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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Afternoon all.  Am working up the courage to go outside to see if my car will start after all this time.  If it does, we shall have to take it for a drive.  I would rather stay in with my book - but we do need some shopping.  Fingers crossed it will start.

    Sorry to hear that you and Moira now have covid @punkdoc - that's rotten luck.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you @Badly_Maintained.   

    Friends are coming to dinner tonight so I will be cooking this afternoon. Have tidied up a bit.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AnnaBAnnaB Posts: 524
    Hugs to Mr. & Mrs @punkdoc, hopefully you will both recover soon, but do take it very easy, plenty of rest, long covid is horrendous and totally debilitating, not something you need punkdoc with your possible op coming up.
    Safe journey home @Hostafan1 hope you will soon be able to get your house warmed up with the new heating system.
    Enjoy your evening with your friends @Busy-Lizzie, are you cooking something special?
    Glad you hear your OH's op went well @Red maple, and sending best wishes to @Lizzie27's brother, hope he will be able to come home very soon, it has been rather a long time hasn't it?
    As usual I'll say stay safe and warm folks.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    edited December 2023
    Just having a break.
    @AnnaB we are having salmon and leek tarts then slow cooked lamb shoulder with rosemary, with roast potatoes, sugar snap peas, Savoy cabbage and gravy. Pud is strawberry Tiramisu. We had those 1st and 3rd courses with other friends in the autumn and they were well received so I thought I'd do them again.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Sounds very moreish @Busy-Lizzie, sure you will all enjoy it. We're just having a vegetarian quiche here as I feel lazy today. Enjoyed my pedicure this morning, did a bit of shopping with OH (it's very convenient as his barber's just across the road from my beauty salon).

    @AnnaB, sorry I didn't perhaps make it clearer, I've got two brothers and it's the eldest stuck in hospital this time. He is hoping to arrange private respite care tomorrow as the NHS care package doesn't seem to be forthcoming.

    Hope Hostafan has a good trip home.

    Those window stickers seem to work @Badly_Maintained, we don't get half so many 'hits' as last year.

    Did the car start @didyw? Hope so.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • RIP Denny Laine … I loved his voice 😢 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Good evening all,

    Sounds like a lovely dinner @Busy-Lizzie

    Hope the car started @didyw.

    Safe trip @Hostafan1, think you'll need a good sleep when you get home. Hope the cold isn't too much of a shock to the system. 

    Hope all the poorly people start to feel better.

    My friend in the UK has just informed me her (elderly) husband has Covid following on from a bad cold and chest infection, I am really hoping he gets better soon. 

    I've been busy making Mince Pies and marzipan-ing Xmas cakes today, a lot of orders coming through now, a bit later than normal, but all good. 

    We are hosting a Christmas Wreath making Workshop on Monday, quite a few signed up, then an English Club Christmas Lunch on Tuesday for 50 people and a Kids Christmas Cupcake Workshop on Wednesday, so yes, keeping busy at CdeG. 

    Charlie is competing in a Regional Cross Country Running Competition tomorrow, fighting for a place in the Nationals, he was 4th last week in the departmentals, but the competition is really fierce in this next level so I am not sure he will get through. Of course I would like him to, but I am ever so slightly conscious that it is something that might distract him from more serious studies and I am not sure I want that for him. He would have such a slim chance of succeeding and he is really quite gifted academically, it would be a shame to risk losing getting a place at a good uni for the sake of a chasing a dream to run for his country...  Hopefully he will be able to find a balance between the two, we'll see. 

    I have a bizarre situation to deal with tomorrow, hoping I can come out of it with my self respect in tact and hope not to offend anyone. I have a plumber coming to fix my toilet and a DJ coming to discuss my birthday party requirements in January, both at the same time. Both of them were until very recently men, both of them have very recently decided they should have been women, born into the wrong body....they have contacted each other for support, they both know they are meeting at my house and have asked me to have a drink with them at the local pub afterwards. I absolutely understand their own personal reasons for doing what they are doing, but I also know both of their previous partners and know how hurt they feel by this change in circumstances, betrayal, anger, confusion, it's all there. I am very torn, it is an enormous thing these chaps have chosen to do, they really must be totally convinced it's the right thing but the car crash of emotions they have left behind is hard to ignore. The plumber has 3 young children he has left. Gosh, sometimes life is truly complicated. Hopefully we can chat about it all over a drink and I can explain how as much as I feel for them I also feel sad for their ex-partners/family members.  Desperately trying to be open minded about the whole thing but it is a stretch. One can only hope everyone is able to find happiness as they move forward. 

    Sorry, rambled on and on again about my issues, good night to all and very best wishes to everyone, we are all dealing with something. xx

    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Golly, good luck with that one @D0rdogne_Damsel. I wouldn't have thought you are under any obligation to mix with them socially and it might be easier to keep it strictly business. Invent a headache perhaps?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    edited December 2023
    @Busy-Lizzie, bet that meal tasted as good as it sounds! Wish I was having dinner with you tonight!
    @D0rdogne_Damsel, don’t envy you that situation at all. Very awkward. However, I expect that you won’t be able to go to the pub with your plumber and DJ ( and it probably wouldn’t be a good idea anyway, best not to mix business with pleasure ) because you need to stay home for a long telephone / zoom chat with Charlie after he has finished his cross country running competition! That would sound perfectly plausible to me.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Thanks everyone - the car did start!  So to give it a bit of a spin we drove to the next town and back and stopped at the farm shop on the way back to order our Christmas turkey.

    So sad to hear about Denny Laine. Say You Don't Mind is one of my all time favourite songs.

    Oh @D0rdogne_Damsel - what a tricky situation they have put you in.  There is no need for you to prove how open-minded you are, to them or anyone else and I would avoid attempts by them to draw you in to the drama of it all.  Perhaps you will find yourself far too busy with all your orders to be able to take time off to go to the pub.

    As for Charlie - it sounds to me like that young man can succeed no matter what and not the sort who would let his studies suffer.  But it is good that you are keeping a firm parental eye on him.

    Sounds like you were cooking up a storm there @Busy-Lizzie!  We had cauliflower cheese for supper and a bar of chocolate from the farm shop for pudding. 
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
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