Out to the hairdresser for an overdue cut. Caught in a shower of actual sleet. Now home and dry and thinking What colour soup? Yesterday was orange (carrot and roasted pepper), before that, green (cabbage and celery). The default is usually beige sludge.
The carrot and roasted pepper soup sounds good, as we happen to have both waiting to be used up. Any other key ingredients we should know about?
Onion, vegetable stock, chillies in some form - the last is optional, I just put them in everything.
Yesterday ended up a greenish white - leek, celery, potato and scallion.
As I've mentioned on the antipodean thread I'm sorry to hear about your brother in law @LatchKeyKid , but good you can get over here to support your sister. I hope the weather picks up soon, as I for one am getting fed up of getting wet every time I go out.
I went out in said miserable weather to visit the re-fill shop and to pick up a few bits from the market and the supermarket. I'm now back home and don't intend to go anywhere for the rest of the day.
Thanks for your thoughts.
We have now moved from our excellent BnB to my sister's house with my sister, and it was her first time back in her house since her husband died.
We have been with her to her granddaughter's 5th birthday party and to a Sunday lunch at a friend of her daughter-in-law.
Apart from one dry day, it has been raining most of the time. Yesterday we visited my longest term friend and his wife in Acton. We went with them to Chiswick House for lunch. It was a long walk in the rain on waterlogged paths from the car park to the restaurant, but it didn't put a dampener on the meet-up.
With this weather, I am glad we decided to upgrade from a manual car to an automatic, especially with some of the narrow and crowded roads.
I recall services in West Africa, either where I had to speak in short precise sentences for interpretation or where the speaker kept switching languages back and forth. Again, nothing electronic.
Great that you're able to support your sister @LatchKeyKid ; I hope she is doing as well as possible in the circumstances.
The sun is out here at present but according to Mr Nen, Official Weather Watcher and Doom Merchant, It Won't Last.
I am At Home this morning and out this afternoon seeing friends for coffee and catch up. More sorting is on the agenda and spending time on the Ship is far more appealing.
Sorry that you not only have a sad reason to be in the UK @LatchKeyKid , but that the weather is being particularly dismal at the moment. My husband used to work in Chiswick when we lived in London, but we never got round to visiting Chiswick House. I hope the meal made up for the wet trudge to the restaurant. @Nenya, hope the end is soon in sight for the sorting and the glitches with the house move have been sorted.
I'm off to cathedral city to the west to see if my audiologist can sort out my hearing aids. I've been having problems with my right aid which I think is due to feedback. Its also an opportunity for a mooch round John Lewis and all the other shops we don't have here.
Dry here and almost brightish, but COLD. Unexpected call from old Belfast friend who is going to swing by later in the afternoon. The chap from Majestic has delivered a case of wine which should keep us going for, oh, days.
Mr F no weel though, with cough and chest pains. A particularly bad night as he didn't follow dr's recommendation for what is effectively laudanum (wine at dinner, morphine before bed).
Went last night to an excellent lecture and discussion on Christianity and Nationalism in a Welsh context. It was delivered in Welsh but with very good simultaneous translation.
Arranged/given by whom? Available online, by any chance?
Another dull, grey day in Arkland the Dismal, where it is - yet again - Raining. To enhance the fun, They are forecasting sleet or even sn*w for Sunday - but Sun-Shine for part of tomorrow! It's already distinctly chillier.
I do sympathise with those of you who have to go out in it, or who are worried about flooding. I'm lucky enough to be able to stay below decks in the warmth of the Dragon, though I'll need to go Shopp Ing tomorrow for CHEESE (and BEER).
January brings the snow, makes your nose and fingers glow;
February's ice and sleet, freeze the toes right off your feet...
Definitely a chill in the air today. A light day here, with the usual admin this morning and recording a tutorial, followed by an afternoon of reading up the next section of my new module. Mr Heavenly apparently has a work quiz night this evening but will join in from home. I think it might be muntjac curry for tea.
Mr F no weel though, with cough and chest pains. A particularly bad night as he didn't follow dr's recommendation for what is effectively laudanum (wine at dinner, morphine before bed).
What a Victorian remedy! Hopefully Mr F will heed the physician's words, and find relief.
Wilkie Collins used laudanum for pain relief, but became so accustomed to it that (it is said) a servant, sampling the same amount as Collins customarily took, died of the overdose...
