Plans for today (2025)

Got a Valentine's course tonight, so I'll be prepping some stuff during the morning before heading over to the dinner place. Very relaxed because the hosts are really good friends of mine.
The menu will be preparing : Samosas, pakoras,(crispy fried balls of minced veg) vadas,(like falafel, but made with split peas) green chutney, murgh shami kabab (minced chicken kebab) Mumbai mix , Prawn puri (prawns in tomato-based curry served on fried Indian bread) and aloo tikki ( potato cakes with a spicy sauce).
 
Plans for the weekend currently up in the air…husband appears to have come down with the flu. He was a bit achy and tired yesterday, but we assumed it was from all the shoveling. Today, he’s got fever, chills, headache, and sweats (I had to wash the sheets today, he’d soaked them in sweat overnight).

Hoping I manage to dodge it somehow…
 
My plans have been cancelled.
Mr SSOAP’s Aunty Barbara had a stroke yesterday, the scan results are just in and combined with heart failure there’s “No hope of recovery”
They are moving her to palliative care. Everyone’s understandably very sad.
Going to get paint samples seems ridiculous right now so I’m taking Mr SSOAP to the local sweet shop to buy some sugary hits. Hopefully he’ll be happy to sit on the sofa with me under a blanket and watch some rubbish TV.
 
Yesterday's Valentine's Course was enormous fun. The guests had no idea there was going to be a food course; they thought they'd just been invited for drinks. With all the chat and cooking and imbibing of single malt, I finally made it home at 12.15am, having arrived there at 3pm.
So today is going to be a "do as little as possible" day!
 
It’s a long weekend here, but poor husband is super, super sick and he’s downright miserable. His throat is so sore he can barely speak. He soaked the sheets in sweat again (so more laundry), he’s achy, and got a bad sinus headache. I’m hoping he can manage to get in a decent night’s sleep tonight and hopefully he’ll be a bit better tomorrow.

Of course, we’re also mid-snowstorm here. I’ve done one round of shoveling already and just about to head out for round 2 - if I do it now, it means less to shovel tomorrow morning. It’s supposed to keep going all night and most of tomorrow.
 
Herbaceous said:
Of course, we’re also mid-snowstorm here. I’ve done one round of shoveling already and just about to head out for round 2 - if I do it now, it means less to shovel tomorrow morning. It’s supposed to keep going all night and most of tomorrow.
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When we lived in the UK and the snow was bad, instead of shovelling the entire 1 mile long track to the road, after we'd dug the car doors out, and freed up the exhaust, we tied a pallet to the tow-bar and used the front of my vehicle (an Audi A4 quattro) as a snowplough. The pallet (with my OH sitting on it) cleared the middle bit of the track after the front of the vehicle had removed most of the snow. We did have to dig the gate out and clear the ice from where it had built up where our track joined the road. That was a pick axe job. But it cleared the track enough to get the 2 wheel drive vehicles out.

I only ever did this immediately after snow when the surface was still soft. Once there was a layer of ice, no way would I use the front of my Audi as a snowplough, the old Honda yes, but that was only 2 wheel drive and prone to getting struck on the track...

That Audi of mine was stunningly good on snow she really was. I do miss her, but not her fuel consumption figures.
 
I had planned a nice quiet day today. Perhaps some tinkering around in the garden, catch a bit of football on TV, cook something relaxing, etc... but no. We've got a bloody lunch. There's a friend of ours who can be a bit "intense" at times and who seems to believe that everyone should be occupied in some sort of social activity all the time. His flat will only fit 6 or 7 people, so we just can't wriggle our way out of it. Arrggh.
 
karadekoolaid said:
I had planned a nice quiet day today. Perhaps some tinkering around in the garden, catch a bit of football on TV, cook something relaxing, etc... but no. We've got a bloody lunch. There's a friend of ours who can be a bit "intense" at times and who seems to believe that everyone should be occupied in some sort of social activity all the time. His flat will only fit 6 or 7 people, so we just can't wriggle our way out of it. Arrggh.
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There’s some word psychiatrists use for people who have to be busy all the time but I can’t remember what it is!
 
badjak said:
I don't see a snow storm happening here soon :)
But we may get rain and mud. No clearing, just waiting for it to go away.
Or put the mud plough (landcruiser) into 4x4 and slitter your way through
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That's what I do here when it rains a lot; slither through the fields...
 
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