Shopping and Cleaning Today

Managed to go shopping yesterday so we are well stocked up again and the dishwasher can continue to perform as we now have the tablets!! Called in to see my sister who didn't look very happy at all - I limit these visits to about twice a month as always feel worse when I leave there. Sad but true. Well the BIL made me a nice ham roll which was very welcome - nobody does that here as daughter is working to a deadline on her dissertation and OH is workaholic lol. So that leaves me to do all the rest involved in running the house etc. etc. Basically sister has heard from Amy (my other sister) all the gossip about Amy's daughter moving back home with her 2 kids and how things are not too great. Most of it is just gossip as I am sure that my niece would not be telling her mother all about the argument she had with her ex MIL and how her ex MIL told her off!! So I said 'Did Amy chat to her daughter's ex MI?'  and then it went quiet. I think sister is now thinking perhaps a lot of it is exaggerated for dramatic effect, which as Amy is a 'chronic complainer' would fit in nicely lol. There is a saying on facebook which fits exactly how I feel about this 'Not my circus - not my monkeys.'
I do often wonder if other people's relatives are like this and spend all their time living their lives through everyone else's business, as this is what my sisters are like. I guess I am not that popular as I don't share a lot about myself with them so they have very little to gossip about. Ah well, at least the ham roll was lovely.

Today I finally got to the bottom of one of the freezers. We have 2 fridge freezers and a small chest freezer (now clean and empty.) Have been trying to empty it for about 4 months now but OH keeps seeing it half empty and rushes out to buy more food, as he thinks we are all going to starve lol. One done and two to go, but the fridge freezers are a lot smaller. Will go to the meat-man at the weekend. He is a brilliant butcher who sells very good quality meat at a cheap price. He doesn't have a shop, just a big van, but there is always a long queue, it is top quality meat, he's been going for 30 years and you have to be early to get anything before he sells out. He travels all over the south west on different days of the week.

Our Local Meat Man

Last night my youngest son came to stay the night as he had the day off today which was nice. Spent the evening chatting to me and his sister - she was showing him all the photos from Morocco and telling him all about the holiday. Her boyfriend called in for a cup of tea late morning, and then me and son went over the common with the dog to give her a good run. It was good having company there as I am a bit nervous of the common on my own - some bad things have happened there to others in the past. Tried to brush the dog  tonight with limited success as she hates the brush but at least I have achieved something and she looks a bit better. We have tried combs, and several different brushes but she's not fussy - she hates them all lol.

Bye for now All the best x