Just Chilling

 Another day, another day off. I was up by seven and consumed my morning coffee and the overnight news before Di came down. She was a bit stiff after spending too much time on her feet pottering around yesterday.

Once breakfast was out of the way, I stripped the table and reduced it to normal size. We didn't put the protective cover on as Di had decided to give it a coat of wax. Meanwhile, I sorted out the bins and then attacked the top oven. It has been a while since we last cleaned it (though we don't use it much), and it was time! I stripped out the shelving and then coated the interior with oven cleaner. I dropped the shelves in the sink with a dishwasher tablet and some hot water and then left them while I went to do some coding. By the time I came back, the shelves just needed a wipe, and they were clean. The chemicals in the oven would take longer, so I returned to my coding for a couple of hours.

While I was tapping away at the keyboard, Di did some more on her Book Nook. It is coming along nicely, and makes a change from the Kindle.

I prepared a pork roast for dinner, with some lovely crackling. We have enough left for me to use for dinner on Tuesday evening.

The Long Bank Holiday

 There was no hurry this morning, but we were up at more or less the same time as usual. I guess that once you reach a certain age, the body clock is in full control. We had visitors due for lunch, so we spent the morning preparing. 

Denise and Becky were joining us to celebrate Denise's retirement. She has now joined us in the "Every Day is a Bank Holiday" club. Her firm had given her a wonderful send-off to end one era, and she was coming to us to celebrate the start of the new era. Zoe and Ellie came round to join us, and Kim stopped in for a while.

We had a lovely time chatting when everyone first arrived. I, meanwhile, finished preparing lunch. For Di, it was salmon with salad, but for the rest of us, I prepared a chicken Bhuna curry, with rice and naan bread.

I was worried that I had over-catered, but need not have been concerned; everything went.

After lunch we sat around chatting some more and Denise grabbed her laptop so that I could help her set up some software on it. We also helped set up her new iPhone (though that was predominantly Becky and Zoe).

Now that Denise has retired, we hope we'll see a lot more of her, and it was a shame to see them leave early evening. We were soon on our own again, and finished the clear-up (though, to be fair, Zoe did a lot of the after-lunch clear-up). 

It was a lovely day, and it's been a quiet evening.