Evening folks, well, I leapt out of bed when the alarm went at 7.40 am and was out the house by 8.10. Guess what, the rush hour traffic was no more busy than usual during the day so I arrived at the surgery much earlier than needed. Fortunately I'd had time to stop and get the paper so read that in the car. Blood test done in record time too, straight into the back of my hand, no messing around. Then I treated myself to breakfast at the nearby Hilliers GC. Bought 3 bright red hardy cyclamens, one for my late best friend's grave in the nearby cemetery, two for my front door trough and a pink one for somewhere in the front garden. I also bought some Resolva path weedkiller (our weeds are still growing) and 3 bags H.Grit for tulips I still haven't planted.
SM delivery arrived just before lunch (with cakes for a treat -yippee) and afterwards I drove OH down to his dentist. Didn't feel like gardening afterwards as it was a bit drizzly so watched ETTC again
Isn't it odd that some people have a bad reaction to the booster but others don't.
I'm very pleased I won an Ebay auction for a Samsonite vanity bag last night. Hopefully it will be ok and the one I bought in a hurry last week can go back to the charity shop.
I watched Shetland just afterwards but I'm still none the wiser!
We find Shetland confusing too @Lizzie27. The Glasgow accents don't help either. Highland accents are much nicer and easier to understand.
We enjoyed our lunch in the Southwold Harbour fish restaurant and so did our friends. They hadn't been there before. We all had seafood platters and salad. We took OH's electric buggy in case we wanted to go for a walk afterwards but of course it's almost winter now and it was quite gloomy when we came out of the restaurant so we didn't.
The moon looked huge in the sky on the way home. That must be why I slept badly last night. I always sleep badly just before a full moon. Not because of the light, we have blackout linings on the curtains.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Glad you enjoyed your lunch with your friends @Busy-Lizzie. Â Didn't realize Shetland actors had Glaswegian accents, not sure I'd know the difference unless I could hear two people with different ones. My hearing aid makes accents a little more difficult to distinguish but it might just be me, I thought one of our neighbours was Scottish when she's actually Irish! Interesting what you say about not sleeping before a full moon.
That explains a lot! My late ex MIL was Scottish, from the Elgin area and I believe we may have had Scottish ancestors in the past according to my DNA results. I spent quite a few childhood holidays camping in the Highlands (not always happily!) as far north as John of Groats and Cape Wrath. I thought it was the back of beyond when I was 14.
Sorry I havenât called in - busy week. I couldnât participate in the case for Jury Service, Â so itâs been back to work for me.Â
Itâs cookery programmes galore tonight so just enjoying those with a pot of tea and a few home made Mince Pies (MILâs bakes with her fabulous orange pastry).Â
I hope all are doing ok. Take care and start digging out the woolly jumpers/socks/blankets, as next week looks like a big dip in temperature.Â
Grey and murky day here till just after midday.  Weekly SM run for me and then music sorting. My duff external disk with 450gb of music on it ahs finally decided to talk to my PC so I've been organising it.  Now down to 250gb after removing duplicates. Never lend a dance club PC to a dizzy Belgian techy!!  Clearly not as techy as she thinks.
Dance this evening and only 2 couples so a serious workout. 45 mins of Paso and 15 of Samba then 10 of rumba to cool down. On the way home a plaintiff phone call from Possum who's shredded a car tyre while avoiding 2 cats on her way home for swimming.  Sorted her out with emergency numbers but OH has had to go and fetch her cos chappy needs to take it to his workshop to fix it.  Collect tomorrow. At least she's not hurt.
I find Shetland a bit baffling too, mostly because of the accents, but I do enjoy the scenery tho wonder about living without trees. Â
The moon here is high and looking very small tho also bright so hardly any stars visible.  Good for the night hunters I expect.
Golly @Obelixx, that sounds hard work. My favourite was the cha cha, although I also loved a fast quickstep. Didn't like rumba.
 Glad Possum's okay though pity about car tyre, could have been nasty. My daughter once had her engine blow up (old Beetle) in the fast lane, in the rush hour, on the M40. Thankfully she was able to steer over to the hard shoulder between the other cars. She screamed so hard, she literally couldn't talk for a week. She should never have been in the fast lane in the first place or bought the Beetle for that matter. It was a horrible car.
I wondered about the absence of trees on Shetland as well, don't think I could live in a place like that. Hauntingly beautiful but very sparse.
Morning everyone. Not much doing here today. Weâve been expecting rain and storms, but apart from clouds, nothing! Â Thereâs supposed to be a rare Luna etclipse tonight, but we are completely covered in clouds. Typical! Â
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SM delivery arrived just before lunch (with cakes for a treat -yippee) and afterwards I drove OH down to his dentist. Didn't feel like gardening afterwards as it was a bit drizzly so watched ETTC again
Isn't it odd that some people have a bad reaction to the booster but others don't.
I'm very pleased I won an Ebay auction for a Samsonite vanity bag last night. Hopefully it will be ok and the one I bought in a hurry last week can go back to the charity shop.
I watched Shetland just afterwards but I'm still none the wiser!
We enjoyed our lunch in the Southwold Harbour fish restaurant and so did our friends. They hadn't been there before. We all had seafood platters and salad. We took OH's electric buggy in case we wanted to go for a walk afterwards but of course it's almost winter now and it was quite gloomy when we came out of the restaurant so we didn't.
The moon looked huge in the sky on the way home. That must be why I slept badly last night. I always sleep badly just before a full moon. Not because of the light, we have blackout linings on the curtains.
 Didn't realize Shetland actors had Glaswegian accents, not sure I'd know the difference unless I could hear two people with different ones. My hearing aid makes accents a little more difficult to distinguish but it might just be me, I thought one of our neighbours was Scottish when she's actually Irish!
Interesting what you say about not sleeping before a full moon.
Dance this evening and only 2 couples so a serious workout. 45 mins of Paso and 15 of Samba then 10 of rumba to cool down. On the way home a plaintiff phone call from Possum who's shredded a car tyre while avoiding 2 cats on her way home for swimming.  Sorted her out with emergency numbers but OH has had to go and fetch her cos chappy needs to take it to his workshop to fix it.  Collect tomorrow. At least she's not hurt.
I find Shetland a bit baffling too, mostly because of the accents, but I do enjoy the scenery tho wonder about living without trees. Â
The moon here is high and looking very small tho also bright so hardly any stars visible.  Good for the night hunters I expect.
 Glad Possum's okay though pity about car tyre, could have been nasty. My daughter once had her engine blow up (old Beetle) in the fast lane, in the rush hour, on the M40. Thankfully she was able to steer over to the hard shoulder between the other cars. She screamed so hard, she literally couldn't talk for a week. She should never have been in the fast lane in the first place or bought the Beetle for that matter. It was a horrible car.
I wondered about the absence of trees on Shetland as well, don't think I could live in a place like that. Hauntingly beautiful but very sparse.
Just to add another layer of crap to my life, my car has broken down and I've had to walk a mile home.Â