Winter

It's been really miserable weather these couple of weeks. Winter is really hitting hard this year because I don't recall the weather being so cold so early on. It has been raining almost everyday and it is cold as. My plants are slowly dying off in the frost... no more strawberries, no more tomatoes and after the snails finished off the chilli plants two weeks ago I've given up hope.

I suppose then that this is the best time for my fridge to conk out. And that is precisely what it has done during the long weekend.

On Sunday as is my usual routine, I go grocery shopping during the day, then to my Chinese class. I come back around 5:30pm and start cooking dishes to last us till Armageddon. I spend about 4- 5 hours prepping, cooking, washing every Sunday just so Gaz and I have enough lunches and dinners for most of the week. I start cooking when Merlin comes on the telly, and finishes my washing when House has finished his diagnosis, that is how precise my timing has become.

This Sunday though... when I finally open the freezer door to freeze my cooked meals, I discover to my horror that everything in the freezer is thawed! The fridge must have stopped working during the night before... We've now reverted to putting out our food outside the house (wrapped in plastic) to cool. The weather forecast for tonight is 4 deg overnight. That's even colder than our fridge, just perfect...