One of my favourite Victorian books is Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Daisy Chain, where the daughter of one of the characters dies from the doses of laudanum her mother gives her to keep her quiet. Strong stuff that.
It was not only wet but chilly on my trip to the audiologist. Not sure that we’ve solved the problem, which appears to be my ears being annoying, but at least I got them and my aids checked over. I also bought some new underwear in Marks and Spencer and failed to find a small notebook at a sensible price.
My husband is off for a night out for a friend’s birthday. He seems to have struck lucky with the hotel. Not only is it cheap he got given prosecco and a brownie on arrival.
I'm reminded of when the Belfast choir sang Evensong in Trondheim Cathedral and the (superfluous) sermon was delivered in Norwegian and English, alternating sentences.
For some reason, we were seated on backless wooden benches at the West end of the nave, and I can still remember the ache in my back!
A cold but not bad day here, and when I was out at lunchtime there was a mysterious yellow glow in the sky. Mind you, one of the bosses had to go over to North Berwick (on the other side of Edinburgh) this morning, and said he drove through a snowstorm!
If you don't like the weather, just wait for a bit ...
Supper was SCAMPI & CHIPS, because Friday.
Mr Nen helped me sort through some official paperwork of mine this morning - he is much better at organising paperwork than I am and has a much better idea of what needs to be kept and what can be discarded. Accordingly, we put various bank and work-related (it's nearly six years since I was last employed) stuff into the "for shredding" pile and retained a few key documents for our records.
His prophecy about the weather turned out to be correct and it poured with rain for a large part of the afternoon.
Stir fry for tea - which is usually a Saturday meal but we are out tomorrow evening - and starting to catch up on The Night Manager.
Not a great night for either of us. Retrieved Mr F from the sofa about 3 am (he finds it easier to go to sleep sitting up). But then awake myself for hours with a dry throat and ticklish cough, so may have caught something.
I am sorry to hear that @Firenze . I trust you'll be making good use of the Majestic wine delivery; sounds as though that was timely.
This morning the sun shines on Nenland. Mr Nen has gone out for a park run and I'll be heading out for coffee with friends in a bit. Then, an afternoon of more sorting before we are out this evening for a meal with friends. Very much looking forward to that.
We have blue skies and sunshine. It might be chilly, but it does make a change from all the rain of the last week or so. It looks like it’ll be raining again tomorrow, so I’m going for a mooch round town to make the most of the sun.
Hope you both feel better soon @firenze and enjoy what sounds like a very nice day @nenya.
A mostly Sun-Shiny day in Arkland the Calm, albeit with a few Clouds from time to time. No Rain, though, which is something to be thankful for. I see from the Noos that some parts of the country are still being precipitated upon - farmers, gardeners, and thatchers being especially affected.
I did make a quick trip to the village Co-Op around midday, CHEESE and BEER for the purchase of, to avoid having to go out again until Monday - there is Sleet forecast for tomorrow!
Today's good weather will, I hope, have brought people out to Our Place's monthly Cafe & Stalls event. There's not usually a large attendance, but it does bring in some much-needed £££, and gives The Team to meet a few of the local residents who don't ever show their faces in church...
Lunch was Italian today - a Co-Op 'luxury' Lasagne, accompanied by Birra Moretti.
A lovely day here of blue skies and sunshine. We did some pottering in the garden this morning doing odd jobs, cleaning the bird feeders, re-organising the wormery, replacing the pot that the squirrels have knocked over and broken, etc, and making some plans for the garden. Then this afternoon I did some tidying and laundry whilst half watching the Winter Olympics. Currently watching women hurtle downhill on tea trays.
Mr Heavenly bought me some alcohol and sweets, and I bought him a Pink Floyd cat themed t-shirt for work (his company designs pet activity monitors).
Tea will be monkfish with citrus salad for starters and Mr Heavenly is slow cooking some goat for a curry as main course. I’m not sure we have plans for a pudding but there are frangipane tarts around so we could have those with cream. I think we might treat ourselves to a bottle of Ridgeview English sparkling wine.
Today I cleaned the house- having done it ourselves for 14 years we now have a cleaner who comes every other week so we only have to do a quick spruce up between visits.
Tomorrow we will go to the Sung Eucharist at our beloved Cathedral and then on to Sunday lunch at this favourite venue https://thebarnlittlelondon.com/
A very happy MrsBeaky here!
