Family Visit

 

Good morning everyone

 

 

I've had a really good weekend.   My eldest son Mark who is 33yrs old, and his girlfriend Gail came to visit yesterday.  We got to do a bit of catching up, as we haven't seen them for a few weeks, due to us travelling every weekend.   Marks car broke down a few weeks ago, and the garage told him he might need a new engine.  Not good news I'm afraid.  They are using Gail's car at the moment. 

 

They loved our new bikes which we had bought to try and loose some weight, as we have all put weight on since we moved to the country.   I think it's because we have to drive everywhere, nowhere is in walking distance.   It's 7 miles to the nearest shop as we don't have a little village shop anymore.   It's 5 miles to the nearest school for Adam, so he goes on the school bus every day.

 

Mark and Gail live about  16 miles away from us now which doesn't sound that far, but when we only used to live like 5 mins away from each other before it's quite a way for us, especially now with the price of petrol, and my car which is very thirsty.

 

Ade has gone home now. We are sad. We've got to cook for ourselves for the rest of the week.  :(

 

I have to say he is an excellent cook and it was very nice to have a weekend off from cooking.  On Saturday he and Laura cooked us Kentucky Chicken, not too spicy, as me and Adam do not like spicy food, but it was perfect.  On Sunday they cooked us roast pork, roast spuds, two different veggies, and mashed potatoes and lovely thick gravy.  Yuuuumy.  I love thick gravy!!!!  I even mopped the gravy up with lovely crusty bread!!!!! 

 

All in all we had a fantastic weekend.

 

The weather is a bit yucky at the moment, and sooooo cold even with the heating up full, I still have the shivers. I hope I am not catching Adam's cold.

Adam is off school today because he woke up all croaky yesterday and sniffing and full of catarrh.  So a day at home in the warm snuggled in a sleeping bag for him.

 

No snow though yet. We had a bit of snow last week but nothing since, lots of frost and rain though.

 

Well, it's Monday again. Laundry day.  See you next time.

 

Carol