Hudson1984
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So, another lockdown!
I already work from home, wife is on maternity and the little boy is bored - so are we!!
no visiting people, no having family over and being as I don't see anyone for work either, we've gotten into a bit of a rut.
Now, don't get me wrong, i've got hobbies but none of them were social to start with so we're trying what we can to keep ourselves sane during lockdown but also, to hopefully come out the other side with a few new strings to our bow.
As with most new parents, we'd found it hard to get some "us" time that wasn't baby related, so before this lockdown we picked a saturday on the calender - date night! Now for us, this was an indian from our favourite restaurant (this place is awesome and their take aways are just as good as eating in) Now, we'd like to go out, but little guys in bed, and with Covid, we don't want to sit near other people anyway so it's a night in.
this does us a world of good - or it did anyway!
As you can see from my other post, i've made the garage a bit of a "man-cave" but in reality, it's become our "pub" we had a great night out there at the weekend, drinking too much, playing darts, playing music etc. We're still connected to the house, the baby monitor still reaches and the dog can come sit on the sofa with us and it even felt like a night out! I think it'll be getting used alot more as time goes on and hopefully once lockdown ends, it'll become a pretty sociable space - requests have already come in for a taster night when the blood orange cider is done haha!!
SOooo....next!!
We both like to cook, but doing it in the evening often becomes tiring. I've worked all day - wife has looked after our son, so we've fallen into the trap of just chucking stuff in the oven. We're getting back on track a bit but we've discussed a weekly bake day! I used to make bread as a hobby (not very well!) and my wife is a great cook. We used to make fudge, buns, savories etc and we've just stopped. So we're keen to have a bash. Once a week, bake something new. Probably both do something different i.e. I'm really eager to get back doing bread, and my wife is good with sweeter things. This won't really be "dinner" just hobby cooking.
So tomorrow will likely be the first day. Tuesdays going forward will be our weekly bake afternoon. Why afternoon? Well, we fit our life around nap time haha!! we get between 11:30 ish till about 3 and he sleeps through, so whilst i'm on lunch break, we plan to use this to make something tasty....hopefully!!
This weeks plan - Italian Pizza.. if I can find the yeast.
Future plans:
BREAD BREAD BREAD
Fudge
Sausages
Smoking foods
German Christmas market staples - I want to be ready for next years Oktoberfest in the garage pub!
anyway, i'm looking forward to getting started, be great to have some new foods for people to try at future social things, hopefully, good beer and good food.
and a sane couple that's not pulled their hair out whilst being locked down!!!
I already work from home, wife is on maternity and the little boy is bored - so are we!!
no visiting people, no having family over and being as I don't see anyone for work either, we've gotten into a bit of a rut.
Now, don't get me wrong, i've got hobbies but none of them were social to start with so we're trying what we can to keep ourselves sane during lockdown but also, to hopefully come out the other side with a few new strings to our bow.
As with most new parents, we'd found it hard to get some "us" time that wasn't baby related, so before this lockdown we picked a saturday on the calender - date night! Now for us, this was an indian from our favourite restaurant (this place is awesome and their take aways are just as good as eating in) Now, we'd like to go out, but little guys in bed, and with Covid, we don't want to sit near other people anyway so it's a night in.
this does us a world of good - or it did anyway!
As you can see from my other post, i've made the garage a bit of a "man-cave" but in reality, it's become our "pub" we had a great night out there at the weekend, drinking too much, playing darts, playing music etc. We're still connected to the house, the baby monitor still reaches and the dog can come sit on the sofa with us and it even felt like a night out! I think it'll be getting used alot more as time goes on and hopefully once lockdown ends, it'll become a pretty sociable space - requests have already come in for a taster night when the blood orange cider is done haha!!
SOooo....next!!
We both like to cook, but doing it in the evening often becomes tiring. I've worked all day - wife has looked after our son, so we've fallen into the trap of just chucking stuff in the oven. We're getting back on track a bit but we've discussed a weekly bake day! I used to make bread as a hobby (not very well!) and my wife is a great cook. We used to make fudge, buns, savories etc and we've just stopped. So we're keen to have a bash. Once a week, bake something new. Probably both do something different i.e. I'm really eager to get back doing bread, and my wife is good with sweeter things. This won't really be "dinner" just hobby cooking.
So tomorrow will likely be the first day. Tuesdays going forward will be our weekly bake afternoon. Why afternoon? Well, we fit our life around nap time haha!! we get between 11:30 ish till about 3 and he sleeps through, so whilst i'm on lunch break, we plan to use this to make something tasty....hopefully!!
This weeks plan - Italian Pizza.. if I can find the yeast.
Future plans:
BREAD BREAD BREAD
Fudge
Sausages
Smoking foods
German Christmas market staples - I want to be ready for next years Oktoberfest in the garage pub!
anyway, i'm looking forward to getting started, be great to have some new foods for people to try at future social things, hopefully, good beer and good food.
and a sane couple that's not pulled their hair out whilst being locked down!!!
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