Cooking for all six of us went okay, too, despite dietary awkwardnesses -- my dad's a vegetarian,
The potatoes were supposed to be lemon-roasted new potatoes -- mix olive oil, lemon juice and a little sugar together and pour over the potatoes, then roast. I used Juliette potatoes (biggish new potatoes) because that was what Sainsburys had on buy-one-get-one-free (cheapskate, moi?) but in retrospect I think they would have worked better texture-wise if they'd either been much smaller new potatoes, or proper big roasties. They tasted nice though.
Will add the nut roast recipe here later if I remember; it came out a bit soggy but very tasty. Will also post a cite for the book it came from as it's a brilliant veggie cookery book.
It was quite amusing to see my dad and
On Saturday night we had a partylet -- small, but fun (no analogies, please). It was good to be able to talk to
Spent Sunday morning (the bits of it I was awake for, anyway) tinkering with
Finally got a chance to attack the rust on the floor, which involved taking the driver's chair out to get to it properly. There are still bits I can't get to without tearing up the insulation-type-stuff that's stuck to the floor beneath the carpet and underlay (and it will be tearing up -- this stuff does not want to come off), but I think I'll need to block out a bit more time to deal with them.
Note to self: DO NOT TAKE OUT THE CHAIRS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, as they are a complete pig to get back in -- four screws which all have to be perfectly aligned in, and have to go through two washers, a piece of metal, the carpet, and the floor of the car.
Car-faff overlapped rather more than I'd intended with a visit from
Work today was better than usual, though not because of the actual work -- just because of sweet things like a lovely email from
After work I picked up a friend from the station; she wanted to steal some of my furniture. :-) Or rather, I quite happily donated two sets of CD-drawers and a coffee table to her new house in London. We have more space in our living-room!
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In terms of the bigger picture, I feel like the current rash of emotional angst is more under control -- I still need to talk to