Busy day

As soon as breakfast was over we went to Asda and were home again by 7.50. I spent £ 76.08. After we had put it all away H made us a coffee while I hung the washing out and picked the beans. When I had finished my coffee and reading my magazine H took me to the City. He dropped me off and returned home. I did the things I had to do and also took a few photos of the painted dragons around the streets. I caught the bus home, changed  and we went out on our bikes. We did 26 1/2 miles at 16 miles an hour. I was pleased with this because it's the fastest I have been for ages. We had a lovely pork pie for lunch from the deli' counter in Jarrolds, I also bought some " black bomber " cheese, my favourite. All my washing is lovely and dry again so I have ironed it and put it all away. We had a roast dinner as I was home, chicken, roast and boiled potatoes, runner beans from our garden and gravy. .... I saw this in the City today, I have never seen it before.

Thursday

After I had eaten breakfast, hung out the washing, made the bed etc. I went to work for the last time this week. First I had to pick all the tomatoes. We grow cherry tomatoes called sun gold, so they are orange rather than red. I picked 11 boxes each with over 300 tomatoes in each box. It took till 11 am then I had to pick 30 bunches of spring onions and 5 of beetroot. I spent the rest of the day weeding. As I have the day off tomorrow we are going to do our weekly shop and I am also going to the City. We had salmon for dinner with new potatoes and runner beans from our garden.

Wednesday

I did yet another load of washing, hung it out and had my breakfast. I packed my lunch and had time to pick our beans and start the dishwasher before it was time for me to leave. I had to pick broard beans first, we had to have 10 boxes. Then it was 80 bunches of beetroot and finally spring onions where I spent the rest of the day. I was supposed to do 280 bunches but I had to fork them all up and because they are dry they are hard to peel so I only managed to do 260 before it was time for me to go home. The ends of my fingers are really sore. We had a nice tea of sausages, eggs, potatoes and beans.        

Day off

I woke up to a lovely day, I put on a load of washing and had a slice of toast for my breakfast with some of my home made jam and it is nice. I hung the washing out and after a coffee we got ready to go out on our bikes. We decided to ride along Marriotts Way on our mountain bikes. It was lovely, it was very windy but on the track we hardly felt it, it is so sheltered. It was just a leisurely ride enjoying the scenery and the wildlife. We did 23 miles. We are so lucky to have the track right on our doorstep. If we want to we can ride from our house all the way to Wroxham without using a road, it's around 52 miles. We had a cheese and beetroot sandwich for lunch with a glass of wine and a choc chip bun. I filled my brown bin with garden rubbish ready for the bin men on Friday and for dinner we had lamb chops with new potatoes, cabbage runner beans and gravy.

Monday

Same old Monday, radishes, beetroot, spring  onions and weeding. Home with backache so a long soak in the bath, tea and then my soaps.

Busy Sunday

This morning after breakfast I did 2 loads of washing and hung it out, made some choc chip buns, put on a loaf of bread, picked some chives and made a nice potato salad. Then I decided to make some jam. So, first I got on my mountain bike rode into the country to find some ripe Myra bellas ( wild plums). When I got back I washed them weighed out 3 lbs and cooked them. Then I added 2 1/2 lbs of sugar brought it all to the boil stirring all the while so the sugar melted without burning. Then I simmered it for around 15 to 20 minuite's. Meanwhile I heated my jam jars in the oven. I then poured the jam into the jars, job done. The recipe says equal weight of fruit and sugar but we like our jam to be a bit sharp, I have tried it and it's delish'. When it's almost cooked the pips rise to the top and I spooned most of them out but there is always the odd one that gets away. We had a Bar B Q this evening ( sausages and ribs ) with sealed. ......work tomorrow.

Saturday

My shopping wasn't too bad this week, £75.47 and that's with 2 bottles of wine and a birthday card. When we got back we had a coffee, I hung the washing out while H cut the front grass. Then we changed ready to go out on our bikes. We did a much better ride than last time, almost a mile an hour faster and 10 miles further. We had a salmon sandwich for lunch with a glass of wine. H cut the back lawn, put our sun loungers up and we sat in the garden all afternoon. For dinner we had liver and onions, potatoes, runner and broard beans with strawberries and cream for pud........... We saw all the normal road kill on our ride but we also saw a beautiful hare and a poor little stoat.