I was right

Meh, well, I'm always right but I was definitely right when I said that there was no way I would be able to walk yesterday. We were a right pair yesterday. He was yelping every time he moved and I was pretty much sat down all day, glaring at him. I told him 'you broke me'. So, despite being a glorious, glorious day, we sat in and did very little. 

We will have to shift our backsides today, though or we will seize up. I've had a lovely 4 am awakening again, by a noisy child stomping their way to the bathroom. I'm going to start knocking heads together about this because it's not fair that I'm having my sleep disturbed every night. I used the quiet time to pay my bills online, so that's done for another month. I've taken a joint of pork loin out of the freezer for Sunday dinner tomorrow, our friend is coming over to have it with us - our single friend who has been in our bubble since day one, I'm not breaking any rules.

So, when Mr G is awake, I'm going to drag him out for a short walk before we do our football bet. As early as possible because Saturday is (supposedly) my day of rest. Prepare a cheeseburger pasta bake for our tea, and a pepperoni and chorizo one for the kids. I can slam them both in at five o'clock then, and they'll be on the table for us all by half past. A cheeky slice of cheesy garlic bread alongside. 

Tea last night was the exceptional Chicken Shawarma, I cooked the chicken thighs loose though. If you have company, they look good on the skewers, but at the end of the day, you only pull the meat off the skewers anyway, so I cut out the middleman.

Yes, it's a garlic naan. No, I shouldn't have had it. But I did. And I enjoyed it. Lunch yesterday had to be breadless so I made us both a quick mushroom risotto.

Hard to believe that it's nearly March. I don't know where January and February disappeared to. It's funny, I'm sure if you'd asked me pre-Covid, I would have probably been adamant that staying confined to the house, not being able to socialise with anyone, and having restrictions placed on our lives would have made time absolutely draaaaaaaaaag. But it hasn't. We've been contending with this off and on for nearly a year. And when restrictions did lift, albeit only slightly and only temporarily, we decided - for our family - that a cautious approach was more sensible. And it seems to have paid off, we're still safe and healthy. And even though my life is boring right now, cook, walk, eat, sleep, repeat... there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to actually be bored. If that makes any sense. 

Either way, I'm casting a wary eye over the coming months. Looking at what I'm willing to make concessions for (Slimming World group in the flesh, travelling to Wrexham for the rugby if we're allowed to attend, having one or two friends around, outside and socially distanced when the weather is nicer) and what I'm not (eating out, going to pubs, going on holiday, having huge parties of old, having people here to stay).  

It also totally helps to hit publish on posts...