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Wednesday, 16 July 2025

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 website)

-X-

5 comments:

Poppypatchwork said...

We had lovely rain on Tuesday, the garden looks better for it, I don't grow courgettes, I'm not keen on them, your summer house looks a perfect spot to sit.

Lowcarb team member said...

It's lovely how many recipes you can use courgettes in!

All the best Jan

Jackie said...

Hmmm, I love the lasagna idea. Must try that soon.

God bless.

MartinaM said...

How pretty and cozy your garden house looks.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the injections work and that you'll feel better soon.
Have a good time, Martina

butterfly said...

Lovely yummy food.
Your Summer house looks great . Love the pink.
I just gave my one away to my GSs girlfriend , she is going to use it for her Job she works from home.
Why you may ask , well the decking had broken up and had to be removed and is now being slabbed , I miss it but I already have my outside craft room next to the house that I am in the middle of sorting . Enjoy your week hugs June.