A busy day
Sunday was as usual, a busy day for us all. We’re still decorating the downstairs cloakroom – the smallest but hardest room because of the abundance of pipes and fittings. So a few hours were spent on that.
I decided to make the most of the lack of rain and dug over the front garden (a strip of soil about three feet by twenty feet), getting rid of the dying/dead annuals and emptying the hanging baskets. It’s quite a large front garden, but consists mainly of concrete, tarmac, gravel and a huge conifer bed, so the one strip is all I have there that I can plant up. I’m seriously considering planting a red rose hedge there though – it would look beautiful against the brick.
And I was lucky enough to be able to spend quite a lot of time in my kitchen on Sunday, resulting in a homemade loaf (admittedly from the breadmaker), two huge lasagnes, a big batch of bolognaise and forty eight chocolate walnut brownies. I use Nigella Lawson’s brownie recipe, and have never been disappointed yet. They’re so easy !! The bolognaise sauce smelt heavenly as it cooked – I added loads of fresh mushrooms, tomatoes, red onions, white onions and soem beautiful garlic that I brought back from France. It was declared the best bolognaise yet !
Let’s just see if the brownies last to the weekend !
