Football - a win and a decent game

Saturday morning saw us scrubbing the house as we had time to fill before the football. I also packaged up and organised postage for some bits we were returning to online shops and the old saucepans that I had sold on eBay. Unfortunately My Hermes decided that they didn't like how my box was, you know, box shaped and that it would be much better looking like it had been run over. This dented one of the saucepans and now I have to go through the hassle of doing a damage claim.

The afternoon saw another trek up to Wembley, this time it was my turn to drive. We arrived early as usual, but not as early as we have been for the midweek games and it was really busy. The mean lady at security made me take my old collection of bag stickers off and threw them in the bin.

We actually saw a pretty good game with us beating Everton 4 - 0. This raised our goal difference enough that if Man City beat Liverpool we would go above them in the table. Unfortunately that game was 4-3 to Liverpool but was an absolute cracker, ending City's unbeaten run for the season.

Sunday Warhammer, baking and games night

Sunday morning saw the last of our group Warhammer games before Nigel goes back to sea. There was no Tom, and Nigel couldn't get to ours until 10 so Ollie sat out so he could get some chores done and Nigel and I played a 50 point objective mission game.

It was a close game and at 1 point I thought I was going to loose miserably. However, I got a bit lucky with my objective cards and picked up one for my warlord that I managed to achieve giving me 6 points in one go. I finally got my new hand to hand guys into a fight in the last round and they were really effective.

Nigel managed to loose Samuel fairly early on (as usual) but at least this time he didn't blow himself up.

In the afternoon I baked healthy chocolate brownies for dinner, some for Ollie's lunchbox and a coffee cake for after dinner snacks for this week along with mushroom puffs for lunch.

At 4pm we headed over to the Farenden's for dinner and games. We played who's the dude first while Kiera watched cartoons. She was coming down with a cough so was feeling very sorry for herself. We had fajitas for dinner which were very tasty and then after Kiera had gone to bed we started a game of Catan. I got to pick the version so we played one with fish that we hadn't done before. It gave an interesting element to the game, but my strategy didn't pay off and it was pretty clear from early on that I wasn't going to win. Nigel emerged victorious which made up a bit for his early Warhammer defeat!

Saturday loft challenge

I've been wanting to get up in the loft and sort it out for ages. It was on my jobs list for our week off in December, but we couldn't quite fit it in with all the other things going on. As we didn't have any football on this weekend and no firm plans we decided now was as good a time to start as any.

Ollie devised a plan that would involve minimal disruption to the rest of the house, namely we (I) would create a space in the loft by throwing some very obviously rubbish large things away. I could then put the things we were definately keeping that didn't need much sorting out in the created space, creating more space to sort more stuff out (following so far?)

So I started by passing down a load of random bits that were quite obviously things that should have just been thrown in the bin in the first place (rusty tins, old accounting textbooks long out of date, the shower attachment for bath taps, the attachments for the exercise machine that got thrown out 3 months ago, 8 old used lumpy pillows!).

Then we started on duvet mountain. I had 5 duvets in the loft plus the 2 boxes for the duvets that are currently residing on our bed and the spare bed. That included 2 very old and cheap 12.5 tog duvets and a 13 tog duvet. Now I can't remember the last time we went higher than a 7.5 tog duvet and I think the 7.5 only stayed on the bed for 4 days when we had a particularly heavy frost. 3 duvets went to the recycling along with the old spare bed and matress that had bits missing.

After duvets was backpacks. I really should throw the old broken ones away when I get a new one rather than sticking it in the loft. I think I found 8 old ones up there.

Then it was the turn of the empty box stash. We keep all the empty packaging boxes for pretty much everything we buy because you don't know a) if you will need to send it back and b) if you upgrade and sell on ebay you get much more for it (and it's easier to post) if you have the original packaging. Still, we managed to fill the whole of my car with empty boxes (after i broke them all down) for things that we either don't have anymore or we aren't going to upgrade or sell in the future.

3 trips to the tip later it was 4pm and I finally have a walkway down the centre of the loft with a large section that has been sorted. Unfortunately there is still a LOT left to sort out but it's a start.

The evening was met with a well deserved G&T, I cooked tapas including green sauce and canarian potatoes and we watched the Edge of Tomorrow which was really just Groundhog Day with Tom Cruise and aliens instead of Tom Hanks and a groundhog.

Blog resurrection

I recently signed into Chrome on my work laptop. This installed all of my bookmarks from about 5 years ago when I stopped using the PC at home and switched to my ipad. One of these was the link to my blog.

I re-read all my past entries, had a laugh and then thought that it was a really good idea and I should start doing it again. I had completely forgotten half of the stuff that we had done back then.

So expect more of the same in the future, more DIY, funny antics and maybe even the odd craft project or two.