A busy weekend at home. Al the painter guy finished the painting on Saturday so we started putting the house back in order.

Yesterday, we went shopping for a wall hanging for the hallway and came back with said wall hanging, plus three pillows, dishes for seven place-settings, socks, boxer shorts and a springform cake tin. Oh and a huge pile of groceries. Saving is for wimps.

I spent the rest of yesterday afternoon furkling about in the basement running wires under the TV room floor for the surround sound system. It’s now all hooked up except for the subwoofer wire, which turned out to be about 6 feet too short. Damnit. The good news is I managed to run a wire from the amp down to the computer in the basement that has all our music on it, so we have our music collection back.

Finally I had a big pack of mince (that’s hamburger for you silly North Americans) that needed to be cooked so I spent the evening making spaghetti sauce (bacon, onions, mushrooms, mince, tomatoes, tomato sauce, basil, oregano, salt, pepper, red wine) and cottage pie filling (onions, carrots, mushrooms, mince, cinnamon, parsley, mixed herbs, flour, beef stock, tomato puree). And I christened my new cake tin by making a bog standard sponge (equal parts flour, sugar, butter plus baking powder, 2 eggs and some vanilla essence, beat it all together, add a bit of water if necessary, stick it in the tin, stick it in the oven at 325F for about 30 minutes).