Apologies for intruding, but my wife and I will be in England for parts of May and June. We have people to visit in Sevenoaks, a village between Rugby and Coventry, St David's, Nottingham (Southwell), and Sheffield. The Trainfan people have said it is doable by train, but a car would make it easier for taking our luggage.
So far I have found hire car places only in large cities. Do you have any information that could help me. I haven't lived in England since 1978 and there must have been lots of changes since then.
Sevenoaks and Sheffield are certainly easily reached by train! A car would make life a bit simpler, though, for at least part of your stay, and the airport is probably the easiest place at which to hire one - my sister finds it so, when she visits from France.
Another day of hazy Sun Shine in Arkland the Dusty, and today's morning Task has been a trip to Tess Coe. There are still no Pilchards - maybe the species has become extinct? Or has Trump frightened them away?
This afternoon's Task is to carry out a small repair to the ceiling of the Ark's saloon, where a section of tongue-and-groove has come loose. Boats flex slightly, and I have a Cunning Plan to keep the loose plank in place, but still allow it to move laterally (only a few millimetres or so) when it wants to.
Lunch is a good ol'Tess Coe ready meal of Braised Beef, Mash, and Carrots.
We've had some rain in the night but it's supposed to be Turning Out Nice Later, with the highest temperatures of the year so far. It doesn't look or feel much like that at present.
Ditto. I've just come back from taking a Primary School Assembly. And we're having a new front door fitted.
What an important and lovely ministry that must be
The end of term has arrived - phew!!
I'm cooking chips and southern fried chicken, I've got some 50s rock n roll blasting (fats domino) and a homebrewed ale on the go.
Off to collect the middle twanglet from uni at the nearby-ish (couple of hours drive) city tomorrow.
@LatchKeyKid - you're not intruding at all - you'll be most welcome. Sorry I'm a bit far north to be involved in a meet, but I hope you and Mrs LKK have a lovely time!
It's been a good bit cooler in West Lothian today; unlike @Sarasa I'm not quite out of warm clothes yet.
The sun has come out though, and there may well be a decent sunset later.
F&C for supper (the F was a bit mean, imho, compared to their usual portion sizes )
We've had some rain in the night but it's supposed to be Turning Out Nice Later, with the highest temperatures of the year so far. It doesn't look or feel much like that at present.
Ditto. I've just come back from taking a Primary School Assembly. And we're having a new front door fitted.
What an important and lovely ministry that must be
Indeed.
Our Place's FatherInCharge takes an assembly at the local infant/primary school about once a term, and sets great store by it.
In other news - we have tadpoles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(not overexcited. Much.)
As long as they're not in the living room.
Bit grey and nippy here. I spent the morning in the continual redding out of the craft room (anyone want two stacks this high of knitting magazines/books?).
I've reduced the fabric stash to two boxes, the yarn to one. There's a wooden box of sewing kit, and a basket of craft sundries. There's beads need to be sorted, but are unlikely to drop below one storage box and two baskets.
One shelf of the bookcase is paints, brushes, sketchbooks, pencils etc. Another is blank and semi-blank notebooks plus stationery sundries. Another basket is candles, incense and holders. That leaves oddments, like carnival masks, keyrings, watches, gonks, jewellery stands (from when I always wore earrings).
Just back from the funeral for my friend T. A very nice service with both his children and his brother speaking about his life, some lovely memories from a friend and a a F(f)riend talking about what his Quaker faith meant to him. Then back to his house, scene of many parties, for wine, food and reminiscences. Very odd to meet up with an old boyfriend I haven't seen since about 1983.
Firenze, I have just thrown a huge pile of old sewing and crochet books out today. Alas, my fabric pile is several shelves worth in my new office and we haven’t got round to moving the yarn yet. But the office move, coupled with end of term in less than 2 months, means I might get the opportunity to do some sewing and spinning again soon.
Last night I went (online) to the inaugural lecture of a colleague who is now one of only 74 black women professors in the UK. A great occasion and a very good presentation on decolonising higher education.
A slow day, this morning I did admin and then did an extra task as reviewer of a new disability toolkit for tutors. This afternoon I did my own study on health in the early modern period (diet and sleep). Then some tidying this evening as tomorrow we are driving to York for lunch with the Master Heavenlys and then bringing home Master Heavenly the Younger and his girlfriend who are visiting for a couple of days.
Lovely sunshine today, but very cold in windy spots. @Sarasa you are brave to ditch your winter clothes.
French group this afternoon provided stimulating conversation, as we were asked whether we would make different decisions, if we had our time over again.
This evening was the last of our four Lenten Celtic Communions. The liturgy has been the same each week, but we have had readings from Stephen Cottrell’s book The Things He Did. Tonight’s theme was the Last Supper. There were eleven of us. Each week our priest has made a ‘ display’ on the floor in front of the (makeshift, because not using the nave or chancel) communion table. This evening, obviously, there were grapes and a home made loaf of bread. It was extremely moving.
We've had some rain in the night but it's supposed to be Turning Out Nice Later, with the highest temperatures of the year so far. It doesn't look or feel much like that at present.
Ditto. I've just come back from taking a Primary School Assembly. And we're having a new front door fitted.
