This week...

I'm reading...

I tend to have around three books on the go at any time. I will be reading a book book, an ebook and an audiobook, and as long as they are all different there is no confusion in my mind.

My paper book at the moment is Fire Study. I started it last week and I am thoroughly enjoying it but I haven't finished it yet. I expect that I will finish it this week.

I did start a new ebook this week. For the first time in years I am participating in a blog tour and so I need to make sure that I get the book read in enough time to write the review. The book is The Railway Girls by Maisie Thomas and I agreed to read it because as much as I love to read about the action in war, I also enjoy reading the at home stories.

I also went back to The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan. I did start listening to it a few weeks ago but I ended up swapping to The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan last week. That was just the palette cleanser I needed and now I am fully invested in The Good Turn.


I'm watching...

Friday night is turning into our comedy night. I think it is partially because by the time Friday comes around I am mentally exhausted. That was certainly the case last Friday night.

At the moment on Prime Video there are ten one hour long comedy specials featuring Australian comedians. We watched the Tom Gleeson special a week ago which was great but on Friday night we watched three featuring Dilruk Jayasinha, Anne Edmonds and Tommy Little. We had seen Dilruk before at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival so I knew that we would enjoy his show. Anne Edmonds show was fine but I wouldn't necessarily rush out to buy tickets to her show in future. The one that surprised us was Tommy Little. Oh my goodness, so, so funny! I was crying laughing. It was the perfect way to spend Friday night.

I have mentioned before that I have been watching the Grand Ole Opry each week while they have been broadcasting during isolation. This week I had even more reason to watch because one of the featured artists was Keith Urban. I have posted before about seeing Keith at the Grand Ole Opry when we were in Nashville last year which was so awesome and I really enjoyed this new performance as well.


Life....

How is  it that even though we are barely leaving the house, the weekend still feels super busy. I had good intentions of watching the Outlander finale and starting a new jigsaw on Sunday afternoon but there was just no time.

Part of the reason it felt like that is because our restrictions were lifted slightly this week. We can now have up to five people in our homes, subject to social distancing. Saturday was also my husband's birthday (also known as just another dayin his world) and so the new conditions meant that we were able to have his daughter and her partner over for dinner. We made a big lasagne and finished off with lemon meringue pie. So good!

We also had my sister and her family come around on Sunday afternoon. Maybe part of the reason we felt busy is we were cooking and hosting all weekend. It was so good though to be able to spend time with the people who matter to us.

The government has advised that from 1 June we will be able to start going to cafes and restaurants. I am totally looking forward to the simple pleasure of going out for brunch. I do, however, think that we are going to still be working from work for quite some time still.

Last week was a tough week in working from home world. Really tough. One thing that made me laugh was that we were having a safety moment and I asked my team if they had anything to share. One of the girls suggested that we all buy things online because then you get a package to look forward to.

We got a couple of packages last week, both of which were a surprise to me. One was a pair of shoes that I ordered in January that I had completely given up on. I ordered them because I wanted to wear them on our planned trip to Europe. Not only had they not arrived in time to go away, they arrived after we would have already been home for weeks. I had written to the company complaining a couple of times and I was just about to lodge a claim with Paypal.

Our non stick frying pan lost it's stick along time ago and we had started having vague conversations about buying a new one. What I didn't expect was to open a big box and find an entire new set of  Tefal saucepans and frying pans. Robert did say to me something about it being for me but to be fair he does most of the cooking so it is more a gift for us! It was a lovely surprise and certainly made what had been an otherwise very average Friday much better!

Posts from the last week

Welcome to a New Era of Weekend Cooking
About Weekend Cooking
Alphabet 2020: G is for Grateful
The Postmistress by Alison Stuart



I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date