Colds, Drives & Soup

It's been quite a week, Monday was a normal work day but during the evening I started to get a sore throat and by the end of the evening it was red raw. By morning I had a headache, ear ache and a cold to add to the mix. Phoned in sick to work and spent two days in bed or on the coach watching daytime TV.

I returned to work on Thursday but I'm still not what you would call 'well' as I still have a cold and a rather gruff voice, and for some reason, very sore lips - I'm using lip salve like it's going out of fashion. Work has been very busy since I returned, still ploughing through Governors reports but I finished them today - hoorah. At around 3.00pm I suddenly looked at my desk and my colleagues and said 'this place looks like a bomb site'. That was it, we got the clothes and polish out and went cleaning/tidying mad and the place now looks grand. It's funny how a quick tidy up can make you feel more effient too (I suppose it's like the feeling you get that your car is running better when you have just hoovered it and stuck it through a car wash!)

At home we are putting some thought into having our driveway resurfaced - it's currently in a bit of a state with a rather unlovely coating of tarmac which is breaking up with weeds growing through. We have some catalogues and have been happily 'home shopping' for fence panels and driveway bricks. I'm going to do a front garden plan with images of what products we would like to use (if they are within budget)so we can show potential contractors what we want.

This weekend there is nothing on the horizon so I'm going to chill and try and shift this cold. The weather forecast looks very wintry so I won't feel guilty for staying indoors either. The extent of my ambition this weekend is to make leek and tattie soup with our garden produce!