Mooch round town was productive as I bought a notebook for about the tenth of the price than the one I was looking at last week, a nice bottle of wine and a Valentine's card for my husband. Husband come home at about lunchtime and we discovered that we'd bought each other the same card. Not as much of a coincidence as it might have been as we both went to the art shop owned by a friend of ours. I also got a pair of gardening gloves which was a surprise as we don't usually give each other presents and I hadn't bought anything in return.
As the weather was so nice we actually did some gardening this afternoon and two bags of weeds, last years dead growth and next door's willow tree droppings ended up in the brown bin.
Tea tonight was vegan steak and chips with the red wine I'd bought earlier and very nice it was too.
So tired, particularly after failing to get in a nap this afternoon. Tottered through dinner - roast pork with clementine and mustard sauce, roasted carrot and sweetcorn (because just being zonked is no reason to let standards slide).
We used the fine weather this afternoon to go to the garden centre, and bought houseplants. This evening a good concert by the Welsh National Opera orchestra, with an outstanding Lithuanian mezzo-soprano.
Went out to a local - well, technically it's a gastropub, but what it actually is is a disused pub taken over by a guy from southern India whose turned it into a restaurant but kept the beer - including four rotating guest cask ales. No need to make do with Cobra or its ilk.
Southern Indian cuisine is somewhat different to the regular Indian restaurant offering, which is based on the food of the north of the subcontinent.
Yesterday was a fine day for visiting friends in Stretton (between Rugby and Coventry).
Today the day started with the view from my sister's house revealing steam coming from the chimneys of the houses opposite, that I presume are also centrally heated from a kerosene boiler. I wonder if the chimneys, that would once have had hot air going up them, had to be protected from steam condensate from kerosene burning.
Tomorrow we will go into London to see our nephew who went off the road on Christmas Eve and ended up with two broken legs, a broken clavicle, and some other lesser injuries, and is now rehabilitating in his London flat.
Today’s outlook has alternated between heavy rain and giant snowflakes.
Not much happening here. I didn’t fancy a walk outside in the wet so did a tidy of my garden office instead. We haven’t had lunch yet as Mr Heavenly is not dressed and showered, I’m assuming it will be bread and cheese.
Mr Heavenly is on setting up duty later at church so that will be four hours of our day taken (there is coffee, pizza and games after the evening service and we stick around late so he gets a chance to play table tennis with a friend after the youth have gone).
Very wet here. I took my neighbour opposite up on the offer of a lift to church, but walked home, I was rather soggy by the time I got here. The fields by the marina are flooded, but the river isn't over its banks yet, though I imagine it probably will be by the end of the day.
The church was also freezing, and I haven't quite thawed out yet. We're going to do an exercise video in a bit so that should warm me up.
Tea tonight will be a recipe from our recipe box order.
Firenze, hope your cough continues to improve - get as much rest as you can.
After a cold but dry morning, I had contemplated a foray to Tessie's, but by the time I'd put the laundry on, and had brunch and a post-church snoozette, it was pissing with rain, so I abandoned that idea.
I hope you feel better soon @Firenze and that Mr F is ok.
Yesterday evening with our friends was a very lovely occasion.
I've been to the morning service at Our Place, had coffee with friends afterwards and this afternoon has been dedicated to the ongoing sorting and decluttering at Casa Nen. We have roast chicken for tea, washed down with plenty of wine and consumed while watching Countryfile. Our proposed forthcoming house move is to a semi-rural area so it's good to be well-informed .
After a night of Heavy Rain and Strong Winds, we had a morning of Strong Winds and Heavy Rain...but Arkland the Battered is now at least being allowed to dry out a little, and there has (so far) been no Sleet or Sn*w.
It feels noticeably colder, but the Dragon is performing his duties well. Lunch was COD wih MASH n'PEAS, and there is, as usual, CHEESE for later. Also SOUP.
Despite the ravages of half-term, the weather, and the customary winter lurgy, attendance at Our Place was OK this morning, and FatherInCharge hopes that the Faithful will try to continue to be good bunnies as they embrace the austerities of Lent.
I have been fighting a virus for some weeks (as has my wife); generally I've felt OK but have had a persistent cough which has kept me awake at night.
I think that was the reason when, near the end of today's service, I very nearly fainted and had to sit down. I felt hot and dizzy, my wife said that I went very white. Someone took over to announce the final hymn and blessing. Afterwards I was plied with sugary tea and offers to drive me home, but I felt better quite quickly and was able to drive myself (and visit Waitrose on the way).
