I try and avoid all admin-style stuff at the weekend. And house work. Unless I'm in the mood for it; as a retired teacher, for years my weekends were blighted by lesson planning and updating my registers. No more! Retirement has meant a release from the tyranny of timetables and micro-management and school term dates!
So today, apart from meals, I have almost done nothing except read my book or listen to an audiobook when I was cooking.
The book? Two, because I finished one, 'Christmas Crackers', and started another, 'The Magic of Christmas', both extremely light-weight rom-coms by Trisha Ashley. Not literature by any means! But I know all the Miss Read books by heart, and they were previous binge-read escapist zone-out series for when I had had enough of 'real life' , and the Trisha Ashley's perform the same function. I over-indulge until I've suddenly had enough, like eating chocolate digestive biscuits, and once I reach that stage I'm 'cured' of the desire to escape!
Almost nothing?
I've loaded the crockpot. It's hardly cooking; chopping up carrots, celery and onion and chicken pieces and chucking it all into the crock pot with stock and seasoning, and abandoning it for four or five hours...
Prep time, including assembling the ingredients and clearing up, a scant 15 minutes.
Four hours on high later, and I've got four portions of chicken casserole, or two meals. I call that easy cooking.
If there's too much liquid I'll have soup as well!
Music
Riguadon by Greig from the Holberg Suite. This exists in piano and orchestral versions.
I did learn this on the piano, but at a more stately speed!
That was a lovely rousing piece of music for a dull, breezy morning - a dancing piece.
ReplyDeleteIt always makes me want to 'get up and go!'
DeleteMy comfort books are Three Men In a Boat and all the Little Women books. Crock pots are genius, when I worked it was so wonderful to come home to a delicious meal and a wonderful aroma filling the house for very little effort. It's good to have days when very little "work" is done. It is a pleasant change to hear the Greig just played on the piano I mostly know it with an orchestra, I like both. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteThere are quite a few favourites which exist in piano and orchestra versions; I'm with you in that I like both versions.
DeleteI treat weekends like you, relaxing time after years of preparation for school in the week. I never realised being retired was so great!
ReplyDeleteYes, we had long holidays, but to some extent they replaced the time spent during evenings and weekends in term time. I always felt it balanced out over the year.
DeleteI tend not to do a lot of housework on the weekends either. Seems like there should be a break from it - or perhaps just an excuse to do nothing!
ReplyDeleteBoth!
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