Last night our son came home for 3 days so today we all went for a walk after lunch. We went to the shooting school in the car and then walked up the hill in the woods, it was raining the whole time but it wasn’t cold and we all enjoyed it. When we got home it was time for me to do dinner. We had steak with mushrooms, broccoli and carrots. When we finished dinner our son got ready and went to the climbing centre, when he comes back ( around 10 pm. ) he and I will have a game of cribbage.
The mundane life of an 84 year old.
Friday, 6 February 2026
Tuesday, 3 February 2026
Wednesday
Yesterday I went out for a walk and the temperature was zero. It was blowing a gale and it felt really cold. I think I had walked nearly a mile when I realised i hadn’t started my watch to measure it. I was disappointed in myself. So I don’t know how far i walked but I do know that when I got home my hands were frozen. We had a cup of soup which I wrapped my hands around and they started soon warmed up. We had salmon for dinner with a jacket potato and beans. Blueberry’s for dessert.
Sunday, 1 February 2026
1st February
I had 7 hours sleep last night, that’s really good for me. Yesterday I went shopping first thing and then I vacuumed and dusted, made sandwiches for lunch and in the afternoon I changed my bed which I find really hard. I cooked dinner which was quiche with mushrooms, broccoli and broad beans.
Today I had a ride on the turbo trainer while I was listening to the Archers omnibus. I did 20.9 miles in an hour and a quarter. When I finished I made sandwiches for lunch. For dinner tonight we are having Wagau burgers, chips, corn on the cob, mushrooms and garlic bread. Blueberry’s for dessert. It not a usual thing for a Sunday dinner but I am sure we will enjoy it.
Monday, 26 January 2026
Monday
I haven’t had time to blog it the past week. I usually write my blog in bed but I have just been going to sleep instead. But I have had a lovely weekend, I went out on my bike on Saturday with our youngest son, who was here for the weekend. Yesterday we went for a walk. He won the card game on Saturday and I won yesterday so we had a quick game of dominoes to decide the overall winner for the weekend and iit was me! Normally I don’t win. On our walk we saw 5 swans 7 deer and a heron. On our ride we saw 8 buzzards 2 deer hairs and squirrels.
Tuesday, 20 January 2026
Tuesday
I went for a walk this afternoon after lunch. As I was walking across the field I met a woman who was coming back from the shop. She said “ are you now going to Tesco’s ?” I sail no I am just going for a walk round the pond. She said “ well I was going to tell you the shop is closed because someone decided to take the money machine and there is a big hole in the wall.” I carried on with my walk. For dinner tonight we are having liver and onions with mushrooms and a jacket potato.
Sunday, 18 January 2026
Sunday
Last night I had a better sleep. I got up at 7 o’clock and had my breakfast, egg on toast. At 11 o’clock I went upstairs for a turbo. I did an hour and rode 18.7 miles which was even faster than last week. I made myself a small coffee before I rode. For lunch we had the same as yesterday which was a packed of crisps, a fruit scone with jam and butter and a banana milkshake. Yesterday for dinner we had meat balls and pasta with a tomato sauce and today we had cottage pie with sprouts,carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes.
Friday, 16 January 2026
Friday
I got up a bit later today. After I had my breakfast I put yesterday’s washing in the dryer,and then made a beef stew for dinner tonight in my slow cooker. We have just eaten it and it was delicious with the dumplings I added in the last 40 minutes of cooking. T.this afternoon I went for a walk , Marriotts Way is very muddy.