How frustrating, after my visitors had all gone last night and I had watched strictly come dancing, I came upstairs to continue my blog. But the pc said NO, it had decided to do lots of updates, I sat here for a short while fiddling about in my office 45 mins later still updating so I called it a night.

Yesterday my youngest son and partner plus another daughter in law came for dinner, I had started the pudding on Saturday so Sunday morning just needed to make the lime butterscotch sauce to go with it. Never made butterscotch before so hubby helped me, he is a great cook and usually does all the cooking. There is a frantic moment when you mix the lime and cream in with the caramelized sugar which spits and bubbles furiously at you but then it calms down. I think I would have panicked on my own not enough hands. Here is a photo of the end result below. No nuts on top as guest is allergic.  Everyone enjoyed it, you didn’t need a huge slice, very rich. Thought I would make it again for Christmas as an extra special pudding.

My version of Raymond Blanc's Chocolate Cremeux

I am a great fan of Pinterest and pin lots of ideas etc., not to quick at doing any of them like many others I guess. Well over the last couple of weeks we have started a massive undertaking of redecorating and re-organisation of our house continually looking on Pinterest for ideas. One that I have achieved is a quiet reading corner. Plenty of room for me to spread out, have a lamp and a throw all from around the house so no extra expense. I love reading and will enjoy many an hour tucked into my corner reading. Just finished reading ‘Tennison’ by Lynda La Plante , which gave a great insight into her background couldn’t put it down, but I was/am a huge fan of Prime Suspect.

My new reading corner

As I said we are re-decorating our house and today’s task was to paint the ceiling in the main room downstairs. We are open plan so the ceiling is through the lounge, dining and kitchen consequently needs to be done in one go. My hubby has always been happy to do all these tasks but since he has had cancer and compartment syndrome in his leg they have become difficult for him. So it’s now a two person job with me holding the ladder, moving dustsheets around and pointing out any bits that are missed. It was hard for him and it’s a shame to see him getting so frustrated over things he would do easily before. To top it all we had the McMillan nurse on the phone about 3 times. Anyway all done, will have a good look in morning to see if it need a second coat. I just hope not I don’t think he could do it again, I helped with the cutting in but couldn’t do the whole ceiling, and he wouldn’t let me any way.

DD rang and asked to be picked up, she had become frightened by someone dressed as a clown around our local area. It seems this is a craze from America where people are dressing as clowns and purposely going around jumping out on poor unsuspecting passer-by’s. I had been watching an item about this on the news earlier it appears to be happening all around the country so beware.

so until tomorrow take care

She Believed She Could So She Did

Kx