Dinner, dogs and ironing

We’ve had friends over for dinner two days in a row and it’s been very nice. Monday’s dinner was planned and I was rather pleased with my fresh pasta, roasted vegetables, hot breads followed by passion fruit cheesecake, but last night was spontaneous and no less lovely for it. Steak burgers and salad (with home grown/produced tomatoes, potatos, lettuce, chives and eggs!) hit the spot. Quieter night tonight though!

My partner has a hellish week as she’s away for the day on Thursday and needs to get a business plan and research in on Friday – something that she has been working on for a while now and which has meant a lot of stress and long hours.

Tomorrow I’m off to see the final of Underdog – a BBC programme where celebs adopt rescue dogs and train them to perform various tasks including agility. The last series (which was also the first) was hosted, bizarrely, by Julian Clary, and we became absolutely hooked! (Julia Sawalha and Cookie got our vote!) So friends have got tickets and we’re off to see the final before we’ve even got to see the first episode…

Over the weekend we ordered our Hawaiian shirts – from actual Hawaii! – for the evening do of the wedding. I’m looking forward to them arriving and this morning we had to pinch ourselves when we realised how close our holiday is. This Sunday we’re doing a lot of sorting and ironing. I think it will be the first time I’ve ever been excited to do ironing!