@Baptist Trainfan you want to be careful. I once fainted in the middle of taking a funeral. One minute I was thinking that I must hold it together and the next they were picking me off the crematorium floor. I had the excuse of being newly pregnant at the time.
No service at my church this morning. I decided not to drive to the other church in the group which had a service as it is accessed by a grass path: given the torrential rain, I really didn’t fancy a trek through the mud.
I was invited to lunch by my son. He cooked roast beef and roast chicken with all the trimmings for both. Eating was a rushed job as grandson had just an hour for his lunch break, but it worked well for me as I had to leave at the same time as him to get back for pre-Evensong choir practice. Small choir today but we still outnumbered the congregation by one.
Small choir today but we still outnumbered the congregation by one.
Funny you should say that, we ringers keep an eye on relative numbers too, and we were kept wondering for a while today before the hardy souls rolled in.
The incessant wet weather must be having an adverse effect on church attendances everywhere. Well done to those who do turn up, and well done to the ringers, too.
Sunny here this morning. I have my book group this evening and will be fed there; I have accordingly plated up a roast chicken meal for Mr Nen (having cooked the most delicious one for our tea yesterday, Domestic Goddess that I am). This leaves the whole afternoon clear for sorting and decluttering. Yippee.
Mooch round town was productive as I bought a notebook for about the tenth of the price than the one I was looking at last week, a nice bottle of wine and a Valentine's card for my husband. Husband come home at about lunchtime and we discovered that we'd bought each other the same card. Not as much of a coincidence as it might have been as we both went to the art shop owned by a friend of ours.
I'm wondering what I would have done if two people I knew bought the same card for each other. Would I say something or keep quiet and smile inwardly?
Back at work today after missing much of last week thanks to a chest infection. I finished the antibiotics this morning and am still coughing a bit but not as much as I was. Youngest Rogueling is also suffering but decided this morning that it isn't serious enough to take to a doctor.
{{thoughts & prayers}} for all those of you lying on Beds of Sickness, so to speak, whether Under the Doctor or not...
A mild day in Arkland the Grateful, with some Sun-Shine mixed in with the Clouds and the occasional shower of Rain. Tess Coe has been braved - it was absolutely heaving (possibly because half-tem) when I went in, but the queues had almost gone by the time I reached the check-out. The cashier was one of the Nice Ladies Who Pack, so that saved me a job - she always evens out the weight of my customary two bags, which is more than I can manage...
DUCK with NOODLES for lunch, after some S&Q in the wheelhouse - the Big Yellow Face is visiting for a while.
Very sunny this morning and quite pleasant but it has since turned cold with bursts of heavy rain. I’ve done the usual Monday emails and admin and then rushed to get some marking done before having to wait inside the house for some parcels this afternoon. Alas, they have just emailed me to say they will arrive in a later window so I could have got some more work done. Sigh. No matter, I will take the opportunity to do some reading for my studies today instead of tomorrow.
Lunch is in the oven, a nice chicken and ham pie.
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Onion, vegetable stock, chillies in some form - the last is optional, I just put them in everything.
Yesterday ended up a greenish white - leek, celery, potato and scallion.
Thanks for your thoughts.
We have now moved from our excellent BnB to my sister's house with my sister, and it was her first time back in her house since her husband died.
We have been with her to her granddaughter's 5th birthday party and to a Sunday lunch at a friend of her daughter-in-law.
Apart from one dry day, it has been raining most of the time. Yesterday we visited my longest term friend and his wife in Acton. We went with them to Chiswick House for lunch. It was a long walk in the rain on waterlogged paths from the car park to the restaurant, but it didn't put a dampener on the meet-up.
With this weather, I am glad we decided to upgrade from a manual car to an automatic, especially with some of the narrow and crowded roads.
The sun is out here at present but according to Mr Nen, Official Weather Watcher and Doom Merchant, It Won't Last.
I am At Home this morning and out this afternoon seeing friends for coffee and catch up. More sorting is on the agenda and spending time on the Ship is far more appealing.
@Nenya, hope the end is soon in sight for the sorting and the glitches with the house move have been sorted.
I'm off to cathedral city to the west to see if my audiologist can sort out my hearing aids. I've been having problems with my right aid which I think is due to feedback. Its also an opportunity for a mooch round John Lewis and all the other shops we don't have here.
Mr F no weel though, with cough and chest pains. A particularly bad night as he didn't follow dr's recommendation for what is effectively laudanum (wine at dinner, morphine before bed).
