Forgive me for my tardiness, work has been a little fraught this week and so Friday disappeared into a day of working from home and before I know it I'm on Sunday already, but I've been doing this post a very very long time, so despite it being very late I'm still clocking what is
So last Sunday we had a belated birthday tea for my little brother, his birthday is at the end of September, but we were away so arranged for a meet up at ours last Sunday. Given the autumn feel to the day, we decided warm food of the almost bonfire night type would be sufficient. We made a chilli which we had in the slow cooker. Cooked jacket potatoes in the oven like my Mum used to make them (directly on the rack and just cooked, no oil, no foil, no salt, just a jacket spud). We had hot dogs and hot dog rolls, grated cheese and fried onions and it was very much a 'help yourself' spread if I'm honest.
We also had two plate stands of cakes, a layer of cinnamon cake, a layer of lemon drizzle cake and a layer of orange cake, all homemade of course. This was the table before everyone descended.
Once everyone had arrived we had a rowdy afternoon (we Yorkshire people do like to chat) filled with stories and chats, we reminisced about Mum and most of us ended up quite teary, almost turning into a group therapy session but not quite. My little bro received belated gifts and cards where he hadn't received them previously and it was a wonderful afternoon. Everyone went home with a doggy bag of either savoury or sweet as there was still ample left and then the house was quiet once more. Time with family nothing finer!
After work at the beginning of the week we went to the local shopping centre starting to browse for potential Christmas gifts, which helped to start to formulate a few plans on that front to take the stress off.
Thursday and despite the roads being busy with mid-week traffic, we decided to venture to York to have a wander on their ghost trail. We had a hiccup with our SD card for the main camera which meant a dash into the centre of York to find a WH Smiths before we could really start the trail. We also only really had a 3 hour window as didn't want to get snarled up in rush hour traffic and had theatre tickets and dining booked for the evening, we didn't manage the whole trail but a good proportion of it.
But before the main trail we found the Paddington bench which has recently been installed to celebrate the new film that is coming out and hubby insisted I have a photo with him, unfortunately I didn't have my marmalade sandwich to hand.