What an important and lovely ministry that must be
Indeed.
Our Place's FatherInCharge takes an assembly at the local infant/primary school about once a term, and sets great store by it.
I do it about twice a term and love it. This is an ordinary school, very near our church building - the Ministry Area clergy take assemblies in the local CinW schools and I wouldn't dream of intruding. On Monday I'm running a class on "What Christians believe about Creation" and tbh I'm quite nervous about it.
I like sardines (especially the big Portuguese ones, cooked on a barbecue) but not pilchards!
Apologies for intruding, but my wife and I will be in England for parts of May and June. We have people to visit in Sevenoaks, a village between Rugby and Coventry, St David's, Nottingham (Southwell), and Sheffield. The Trainfan people have said it is doable by train, but a car would make it easier for taking our luggage.
So far I have found hire car places only in large cities. Do you have any information that could help me. I haven't lived in England since 1978 and there must have been lots of changes since then.
One thing that hasn't changed is that we still drive on the left.
That suits me. Oz and Japan are where I've driven in the last few years.
Sevenoaks and Sheffield are certainly easily reached by train! A car would make life a bit simpler, though, for at least part of your stay, and the airport is probably the easiest place at which to hire one - my sister finds it so, when she visits from France.
We are arriving from Trieste via Milan and Paris by three train journeys to St Pancras, so I don't think an airport is a convenient pick-up place, though it would be a convenient drop-off for our return home.
At the moment it would seem that car pick up would be after leaving Reading, Sevenoaks, or Sheffield.
The journey from Sheffield to Southwell requires a car.
@Sarasa , I hope you had good shared reminiscences of your friend T.
We’ve used Enterprise who seem to have been fine. They have rental places in Sevenoaks, Reading and Sheffield, and offer the option (for a fee) to return the vehicle to a different location.
We’ve used Enterprise who seem to have been fine. They have rental places in Sevenoaks, Reading and Sheffield, and offer the option (for a fee) to return the vehicle to a different location.
That's really excellent and helpful. I will follow that up.
Surely no-one in their right mind would want to drive out of London? I would have thought it would be better to pick the first point at which the connection can't be made by rail and pick up a car from there?
Spring has gone AWOL for the moment and it's back to cold, grey and breezy.
Nevertheless I have unboxed the plants that came in the post yesterday - a clematis and a patio rose - and left them out beside a tray of dianthus and a couple of pots of trailing petunia, for when the temperature goes back to double figures.
The rest of day will be spent in the warm, probably knitting.
Surely no-one in their right mind would want to drive out of London? I would have thought it would be better to pick the first point at which the connection can't be made by rail and pick up a car from there?
I agree.
St Pancras isn't so practical for our itinerary.
Two nights London
Two nights with friend in Acton
Two nights with friend in Reading
Two nights in Sheffield
So Sheffield seems the place to hire a car and go to Southwell or else hire in Reading.
There is an Enterprise in Newark (my town) and it isn't too far from there to the mainline station where it take 90 minutes of less back to London. You can also get to Sheffield from there but need to change at Doncaster.
The usual dry, windy, Sun-Shiny day in Arkland the Dusty.
Today's Task was to remove the Dragon's chimney cap/cowl, ready for Neighbour S to bring along his flue brushes tomorrow - he's kindly offered to wield the said brushes, working from the top, whilst I stay below ready to hoover up the dislodged Soot when he's finished.
A quick glance down the chimney revealed the fact that, as I suspected, there has been a considerable build-up of Soot. I thought I'd swept it before lighting the Dragon last Autumn, but I now suspect that I didn't...
I also suspected (and Professor Google confirmed) that the chimney is not quite tall enough, so Mr E Bay is sending me an extra length of flue pipe to improve matters.
O! the excitement of it all!
Lunch (rather late) is PORK PIES n'CHIPS, to be followed by this afternoon's Task of cleaning the Bathroom.
My old car (a boxy little Suzuki splash which my sister had christened The Bread Bin), has reached the end of its journey ....a kind and honest mechanic advised me on Friday having inspected it, that even if I wanted to go ahead with repairs for latest problem (gearbox bearings) he would refuse to do it, as MOT is due in 2 months and there's multiple other failure points.
So having had the idea planted in my mind that since I had solar panels at home, an EV might be a good idea, today my son came with me to test drive a 5 year old Renault Zoe. It's all a bit scary but also exciting this new car malarkey. And was also rather surreal....for sitting in the second hand car dealers talking to the salesman....there was music playing somewhere in the background that seemed totally out of place....a congregation lustily singing 'And Can it be?' I have no idea how such music could encourage car sales, but what do I know?!
...This afternoon I did my own study on health in the early modern period ...
Excuse my ignorance - when was the early modern period? Enquiring minds and all that ...
It's not been a bad day here, although still definitely Not Warm. Having said that, I've done absolutely bugger-all apart from go to choir practice (more ghastly crappy choruses ), then amble along to the post office to get some electricity, and home via the BACON SANDWICH shop. I was stupidly tired, so had a snooze for a while, then assembled the new hoover and exercised same; the amount of dust and fluff that had accumulated was not handy, but at least it seems to suck rather than blow, which is a distinct improvement on the old one.
