Turkey dinner pie and Ikea

 My back and left hip (odd, it's normally my right hip that's the problem) and left knee got progressively more painful throughout the day yesterday....fortunately, I was busy all day so able to ignore the pain.  My knee though, kept feeling as if it was about to give way, so made coming downstairs a bit precarious.  By the evening I was in proper agony though, so took some tablets and went to bed early.  Didn't sleep at all well, I had to get up in the night to take more tablets and sit in the recliner chair for a while with my electric heat pad.  Still in pain this morning, but more achey and stiff than pain - we're busy again today, going to Ikea, so that'll take my mind off it.

Here's the turkey dinner pie I made yesterday, which was delicious:-

Base layer of turkey, sliced pigs in blankets and cranberry sauce

Next layer of sliced roast potatoes, carrots and stuffing.  I moistened it with the remainder of Sunday's gravy.

Pastry top on and ready to  bake.  I used bought pastry in the end to cut down on standing in the kitchen time because of my back, I had a couple of packets in the freezer.

Just out of the oven.  Cut into 6, we had 2 portions for dinner, with more leftover veg, the other 4 portions frozen.  So that's 8 portions of turkey so far......2 for the roast dinner, 2 slices of pie last night, and 4 slices frozen, there's still loads left.  Oh, and Betty has had some for 2 meals.  We're having cold turkey, the remaining pigs in blankets and salad tonight, taking the total to 10 portions.

I'm quite looking forward to Ikea, not been for a few years (and never to the Exeter one), although we do find it a bit of a confusing shop......we seem to have to walk through every department to get to the ones we're interested in, which is obviously the way the layout has been designed.  I just hope it's not too busy.  We know what we want, so hopefully won't be spending ages in there, I don't like to leave Betty home alone for longer than 5 hours maximum.