Thank you for the info @punkdoc. I think we might put some of the money we could have spent on a German ski trip later this month (fat chance of that happening!) towards indulging our gastronomic interests instead. Either that or we may visit Simon Rogan's restaurant next time we're in the Lake District. He always comes across as a fairly down to earth sort of a chap even if he does produce some of the most amazing food. Quite fancy a trip to Tom Kerridge's pub as well!
Good to see @D0rdogne_Damsel letting somebody else do the catering and hosting for a change! Your chill out days still sound exhausting to me🙂
And good to see @Hostafan1 is still KBO'ing. Especially kind thoughts are with you 🙂
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Nice to meet you @AnnaB. And you @Liriodendron - I think I must have joined whilst you were away. Good night's sleep last night - amazing dreams that I didn't want to wake up from. One of them was me in the role of @D0rdogne_Damsel or @Obelixx - feeding people in shifts in my small dining room and others arriving and me giving them bowls of rice and stew to eat standing up, and ushering another group out into the garden and plonking a bottle of rum down for them. Mixed feelings about Tony Blair's gong - he did a lot of good work whilst in office until he was led by the nose into the Iraq war but find him, as @Obelixx says a bit slimy now. Joanna Lumley deserves hers. My new year's resolution is to aim for a positive mental attitude in all things and to indulge in shadenfreude ever time this govt. gets caught out in any of their wrongdoings - which are legion.
Hello and welcome @AnnaB, and @janetfoss too in case I hadn't said earlier. So good to have you back @Liriodendron. Are you still happy with your move to Ireland?
My cold is starting to get better. I planted the shrub that Daughter 1 gave me for Christmas, Viburnum Plicatum, and the (look away @Dovefromabove) the spotted laurel I bought for a difficult place. It's a while since I did any gardening, Christmas, family, weather, having colds don't make it easy. Vegetable garden needs weeding. The ground is very wet though.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks, @Busy-Lizzie - it turned out not to be the ideal time to move country... though if we'd left it later, Br***t would have meant I couldn't have brought seeds & plants with me from my Yorkshire garden... so from that point of view it was definitely the right time! It's been particularly hard for OH though, because he gave up conducting his choirs in order to move, intending to start new choirs here - and of course it's not been possible. He managed one rehearsal for one new group before Covid put an end to it. Meanwhile he's feeling his age (he's now 75). But anyway, things would still have ground to a halt in UK... plus our house there was becoming less & less suitable for us. So - yes thank you, we're happy with the move, though it will be lovely when we can get to know neighbours better and do more exploring, plus of course visiting our English relatives, not seen for nearly 2 years now.
Anyway, 2022 is DEFINITELY going to be a better year.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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We are having a bright , sunny day with lots of blue sky. What a start to January.
Either that or we may visit Simon Rogan's restaurant next time we're in the Lake District. He always comes across as a fairly down to earth sort of a chap even if he does produce some of the most amazing food. Quite fancy a trip to Tom Kerridge's pub as well!
Good to see @D0rdogne_Damsel letting somebody else do the catering and hosting for a change! Your chill out days still sound exhausting to me🙂
And good to see @Hostafan1 is still KBO'ing. Especially kind thoughts are with you 🙂
Good night's sleep last night - amazing dreams that I didn't want to wake up from. One of them was me in the role of @D0rdogne_Damsel or @Obelixx - feeding people in shifts in my small dining room and others arriving and me giving them bowls of rice and stew to eat standing up, and ushering another group out into the garden and plonking a bottle of rum down for them.
Mixed feelings about Tony Blair's gong - he did a lot of good work whilst in office until he was led by the nose into the Iraq war but find him, as @Obelixx says a bit slimy now. Joanna Lumley deserves hers.
My new year's resolution is to aim for a positive mental attitude in all things and to indulge in shadenfreude ever time this govt. gets caught out in any of their wrongdoings - which are legion.
When things are bad sometimes all you can do is "KBO" - ie "Keep bu$$ering on"
Hope you're not offended!🙂
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
(no offence meant )
Hello and welcome @AnnaB, and @janetfoss too in case I hadn't said earlier. So good to have you back @Liriodendron. Are you still happy with your move to Ireland?
My cold is starting to get better. I planted the shrub that Daughter 1 gave me for Christmas, Viburnum Plicatum, and the (look away @Dovefromabove) the spotted laurel I bought for a difficult place. It's a while since I did any gardening, Christmas, family, weather, having colds don't make it easy. Vegetable garden needs weeding. The ground is very wet though.
Anyway, 2022 is DEFINITELY going to be a better year.