That's better...

Thank goodness it's cooled down and we finally got some rain yesterday, it was nice steady rain that soaked into the ground, although it had stopped by mid afternoon but the temperature is much better.

I manged to get a few jobs done last week, working earlier in the morning so as to avoid the heat.  My Summer house had a good clean, I jet washed the path and patio and also gave the summerhouse, shed and gate a paint over. 

I even managed to sit in my summerhouse a couple afternoons

I'm still getting good pickings from the allotment, we have an abundance of courgettes, onions and lettuce, all have been made good use of.  

 French Onion soup, this was very tasty

Courgette lasagna, Mark was a bit sceptical at first but admitted that it was very nice :-)

And of course courgette cake, this version had orange and sultanas also, I left off the frosting on top.

The rhubarb and broad beans were frozen, the potato's are the harvest from one of the three bags I planted, we have yet to try these.

On Saturday one of my friends had a stitching get together as her birthday party, what a great idea, I can see others copying this one.  It was a lovely day spent stitching and chatting, the caterer she used put on a great buffet and there was even a cream tea later on, we all came away stuffed!

I finally managed to get an appointment with the doctor who does the steroid injections at our surgery, I've had to wait two weeks to see this particular doctor but after telling him how long I've been waiting and that I've been paying for my own physio for almost five months he relented and pushed me up the list.  Still a month away, but at least I've got a date, yayyy.

  I was discharged from physio last week, I've been given all the exercises, it's just a matter of keeping them up, it's a slow process, he said that steroid jabs have very good results with my particular hip problem and If I continue the exercises after I should be ok, (fingers crossed). 

Enjoy the rest of the week, I'm off to make another courgette cake 😁

(all recipes were from the Good Food whebsite)

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