Thursday 12th Nov

A busy day of housework today but when i got up the water was still off so i had to make a full milk coffee, which was less than pleasant, i had a bit of a session on line then set to. A few moments after my milky coffee the water came back on, typical. I gave the kitchen a good clean through then phoned my friend Andrew in Scotland to catch up, it has been an age since i spoke to him, though little had changed. I then phoned Sarah to see how they were, they were good and think they might come down to visit us in the lakes since i have had to cancel our trip to Glasgow whilst we are in the uk.
I got back on with the work, dusted and vacuumed the living room, plumped up the sofa then moped the floor, i vacuumed the hall, moped the kitchen floor, then moved upstairs. I sorted out and put away all the laundry, gave the beds a bit of a plumping, i will need to strip the spare beds and give them a wash since we have a guest arriving with us when we get back from the uk. Vacuumed upstairs and put fresh bedding on our bed. I gave the en suite a bit of a going over, we have not used the shower in a few weeks as we seem to be preferring the bath in this cold weather, but ant will insist on spitting toothpaste in to the sink and not washing it down, my life is soooo hard!! With the en suite sparkling i had finished my housework so i had a bit of lunch, just some tuna with mayo mixed through, then watched a bit of tv. Ant phoned about three so i got changed and set off to pick him up, this meant hitting the Brussels ring road at rush hour, which is very busy and the Belgians are crazy drivers, but it was quite exhilarating and gives me a chance to be an aggressive driver.
Ant was waiting for me at the drop and kiss so all went smoothly and we headed home, we stopped at McDonalds on the way home and had a bit of convenience food, i had an M burger which was actually really nice. By the time we got home it was nine in the evening, the dogs were extremely excited to see us, ant unloaded all the bits of rubbish he had picked up on his trip, including a couple of gifts to take with us next week. We sat and watched a little tv, Hugh at River Cottage, which was quite interesting, especially his pear pudding cake, i may have to get the recipe and give it a try. We went up to bed at eleven and i sat and read for a while then headed off to sleep.