Clearing the decks

The tree and decorations packed away, cards down, leftovers finished, fridge cleared, all that remained was a bowl of lemons and limes, what to do with them?  Most things I thought of was either a pudding or booze, both of which I am trying to cut back on.

Marmalade! I have never tried making this and they were just asking to be made into something, so why not marmalade.  Its quite labour intensive, the peeling, squeezing and chopping took just over an hour, but once the cooking part started it sort of looked after itself.  It tastes wonderful and I'm so pleased I made the effort.

I finished my seamless yoked cardigan

and started another cardigan - a simple V necked cardigan, I'm using Sirdar Denim Tweed acrylic/cotton/wool mix, even found some buttons that match.

Whilst putting the last of the bread out for the birds this morning I spied this little peak of spring.........

Have a good weekend, I hope the weather is kind to you.  We have no plans that I know of, a blank plalette to work with

When I'm cleaning windows......

well I can't take credit for the outside that would be Ecopure. 

With this recent stretch of nice sunny weather I realised just how disgusting our windows were.  Living on a busy road really takes its toll and one thing that hubby and I hate is cleaning windows. So if I tell you that the front haven't been done for months and I mean months, and that some of the hard to reach back ones haven't been done for 18 months then you will know they were bad.  Anyway, back to the sun, yes it showed up how bad they were, so I grabbed the village magazine yesterday and hunted for a window cleaner advert.  The only one in there was fully booked and not taking on any new customers, so I hit the net. The first for our area was Ecopure and we were in their catchment area, I fired off an email and got a very quick response, followed by a call, an appointment was made for them to come and  quote today, quote accepted and 40 mins later I had clean windows.  The only alarming thing is that the windows are left wet, "won't they spot" I asked, apparently not, due to the pure water (check out their site for all the technical stuff - link above) they use.  Lo and behold I have spot free windows.  Whilst some of the back windows aren't perfect - considering how long its been since they were cleaned its a vast improvement, and apparently once they have been done a few times the impurity billed up will go and they will stay cleaner longer, or thats the gist of it.

So thank you guys, see you in 4 weeks. By the way, I was so ashamed of the inside after you had gone I went ahead and cleaned them ALL!!! 

Glass of wine to celebrate I think