Tidy minds

Tidying the house this morning. Some of our carpets are unlike any carpet I have ever encountered. You can vacuum  them with our efficient new hoover, and they will cling like velcro to fluff, cat fur, and other stuff. You have to change the head to the narrowest one possible to remove things. It ends up like cutting a lawn with nail scissors.  However, having the house tidy is a fine thing. 

Jess and Andrew came for lunch, a little early so found Lorraine in her pyjamas cooking.  I showed them around the garden, despite it being rather nippy. While Lorraine got ready, having cooked all kinds of nice foods such as haddock cooked en papillote with tomatoes and served with Persian rice and beans and sugar snap peas. We drank Prosecco as Jess to celebrate Jess having just turned 70, this is hard to reconcile as she is one of those folks who looks and acts twenty years younger. They had been to Florence recently where Jess, who has been learning Italian, enjoyed chatting with the locals. They stayed south of the Arno and found it crammed with excellent restaurants. Andrew talking to me about IR 35 -- one of the few people I can talk to about its importance to self employed folks. It was a thorny problem a couple of years ago, but seems to have melted away.

A quiet night. Watched Chelsea unconvincingly win their first game in ages.