Just Call Us Darby and Joan!

 

This morning was an unusually early start for me...joining the early morning commute as well!

My car has had an unusual rattle since it came back from being mended, and the garage asked if I could call by sometime they would take a look at it.

Well as it is 25 miles away, passing by was unlikely!

However, as Teen One's Uni is only four miles away, I felt I could justify driving all that way, if I took her in, saving her a bit of fuel and mileage on her insurance at the same time!

The garage found the cause of the rattle which was simple to sort as it turned out.

I then had time to use the local Lidl's before picking up Teen One who finished at 11am today.

Very soon after leaving the garage the dashboard flashed up the tyre pressures needed checking, which made me think the mechanic must have done something wrong, but then I remembered Hubby had asked last week if my car would tell me when the tyres needed doing, as he felt there were on the edge, so he was quite right as it turned out.

Another more irritating incident then happened with the car.

Having parked in Lidl's car park, as I locked the car and walked away I thought I heard a weird noise...but discounted it thinking I was just getting paranoid with noises...but when I unlocked it later I heard the noise again.

I suggested to Hubby when I got home, it might need some WD40 maybe??

He went out to check, then came back in to say

"Well you are right, the wing mirror does make a weird noise....its because someone has broken it!"

Boo hoo!
Having being honest to someone else for a minor incident its a shame someone else wasn't as honest with me!

They must have got VERY close as my mirrors fold in automatically when the car is locked.

Funnily enough I did see some slight scuffs on the front bumper and wondered how they had got there, wondering if the garage driver had done it, but now suspect it was whoever hit me!

Oh well...worse things happen at sea, as my nan used to say!

 

 

This afternoon I had a sort through of the freezer, looking for inspiration for Sunday's dessert.

I found various bags of fruit from the summer, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, so thawed them out...

 

 

...and turned it into a flapjack layered pud, which always goes down well.

 

 

I also made an batch of Oreo Brownies...and made some extra work for myself along the way!!

It's not often I quote my mother, but this saying comes from my lips a little too frequently for my liking, and always about myself!

"Lazy people make the most work for themselves" she used to say....often if I was trying to pick up something dropped on the floor, whilst doing my best not to leave the chair I was sitting in.

Well today as I was shaking the cocoa out to be weighed, it occurred to me it would be much safer to walk about two steps to my right and get a spoon from the cutlery drawer...but nope....I decided to gently shake the jar....and promptly loosing a large compacted block which then scattered itself everywhere!

What a lovely mess to have to deal with (and ruin a pretty dishcloth at the same time!) all for the want of moving my legs!

Of course I wouldn't consider myself to be particularly lazy...I am usually trying to do something in a hurry and think the way I am doing something will be quicker, but invariably I end up making more work for myself....just when will I learn I wonder?

 

 

Well last night I indulged myself with the new yarn, which is knitting up lovely.

Tonight the house is very quiet as the Teens have gone to Somerset for a YP weekend.

Grandma has gone to stay with Hubby's brother for the weekend, not that we knew about Grandma going away until a few days ago, otherwise we might have made the most of the freedom and gone away ourselves!