Sorry, Dove, I meant to comment on your lovely photo. Great colours.
Also I meant to say DD, how noticeable it is see Charlie growing up. 👏👏
We are watching a programme about looking for King Solomon’s mines. Interesting but annoying. Both of us studied Archaeology at Uni. Our comments are turning the air blue. 🤬🤬
Thank you guys. I am fine with only the tiniest blu on the knee and none on the shoulder. Going back to Lux today, not looking forward to the 6 hours' in the coach. Our neighbour is picking us up, so that's great.
I have had an invitation for Christmas Eve, don't really want to go, my own silly fault for spilling the beans about being just the two of us. A nice problem to have.
Charlie looks good @D0rdogne_Damsel. I will choose my cake after punkdoc has chosen his.
Hats off to you @Nanny Beach for your determination and getting in all that exercise. We walked into town last night for the two concerts we were going to (a 10-min walk) but OH had to stop twice to catch his breath.
The concerts were magical but I'm guessing 6pm on a Sunday is not a good time for people as our opera singer's audience in the catholic church was very small - and I suspect mostly the church's congregation. The medieval instrumentalists, in the big church, had a larger audience. They were fabulous.
We have to go to the SM this afternoon - oil, dishwasher salt, tin foil, that sort of thing.
Glad you have had a cooker diagnosis @Dovefromabove - hope the new fan arrives this week!
Charlie looks very smart @D0rdogne_Damsel - and all those cakes! If I were you - I'd have Boxing Day off and just relax. We normally have the family to us for Boxing Day, having spent Christmas Day with them, but this year the girls have things to do, so it is being deferred for a day, which gives us a day off and me more time to prep the big hearty soup I always make for it, and the special pud I always like to make. Might try Mary Berry's meringue wreath this year.
Charlie looks very smart @D0rdogne_Damsel, and your cakes and pastries look delicious 😁.
What a gorgeous sunrise @Dovefromabove. I hope it didn’t bring rain, though.
We had an enjoyable afternoon at the Panto yesterday. There was a school party there and they helped to make it even more fun simply by their enthusiasm and participation.
OH had his stitches out this afternoon, and his hand is healing well 👍🏼. He’s to leave it uncovered unless he’s going to be doing any work that might get it dirty, then he has to cover it up. He’s glad to be rid of the bulky bandage.
Morning all, we saw that orange glow in your sky from here @Dovefromabove when we woke up but it's disappeared now. Hope your cooker fan gets mended soon.
Didn't know that electric gates can freeze @Busy-Lizzie, what do you do in weeks of freezing weather? I'd better tell the neighbours, they are contemplating a big electric gate.
Smashing looking cakes @D0rdogne_Damsel, I'd kill for any one of those right now! There's something about young lads in their first suits that brings quite a lump to one's throat, isn't there. My grandson has also got the floppy fringe! I'm looking forward to seeing him and his sister but I bet they've grown by a few more inches. They are already much taller than me.
@coccinella, hope the coach journey is bearable. Good that your knee is getting better after the fall.
Oops, looks like I forgot to post the above earlier.
Glad your OH's hand is healing well @Red maple and that you enjoyed the concerts @didyw.
Had a disastrous morning trying to replant a rose, got half way through and it rained heavily, then accidentally snapped the main stem at the graft point whilst digging up. Have just ordered a replacement rose as my Xmas presie to myself!
What a lovely photo, @Dovefromabove. We also woke to an amazing pinky red sky, quite stunning with the remains of the autumn leaves on the trees. I tried to take a picture but the iPad camera didn’t register the colours.
Isnt Charlie a gorgeous young man, @D0rdogne_Damsel! I had to laugh at the fringe, my grandson has one just like it! I asked him whether it got in the way when he was playing rugby, and he said he just blows it upwards and it stays in place! It seemed to work too, as he successfully demonstrated!
We’ve invited a neighbour round for afternoon tea tomorrow, so that will be an incentive to finish straightening up the living room. OH has finally got round to hanging a few pictures that have been sitting around waiting for a decision on where to put them.
This weeks task is to restrict our eating to stuff from the freezer. I need to free up some space for any Christmas prep later in the week. I’ve also remembered to start making ice cubes. Not something we use very often, but my son in law is very good at mixing cocktails, so I’m freezing a tray at a time, and transferring them to bags ready for the weekend. Is there a shortage of pineapple juice that I don’t know about? I usually like to have some in for the aforementioned cocktails, but I haven’t seen it for ages.
What I’d like now is one of those chocolate cup cakes, or several! And if those others are coffee and walnut, could I please have one of those for OH, @D0rdogne_Damsel?
The gate had defrosted in the sun by the time I was ready to go out. I have a funny little rubber key that I can open it with manually. There is also a door in the wall to the front garden.
