IT FINALLY FEELS LIKE SPRING IS COMING

What an absolutely beautiful day?  Woke up at 7.30am which is extremely unusual for me especially as I stayed up watching a movie until 1am!  But as it was such a lovely, sunny day I decided to get up.

Washing on, cuppa made, kitchen tidied where I had a bit too much of a close encounter with a rather large spider that had decided to nestle itself in a tea towel that had been left screwed up on the kitchen side.  Needless to say there was a bit of squealing and that wasn't from the spider.

Veg box delivered and off to town I went to visit my Indian shop which is now run by a Chinese man (?) and the Eastern European shop that is now run by an Asian 😖.  Love the diversity of my little town, haha.  But at least I now have a cheap huge bag of rice, cheap large bag of turmeric, gram flour, fresh coriander, spring onions, leeks (I thought there were some left in the garden but it would appear not), jar of sweet and sour gherkins and jar of roasted peppers. Lovely chats with both merchants about the weather in true English fashion.

Home and first lot of washing of the year on the line outside which meant, of course, that I got totally distracted by the neighbouring cat who appeared pleased to see me, the goldfinches and blue tits in the tree and Mr and Mrs Crow who flew pretty continuously from tree to tree to tree cawing loudly.

This afternoon was a mega bake session.  Two banana breads as I'd forgotten I had a load left and ordered another 8; whoops and some chocolate brownies which I haven't made since forever.

Banana Breads

Dark Chocolate Brownies

Both of these will go down well, although I have frozen one of the banana breads for a later date. Then made a batch of pasty for tonight's dinner.

Back beginning to ache so shoved the leftover cooked gammon, the remaining cheese sauce and some freshly chopped leeks into the slow cooker for a couple of hours to cook, once done I rolled out the pastry and placed on top and finished in the oven to cook the pastry while I did mustard mashed potato and green beans.

Gammon, leeks and cheese sauce - before it was cooked through

Am seriously hoping that tomorrow will be just as sunny as the area outside the back door needs a good tidy as does the front yard and there are some cutting back required on some of the plants that have overwintered in their respective beds.

Finally feel like I have a bit of mojo.

Cya