Friday's Fave Five - 25/10/24

It's Friday so time to look back on the week and note the things I'm grateful for this past week.  Susanne reminds us each week to do this and then we join in here.

A relatively quiet week for me but these are the highlights:

1)  Time with grandkids Nathan and Ella.  They are on half term break so there was a bit of dropping off and picking up to be done.  We also had them for a big part of Saturday as Mummies were out with their cousins.  We had them here during the day but then took them home and put them to bed.  Thankfully they both went to bed fairly easily.  I also had Ella here today.  She's quite good at playing on her own but she loves to play with Playdoh and that definitely needs supervising lol.

2)  No Foodbank duties this week as the electrics are being replaced in the Church but yesterday was a glorious autumn day - not too cold and not a cloud in the sky so I took a walk through the park and down to the lake.

So many coots.

The cygnets are getting so big.  There are 8 of them this year.

3) 

Picked this book up from the library today.  It's the next in the series I've been reading by Strout.  I love our library service.

4)  I also treated myself to this one this week:

I love Nancy - she was a winner on the Great British Bake Off show a few years back and she is on a mission to try and be more green.  She makes her own cleaning mixtures and has so many tips for cleaning, cooking, gardening and so on.  Her Instagram is great and what I love about her is that, although she's so well known now she is so down to earth and has no airs and graces whatsoever.

This book is a reissue of a book she originally self published but the recipes come with a QR code that links to a demonstration of how to carry out the recipe.  There was also a code on her Instagram account to get it half price if pre-ordered.

I'm not one for doing a lot of baking but I'm hoping this book might inspire me to do more.  Although I did bake a banana loaf this week - I often have overripe bananas that need to be put to good use.  It got the seal of approval from Granddaughter Ella.  High praise indeed lol.

5) I've definitely had some "me" time this week, watching some TV shows, knitting some more squares for the homeless project, catching up with knitting friends on Wednesday and finding some time to read a bit more of David Copperfield.  I'm grateful to be retired and able to do these things.  I even went to the exercise class that my "Ladies Lunch" group introduced me to a couple of weeks ago, even though they were all away.  It's not a very difficult class - it's definitely aimed at older people (I'm one of the younger ones there lol) and it's working on keeping active and improving balance etc but it's quite social and having done no real exercise apart from walking recently it's definitely not too strenuous.

Have a good weekend all.