I went to the SM then I did some Christmas shopping for the family.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
A friend in Spain has an electric gate on her drive, and the area she lives in is very prone to power cuts. She has a manual handle thingy to open the gate when there is no power, but has learnt to keep a torch in the car, as it isn’t much fun when she comes home I need the dark. One thing I have learnt from that is to always take the front door key from the inside of the door and transfer it to the car before we go out. We tend to get into the car in the garage before driving out, and close the garage door with the remote. It did occur to me that if we came home during a power cut, and were relying on getting into the house via the garage, we might get a bit of a shock. Especially if I had left the key inside the lock.
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We are watching a programme about looking for King Solomon’s mines. Interesting but annoying. Both of us studied Archaeology at Uni. Our comments are turning the air blue. 🤬🤬
Thank you guys. I am fine with only the tiniest blu on the knee and none on the shoulder. Going back to Lux today, not looking forward to the 6 hours' in the coach. Our neighbour is picking us up, so that's great.
I have had an invitation for Christmas Eve, don't really want to go, my own silly fault for spilling the beans about being just the two of us. A nice problem to have.
Charlie looks good @D0rdogne_Damsel. I will choose my cake after punkdoc has chosen his.
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The concerts were magical but I'm guessing 6pm on a Sunday is not a good time for people as our opera singer's audience in the catholic church was very small - and I suspect mostly the church's congregation. The medieval instrumentalists, in the big church, had a larger audience. They were fabulous.
We have to go to the SM this afternoon - oil, dishwasher salt, tin foil, that sort of thing.
Glad you have had a cooker diagnosis @Dovefromabove - hope the new fan arrives this week!
Charlie looks very smart @D0rdogne_Damsel - and all those cakes! If I were you - I'd have Boxing Day off and just relax. We normally have the family to us for Boxing Day, having spent Christmas Day with them, but this year the girls have things to do, so it is being deferred for a day, which gives us a day off and me more time to prep the big hearty soup I always make for it, and the special pud I always like to make. Might try Mary Berry's meringue wreath this year.
Charlie looks very smart @D0rdogne_Damsel, and your cakes and pastries look delicious 😁.
What a gorgeous sunrise @Dovefromabove. I hope it didn’t bring rain, though.
We had an enjoyable afternoon at the Panto yesterday. There was a school party there and they helped to make it even more fun simply by their enthusiasm and participation.
OH had his stitches out this afternoon, and his hand is healing well 👍🏼. He’s to leave it uncovered unless he’s going to be doing any work that might get it dirty, then he has to cover it up. He’s glad to be rid of the bulky bandage.
Didn't know that electric gates can freeze @Busy-Lizzie, what do you do in weeks of freezing weather? I'd better tell the neighbours, they are contemplating a big electric gate.
Smashing looking cakes @D0rdogne_Damsel, I'd kill for any one of those right now!
There's something about young lads in their first suits that brings quite a lump to one's throat, isn't there. My grandson has also got the floppy fringe! I'm looking forward to seeing him and his sister but I bet they've grown by a few more inches. They are already much taller than me.
@coccinella, hope the coach journey is bearable. Good that your knee is getting better after the fall.
Oops, looks like I forgot to post the above earlier.
Glad your OH's hand is healing well @Red maple and that you enjoyed the concerts
@didyw.
Had a disastrous morning trying to replant a rose, got half way through and it rained heavily, then accidentally snapped the main stem at the graft point whilst digging up.
Have just ordered a replacement rose as my Xmas presie to myself!
Isnt Charlie a gorgeous young man, @D0rdogne_Damsel! I had to laugh at the fringe, my grandson has one just like it! I asked him whether it got in the way when he was playing rugby, and he said he just blows it upwards and it stays in place! It seemed to work too, as he successfully demonstrated!
We’ve invited a neighbour round for afternoon tea tomorrow, so that will be an incentive to finish straightening up the living room. OH has finally got round to hanging a few pictures that have been sitting around waiting for a decision on where to put them.
This weeks task is to restrict our eating to stuff from the freezer. I need to free up some space for any Christmas prep later in the week. I’ve also remembered to start making ice cubes. Not something we use very often, but my son in law is very good at mixing cocktails, so I’m freezing a tray at a time, and transferring them to bags ready for the weekend. Is there a shortage of pineapple juice that I don’t know about? I usually like to have some in for the aforementioned cocktails, but I haven’t seen it for ages.
What I’d like now is one of those chocolate cup cakes, or several! And if those others are coffee and walnut, could I please have one of those for OH, @D0rdogne_Damsel?
I went to the SM then I did some Christmas shopping for the family.
One thing I have learnt from that is to always take the front door key from the inside of the door and transfer it to the car before we go out. We tend to get into the car in the garage before driving out, and close the garage door with the remote. It did occur to me that if we came home during a power cut, and were relying on getting into the house via the garage, we might get a bit of a shock. Especially if I had left the key inside the lock.