I have two spare wire kits for hubby to make another couple of fairies for the garden. It amazes me how many people have seen the stainless steel dandelions and then asked if I grew them and what I am feeding them on.
Evening all. Seven shades of s***e out there just now! Been horrible all afternoon but getting worse. Rarely been more than three or four degrees today. Two when I got home. Cold wind so it's sub zero. Been getting too used to that dry 'southern' weather we've had in November and early December
I've had a cuppa and a gingerbread biscuit to keep my strength up though.....
Hope I don't have to go and collect daughter as she's gone out with her friends to the cinema
Like the giraffe/heffalump thing. Very clever
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just back from our SM raid and have put it all away including a shoulder of lamb now marinating in garlic, olive oil and rosemary ready for a long, slow cook for Xmas Eve. One of Possum's favourite meals.
12C and grey as we set off at 2:30 but blue skies and 10C by the time we finished and no horrible hordes tho a few more people than usual. We even managed a quiet raid on a DIY shop for a new outside extension lead for OH's new toy - a dooberry that projects lights onto the house walls. No external sockets yet and I don't want to make holes in the rendered walls for screws to attach our usual outside lights.
Now to finish the tree and hang tapestry in the living room and maybe some other pics - useful for stringing more lights - and then we can start the big clean before the rest of the decs go up.
Love the look of those sausage rolls Dove. Will have to make some for Boxing Day.
Clari - pork and stuffing sounds good to me.
I looked for a pork or ham hock so I could do a terrine with pistachios but there were none in today so it'll be a fish terrine with whole prawns down the middle.
No marrow bones either so doggies are getting a piece of veal with a marrow bone in the middle for their Xmas treat. Kittens are still on kitten food and have more than doubled in weight. Cat flu gone now but i'm still steaming Cosmos once a day as he still sneezes.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I wish you and your family a lovely first Christmas and New Year in your new home. Hope you have a lovely, peaceful time
Clari - I'd be eating the entire contents of your fridge and cupboards to keep warm over the next few days. Your OH can fend for himself!
I'm trying to be cheery as I've been doing a litle more research re the memorial on my walk the other day. I've been extremely moved by it - perhaps because my oldest daughter was born a few months before the young lad, and my other daughter's almost the age when he died. He had been staying at the Clova Hotel in November 2014 with his family, and went for a run up round Loch Brandy, as he'd often done before. His father raised the alarm when he didn't return a couple of hours later, and he was eventually found the next day. Howling winds, poor visibility and minus 11 temps made the search for him almost impossible and, as he was only intending being out for a fairly short run round the loch, he wasn't equipped to survive the night. Over 240 people helped search for him.
We really never know what's round the corner, do we?
And then Simon Mayo played The Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith so the tears were running down my face. Hopeless old mare....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It wasn't too bad this morning. In relative terms.
Lovely sunny morning but rain before I headed home. Some cheese and biscuits then I gave in and headed for a siesta. I KNOW I SHOULDN'T!!!!!
One customer , around 60 ish , said, " there's me, my husband and his mother. We're coming in here at 4 on Christmas eve and we're just going to buy whatever you have reduced. We're quite excited by it" I suggested it sounded good fun , " planned spontaneity" .
1.30 - 9.15 tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to it.
Batten down the hatches you " up North" folks and keep warm. Pat, keep cool. 32 sounds like heaven and no need for air con. Roll on The Gambia where 33 is the norm for January. Can't wait.
Phew... done the food shop! I braced myself but it was surprisingly quiet?
Still don't feel very festive though. Difficult when my day job involves looking after people who are having the worst Christmas ever... makes me grateful though.
My plan is to find something Christmassy on TV, put some pressies under tree and crack open a bottle of something... just to try
No pork pies made. I've spent the evening scrubbing the house and few carpets we still have as someone with four small feet snuck in lots of poo prints across the entire house that his lordship didn't notice.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIZ3EsE7CI
a better one
also crab into man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6Xx3CQC-8
Amazing how the brain interprets a few lines.
I have two spare wire kits for hubby to make another couple of fairies for the garden. It amazes me how many people have seen the stainless steel dandelions and then asked if I grew them and what I am feeding them on.
