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[byslantedlight]

I am soooo tired! A friend from bookgroup came over for dinner tonight - only my second guest (well, if you count a family of three as one - they did all come at the same time *g*) I'd had this idea that I'd get to the supermarket early, stock up the remaining ingredients, and spend most of the day leisurely cooking, so everything was all prepared when D arrived, and pottering around tidying and cleaning the house - replacing my pink Ikea rug with a new cream one (with a couple of orange/brown raggedy stripes at the end), putting this and that away, getting around to moving various bits and bobs...

But of course there was a missed parcel that I had to go and collect in Shepton, in the opposite direction to the supermarket, and then I got stuck behind a tractor for miles (I know better than to go that way, even though it's the main road!)... and the supermarket was a Saturday supermarket. Also, it didn't have rose water, which you couldn't move for falling over in supermarkets a few years ago, so I swung by the organic shop, which was shut, so I nipped to the farm shop - they had it! So by the time I was home and ready to start leisurely cooking and pottering, it was almost two o'clock! Which wouldn't have been a problem except that the rose water was for making Turkish Delight ice cream, and I had all the other ingredients... but I've not made ice cream before, so it took longer than it might have done, and then hoovering of course means moving the couch and discovering fly spots I'd not found before (how did they get there?), and so then mopping, and drying, and... and then the ice cream wasn't freezing very quickly, so it wasn't ready for whisking when it should have been, and it was supposed to have another five hours of freezing bouts after that, and... I got all the mains done, and my wee annexe is shiny and clean... but it wasn't at all leisurely or pottering!

D had second helpings, so the food must have been okay in the end. And we chatted about books and teaching and various things, and it was all good. But we had strawberry-kiwi-banana creams for dessert..! and I am so tired that I'm not sure I can stand up and get to the bedroom! When D left I did all the dishes, and put away the stuff I'd thrown into the bedroom to hide cos I didn't have time - and beat the ice cream for the second time. It's gonna be good when it's done... *g* But now it's past midnight, and I'm too tired for the lj-ing I wanted to do!

Guess who's planning a very quiet day at home tomorrow... *vbg*

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[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

This morning I'm fancying a bath, some family-treeing, reading my book group book for Thursday, and perhaps a walk around - maybe I'll even head for the village, which believe it or not I've not done yet!

I've never found as many fly spots anywhere as I have in this house over summer - and some of them I cannot budge either. If you have any secrets for removal, I'd be most grateful! I blame the horses, and their giant horse-poo pile over behind the stables...

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Windex and a paint scraper - I let the Windex soak in a bit before scraping. It's not something I do every week so I guess it's fairly well baked on by the time I get to it.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wouldn't have tried Windex! I kept seeing baby wipes recommended, and they seem to work for fresher spots, but like you say, not for the hard-baked yuck... Thanks!