Sunday, 18 February 2007

My Weekend

I had a great weekend. How was yours? It started with our regular ‘Fries on Friday’ date with our friends Robert and Jennifer Gaskin. We meet at the local pub on Friday at 5.30 for a bowl of fries and a debrief on the week that was and to plan the weekend to come. It’s something we all look forward to and a date we break only rarely and reluctantly. One or two of us (that’d be me since Christmas and Jennifer is thinking about it) have recently started to order carrot and celery sticks instead of fries but we still have garlic mayo with them... some things are sacrosanct.

My lovely weekend continued on Saturday morning with a visit to the local farmer’s market held on the river bank in Wanganui. I bought venison, eggs, zucchini and coffee. Since I ordered venison at a restaurant recently and found out that my diet programme (Fitday) gives it such a low fat to protein ratio I’ve been very pleased to find this market stall that sells it at such a great price. And the coffee there is locally roasted and freshly ground so I buy 500gm at a time for our espresso machine.

On Saturday afternoon I baked a birthday cake (apple, walnut and cranberries) for Helen, iced it with melted dark chocolate and then lazed around for a bit. We had dinner at a restaurant that evening with Helen’s friends and took the cake back to her place for dessert and coffee. A very pleasant evening!

I woke up on Sunday with a sore throat and chest so did some more lazing around most of the day until late afternoon when I was feeling better. Robert and Jennifer came round about 5.00 pm to install our new stair lights. It was a big production – a very tall ladder and a lot of instructions issued but its all done now and looks fantastic! Jennifer and I cut some carrot and celery sticks and made a batch of garlic mayo. Terry cooked a bbq (venison sausages, lamb steaks, beef rissoles, zucchini and potato slices) and then we had a couple of games of crib. A win each and we decided to leave it at that...

So, yeah, I had a great weekend. How was yours?

2 comments:

Helen said...

My weekend was great too. The cake was VERY delicious and, alas, is no more. You know the one about having cake and eating it....

I need to get you to show me how to put a link in my posts. (I know it must be easy, just not at 11.13pm at night.)

Janice said...

Making links: when you are editing your new post you will see an icon at the top with a green globe and a chain link - right next to the large T for text icon. Select the word(s) you want to make into a link, click the icon and a dialogue box pops up. Type or paste your link into the box, click ok and you're done! It helps if you open another browser tab or window to find the place you want to link to and then you can copy the link without navigating away from your post.