Slow progress towards normalcy

[wiseheart]

We've put most of the stuff back to its designed place, so the flat no longer looks like a refugee camp... well, not so much anymore. Mum volunteered to cook today, so I boiled the potatoes and eggs for the potato casserole early in the morning and peeled everything, so that she only had to put the dish together. She performed the last part of the totally unnecessary washing-up of the china that only gets used every sixth year or so, and there was a bit of tension between us because I always get mad when she does such things; and frustrated that I can't talk her out of it.

Still, I could squeeze in about half an hour of crafting before my friend Evie arrived, bringing us a gift of some tomatoes from her garden, together with two oversized zucchinis (one of which I gave the neighbours later a we couldn't have eaten both before one would rot on us) and some potato-zucchini-tomato canapés made in her brand new air fryer. Those were yummy, so we saved the potato casserole for tomorrow, which means: no cooking tomorrow! Yay!

I gave Evie two books about herbal lore that I had been given years and years earlier. She's interested in that stuff; I, not so much, unless I write Cadfael fanfic, hahaha. Unfortunately, I forgot to give her the Robin Hood DVDs I had promised her daughter, although I had dug them out and placed in plain sight in advance. Of course, the fact that sight was practically nonexistent in the flat due to the closed blinds might have had to do something with that.

After Evie left we had a very late lunch and an extended nap, since it is still hot like hell and we were both exhausted. Tomorrow morning I'll have to go to the supermarket and stock up on mineral water, soft drinks, ice-cream and alcohol free Radler. Those things are of vital importance to survive the weather. I might buy some food, too...

Comments

[meathiel]

Still hot? Oh dear ...
We had 32° today ... not quite as bad! But bad enough!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we had 34°C, which I consider fairly bad.

[artemis10002000]

Good to hear you are nearing the end of this cleaning hell week. I hope the shopping trip tomorrow will be... well, as painless as you can hope for, at least, even if it will be unpleasant.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

If I manage to get up in time, it won't be so bad. We have both Aldi and Lidl within walking distance, and I can do my tour within the hour, so in the morning it should go well enough.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I'm a big Cadfael fan too!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I love Cadfael! It took me years to get all the books, some of which my online friends organized from me out of the UK or the Netherlands or even the States, and I'm grateful for their help. A Danish friend gifted upon me the TV-series, too, but I found that a very great disappointment. All that character assassination, unfit casting and plot twists that were in polar opposite to the spirit of the books...

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

oh geez. I never read the books, I just like the TV show.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is the thing with most TV or film adaptation: if you get to them first, you like them. If you've read the originals (the Cadfael chronicles include 22 novels and a band of 3 short stories), you can't help being deeply disappointed.

For the same reason, I utterly despise Peter Jackson's LotR and Hobbit movies, too.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

well, I don't know what to tell you because I liked both the movies and the books and I had read the books years before the movies existed

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is OK, we're both entitled to our own opinions. Personally, the only things I liked in the PJ films were: Martin Freeman as Bilbo, Andy Serkins as Gollum, Sam Gamgee and the truly stellar artwork.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

It's warmer outside than it looks here. I just walked to and from the local shop and wished I had not donned my overshirt.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I´m not a fan of zucchinis, since my mother-in-law always brought us those huge ones, precisely knowing that zucchinis are best eaten when young.

Isn´t it funny that we always forget about the things most important? Hubby for instance was supposed to bring me mint plants from DiL´s garden. Only that he forgot about them and left them in his car, until the plants had died. And it´s really hard to kill mint...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And it´s really hard to kill mint...

It's all a matter of dedication, I guess. *g*