Evening. Hope everyone is doing ok what with smoky heat-waves (not in U.K. obviously!), cold and rain (not Australia, obviously!), knee trouble, feeling grot or any other boos.
I’ve finished all my pressie shopping 🙌🏼 so just food to do now. I’ll do an early SM run Friday morning for bits and bobs and then SM delivery is booked for Sunday for the household stuff and store cupboard essentials etc. I think I’ll do a stew for Christmas Day evening meal (#alternative) for when I come home from work (The Mary Berry one she did on ‘A Berry Royal Christmas’ looked good).
Working on Christmas Day @AuntyRach ..... hats off to you 🎩 🙏🏻
Absolutely !!! 🎩 🙏 and to the many others doing the same for us ❤️
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ thinking of @Pat E and everyone in and around NSW etc. must be horrid.
Today is OH’s birthday 🎁 🎉 Not sure what we’re doing ... it’s not actually raining so we could go out to the coast ... he’s going to decide while he has his breakfast ... he might choose to just stay in and 🎨 ... and be waited on hand and foot 💕 😉
😖 I seem to have nipped my sciatic nerve somehow ... ouch!!! 😣 Probably too much sitting about feeling snotty last week 🙄 I shall do my best to ignore it 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Happy Birthday to your OH, @Dovefromabove. Hope you both have a lovely day, and the trapped nerve is ignorable...
The roofers have turned up again, at 8am - ie before it's light, here in western Ireland. They are doing a grand job - the woodwork should be completed by the end of the day, all being well. Irish workmen certainly know how to work. They arrive early, even if the weather is horrible, and only stop if it's impossibly wet... and work until it's dark. Yesterday they were packing their van with the aid of our security lights.
Yes indeed, @AuntyRach - a big thank you for looking after folk who need it, on a day when you deserve a rest at least as much as the rest of us.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Happy birthday @Dovefromabove's OH. Hope your nerve gets unpinched. Must admit all this forced inactivity for the knee has left my lower back twinging electric shocks at me today. Looking forward to getting fit again.
Power to your elbows @AuntyRach and all others working on Xmas Day. I hope it's jolly and full of good cheer.
@Liriodendron - how do you think all those canals and railways were dug and built in England? Motorways too from what I remember of the crews that frequented the transport caff where I had a student's job while the M56 was being built.
Lyn - proud moment. What subject?
It's very windy here and occasionally wet so not complaining about being stuck indoors, honest. Sending positive waves to Oz and SA for some much needed rain to clear the air and slow down the fires and end the drought.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We don't have water again today I have food preparation to do for tomorrow. I rang them and was told I should have had a letter to inform me of the work they are doing on the pipes. Managed to fill a dustbin of water for the horses before we were cut off, but it was running very slowly.
Went to Leclerc to shop for the dinner I'm hosting after the Carol service tomorrow. They had 2 very expensive free range turkeys, very small about 5lbs each 27€ and a 5.1/2lb special offer turkey at 12.55€ so I bought the cheap one. They had loads of capons so I also bought a capon bigger than the turkey and a rolled turkey breast all for tomorrow evening. There will be 17 of us. 3 couldn't come. The Brussels sprouts were 2.49€ a kilo, and carrots 1.29€ a kilo, much more than a friend paid in Tesco.
Wanted to make salmon mousse now but no water and don't want to get fishy. OH is peeling potatoes in front of the TV so I think I'll take the sprouts up to the sitting room and join him.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Hope everyone is doing ok what with smoky heat-waves (not in U.K. obviously!), cold and rain (not Australia, obviously!), knee trouble, feeling grot or any other boos.
I’ve finished all my pressie shopping 🙌🏼 so just food to do now. I’ll do an early SM run Friday morning for bits and bobs and then SM delivery is booked for Sunday for the household stuff and store cupboard essentials etc. I think I’ll do a stew for Christmas Day evening meal (#alternative) for when I come home from work (The Mary Berry one she did on ‘A Berry Royal Christmas’ looked good).
https://www.realitytitbit.com/bbc/how-to-make-mary-berrys-christmas-beef-stew-from-a-berry-royal-christmas
and to the many others doing the same for us ❤️
Good morning all 😊 ☕️
thinking of @Pat E and everyone in and around NSW etc. must be horrid.
Today is OH’s birthday 🎁 🎉 Not sure what we’re doing ... it’s not actually raining so we could go out to the coast ... he’s going to decide while he has his breakfast ... he might choose to just stay in and 🎨 ... and be waited on hand and foot 💕 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Happy Birthday to your OH, @Dovefromabove.
The roofers have turned up again, at 8am - ie before it's light, here in western Ireland. They are doing a grand job - the woodwork should be completed by the end of the day, all being well. Irish workmen certainly know how to work. They arrive early, even if the weather is horrible, and only stop if it's impossibly wet... and work until it's dark. Yesterday they were packing their van with the aid of our security lights.
Yes indeed, @AuntyRach - a big thank you for looking after folk who need it, on a day when you deserve a rest at least as much as the rest of us.
Send OH all our love @Dovefromabove.
Yet more rain overnight and lots more to come later ( sorry @Pat E )
My grandson is presenting Christmas lectures at Exeter University, wish I could have seen him, both his parents have gone so that’s ok.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Power to your elbows @AuntyRach and all others working on Xmas Day. I hope it's jolly and full of good cheer.
@Liriodendron - how do you think all those canals and railways were dug and built in England? Motorways too from what I remember of the crews that frequented the transport caff where I had a student's job while the M56 was being built.
Lyn - proud moment. What subject?
It's very windy here and occasionally wet so not complaining about being stuck indoors, honest. Sending positive waves to Oz and SA for some much needed rain to clear the air and slow down the fires and end the drought.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We don't have water again today
Went to Leclerc to shop for the dinner I'm hosting after the Carol service tomorrow. They had 2 very expensive free range turkeys, very small about 5lbs each 27€ and a 5.1/2lb special offer turkey at 12.55€ so I bought the cheap one. They had loads of capons so I also bought a capon bigger than the turkey and a rolled turkey breast all for tomorrow evening. There will be 17 of us. 3 couldn't come. The Brussels sprouts were 2.49€ a kilo, and carrots 1.29€ a kilo, much more than a friend paid in Tesco.
Wanted to make salmon mousse now but no water and don't want to get fishy. OH is peeling potatoes in front of the TV so I think I'll take the sprouts up to the sitting room and join him.