Roast dinner pie, dribbling (Betty not me!)

 Husband had his flu jab yesterday, he was in and out in about 2 minutes, he says his arm aches a bit today but other than that he's fine....mine is on Tuesday.  

We had the large cod from the chippy yesterday, with home cooked chips and peas.  I must say the cod is a proper treat, regardless of the price - great big plump moist flakes of cod, with the best bubbly crispy batter I've ever tasted.  It's a high carb meal so not good for me to have too often, but as a treat every few weeks it's lovely.  The frozen peas I cooked then drained and crushed with the potato masher, stirring in a spoonful of mint sauce and a big knob of butter - delish.  Betty enjoyed her bit of the fish and a couple of chips too.  Today we're having roast chicken with all the usual veg, I'm having a little bit of the chicken rather than my usual nut roast, just because I fancy it today.  I've done enough veggies and stuffing for leftovers to have for tomorrow's dinner, I shall use some of the remaining chicken with the chopped veg and stuffing to make a roast dinner pie of sorts, topped with mashed potato.  I'll prep it in the morning, ready to just pop in the oven to heat through later on.  I'm having my diabetic eye screening tomorrow afternoon, the drops they put in to dilate the pupils leave my eyesight very blurry for hours afterwards, so it'll be good to have dinner all prepped and ready.  The drops seem to affect my eyesight much longer than they do husband's, for some reason - his blurriness wears off after just a couple of hours, whereas it takes 4 or 5 hours with me.

Betty is currently asleep on my bed, gently snoring, with her head on my pillow.....I hope she's not dribbling! 😁  She does keep me lovely and warm through the night, like my own personal hot water bottle.  I do have to move her off me sometimes, she quite often lies with her head resting right across my lower legs - she's got a very heavy head!  And it cuts off my circulation 😂

I've got a free National Trust day pass which must be used by 18 Oct, I think I may have said that we're going to use it for Dunster Castle - we've walked round the grounds several times but only had a very brief look inside the Castle as we had Betty with us that time and dogs aren't allowed.  We may be able to go Wednesday this week, looking at our appointments on the calendar, otherwise it'll have to be next week.  It'll be weather-dependent too - although it'll be dry inside the Castle (hopefully!!), the car park is a fair distance from the Castle entrance - plus we want to walk through the grounds to the Watermill cafe for a cream tea afterwards, and we'd like to sit in their pretty tea garden which is next to the river.

Chucking it down with rain now after a few lovely sunny days, the rest of the week looks very mixed.  Ah well, it'll soon be Christmas! (and then Spring will be on the way, hooray!).  Oh, I did get all my bulbs planted up yesterday, pleased about that.  I think I'd like some more in pots though....