Arranged/given by whom? Available online, by any chance?
The speaker wrote a good synopsis in "Nation: Cymru" a couple of weeks ago: https://nation.cymru/opinion/christian-nationalisms-unexpected-and-sinister-comeback/
I do sympathise with those of you who have to go out in it, or who are worried about flooding. I'm lucky enough to be able to stay below decks in the warmth of the Dragon, though I'll need to go Shopp Ing tomorrow for CHEESE (and BEER).
January brings the snow, makes your nose and fingers glow;
February's ice and sleet, freeze the toes right off your feet...
Definitely a chill in the air today. A light day here, with the usual admin this morning and recording a tutorial, followed by an afternoon of reading up the next section of my new module. Mr Heavenly apparently has a work quiz night this evening but will join in from home. I think it might be muntjac curry for tea.
What a Victorian remedy! Hopefully Mr F will heed the physician's words, and find relief.
Wilkie Collins used laudanum for pain relief, but became so accustomed to it that (it is said) a servant, sampling the same amount as Collins customarily took, died of the overdose...
It was not only wet but chilly on my trip to the audiologist. Not sure that we’ve solved the problem, which appears to be my ears being annoying, but at least I got them and my aids checked over. I also bought some new underwear in Marks and Spencer and failed to find a small notebook at a sensible price.
My husband is off for a night out for a friend’s birthday. He seems to have struck lucky with the hotel. Not only is it cheap he got given prosecco and a brownie on arrival.
For some reason, we were seated on backless wooden benches at the West end of the nave, and I can still remember the ache in my back!
A cold but not bad day here, and when I was out at lunchtime there was a mysterious yellow glow in the sky. Mind you, one of the bosses had to go over to North Berwick (on the other side of Edinburgh) this morning, and said he drove through a snowstorm!
If you don't like the weather, just wait for a bit ...
Supper was SCAMPI & CHIPS, because Friday.
His prophecy about the weather turned out to be correct and it poured with rain for a large part of the afternoon.
Stir fry for tea - which is usually a Saturday meal but we are out tomorrow evening - and starting to catch up on The Night Manager.
ETA - I hope Mr F is ok, @Firenze .
So do I - my reference to Wilkie Collins and his laudanum wasn't exactly tactful...
This morning the sun shines on Nenland. Mr Nen has gone out for a park run and I'll be heading out for coffee with friends in a bit. Then, an afternoon of more sorting before we are out this evening for a meal with friends. Very much looking forward to that.
Hope you both feel better soon @firenze and enjoy what sounds like a very nice day @nenya.
I will sew - a nice soft denim cross- back apron with colourful binding.
For me, my hands don't work well for some things and tying an apron behind my back is a struggle and I hate asking for help!
I did make a quick trip to the village Co-Op around midday, CHEESE and BEER for the purchase of, to avoid having to go out again until Monday - there is Sleet forecast for tomorrow!
Today's good weather will, I hope, have brought people out to Our Place's monthly Cafe & Stalls event. There's not usually a large attendance, but it does bring in some much-needed £££, and gives The Team to meet a few of the local residents who don't ever show their faces in church...
Lunch was Italian today - a Co-Op 'luxury' Lasagne, accompanied by Birra Moretti.
Mr Heavenly bought me some alcohol and sweets, and I bought him a Pink Floyd cat themed t-shirt for work (his company designs pet activity monitors).
Tea will be monkfish with citrus salad for starters and Mr Heavenly is slow cooking some goat for a curry as main course. I’m not sure we have plans for a pudding but there are frangipane tarts around so we could have those with cream. I think we might treat ourselves to a bottle of Ridgeview English sparkling wine.
Tomorrow we will go to the Sung Eucharist at our beloved Cathedral and then on to Sunday lunch at this favourite venue https://thebarnlittlelondon.com/
A very happy MrsBeaky here!
It was a lovely morning here - blue skies with a yellow ball!
Lazy day though - I always seem zonked by the weekend!
Now contemplating something pasta-related for supper.
As the weather was so nice we actually did some gardening this afternoon and two bags of weeds, last years dead growth and next door's willow tree droppings ended up in the brown bin.
Tea tonight was vegan steak and chips with the red wine I'd bought earlier and very nice it was too.
Southern Indian cuisine is somewhat different to the regular Indian restaurant offering, which is based on the food of the north of the subcontinent.
