arrived back home we had cheese and biscuits with a coffee and after half an hour, to let it settle I changed and rode on the turbo. I did 19.8 miles in one hour. Hopefully I will manage to do 20 miles in the hour soon. I had a bath and washed my hair then we had a G and T. We watched a ‘ Marple ‘ and I cooked dinner, we had sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs and garlic bread.It was nice.

Friday.

I had an awful headache when I left off work yesterday and still had it when I woke up this morning after a rough night. I seem to get one every time I work now so I am beginning to think I might have to give up. My boss has already paid my for the next 2 weeks so I will have to do them and I will see how I am. I had toast for breakfast and then a coffee. I just sat about most of the morning but at 11am we got ready to go to the garage to have a tyre fitted on the car. We went straight to the nursing home from there to visit Philip. We can’t see much change in him, I know he’s not going to get any better but he doesn’t seem any worse thank goodness. We stayed till they took him to the day room to play bingo then we left him, we will go again on Monday. I had a bath when I got home and when I came down H had poured the wine. For dinner we had cod in breadcrumbs, potato wedges and mushy peas.
This afternoon between my bath and dinner I took down the Christmas 🎄 tree. I will do the rest of the decorations tomorrow.

Back to work

I got up at 5.30,put on a load of washing and had my breakfast. I packed cheese and cucumber sandwiches with some cherry tomatoes and a bottle of water. I made the bed, dressed, sorted my bag and went to work. I had to pick a sack of sprouts first then I joined Andyfor the rest of the day. We did 7 dozen bunches of carrots, 4 bunches of purple ones and 6 kilos of loose purple ones. Next we trimmed 10 boxes of leeksand went down to wash and pack it all. After lunch we went back and got 4 boxes of parsnips, 4 boxes of loose carrots, 3 more boxes of leeks, 4 celeriac and a  of turnips. We washed them all and by the time they were  were packed it was my home time. When I left off I had a dreadful headache ( still have it ) and I just can’t shift it. I had a cup of tea when I came home and a bath then I cooked dinner. We had steak pie, leeks, Carrots potatoes and gravy. I don’t have to go again till Wednesday.

Wednesday. .

H was up first todayand by the time I went downstairs he had made the tea and sliced the bread off for my toast. We had our breakfast and then a cup of coffee. After a while H went up to ride on the turbo trainer. He did a ride that went up the outside of a volcano 🌋.  He rode for an hour and did 17.1 miles. Then I went up and did the same ride while while he was cleaning the car. In the hour I did 18.3 miles.!!! H says he will do it again tomorrow, but faster. Luckily I have to go to work. I don’t want to do that course again it was too hard. We each had a shower and then a pat’e sandwich and a coffe. This afternoon we played scrabble on our phones and for dinner we had the rest of yesterday’s cottage pie. It will be a bit of a blow for me going to work tomorrow, it’s so long since I have been.

Tuesday.

We both got up together at6.35, I put on a load of washing, made a pot of tea and we had our breakfast. H put on a loaf of bread and we had a coffee. After that I did a bit of hand washing, the jumper I knitted for H hadn’t been washed before so I thought I would be gentle with it. When it was done I changed into cycle gear to ride on the turbo again. I did 21.5 miles. I had just started when my boss rang to say instead of working tomorrow, because the weather is going to be bad I could go Thursday instead. When I had finished H had a ride and went almost 3 miles further in the same time as my ride. We had a shower and then a bacon butty before going out in the car. First we  went to a tyre place and got them to check our car tyres and from there w e. Went to visit Philip at the nursing home. They were having a musical afternoon. We had a cottage pie for dinner, I cooked the mince,onion carrots and peas before we went out and finished it when we got home again. Anyway it was nice, we had it wth cabbage and gravy. Tomorrow I will have to turbo again now I am not working.

New Year’s Day.

I got up at 6.45 and put on a load of washing. I made a pot of tea and when H bot up we had our breakfast. I hung out the washing and we had a coffee. At 9.30 I put my cycle shorts on and went into yeh pain cave to have a bit of a ride. I rode 20 miles so that’s a nice start to the new year. We then had our lunch ( bacon butties) and then I had a bath ang got ready to go to visit our daughter and family and stay to dinner. It was a job getting there because all the roads were flooded. First we went a mile down the road and found a flood with a car stranded in the middle so we turned round and tried the next road only to find barriers up and a flood signso we had to turn round once again. Third time lucky,and it’s a good job it was because we were running out of options. Anyway as soon as we arrived we had a drink and played cards till it was time for dinner which was delicious, a full roast ( pork) stuffing, batter puds, sprouts carrots,cauliflower cheese, roast parsnip and potatoes, mashed potato, pigs in blankets and gravy. We were all full so we then had a game of scrabble before dessert. We had another game of scrabble and when it was over we left. We were home around ten so we watched a bit of tele and H went to bed. As there is nothing much on tv I will probably do the same.