Saturday 20th June
As you may remember from last weeks blog, today should have been my sisters wedding day, but due to Covid19, it has been postponed.
So she decided to throw a socially distanced non-wedding BBQ at our house to surprise my brother in law.
So from last weeks post, you may remember I set myself the task of making a cheesecake, well on saturday morning I added the strawberry glaze to it and then popped it back in the fridge to stay cool and set!
My parents decked out the back garden with a gazebo, just incase it decided to rain, as we all know that England is famed for rain when you want to do a bbq!
The only downside was that my cheesecake didnt set, so it was more like an Eton Mess or as an Eton Ness as Natalie called it!
Sunday 21st June
I had decided last week when I was walking Barlow that I wanted to try and do a bit more exercise and for that I'm going to need new exercise gear so on Sunday morning me and mum decided to take a trip to Matalan to get some tops and leggings from there, as it was quicker than getting it online.
When we got home, I wanted to try reading a bit more of Slayer but I just cant get in to it, so I decided to continue my rewatch of Wynonna Earp.
We then had a visit from my sister in the afternoon, as she needed to pick up her car having left it at ours on the Saturday so we got to see her for a little bit.
Then at tea time, I decide to continue reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, before continuing with Wynonna Earp.
Monday 22nd June
So I had plans to do some studying this morning, but my nanas neighbour, the one who keeps loving her rubbish onto my nans side of her car port has been at it again, shes shoved a load of step ladders, plant pots, a wheel chair, her mobility scooter and burning bins all in my nans walkway.
So she called up my mum in tears and mum wanted to go and check on her, so she asked me to go with her.
By the time we had gotten back, I've decided to give my studying the heave ho for the rest of the week and just use the fact that it's my birthday this week as an excuse!
I did get some supplies to do some kore baking though, as me and some of the girls from work have decided to go on our rearranged picnic tomorrow, so I need to do some sausage rolls and more cookies!
I ended up making the cookies, but due to the pastry for the sausage rolls being frozen, I'd have to wait until tomorrow to make them!
After I finished baking i called my sister to see how she was and ended up doing a Harry Potter quiz over the phone with Cooper and Lola, and by quiz I mean tget asked me the questions and i answered them!
After we had tea, me and mum watched a bit of the first episode of the new Roswell New Mexico TV show, I love the original but this new version definitely seems like it'll stand on it's own, and me and mum have a new show to watch!
After that I went to bed to watch a bit more Wynonna Earp and read some more of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Tuesday 23rd June
As you will all undoubtedly know by now, Tuesday is a shopping day for my nana!
So off I went to Tesco to do her shopping, where it was reasonably quiet, so managed to get in and get her shopping done in under an hour! Which is pretty good going!
After I'd dropped off nanas shopping, I nipped into congleton town centre to see my friend Hannah, as she wanted to give me my birthday present off her. Even though we both couldnt stop for long, it was lovely seeing Hannah and having that little bit of human interaction.
After I left congleton, i headed to Sandbach to see my Nannie P, as she also wanted to give me her birthday present and a card for my niece, whose birthday is on Friday. It was lovely seeing Nannie, she treated me to a Magnum Ruby Chocolate Ice Cream and a cup of her brilliant coffee!
After spending an hour with Nannie I had to head home as I needed to make my sausage rolls.
I'm quite impressed at how these turned out! Normally I'd have asked mum to help, but she was working, so I had to do it all by myself!
So myself, Beth, Lauren and Zoe went to Brereton Heath.
which I really nice scenic walk and resting area, and with the weather being warm, we found a nice sunny spot and had a lovely catch up chat with food and drink.
When I got home, I spent a bit of time watching tv with parents. After that i went upstairs, spoke to my sister and then decided to read some more Harry Potter.
Wednesday 24th June
So today is my 30th Birthday!
I did originally want a lie in on my birthday, but my mum wanted me to get up early so that I could spend the time before she went to work with her whilst I opened cards and presents.
After I'd had breakfast and mum had started work, I went upstairs and called both nans to thank them for their cards and gifts.
I then watched a film called Red Sea Diving Resort until lunch time.
I then came down and had lunch with mum and sat out in the garden for a little bit.
I then went back upstairs and read until tea time. After tea, my sister, brother in law and the kids came over to give me my birthday cards and presents.
Natalie and Wayne also made me my birthday cake, which they do every year and this years was coffee biscoff, they know how to make a good birthday cake!
When I thought about my 30th birthday, I didn't want to do anything, I passed the book to my sister to plan something as a surprise as I wasnt too bothered, and I'd planned to work through it this year as well.
Obviously with Covid19 interrupting the year, any plans she had were thrown out of the window so I cant say that I was disappointed with how the day turned out, in fact it was exactly how I wanted it, with my family and it also helped it was beautifully sunny!
I received some of the most beautiful, thoughtful and generally yummy presents from friends and family.
Thursday 25th June
When I found out that the 25th was going to be sunny I decided to treat myself to a day out to Chatsworth House, my favourite place to go and the place I always try and visit once a year, and it was also my first time away from home that wasnt local since March.
Getting to Chatsworth was a little bit of a nightmare. It should normally take about an hour to get there, but due to a road closure and temporary traffic lights in my local area it took me an hour to leave and then the normal hour to get there!
But get there I finally did and it was beautiful!
I'll pop some pictures below.
After I finished my icecream I decided to go and sit next to the fountain at the side of the house and enjoyed some birthday cake and read a book on my Kindle.
Overall it was a brilliant day!
Friday 26th June
Today is my niece Lola's 6th Birthday!
In the morning I did my parents shopping, as they had some house work they needed doing in the afternoon and I figured doing the shopping would be one less thing for them to do.
I managed to get the shopping done in about an hour, which is pretty good going for me!
When I got back I did some colouring of a colouring in print I had in my print stash, which had Captain Hook from Once Upon a Time and Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean on it for Lola, as she wanted something piratey for her birthday!
After I'd finished that I had lunch with mum and then spent some time in the garden on the garden swing and ended up having a small nap.
After tea, I went over to my sisters to give Lola her birthday present and card and to spend some time with her on her birthday.
This week is always filled with cake!
But that is 13 weeks of lockdown over and done with!
It's been a week of loads of things going on, especially for lockdown.
Next week will resume normal boring proceedings!
I hope you've all had a good week and keeping safe.
Vanessa 😊
