Muddy footprints - again. Grrrr!

 I think I might be coming down with something, unfortunately - I've been excessively tired the past couple of days, feeling achy, a couple of mouth ulcers, what feels like the beginnings of a sore throat for the past 2 evenings (it only seems to appear, or I'm only aware of it, in the evening).  Motivation seems to have gone out the window too, I really don't feel like doing anything.  So I'm dosing myself up with Vit C and echinacea and having lots of hot drinks, including honey and lemon.

Off to a bad start this morning....husband came back from his short walk with Betty and promptly trod mud all through the house 😡.  He does this quite often, he always claims he wipes his feet on the doormat but clearly doesn't!  I've asked him numerous times to take his shoes off at the door....but of course he never remembers.  He does clean the mud up himself, as he should.  He sometimes tries to blame it on Betty, bit difficult to believe when the mud prints are shoe shaped 😒

I really must get a menu plan done today, not having done one recently (despite saying I must, and then forgetting), every day I'm having to trawl through the freezer, fridge and cupboards around lunchtime, wondering what I'm going to make for the evening meal.  I know what we're having tonight, when pulling the larder surplus store box out from under my bed this morning, to get out some of my long life oat milk, I found a pack of spinach and feta tortellini which is a week out of date.  I'm sure it'll be fine, it's vacuum packed.  I'll make a tomato and veg sauce to go with it, and I think there's some garlic bread in the freezer.

It's 3 weeks today that husband's bro and SiL arrive, by themselves, for the weekend.  They're hoping to arrive by lunchtime I think, so husband and bro can make a start on cutting the yukky yucca down in the afternoon.  So I'll need to provide lunch and dinner on that day.  It'll be a buffet lunch and I might make a quiche to have with chips or wedges and salad for dinner.  I expect they'll be here all day on the Saturday too, finishing off cutting up the tree and taking the dumpy bag to the tip, so lunch and dinner to provide that day too.  Although we might have a fish & chips takeout, save me cooking dinner again.  Sunday they want to take us out for lunch before they go home, that'll be nice, it's quite a while since we had a meal out.

Mixture of sunny intervals and showers today.  I might persuade husband to take us to Blue Anchor for a walk along the prom and a coffee in the coffee shop later, he's been vegetating in his armchair or in front of the computer (he even nods off sitting upright there) too much lately.