It has been a truly beautiful weekend.  Apart from some rain on Saturday afternoon, the sun has shone, the sky has been blue, the wind has been light - and it's been bloody freezing!!!  Much, much too cold for October.  Freezing, I tell you.  FREEZING!!

This did not deter us from heading out on Saturday morning, though.  A dash to the supermarket, then a pleasant trundle out to the Chatsworth farm shop, where I surprised us both by buying two sizeable veal chops and a rabbit.  I've never cooked rabbit before! (It's in the slow cooker as we speak.)

Lunch in The Nettle was delightful.  It was raining by then, and still cold, so the log fire and my steak and ale pie went down remarkably well.

It has not escaped my attention that, when we go to visit people in their homes, their houses are always spotless, clean and tidy.  Our house generally looks rather on the dishevelled side :-S  It was therefore my intention to thoroughly clean it, from top to bottom, so that it too would look spotless and clean and tidy.  This, alas, did not happen ;-(  I did, however, turn out the kitchen cupboards and reorganise them, which certainly didn't help the cleaning of the kitchen project.  But we do now have organised and orderly cupboards.  Except that I've moved everything around and now neither of us can find anything!!!!!

I did some knitting and some messing about and some television watching. The Builder watched the Grand Prix on his laptop and didn't get up on Sunday morning until 10:00!!! We ate and drank well.  We pottered about.  Generally speaking it was a nice, quiet and relaxed weeken. A perfect springboard to what promises to be a busy week - and a busy weekend coming up