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November 10 I kept on thinking I would write something as soon as I had a minute! Ha!Well, it really has been a hectic couple of weeks one way and another. I love having company to stay and always want everything to go just AOK while they are here so they can have a good rest and a real holiday. This time however about everything that could go wrong did.
It started the day before my cousin and his wife arrived. The oven gave up the ghost. As I had emailed them to have only a little to eat on the way here from Brum, promising them a full Sunday roast when they arrived this was inconvenient to say the least. However, miricles are made through sheer determination sometimes, and with the help of the slow cooker and the microwave, indeed I did (to my own astonishment) prduce the goods as promised.
The electrician fixed the problem and fitted a new element on Monday. Fine.
Monday morning I went to get some stuff from the (packed) freezer and to my horror found everything was either defrosted or partially defrosted and as this is a fridge freezer, I opened the door of the refridgerator to discover warm milk and limp looking veges. The whole thing was knackered. As it was 20 years old and really had given us no bother during it's lifetime we decided not to mend but to replace. So Monday morning just as soon as the cooker man had been I took myself off to Newcastle to buy a new one. Amazingly, the Co-op (who are closing down very soon) had a next day delivery of showroom stock. Bought!
The rest of the day I spent cooking and baking as much of the frozen food as pos, there are fish pies, cottage pies and shepherd's pies forever more, not to mention every sort of quiche under the sun residing now in the new freezer!
Everything ran smoothly until Friday and I asked our guests did they want anything washed as there was a white wash going in.Yes they did, and they handed me an assortment of clinically white underwear to add to ours. Obviously, I did not notice the rogue burgundy (new) towels in there before setting it going and only when I glanced into the machine a half hour later to what appeared to be a bloodbath, did I remember putting them in there to wash before use. So my guests now have a very fetching shade of pink underwear to their names. They were vey polite about it!
On the plus side, Margaret stayed well during her visit, there have been times whilst here when she has needed to be whisked off to the Freeman Hospital to have her heart stopped and restarted. She is truly remarkable having now become too frail for a heart lung transplant, she survives on a cocktail of drugs which require a small suitcase of their own when they visit with us.
The house is now back to it's normal sprawling self, it's amazing how tidy it stays when there's company, and 'the dad' and me are taking it easy.
It's nice to be back. |
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