How is it the middle of March already? Where do the weeks go, other than in a blur of dates! This week I picked ANOTHER John classic… Play on the Xbox together The Xbox was a Christmas and birthday present for John, and to be fair hasn’t been overly used, unless the nephews are visiting! […]
Category Archives: Our Year of Dates
The date
08
Mar
Mar
We finally did it 🙂 Two weeks of date night, and tomorrow is ‘jar day’ again!!
04
Mar
Mar
On Tuesday I saw an opportunity, so I seized it! John had been working in Birmingham and was going to be late home. It’s rare I’m home before him as his hours, and commute, mean he’s home before I’ve even finished my day. Having not specified that the home cooked meal had to be anything […]
03
Mar
Mar
So this weeks date better have another half… Homemade, candle light dinner, made by Kate What are the chances of there being one made by John in the jar?? He’s remaining quiet on that conundrum! In the meantime he’s been hailed a ‘genius’ by my (male) work colleagues… PS the jigsaw is still in a […]
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Feb
Feb
Another well timed date this week (just before pay day!) Go and buy a jigsaw and complete it together I love a good jigsaw!! This takes me back to childhood, we regularly completed jigsaw on rainy Cornish holidays, or they were used to keep us quiet during rainy weekends at home! I wasn’t convinced we’d […]
A bit late this week – in fact setting this one up will be to the wire! It’s another future planning one, this time… Plan a party at home We have said for months that we should get everyone together at ours, we meant to do it at Christmas… So now we HAVE to do […]
16
Feb
Feb
Well, I love the date jar (and John!) this week! We had a wonderful weekend in Anglesey, the sun made an appearance and we had a great stay at Driftwood. Having remembered on route that John is on a stag do next weekend and is requested to wear a flat cap and tweed jacket we […]
09
Feb
Feb
I was warned that there’d be some envelopes I wouldn’t like… And this week might be one! I’ll let the picture do the talking…
07
Feb
Feb
So, following our lovely relaxing spa day we got back to freshly made pizza dough in the bread maker (thank you timer function!). The chosen topping was Chinese chicken, mushroom, peppers and mountains of cheese. One half had pineapple too, but not the half I ate!! Movie choice was decided by Amazon Prime Video (ie […]
This week we’ve got another movie night to look forward to, with an added activity… Make home made pizzas and watch a movie My Christmas present bread maker gets another outing (it does get used more than just on date night!) as it also makes dough! Now the film, it technically should be John’s choice… […]