Hi there!
Phew! It's so nice to be on holiday now and be through the grimmest term of the school year. Actually, it hasn't been too bad, for various reasons.
On Friday night, I headed over to Kent on the train to stay with my Dad,Stepmum and Sister. They fetched me from the very handy Ebbsfleet International Station (makes getting over to them so much easier, although there is a longer drive for them to fetch me!) and we made our way back to the house.
We enjoyed a delicious Spaghetti Bolognese and then it was time for bed after clearing up and some final marking for my sister and I!
The next morning, Dad bought me a cup of tea in bed- what a luxury! He's amazing!
Dad had to head out to Chart farm to go and collect some extra ingredients for dinner so I threw some clothes on and joined him as I wanted to visit the wonderful Eco Pantry which is housed there. This is a great refill store which my Stepmum often picks me bits and pieces up from as they have some products which my local refill doesn't have.
I came back with dried strawberries, Shiitake crunch crisps, dried mango, Upcircle night cream, frozen peas, Mozarella Bites, lentil burgers, fudge, Vegan jelly sweeties as this was all I could fit in but they have a super range of products. The frozen items are a unique selling point! Dad also picked me up some sausages from the Butchers and we headed upstairs to the Three Sisters to pick us up Pain Au chocolat and Cinnamon buns for breakfast back home. They also have a great fish stall but I didn't have room for that.
Back home, we ate our breakfast and then we headed off to Lullingstone park for a walk with Monty, the Cavapoo. We ate lunch there- I had a bacon and sausage baguette.
Back home, some work went on out in the garden to prune the apple tree and to make soup.
In the evening, we ordered a Chinese takeaway and my sister's boyfriend came over. It was delicious but I was really super tired- three evenings of going to bed at 1am really had caught up with me!
Sunday, we had a walk and spent a lot of the day at home.
Dinner was an amazing Barbecue Beef ribs with corn, broccoli, potato wedges and apple tart.
The next day, my sister had to go back to school. I woke late after finally sleeping well. The three of us walked round to the local deli to fetch some items and then we spent the day home. In the evening, I headed to the gym with my stepmum where she had yoga and I went for a short swim. Then I headed back to Ebbsfleet via Sis and Dad.
Very excitingly, I headed round to my childhood bestfriend's mum's house in my old home town. My childhood best friend was over from Denmark and I got to meet her lovely 7 year old son. It was a joy to see them, particularly her. My favourite Chinese was open so I ran in to get some Szechuan Aubergine to eat on the trains home (I've never had it anywhere else!)
Today, I woke up and after a slow morning, headed to the local market to get some vegetables and close-to-sell-by-date pantry goods. I also visited the library where I got two books which I look forward to reading.
Oh, I suppose I had better get onto TARDIS Tuesday
