St Swithans Day

and its raining, according to the old saying we are now due for 40 days and nights of rain........heaven help me.......DB will drive me nuts if he cannot get out into the garden.

Yesterday I went all out and ordered a hooping station...well two actually. I do have a problem hooping which causes me grief when the fabric ruckles. So no pocket money for another 6 months making it June next year..........I will have to justify buying them as well, so thinking cap on.

I have a pile of ironing to do, bed linen, so the hand sewing will have to take a back seat, am off shortly to the post office for DB's TV choice, will tackle the ironing when I get back.

DD2 tells me she is still suffering as is DGD, her cough is worse than her mothers apparently, they were still waiting for the tests to come.

DB and I talked about shopping yesterday. Aldi have a lot of things that I really like, their meat is always very good and I can get fish from there as well. So we talked about me going once a month and buying all the meat, fish etc that I need for the month, and then getting a delivery of the heavy stuff, the one problem is milk, we use a 4 pint container a week, buying 4 containers would bring my freezer to breaking point.......so I am still pondering. It appears we will be out of lock down at the end of this month, according to some literature from the council, so there will be one more delivery from Morrison. I also need to think ahead, we may well have to go into lock down again if Covid ramps up in the winter. Storage is going to be a problem too......I really need to have a turn out and get rid of some clutter. Trouble is DB will say 'oh I need that', when he has not looked at it for years!! I cut all my sewing stuff down so he should relinquish some of his stuff.

Tonight supper is a form of shepherds pie, made with stewing steak with mash on the top........and veggies......DB says there are more rasps to come, so possibly raspberries for dessert.