The soup turned out great, there's not much chopping involved with this one so basically I cooked and DS brought the ingredients to me, and he watched it while I had to be other places in the kitchen.
I did start sewing the trousers, but I'm up to overlocking some stuff and the thought of dealing with the fluff resulting from overlocking corduroy does not appeal especially when just recovering from cold/flu. I got out my knitting instead.