Better weekend

 Betty had a bit of a restless night, which meant I did too.  She'd sleep very deeply for about an hour, then wake up and jump off the bed and wander round the bedroom and landing, whining a little bit.  She soon came back to bed when I called her though, and settled down again quite quickly.  She seems fine this morning, she's had her breakfast, been out for a (wet and windy) walk and wee and is now fast asleep again.  What a life!  😂  Her ears seem fine, they're not drooping anymore (which was a sure sign she's got an ear infection) and she's not shaking her head anymore either, so looks like the procedure and the soothing medication did the trick.

I'm doing a lot of batch cooking and food prep this weekend, making and freezing stuff to take with us to the van next week.  I'm really looking forward to going, we're planning on staying at least a fortnight - weather permitting!  It seems ages since we last stayed at the van, the weather's been so crap lately.  Although we have had the odd day there about once a week.

We normally have potatoes in some form or other, rice or pasta with our meals, although that's not an option with our current low carb diet.  So instead I've been doing cauli cheese mash, mashed spicy butternut squash, roasted Mediterranean veg, Julienned courgettes instead of spaghetti (I did have a spiraliser but it broke ages ago).  I've also used courgettes thinly sliced lengthways, boiled for a minute or grilled first, instead of the pasta sheets in a lasagne, very successful.

I've got several books to take with me, and have started on the crocheted blanket for our next door neighbour's expected baby.  As she's quite Bohemian and hippy-ish, I thought rather than cream with perhaps lilac or lemon or mint green accents, a more 'alternative' colour scheme would go down well.  I'm using dove grey for the main part of the blanket, with border stripes of deep teal green and mustard yellow.  I'll also crochet some flowers to stitch onto the main part.  I'm not following a pattern, I just more or less make it up as I go along.

It's stopped raining and there are patches of blue sky now, but still very windy.  It's forecast to be better tomorrow, so I should be able to get washing on the line, it's not ideal having washing on airers indoors but needs must sometimes.