Good morning all 😊 ☕️ I’m in bed with my first coffee of the day … OH has set forth on his bike to pick up a few bits from Wrose… I’m almost out of face cream, and he has a couple of other things he needs.
Today I shall start baking … I’ll make rough puff pastry for sausage rolls, and make a few mince pies. I used to make loads and loads to fill the freezer, but the freezers almost full already!
Then I’ll get the Christmas decorations organised. We don’t do a tree any more, but we have swags of greenery along the bookcases and I decorate the fireplace with christmassy things. It always looks pretty and we like it. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, slept like a log last night which was good. Obviously the gardening yesterday out in the fresh air helped. Just waiting for my Monday morning, once a week pill's half hour wait to finish then I'll get going on breakfast. I've used the wait to phone Sainsbury's to arrange a refund, couldn't get through yesterday evening. It's overcast and dry here so may get more gardening done later. We could do with some of your warmth @Pat E. I'd heard you got some nasty storms yesterday on the coast?
Have a good Monday everyone. Commiserations for those who have to work! Hope @Yviestevie's op went well and she's recovering. Not nice though just before Xmas.
Lizzie, there was a mini cyclone in one of the Northern suburbs of Sydney and the footage looked really bad. One woman killed by a falling tree I think. It’s of roofs torn off etc.
it’s really still here - no breeze. Hope it picks up at bedtime or the air con will be on. 🤭
Morning everyone, rather a restless night last night. I think it's because it was so dank and misty all day yesterday, we really didn't do much. I tried reading in the afternoon but kept dozing off, not good. We thought we'd try another home delivery, but OH, has just had text to say how much of it won't be coming, so much for being careful before Christmas,. Looking like we'll have to brave the SM after all.
Still lying here waiting for OH to wake up. He was awake reading during the night, so I don’t want to disturb his sleep in. Also got a home delivery booked for today, but not yet had confirmation of what’s not available. I did a five minute dash into Waitrose yesterday, and it wasn’t too bad. I use their zapper things so I don’t have to unload and reload at the checkout, saves extra contact, and just got a few odds and ends like bacon for the pigs in blankets, some extra cheeses, and a couple of cartons of boozy cream. More tidying up today. I put replacement covers on the sofas this week, and today I’m going to try and stuff the old ones into a couple of those bags you vacuum the air out of to make them smaller. That’ll be a laugh, I suspect.
Just popping in to say hello. Hello. Getting a bit stressed now with all the new pics of Downing St. drinks dos whilst the rest of us were obeying the rules. No wonder the PM got covid.
I was woken up this morning by a Rasta doggy insisting there was a mouse in OH's wardrobe. Called OH who emptied everything out of the bottom and, lo and behold, caught a live mousey, now released outside. Rasta doggy came up on the bed for a congratulatory cuddle.
Been sorting out the Xmas branch in the kitchen to make it look a bit festive and will do the dining room once I've had a cuppa. It is still perishing cold here in the north easterly wind and not good for stupid knee so I'm concentrating on indoor jobs done till it gets warmer on Thursday and I can play outside.
Hadn't heard about the tornadoes @Pat E. I have learned to embrace the heat here and am now getting a bit nesh about cold stuff.
No SM deliveries here @Allotment Boy tho I could do click and collect on a reduced list but safety rules and precautions here mean I've never been worried tho I do plan to be there at lunchtime when the place is less busy.
Stay safe and warm everyone except Pat E who needs to be cooler.
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)."
Just thought I'd pop on and let you all know that the op went fine. I'm still in a lot of pain but at least it's over and done with and I can look forward to Christmas.
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I’m in bed with my first coffee of the day … OH has set forth on his bike to pick up a few bits from Wrose… I’m almost out of face cream, and he has a couple of other things he needs.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hopefully, as the sun sets, it’s might cool down a bit.
It's overcast and dry here so may get more gardening done later. We could do with some of your warmth @Pat E. I'd heard you got some nasty storms yesterday on the coast?
Have a good Monday everyone. Commiserations for those who have to work! Hope @Yviestevie's op went well and she's recovering. Not nice though just before Xmas.
it’s really still here - no breeze. Hope it picks up at bedtime or the air con will be on. 🤭
Also got a home delivery booked for today, but not yet had confirmation of what’s not available. I did a five minute dash into Waitrose yesterday, and it wasn’t too bad. I use their zapper things so I don’t have to unload and reload at the checkout, saves extra contact, and just got a few odds and ends like bacon for the pigs in blankets, some extra cheeses, and a couple of cartons of boozy cream.
More tidying up today. I put replacement covers on the sofas this week, and today I’m going to try and stuff the old ones into a couple of those bags you vacuum the air out of to make them smaller. That’ll be a laugh, I suspect.
Getting a bit stressed now with all the new pics of Downing St. drinks dos whilst the rest of us were obeying the rules. No wonder the PM got covid.
Been sorting out the Xmas branch in the kitchen to make it look a bit festive and will do the dining room once I've had a cuppa. It is still perishing cold here in the north easterly wind and not good for stupid knee so I'm concentrating on indoor jobs done till it gets warmer on Thursday and I can play outside.
Hadn't heard about the tornadoes @Pat E. I have learned to embrace the heat here and am now getting a bit nesh about cold stuff.
No SM deliveries here @Allotment Boy tho I could do click and collect on a reduced list but safety rules and precautions here mean I've never been worried tho I do plan to be there at lunchtime when the place is less busy.
Stay safe and warm everyone except Pat E who needs to be cooler.