HE'S BACK TO WORK

 

Stew goes back to work today, after having a full month (4 weeks and 2 days) off.  That is the longest period of time (holiday) he's had in 27 years!

He had accrued so much holiday time he HAD to take that much time off work, to clear some of it.

The next time he has that long off work is in only six and a half weeks, when he will be off on sick leave, with his knee replacement operation and recovery.  Luckily he has 118 days (23 weeks) up his sleeve in 'sick leave', so he's well and truly covered. 

Today I am going to pull everything out of our pantry and re-organise it.  I have been meaning to for a few weeks now.  I have no idea where half my baking stuff is, or what we have and don't have.  Time to get it sorted.  Luckily I have a very strong 'sorting gene'.   😂

After lunch I will be going to the weekly Craft get together.  I will take my little baby machine down and do some braid runner piecing.  It's about all I can do right now without McDreamy.

ABOVE: Worth a spot on here, our very first tomato, here in our new home.  I picked it before the birds got it.  We have a few more coming along... but they won't be ready for a week or more.

ONWARD...

9.55 am, and the pantry is done.  It is much less cluttered now, and I can see and access all the baking stuff now, which was the primary reason for doing it.  It was a good time to go through and check expiry dates on things too, something STEVE usually does for us!  NOT that we ask him to, he just can't help himself.  I think he loves it when he finds something that expired 10 years ago!  

I'm now off to hang out the washing, it just finished in the machine...

3.45 pm.  And I've had a busy day so far.  I went to Craft Group, and just sat and yakked!  Then I went to Mitre 10 for a few bits 'n' bobs for a little job.  Which I have now done.  Not very well, but it's done.

I won't say what, cos I want to see how long it takes Stew to notice! lol

I had left overs for lunch, and then a piece of lemon cake at craft group.

Now?  I'm knackered, and am going to just sit and blob out for a while.

ABOVE: Coco missed Stew today, she was on guard, looking for him this afternoon.  So cute.

7.28 pm.  When Stew arrived home from work, he headed down to the gym for a 30 minute workout on the recumbent bike, and Coco and I went for a walk along the river bank.

ABOVE:  It was really LOVELY along the river bank tonight.  It was COOL!  A nice breeze, cloudy and a few spits of rain.  Kept our walk comfortable.

ABOVE:  Coco kept racing ahead of me, and got really impatient when I stopped to take photos.  

But, she did start to lag behind after about 20 minutes, so clearly 20-30 minutes is her limit now days.

ABOVE:  Neither of us liked this steep hill!  It was great when we got to stop and chat with a bloke and his dog half way up, lol. 

Home now, and Stew's just had the rest of the left overs for his dinner.  I'm eating plums... I'm really trying to eat more fruit, to help with the 💩

issues.  

I don't want to be taking laxatives all the time, they don't make me feel good at all.  I felt really ill the other day, but ... probably not as bad as other people, sorry other people.

I'm off now to enjoy a pleasant evening with Stew, and Coronation Street is on, which isn't the norm for a Monday night.  

Catch ya tomorrow.