Sunshineeeee!

Today's been glorious - the sun's been out and heating the world up beautifully. I got a couple of loads of washing dry, another couple nearly dry, the whole house tidied and hoovered and fresh air into all the rooms. Hoorah! So, I have a clean house, a full fridge, and now a full belly. The man took home two joints of silverside this afternoon so we decided to have a roast with one and I cut the other into thick steaks and they're now chilling out in the freezer. The packet said I should do one joint for 2 hours, but I'm pretty good at judging the cooking time for meat so decided to only give it 1hr 10. Thank goodness I did! We like our meat rare but it came out just a perfect medium-well done, so that was fine for us. I cooked it (after browning in a pan) in a sliced onion and 1.5tsp gravy salt with some boiling water. Once cooked, I put the meat on a plate, covered with the tinfoil I'd covered it with in the oven and then put the juice/onion mix in a small pan. I added a glug of red wine, a good splash of water, allowed to reduce slightly then added some cornflour and water mixed together, then returned it to the boil for a thick gravy. Yummers!

Anyways, I only have one more day of holidays left - boo :( but then my life becomes more exciting so it's all good! More about that another time because it's all hush-hush right now, but all in good time, dear readers.

Tomorrow's plans? Post my shoes back, hand in my application form to join the doctors down here and get the rest of my washing dry. I've also got a rather large form to fill in and then take up to Thainstone at some stage, so I better get that done while I'm off! Ooft! Apart from all that, I'm going to enjoy my last day off, chill out, maybe pamper myself a bit and then go back to work the next day, refreshed and ready for a hard days graft.

Right, the man says it's time for pudding, so I better go and make the bed since it's still stripped from earlier!

Chow the now!

A x