Lots sorted out, and my days -v- his days

 Well, I got quite a lot done yesterday - husband....not so much.  

As I mentioned yesterday, I got 2 loads of washing sorted out first of all and loaded the machine with the first lot (I set the machine for overnight washes, on the Economy 7 tariff), with the 2nd lot ready to go in today.  Then I made a triple quantity of pastry and put it in the fridge to rest.  Having then got showered and dressed, I pulled a few things out of the kitchen cupboards that are no longer used and put them on the table for husband to take to the boot sale tomorrow.  Had a look through a couple of the larder cupboards in the utility room that I hadn't checked during my last sort out (they're not very accessible) and found a variety of jars, packets and tins of food that were well out of date.....I'm talking 6 or 7 years, or more.  About 8 jars of two kinds of homemade chutneys from 2016 and 17, and 2 jars of blackcurrant jam from 2017.  Packets of spices that were years old, in solid lumps and with next to no aroma, along with an unopened block of creamed coconut that smelt rancid.  A couple of jars of mustard and one of curry sauce, all 5 or 6 years old, I'm guessing they'll probably be ok.  The spices and coconut have been binned, I'll give the jars (they're all unopened and sealed) a sight and sniff test and decide whether it's safe to use them.

Sorted out a few more things from the kitchen and utility room for the boot sale.  Made the two flans and the meatloaf....we had half of one of the flans with salad last night, the other half we'll have cold for lunch today, the 2nd flan was frozen.  The meatloaf I cut in half, wrapping and freezing the two bits - each half will do us for a dinner one day and cold for sandwiches the next.  I also froze the remaining third of the pastry.  Then I went upstairs and had a look through my wardrobe and shoebox, filling a large carrier bag with 2 pairs of shoes and some tops and trousers I no longer wear, they'll go to the big cancer charity shop the next time we go to town.  In the bottom of a drawer in my bedroom I found 2 electric hair curlers (one was a small travel one) and an electric hairbrush thing.  As I've had very short hair for several years and don't go in for styling - I just wash and go! - and they've been in the drawer for years, unused, they can also go to the boot sale.  I can't think why I bought them in the first place, considering I've never really been one for titivating my hair, other than colouring it.

Still not heard anything from the Memory Assessment team, so I rang them on husband's behalf.  Recorded message to say they were all out of the office, so I left a message.....they didn't ring back yesterday, hopefully they will today.

So what did husband do?  Not a lot, it seems.  It was nearly 10.30 am when he went out to start sorting his shed.  An hour or so later I went out to tell him about the Memory Assessment thing - no sign of him but I could heard his voice down the road, chatting to a neighbour, I've no idea how long he'd been there.  It was another half hour before he finally appeared back in the garden.  He came in for lunch then (all that chatting must have given him an appetite!) and watched the lunchtime news - well, he put the news on and promptly dozed off.  I woke him up after a few minutes and he went outside again.  A short while later I went upstairs for something and caught sight of him in the service road at the back of our house, chatting (again!!) to the landlord's 2 farm workers who'd come to repair the 2 fences one of them had broken the other day when driving his tractor and trailer down the service road - our fence and a neighbour's.  Once again, he was out there for another 30 mins or so, then came inside as it was then around 3 pm and he wanted to watch his usual daytime rubbish on TV 😠 (he watches Escape to the Country, amongst other things, every day - why I don't know as we already live in the country!) 😒

If he spent as much time doing the jobs I've asked him to do as he does standing around chatting, he might actually stand a chance of finishing a job - which he almost never does.  And he wonders why I get frustrated and irritated with him.  I feel like I'm constantly on the go with a list as long as my arm of things that need doing, whilst he floats around doing very little, having nice chats and dozing in front of the TV.  Hopefully he'll get more of his shed sorted today - if he wants to sell stuff, then he'll have to!