Another week, another batch of good intentions

As is now my standard start to the week, Monday kicked off early with a gym session before work (no swimming sadly – a thunder storm was in full swing, and despite my love of swimming in the rain, Singapore doesn’t just do rain, it does bucketing it down to the extent that I don’t think I would have been able to breath from all the splashing in the pool). Followed by a night of eating veggies and chilling on the sofa.

            Tuesday had a slightly different routine from normal. As we have a day off this Thursday, we’re having a little dinner party for six at our flat on Wednesday night. This meant that, in order to get all the prep sorted in time we had to pay a little visit to our meat man in Tekka market on Tuesday morning. We were there by 7:30, mixing with the local restaurant owners, stocking up on lamb, Thai curry spices and limes for gin cocktails – all the essentials.

            I made up for the lack of morning swim with an evening swim ahead of my aqua spin class, before heading home (slightly exhausted) to whip up a chocolate torte for Wednesday dessert and to eat – I was famished!

            Sometimes (often) when I get home from spin, Nick has made the most of the free time to work his way through a couple of levels on whatever shooting / killing Xbox game that he’s currently enjoying, but last night was quite a spectacular exception to this general rule.

            I walked into the flat to discover Nick skyping with his friend Bri whilst grinding up a marinade for the lamb (to soak up over night), cooking pasta and bacon for dinner and straining a lovely chilled red wine to drink with it.

            I would never sign up for a maid, even though it seems to be the norm over here, but when there’s food and wine waiting for me as I walk in the door – now that’s something that I could get used to!