A good day...

Today has been a good day.
Ray had some time off so we spent some good quality time together as a family..

We've been trying to use up food in the house before we go on holiday, so we packed up a lovely picnic with a flask of coffee and went to some pretty gardens in Chichester for lunch.

It's lovely having Ray there with us so that I get a little time to be able to read and also go around taking photo's of things.  I felt a little self-conscious at times thinking that people would be looking at me with my camera... but then I thought 'What the hell! No one cares what I'm doing!' so I carried on snapping away and I'm so glad I did because I think I got some really nice photo's.  :-)

We ended up spending a few hours there and obviously the fresh air had a good effect on Rose because she ended up have a 2 and a half hour sleep this afternoon! It was a good job she did because I had loads of packing to get on with. We've been on holiday with Rose before but just to the Isle of Wight, so we could pile everything except the kitchen sink into the car. But this time I'm having to pack a suitcase with all of Rose's and my things in it (most of Ray's stuff in a smaller suitcase that classes as hand luggage) and I'm quickly running out of space!

This evening I cooked a beef and ale casserole from one of Jamie Oliver's recipe books and it really was very yummy. It was a recipe that I haven't used before and I think it's the only one I'll use from now on as it was so good.

For pudding we had an apple berry pie, definitely not Slimming World!

But I'm feeling a little more relaxed about food, until we come back from Spain anyway... then I'll have to lose all the weight I would have put on whilst we're away..!

Okay, well I'm now off to carry on with knitting my current WIP.

I hope everyone's had a lovely day.

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