Spring cleaning.

We are up early this morning, around six thirty, outside there is thick fog, but it is forecast to burn off by late morning. After letting Normy out into the garden, I fry a kipper for breakfast and later take my coffee into the Garden Room where I read the paper on my iPad, before showering and dressing. At nine o'clock it is still foggy, so I decide to iron some shirts for an hour before taking the dogs out. We eventually arrive on the Westwood at ten thirty, with a pale lemon sun just visible through the mist. It remains quite cold, but there is little or no wind, so it doesn't feel to bad. As we make our way through the woods, I notice the hawthorns have tiny green buds showing. Dolly is in season, so I have to keep shooing Teddy away from her when he becomes just too interested, in a couple of days I will have to keep her on the lead as she arrives at her most receptive days. After dropping the terriers back in Cherry, we drive to Morrison's, calling at Walkington Manor en route, where we buy another dozen giant pullet eggs. By the time we arrive at the supermarket the sun has finally burned through and it is a lovely day. Princess Kate is due to visit Grimsby today, but her helicopter can't land as the fog has lingered at Humberside Airport. A combination of illness and hospital visiting has left me behind with my housekeeping and the nice weather has inspired me to start spring cleaning, so I buy some pots of flowers for the Garden Room and the usual groceries. We arrive home around half past twelve and after feeding Norman, I put my Parmagiana in the oven to cook and boil some brown rice in my microwave steamer. While this is cooking, I fill the flower pots from the shelves in the Garden Room with my new flowers. When my food is ready, I take it into the garden and eat lunch sat in the sun.. The combination of Parmagiana and brown rice works really well, so I have second helpings and then do a sudoku for half an hour. At three o'clock the garden is in shadow and I start my spring clean, emptying my cane furniture into the garden and then vacuum the empty room, cleaning the patio windows and wiping down the paintwork. I polish the furniture and then return it to its place. I wash the bathroom floor and then take Norman to see Felicity, calling in at Right Car in Beverley, where I bought Sarah's Peugeot last September, to book my Chrysler and Pip's Micra in for a service and MOT, later in the week. We stay for an hour with Felicity and drink tea before returning home for six. There is quite a bit of brown rice left in the steamer, so I chop up some fruit I bought this in order to make a Thai fruit salad. It has apple, orange, banana, apricot, nectarine and dates in it, with a sweet lemon dressing. It is a recipe used by Buddhist monks and quite delicious. Later I iron some more shirts and then listen to Crystal Palace v Hull. David Stockdale saves a penalty for the Tigers and then concede from another controversial penalty by Kevin just before half time. Within fifteen minutes Phillips has scored again twice to complete his hat trick and we are three goals down. Clement is at the match and sending me texts. Jay Simpson scores for City, 3:1, but then Louis Saha scores again for Palace 4:1, and just before the final whistle, David Meylor scores and it ends 4:2, we have been well beaten. To bed for eleven.