Doubt if the Wales/France match will offer anything to rival yesterday's stoaters, so back to watching people slide off things.
Grilled, spiced mackerel for dinner.
Today the day started with the view from my sister's house revealing steam coming from the chimneys of the houses opposite, that I presume are also centrally heated from a kerosene boiler. I wonder if the chimneys, that would once have had hot air going up them, had to be protected from steam condensate from kerosene burning.
Tomorrow we will go into London to see our nephew who went off the road on Christmas Eve and ended up with two broken legs, a broken clavicle, and some other lesser injuries, and is now rehabilitating in his London flat.
Not much happening here. I didn’t fancy a walk outside in the wet so did a tidy of my garden office instead. We haven’t had lunch yet as Mr Heavenly is not dressed and showered, I’m assuming it will be bread and cheese.
Mr Heavenly is on setting up duty later at church so that will be four hours of our day taken (there is coffee, pizza and games after the evening service and we stick around late so he gets a chance to play table tennis with a friend after the youth have gone).
The church was also freezing, and I haven't quite thawed out yet. We're going to do an exercise video in a bit so that should warm me up.
Tea tonight will be a recipe from our recipe box order.
After a cold but dry morning, I had contemplated a foray to Tessie's, but by the time I'd put the laundry on, and had brunch and a post-church snoozette, it was pissing with rain, so I abandoned that idea.
Supper will be a duck breast with veggies.
Yesterday evening with our friends was a very lovely occasion.
I've been to the morning service at Our Place, had coffee with friends afterwards and this afternoon has been dedicated to the ongoing sorting and decluttering at Casa Nen. We have roast chicken for tea, washed down with plenty of wine and consumed while watching Countryfile. Our proposed forthcoming house move is to a semi-rural area so it's good to be well-informed
It feels noticeably colder, but the Dragon is performing his duties well. Lunch was COD wih MASH n'PEAS, and there is, as usual, CHEESE for later. Also SOUP.
Despite the ravages of half-term, the weather, and the customary winter lurgy, attendance at Our Place was OK this morning, and FatherInCharge hopes that the Faithful will try to continue to be good bunnies as they embrace the austerities of Lent.
I think that was the reason when, near the end of today's service, I very nearly fainted and had to sit down. I felt hot and dizzy, my wife said that I went very white. Someone took over to announce the final hymn and blessing. Afterwards I was plied with sugary tea and offers to drive me home, but I felt better quite quickly and was able to drive myself (and visit Waitrose on the way).
Poor you!
I was invited to lunch by my son. He cooked roast beef and roast chicken with all the trimmings for both. Eating was a rushed job as grandson had just an hour for his lunch break, but it worked well for me as I had to leave at the same time as him to get back for pre-Evensong choir practice. Small choir today but we still outnumbered the congregation by one.
Funny you should say that, we ringers keep an eye on relative numbers too, and we were kept wondering for a while today before the hardy souls rolled in.
Sunny here this morning. I have my book group this evening and will be fed there; I have accordingly plated up a roast chicken meal for Mr Nen (having cooked the most delicious one for our tea yesterday, Domestic Goddess that I am). This leaves the whole afternoon clear for sorting and decluttering. Yippee.
I'm wondering what I would have done if two people I knew bought the same card for each other. Would I say something or keep quiet and smile inwardly?
Back at work today after missing much of last week thanks to a chest infection. I finished the antibiotics this morning and am still coughing a bit but not as much as I was. Youngest Rogueling is also suffering but decided this morning that it isn't serious enough to take to a doctor.
A mild day in Arkland the Grateful, with some Sun-Shine mixed in with the Clouds and the occasional shower of Rain. Tess Coe has been braved - it was absolutely heaving (possibly because half-tem) when I went in, but the queues had almost gone by the time I reached the check-out. The cashier was one of the Nice Ladies Who Pack, so that saved me a job - she always evens out the weight of my customary two bags, which is more than I can manage...
DUCK with NOODLES for lunch, after some S&Q in the wheelhouse - the Big Yellow Face is visiting for a while.
Very sunny this morning and quite pleasant but it has since turned cold with bursts of heavy rain. I’ve done the usual Monday emails and admin and then rushed to get some marking done before having to wait inside the house for some parcels this afternoon. Alas, they have just emailed me to say they will arrive in a later window so I could have got some more work done. Sigh. No matter, I will take the opportunity to do some reading for my studies today instead of tomorrow.
Lunch is in the oven, a nice chicken and ham pie.