It works!! and yummy nut loaf

 After much trying out of all sorts of things, watching youtube videos sent to me by a tech minded friend (which weren't really a lot of help, especially since one of them was in Spanish), googling umpteen things and downloading drivers and manuals, I have finally (FINALLY!) got the printer working.....it's only taken me several days, no end of aggravation, headaches and hair loss.  The solution that worked was one that Jane in London suggested - buying a cable that had ends that fitted both the printer and my laptop.  I then had some blips before I could actually start printing, to do with settings that I needed to alter (I didn't actually know I needed to change them, until I worked it out via a process of elimination).  But then I could - finally - get the paperwork I needed printed off.  Job done.  Thank goodness.

I've been really down the last few days, what with the ginormous forms to fill in, the printer problems, and the revelations about the gardening equipment left behind.  I know it can't be helped now, what's done is done....but the fact that husband did it purposely, giving it no thought and not telling me (until he had to when I asked him directly) did really upset me.  And it's so infuriating that we now have to buy replacement stuff - when our money is in really short supply at the moment, the bottom line is I can't really afford to buy stuff right now.  I can possibly get hold of some things when boot sales start up, or by looking on the local FB pages, but that's very hit and miss.  Husband has bought me a new round garden trug and some gardening gloves, so that's a start.  I'll need a new kneeler/seat imminently as well, before I can get on with any weeding and low pruning.

I've made a lentil and nut loaf for myself this morning, didn't follow a recipe, I just winged it using things in the cupboard and fridge.  It's red lentils, finely chopped carrots and a shallot, cooked in veg stock with a big squirt each of tomato and garlic puree and shake of dried herbs.  When the stock had reduced, I took it off the heat and added in some sage & onion stuffing mix, a tin of chickpeas drained and mashed and a 1/3 of a pack of crumbled feta cheese that needed using up.  Gave it a good mix then filled 2 1lb loaf tins with the mixture, cooking it in the air fryer for about 25-30 mins.  One has been frozen, the other I'll be having tonight with cauli cheese, and again tomorrow, with some left for a cold lunch with salad veg the day after that.  Husband will be having an individual steak pie with his cauli cheese tonight, probably with some peas.

I had a video call with my sister this afternoon, shut myself in my bedroom for some private time and we put the world (well, ourselves) to rights.  Betty whined and yelped in the lounge, she really is my shadow and doesn't like being shut out of my room when I'm in there.  She wasn't on her own, she had husband with her in the lounge (although I expect he was asleep in front of the TV), she just likes to be with me though and follows me around the bungalow and in the garden.  What she'll do when I go up to the Midlands for 2 nights for a family wedding in a few weeks I don't know, she's being left at home with husband.....it'll be a nice little break for me but I will worry about the pair of them being left on their own.  

Thank you all for the comments, especially to Meg - thanks for commenting and I really appreciate what you've said.