Woman's Day Week

Monday morning woke up to a miserable cold day. The cold front from the Cape had blown in. Not nice! Especially after having such good weather recently. After breakfast and seeing to the dogs I quickly went into Meyerton to get the repeat of Hubby’s medication seeing that he was on his last day of the current medication. When I got back Hubby was ready and waiting to go out somewhere for the public holiday and we left as soon as I was ready. We decided to go and check out the Decorex Exhibition where Diane was working stopping at Eastgate for lunch at our favourite – The Bread Basket. Lunch was our usual delicious cappuccino and ciabatta roll. After we had eaten we wandered around doing some shopping before heading off to the exhibition. Gallagher Estate was packed with five halls of exhibitors displaying some stunning things. We met Diane and after checking her stand she took a short break to get something to eat. Much to her disappointment they had nothing vegetarian so she ended up getting herself a couple of cheese straws with a hot chocolate. Sometimes I wonder how she manages on so little. After checking out some more of the exhibits Hubby went to rest his foot and I stayed talking to Diane in between people coming to their stand. We left around five for home stopping for petrol on the way. It is such a pleasure to use the highways on Public Holidays as the roads are so quiet. When we got home we had a cuppa before making supper and settling down for an evening of TV and reading. Tuesday was a really icy day with the overnight temp dropping down to -3 and day only 14. Horrible! I spent the day doing some cleaning (not much) with some office work thrown in. Most of the time was spent sitting in front of the lounge window in the sun reading my book and keeping warm. Diane phoned in the afternoon about discs she needed and decided she would come home for the night seeing as she hadn’t been able to come over the weekend. I finished my book and made sure her room was ready – It was – for her. Hubby was home early as he had his last Committee meeting for the Piston Ring and was getting picked up at half six. I made his supper while he showered and got ready. Supper was steak and as there were four pieces I put two into a container and put them back into the fridge. Diane wanted to go to the shop quickly when she arrived and said she would come to the gate for me. Hubby was backwards and forwards and I thought he had gone so when Diane arrived I ran out to tell her I was just going to grab my bag and then would come out. As I walked back to the house Hubby came out thinking it was his lift. I went back and was horrified to find the door locked. My keys and all were in the house. I told Hubby off for locking me out especially as his keys were also inside. He had thought I was inside. Thank goodness Diane had her keys and I got back in to fetch my bag. I was soo cross. Imagine if his lift had been there and Diane didn’t have keys. He would have gone off and not realised we were stuck outside. Anyway we left for the shop and he was gone when we got back with some snack food for Diane for the rest of the week. I quickly made a stir-fry with noodles for the two of us and kept some for Diane’s lunch at work on Wednesday. I put this into a plastic container in the fridge. After eating Diane sorted out her discs and bathed while I watched TV. We went to bed about half eleven where I read some more before putting out the light. Hubby was home about half twelve and very glad that he was resigning from the committee. His health is not so good anymore and being a committee member is a lot of hard work which he is finding difficult to cope with.
Wednesday was up before six to get Diane up and ready to leave early for work. It was another icy day with similar temperatures to those of Tuesday. Diane quickly put my pics from Saturday on the computer and resized them for the blog before leaving just after seven. To help her I put her things, including her lunch which I grabbed out of the fridge, into the car for her while she was on the computer. I spent the morning clearing washing and working on the computer. At lunchtime when I went to the fridge I was horrified to see Diane’s stir-fry inside and quickly sent an sms to apologise. I felt really bad as she must have been looking forward to her lunch and apologised again to her wondering what on earth I had given her. She phoned me and said the container had some horrible looking bloody mess inside. I couldn’t understand what it could be until I remembered the steak I had also put in the fridge. Poor Diane! What a shock for a vegetarian. I felt really, really bad.
Thursday morning I spent cleaning before going in to Alberton. To make things up to Diane I stopped first at her to give her stir-fry lunch. She enjoyed the food and I felt a lot better about my horrible mistake. We spent her lunch time chatting before I went round to the workshop to fetch Hubby to go down to Alberton City with me. Our first stop, naturally, was at the coffee shop where we had cappuccino and a savoury scone. That out the way we went shopping for a big shop as my cupboards are rather bare at the moment. I dropped Hubby back at the workshop before leaving for home to unpack everything before my daily dose of wine.
Friday the weather was still rather chilly with the day time temperatures warming slightly. The icy wind is what makes it unpleasant. We really have been plunged back into the depths of winter. A big shock after being able to wear short-sleeved tops the week before. I had a leisurely day of cleaning and reading sitting in the sun before Diane arrived to have a glass of wine with me. Our evening was spent chilling, eating supper and checking things on the computer. We are going to make up for her weekend of work .