More Cleaning.

The morning rain was so heavy that there was nothing to see but solid grey above the indistinct shapes of the houses along the beach. But soon patches of blue began to appear until we ended up with a sunny afternoon. Sadly now all is grey and the rain has begun to fall once more.

While Pete went to town I planned to type up my annual Christmas letter. But before I could start there was some major cleaning to do. His desk was grubby to say the least and the keyboard was tacky. Dust and sticky drips are not a good combination. Sometime during my clean up I managed to knock a wire and the pc went off. I tried switching it back on only to get an error message at which point I thought it was best to leave well alone. Pete came home not long after and after some deep sighs set things to rights and I could start typing. It's strange how using a different keyboard slowed me down. My keyboard is a bit smaller and six of the letters have worn off the keys but I can whizz along typing with two fingers on each hand. With Pete's keyboard I could only use one finger on each hand and the distance between my eyes and the screen was just 'off' for my glasses. Still the letter is done and printed. That's another thing ticked off my Christmas planning.

 

I then turned to some baking. I wanted to make a couple of lemon drizzle cakes, one for the freezer and one for tomorrow. Of course I didn't stick to the recipe as the one I found on line had twice as much butter as I would normally use and more to the point had in the fridge. Instead I adapted my basic cake recipe cutting back a bit on the flour as my original recipe was for feeding my hungry boys. It was only as the cakes were cooling that I began to wonder if I had remembered to double the amount of sugar. I did for all the other ingredients but I'm not sure about the sugar. That's so typical of me. However I've had a taste and it seems fine to me. 

My last job was to put the first study window back to rights (I like keeping things in exactly the same place) then to clean the other sill and all its glass treasures. It will be nice to have everything freshened up before Vytas and Sally come to stay.