Safe journey @Busy-Lizzie and I echo Dove's wish for both of your families to have a happy Christmas. The Christmas tree festival looks fabulous. That church must have more sources of power than ours does.
We are being gadabouts at the moment. Yesterday evening to our local theatre for Luke Wright - a performance poet who lives here but tours all over (and does the Edinburgh Festival)  He's amazing - we're very proud of him here. He didn't take a fee for his show last night - it was to raise funds for the theatre and the library, he is patron to both. And tomorrow evening is a bit of a church crawl - a solo performance by another talented local - an opera singer - at one church which starts early, then onto the big church in the middle of town for a performance from some medieval instrumentalists, which will be magical.
But no one had better phone us or try and make us go out tonight - the Strictly final!
Out for breakfast this morning (it’s a very useful ploy to get us up and out before mid Morning!) then home via Waitrose. In the two hours since we got home, I have cleaned the en-suite, vacuumed the bedroom, put a load of laundry on and got some beef in red wine simmering in the slow cooker! Really pleased with myself, although I’m sure @Dovefromabove would have achieved the same, plus got four loaves and a batch of rolls proving, and knitted half a matinee coat in the same time! Still lots for me to aspire to! OH has mended my little terracotta warrior which got blown over in a gale and lost his head! I’ll go and tackle the guest room in a minute, there are a few more odds and ends to be evicted, then I can dust round.  It’s otherwise not far off being ready for guests, then I’ll start on the guest bathroom. Safe journey, @Busy-Lizzie.  Hope the coach journey home won’t be too uncomfortable, @coccinella. No Christmas tree festivals around here that I’m aware of. I visited a super one in a church in Sherborne last year, lots of really inventive and original decorations. The writing group ( the Sherborne Scribblers?) had decorated their tree with different coloured pencils and a great star! I hope they won’t mind me posting a picture!
Afternoon folks. Has anyone missed me! It's been a while. It's almost 3 months since Covid reared its ugly head. Been doing the rounds of various consultants. Last appointment was the audiologist,who said mild to moderate Hearing loss, I now have a minimum 3 months wait to see the consultant. Have gradually been getting back to normal. I worked on respiratory wards, got a spirometer and started doing the lung capacity and function excercises. No more breathlessness! I haven't started on the weights etc,golly thats been almost 2 years since I had the ahem "personal health issues". I will start again after Christmas, will have to go back to square one, with the excercise levels. End of October, I couldn't even stand in the kitchen and peel a carrot,it was pretty depressing. Am all behind with Christmas of course. Just done the cards. Ruby puppy is 20 weeks,much bigger and training going well. I apologise for not back reading too far,so I hope everyone is well.. did Punkdoc get his operation? If I don't get on here again, I hope my fellow friends and Forkers have a good Christmas.
Lovely to hear from you @Nanny Beach and glad to hear that the situation has improved. Well done for sticking with the exercises. Merry Christmas to you too. Punkdok is still waitingÂ
Bon voyage @Busy-Lizzie. The church looked very pretty.
It's been really mild here but very overcast. I galloped down for the paper this morning whilst OH got ready to go into town to meet his ex-colleagues for a beer or two. After a quick coffee, I did more rose pruning in the front garden and then after lunch some more in the back garden. Really pleased but a bit achy now.
Hope your coach journey home isn't too bad @coccinella.
I was torn between housework or gardening @Ergates but gardening won whilst the weather was dry! OH will lend a hand with the housework later on and I have the cleaners booked for Thursday which is good. Got mincepies to make sometime plus washing to do but that can wait till Monday.
I echo your thoughts @Dovefromabove, whilst our 2023 has been nowhere as bad as yours, it hasn't been a good year for me, healthwise. but at least I'm still here. Roll on 2024!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The Christmas tree festival looks fabulous. That church must have more sources of power than ours does.
We are being gadabouts at the moment. Yesterday evening to our local theatre for Luke Wright - a performance poet who lives here but tours all over (and does the Edinburgh Festival)  He's amazing - we're very proud of him here. He didn't take a fee for his show last night - it was to raise funds for the theatre and the library, he is patron to both.
And tomorrow evening is a bit of a church crawl - a solo performance by another talented local - an opera singer - at one church which starts early, then onto the big church in the middle of town for a performance from some medieval instrumentalists, which will be magical.
But no one had better phone us or try and make us go out tonight - the Strictly final!
OH has mended my little terracotta warrior which got blown over in a gale and lost his head! I’ll go and tackle the guest room in a minute, there are a few more odds and ends to be evicted, then I can dust round.  It’s otherwise not far off being ready for guests, then I’ll start on the guest bathroom.Â
Safe journey, @Busy-Lizzie.
 Hope the coach journey home won’t be too uncomfortable, @coccinella.Â
No Christmas tree festivals around here that I’m aware of. I visited a super one in a church in Sherborne last year, lots of really inventive and original decorations. The writing group ( the Sherborne Scribblers?) had decorated their tree with different coloured pencils and a great star! I hope they won’t mind me posting a picture!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Bon voyage @Busy-Lizzie. The church looked very pretty.
It's been really mild here but very overcast. I galloped down for the paper this morning whilst OH got ready to go into town to meet his ex-colleagues for a beer or two. After a quick coffee, I did more rose pruning in the front garden and then after lunch some more in the back garden. Really pleased but a bit achy now.
Hope your coach journey home isn't too bad @coccinella.
I was torn between housework or gardening @Ergates but gardening won whilst the weather was dry! OH will lend a hand with the housework later on and I have the cleaners booked for Thursday which is good. Got mincepies to make sometime plus washing to do but that can wait till Monday.
I echo your thoughts @Dovefromabove, whilst our 2023 has been nowhere as bad as yours, it hasn't been a good year for me, healthwise. but at least I'm still here. Roll on 2024!