Dove; if you make too many I'm sure there will be a queue to rehome them!
All the mince pies have gone... again. I'm not sure if it is wise to make anymore! Can you overdose on mince pies?
I am however trying to decide whether pork and stuffing would make a good pork pie filler. Any thoughts?
Home now and his lordship will be out til late; fortunately I have a huge fish pie to scoff so I am quite content.
Evening all. Seven shades of s***e out there just now! Been horrible all afternoon but getting worse. Rarely been more than three or four degrees today. Two when I got home. Cold wind so it's sub zero. Been getting too used to that dry 'southern' weather we've had in November and early December
I've had a cuppa and a gingerbread biscuit to keep my strength up though.....
Hope I don't have to go and collect daughter as she's gone out with her friends to the cinema
Like the giraffe/heffalump thing. Very clever
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just back from our SM raid and have put it all away including a shoulder of lamb now marinating in garlic, olive oil and rosemary ready for a long, slow cook for Xmas Eve. One of Possum's favourite meals.
12C and grey as we set off at 2:30 but blue skies and 10C by the time we finished and no horrible hordes tho a few more people than usual. We even managed a quiet raid on a DIY shop for a new outside extension lead for OH's new toy - a dooberry that projects lights onto the house walls. No external sockets yet and I don't want to make holes in the rendered walls for screws to attach our usual outside lights.
Now to finish the tree and hang tapestry in the living room and maybe some other pics - useful for stringing more lights - and then we can start the big clean before the rest of the decs go up.
Love the look of those sausage rolls Dove. Will have to make some for Boxing Day.
Clari - pork and stuffing sounds good to me.
I looked for a pork or ham hock so I could do a terrine with pistachios but there were none in today so it'll be a fish terrine with whole prawns down the middle.
No marrow bones either so doggies are getting a piece of veal with a marrow bone in the middle for their Xmas treat. Kittens are still on kitten food and have more than doubled in weight. Cat flu gone now but i'm still steaming Cosmos once a day as he still sneezes.
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You're very organised obelixx
I wish you and your family a lovely first Christmas and New Year in your new home. Hope you have a lovely, peaceful time
Clari - I'd be eating the entire contents of your fridge and cupboards to keep warm over the next few days. Your OH can fend for himself!
I'm trying to be cheery as I've been doing a litle more research re the memorial on my walk the other day. I've been extremely moved by it - perhaps because my oldest daughter was born a few months before the young lad, and my other daughter's almost the age when he died. He had been staying at the Clova Hotel in November 2014 with his family, and went for a run up round Loch Brandy, as he'd often done before. His father raised the alarm when he didn't return a couple of hours later, and he was eventually found the next day. Howling winds, poor visibility and minus 11 temps made the search for him almost impossible and, as he was only intending being out for a fairly short run round the loch, he wasn't equipped to survive the night. Over 240 people helped search for him.
We really never know what's round the corner, do we?
And then Simon Mayo played The Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith so the tears were running down my face. Hopeless old mare....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening all.
It wasn't too bad this morning. In relative terms.
Lovely sunny morning but rain before I headed home. Some cheese and biscuits then I gave in and headed for a siesta. I KNOW I SHOULDN'T!!!!!
One customer , around 60 ish , said, " there's me, my husband and his mother. We're coming in here at 4 on Christmas eve and we're just going to buy whatever you have reduced. We're quite excited by it" I suggested it sounded good fun , " planned spontaneity" .
1.30 - 9.15 tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to it.
Batten down the hatches you " up North" folks and keep warm. Pat, keep cool. 32 sounds like heaven and no need for air con. Roll on The Gambia where 33 is the norm for January. Can't wait.
Phew... done the food shop! I braced myself but it was surprisingly quiet?
Still don't feel very festive though. Difficult when my day job involves looking after people who are having the worst Christmas ever... makes me grateful though.
My plan is to find something Christmassy on TV, put some pressies under tree and crack open a bottle of something... just to try
No pork pies made. I've spent the evening scrubbing the house and few carpets we still have as someone with four small feet snuck in lots of poo prints across the entire house that his lordship didn't notice.
Still at least it kept me warm.
Clari -
There are more pleasant, less strenuous ways to keep warm. Any chance of heating for New Year?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.