We had Grandson Nathan here on Saturday morning until early afternoon which was nice. He's started a big jigsaw so he brought that here on a puzzle board and we managed to get the edging done but he lost interest after that. Especially once he managed to persuade Grandpa to play football outside for a bit.
Yesterday my daughter and DIL brought afternoon tea to us. We were supposed to go there but they've had a few issues at home with a leak and now their tumble dryer isn't working so they came to us instead.
We had cream cheese and smoked salmon bagels followed by scones with clotted cream and jam plus a couple of other cakes. I also got a lovely plant which hopefully I won't kill and some nice soap. It was Mother's Day here in the UK.
Of course we also got a load of washing to dry in our tumble dryer. Just glad we live near enough to be able to help out like that.
Today I've had a fairly quiet day - I submitted the plastic count we'd done last week. It would be nice to think that a collective effort might put pressure on our Government to try and reduce the plastic packaging we get. There is a lot of unnecessary wrapping on food. I try to buy loose fruit and veg when I can and I have various things that come as refills for starter bottles such as washing up liquid, fabric conditioner and cleaning spray and they come packaged in cardboard that can be recycled. There is talk that when one of the local fish and chip shops closes soon that it will become a butcher's shop. That would be good because a lot of the plastic we bin each week is meat wrapping. Will have to see how expensive it is though.
This was our tally sheet:
This evening I've been at the Foodbank taking in deliveries and it would seem most of the supermarkets overestimated on flowers for Mother's Day as we received lots of flowers tonight, so many we didn't have enough flower buckets to get them all in water so I now have a vase of tulips to brighten my dining room table too. One of the perks of being a volunteer.
