Prepping today, and some good news on TV

 Lovely sunshine, a beautiful blue sky, and some good news for once......the mother being released from the Iranian prison after 6 years, along with the engineer chap (who I'd not even heard of before, shows how much notice I usually take of the news).  And the Ukrainian mayor being released after having been taken hostage, and the Russian journalist woman who paraded a poster live on Russian TV - I wouldn't have been at all surprised if both of them had permanently 'disappeared'.  She's incredibly brave to want to stay in Russia though, especially when even she says she's terrified for her life.

My knee is not so persistently painful now, I wonder whether it's because of the knee brace, or because I've been taking cocodamol when I go to bed (I won't take any more than 1 dose per day, because of the constipation side effects).  Or it could possibly be because I've been taking a glucosamine and chondroitin capsule every day for about 3 weeks.  Whatever, it's certainly bothering me less.

Today I'm packing stuff to take to the caravan, and prepping food to take with us.  I'll chop/grate the veggies for coleslaw and put in a lidded box, but obviously won't put the dressing on until we're in the caravan, it tends to go watery otherwise.  We're having a cheesy pasta and mince dish for tomorrow's evening meal.....just savoury beef mince (already cooked and frozen) mixed with cooked pasta and cheese sauce, I'll prepare that this afternoon so tomorrow it'll just need heating through in the van, we'll have it with garlic bread and salad.  Saturday's supper will be bacon, brie and cranberry sourdough baguettes (thanks Sue from A Smaller and Simpler Life, I found the baguettes in Aldi) with salad.  Lunches will be something on toast or cheese and crackers.  Breakfasts (husband always has breakfast, I sometimes do) will be cereal or crumpets, although I'll probably do a cooked breakfast on Sunday.

As it's going to be a lovely sunny long weekend, there's bound to be more fellow owners at the park, so it'll be good to catch up with whoever's there.  Not our lovely van neighbours Jean & Charlie though, they're not coming until the start of April.  I'm taking a pile of books for me, and some DVDs for husband - although during the day he'll be outside chatting, I expect.  We'll be tidying up the garden as well, doing some pruning and weeding and sweeping up the twigs and leaves on the fake grass (which I still don't like, but it means husband doesn't have to mow it).

Husband's off to hospital for some more prostate tests today, so I'll have the afternoon to myself to get on with everything.