ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 5TH OF 2021

 Good morning lovely people tis Friday time for 

And while the month seems never ending and the weeks seem to roll into the weekend back into the week, I find myself already at the end of January, I feel time is a little confusing at the moment. 

We are still in a national lockdown so this limits significantly our ability to venture out and do different things for obvious reasons. 

However, I do have a few positives from the last 7 days. 

We have been trying some lovely recipes from the Pinch of Nom recipe book, I did actually own the original but had barely put it through its paces, but it has been fun to try new recipes for the whole family and find some new favourites, so that is definitely a positive. 

I also managed to design a new mini book to make and whilst the original had a few flaws in it, which I tweaked for the next book, I had a lovely time creating 4 new minibooks this week with an assortment of papers, some of which had been received as Christmas gifts, I always think it is lovely when you can start putting new papers through their paces. 

I also had a lovely few hours sorting my papers out, I have a giant mound of papers that I have in proper plastic paper stacks that I bought when a local craft shop was closing down.  So reworking the papers, putting them into correct order and also re-acquainting myself with some paper stacks that I had forgotten I owned was all a positive.

We also recently ordered some new pillows, both me and hubby have a problem with our necks and had used a memory foam pillow for many many years, occasionally trying to find a replacement but often reverting back to the original.  I decided that we would make the switch and having checked out various articles ordered a 'soft' set and a 'firm' set from the Premier Inn hotels range (having stayed at a Premier Inn in the dim and distant past I vaguely remembered their pillows being really good).  I personally struggled on the first night, but by the second night I was much better and we've slept well all week on them, so the old ones have now gone and we have some fabulous new ones.  I'm just hoping they last, if that makes sense, and don't end up too flat too soon, but time will tell. 

Another positive was that the pillows came in a zipped bag with a clear window at the front and black fabric for the rest.  I decided to move all my gift bags and wrapping paper which was rather precariously positioned on a cabinet in the spare room into the bag and find space under the bed.  So now out of the way, in a dust free bag, but still easily accessible - definitely a win in my book.

I continue to clean the house by stealth and have been doing the odd shelf or the odd cupboard when I've realised they need a sort.  So rather than spending a whole weekend doing a deep clean, I'm basically doing them as I go, which means I still get lots of my weekend to enjoy. 

Finally, last weekend we managed to book for the Mischief Comedy Bunker for both Saturday and Sunday night and enjoyed some chaotic improvised acting for an hour on both nights.  It's accessible all over the world and we had a few people from the US and Canada in the participation audience aka as Zoom, (we didn't do that just paid to watch it), at £10 per performance and with 4 of us watching it it definitely was value for money and if it helps keep the arts and theatres alive then I see it only as a win win.  They are doing more every night up to the 31 January and then a special 'rom com' on the 14 February which is hubbies birthday, so we might still manage a theatre night, albeit a theatre night in. 

Update on the boiler - it needed a part, so we are booked in again for Friday 29th - let's hope this sorts it as currently it sounds like a plane taking off when it is on (so very very noisy). 

I hope you've had a fabulous week, if you fancy joining in pop a post together come back and link up and we can come and visit.