Morning everyone, same here very wet and windy. Reading Christmas books sounds like a good plan. Glad I got the leaf clearing done yesterday, although most are down now amazed the old Bramley is STILL holding on to some of it's leaves 🍃 . Forecast is drier tomorrow fingers crossed 🤞
Why worry about being useful, @Dovefromabove. I am sitting in the bedroom, eating Christmas cake, with extra marzipan, made specially by a friend for me, watching the birds on the feeders.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
As @WonkyWomble will tell you @punkdoc ... I am my mother's daughter ... I was brought up to be useful ... Ma once told me that she'd never ever enjoyed herself without feeling guilty about it .... at least I'm not quite that bad ...
Yesterday I watched a flock of redwings on the pyracantha berries ... while I was washing up ... guilt free pleasure
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just catching up on all your news, while having a late morning coffee, and a foray into a box of chocolates! They don’t usually get opened at Christmas until everyone is too full to really enjoy them ( but manage to eat a few and then groan a lot afterwards!) Feels incredibly decadent, but I thought, why not! Got some laundry on the go, today will be a repeat of last week, ie a vacuum and dust round, in anticipation of guests arriving tomorrow, and a houseful on Friday. I shall review my menus for the weekend, and check all is ok in the fridge after the last minute rejig of our plans. Not too sure what to serve tomorrow when daughter and SIL arrive, but Fridays buffet is pretty much unchanged, BBQ pulled pork ( courtesy of Waitrose) rolls, mini roast potatoes, a honey roast ham and pizza as an alternative for the grandsons. The gluten free sticky toffee pudding I made is still in the freezer, and the cream for the sauce is good until the 1st Jan. Phew! Glad I got the bird feeders topped up yesterday, a steady stream of coal tits, and even the woodpecker has been to visit. Good to hear that all have got through Christmas in one piece, and catching your breath before the next round of ‘festivity’. Thanks to those who have posted that Hostafan is ok, hugs to him and all who need them.
Totally true @Dovefromabove@punkdoc.... I'm exactly the same! As installed in me by generational guilt. However I'm happy to report that I too have broken my programming after been treated like a home help and chef for over a week! Was due to work today but it's raining so I've rebooked to do it tomorrow and am doing housework with a glass of wine .... Oh the decadence! 🤣
@AnnaB - hope your g'daughter arrived safe and sound eventually. What a nightmare journey for them! Hurrah for the veranda @Pat E! Lovely view @punkdoc. We watched 1917 last night. But spoiled a bit for us by the fact that parts of it seemed more like a video game and that, despite being shot at, immersed in a broiling sea and crawling through mud and dead bodies, the important letter was still perfectly legible when he arrived with it. Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That remains the definitive WW1 text for me.
We came back from Son 2's yesterday. Lots of traffic and rain on the motorway but after Limoges it was cros country, little traffic and no rain.
Nice day, I unpacked and put presents away then did gardening. Going outside again in a minute.
We are fed up. The hospital rang and said OH's pre op assessment (3rd one so far) on the 6th January has been cancelled as his hip replacement in January is postponed yet again. No elective ops being done in January because of flu and Covid and short staffed. 6th postponement so far. We had booked the ferry for 3rd January to go back to the UK for it.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hello all, oh @Busy-Lizzie that is terrible news, I can't believe it's been cancelled again, is there nowhere else he can have it done? Lovely warm day here again, warm enough to sit on the terrace with a cup of tea. Had my nose cauterized again at the hospital this morning and told to use the cream that stops bleeding for a month, we shall see. Next week I have an appointment with the Orthopedic Consultant about my hips. I must get on and do some h******rk before Friday pm when friends are coming over. We shall miss them very much as they are returning to the UK.
That is awful, @Busy-Lizzie. Write to the CEO of the hospital, telling them all the details and threatening to go to the press, unless you are given a new date.
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Yesterday I watched a flock of redwings on the pyracantha berries ... while I was washing up ... guilt free pleasure
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Feels incredibly decadent, but I thought, why not!
Got some laundry on the go, today will be a repeat of last week, ie a vacuum and dust round, in anticipation of guests arriving tomorrow, and a houseful on Friday. I shall review my menus for the weekend, and check all is ok in the fridge after the last minute rejig of our plans. Not too sure what to serve tomorrow when daughter and SIL arrive, but Fridays buffet is pretty much unchanged, BBQ pulled pork ( courtesy of Waitrose) rolls, mini roast potatoes, a honey roast ham and pizza as an alternative for the grandsons. The gluten free sticky toffee pudding I made is still in the freezer, and the cream for the sauce is good until the 1st Jan. Phew!
Glad I got the bird feeders topped up yesterday, a steady stream of coal tits, and even the woodpecker has been to visit.
Good to hear that all have got through Christmas in one piece, and catching your breath before the next round of ‘festivity’. Thanks to those who have posted that Hostafan is ok, hugs to him and all who need them.
However I'm happy to report that I too have broken my programming after been treated like a home help and chef for over a week!
Was due to work today but it's raining so I've rebooked to do it tomorrow and am doing housework with a glass of wine .... Oh the decadence! 🤣
Hurrah for the veranda @Pat E!
Lovely view @punkdoc. We watched 1917 last night. But spoiled a bit for us by the fact that parts of it seemed more like a video game and that, despite being shot at, immersed in a broiling sea and crawling through mud and dead bodies, the important letter was still perfectly legible when he arrived with it. Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That remains the definitive WW1 text for me.
Nice day, I unpacked and put presents away then did gardening. Going outside again in a minute.
We are fed up. The hospital rang and said OH's pre op assessment (3rd one so far) on the 6th January has been cancelled as his hip replacement in January is postponed yet again. No elective ops being done in January because of flu and Covid and short staffed. 6th postponement so far. We had booked the ferry for 3rd January to go back to the UK for it.
Lovely warm day here again, warm enough to sit on the terrace with a cup of tea.
Had my nose cauterized again at the hospital this morning and told to use the cream that stops bleeding for a month, we shall see. Next week I have an appointment with the Orthopedic Consultant about my hips.
I must get on and do some h******rk before Friday pm when friends are coming over. We shall miss them very much as they are returning to the UK.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When you don't even know who's in the team
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