I'm in the process of making a recipe from a cookbook called A Year in an Orkney Kitchen by my late b-i-l's cousin; it's a sort of pasta arribiatta - a tomato sauce with BACON and a touch of chilli, to which some crème fraîche will be added once the pasta's cooked. With luck there should be enough for tomorrow as well.
I'm feeling out of sorts today mainly due to not eating sensible things yesterday at my friend's funeral after party and the knock on effect of feeling sad about his death. At least it is very sunny here, though a cold wind meant it wasn't quite as warm out as it looked. I spent the morning delivering leaflets ahead of the council elections next month and then followed Piglet's lead and had a two hour snooze.
Now off to drink wine and watch a film.
Our choir sang 17 songs in our end of term concert in the City Centre church this afternoon. After a very iffy sound check it went splendidly. My highlight was the soulful Moving On Up by Primal Scream. Sun was very warm when we finished around 3.30pm.
The early modern period has a slightly flexible definition but is often defined as the reformation until the French Revolution. But it varies slightly according to what is being studied.
This evening’s concert went well. Such a big sing, with few chances to sit down. ( Brahms’ German Requiem ) The applause had just begun when the lady behind me collapsed. She was ok, just exhausted, I think.
It looks very springlike here at present and is warm in sheltered places, but the wind is the frozen breath of the Ice King himself. I spent some time in the garden yesterday but am disinclined to do the same today. I am never particularly inclined towards gardening at the best of times.
Having thought we were going out this evening we pulled our Sunday Roast Evening With Wine and Chocolate to yesterday evening. Now this evening's meeting has been cancelled so I didn't need to do that. It has thrown my menus for the whole weekend and the first half of next week into disarray and I'm Not Pleased.
Lovely and sunny here, and we had a barbecue lunch (half veggie as Master Heavenly’s girlfriend is vegetarian - we included breaded jackfruit chunks, plantain and halloumi). We are now lazing in the garden before we head off early to church as Mr Heavenly is on set up duty.
Same here in Arkland the Desiccated, where the east wind continues to keep the air quite chilly for much of the day (and night).
There is some Sun Shine again, though, and this morning's Task of sweeping the Dragon's chimney was successfully accomplished, courtesy of Neighbour S and his extendable brushes. An appalling amount of Soot was shifted, but the chimney is now reasonably clear. The soot box needs some attention, but that can wait until later in the week - it's best done in the morning, when the light is right, and I can see the bits that need a tad more fire cement or whatever.
Lunch was COD MORNAY n'MASH & PEAS again, and very tasty it was. There is some nice CHEESE (Brie) for later.
This afternoon's Task is to sit in the wheelhouse and enjoy the aforementioned Sun Shine, as the sweeping job involved me in a fair bit of moving around below decks whilst S plied his brushes from above.
It's a glorious, if not exactly balmy, day in West Lothian, and I'm not long back from an amble to Tessie's and back, replenishing essential supplies (WINE and BEER) and also FOOD.
Laundry has been laundered, crappy choruses have been avoided (because serving - see post in Eccles - although I did have to hear the congregation making a right bollocks of them), snoozage has been achieved and now I must check over the lessons I'm reading at Evensnog.
Supper will be the other half of the pasta thingy from last night.
Another lovely day here in the East Midlands. I spent an hour delivering election leaflets before Mass this morning and this afternoon managed a spot of gardening.
Tea tonight was a chickpea and sweet potato stew with crispy kale.
A beautiful day in Hereford yesterday and another beautiful day today, though a a bit of a chilly wind. Lunch at a local country park and on to. another for a cup of tea.
Bright and breezy here, church this morning, Fajitas for lunch, trip out to park (Inc. Stroll round lake), board games, cheese and bickies, beer, tv, ironing!
Diabetic eye screening in the morning (deep joy).
Agreed. Depends on how much you hate the M25 Vs getting train connections in London. I think trains to Nottingham also go from St Pancras
I'm now thinking to hire the car in Reading and return it there, and use RailAir from there to get to Heathrow for our 10pm flight. I will have to use the M25 to and from Sevenoaks. I just hope it won't be raining then.
It was a beautiful, bright, sunny day here yesterday, but we've woken up to frost. However we are promised another lovely day.
We are supposed to be meeting one of my husband's friends and his family for lunch. However, two different places were suggested, 25 miles apart, and there's no confirmation yet as to which it will be. Or exactly when.
Iron has entered my soul re the state of the house, as we are still in a guddle over redoing the NE Man's bedroom / the NE Man's study (formerly known as the Loon's bedroom) / finding a home for the contents of the NE Man's work office, now moved here in the wake of his retirement. While this has been going on, the NE Man has taken over the guest bedroom (formerly known as the Quinie's bedroom) as his own.
On Saturday I redded out the living room, enabling us to reclaim the living room as a functioning room! Yesterday I redded out our hallway, enabling us to reclaim the hallway as a functioning hallway! Today I attack the kitchen.
Frost earlier but sunny now.
Brilliant weekend, with Celtic Communion Friday , performing the German Requiem Saturday, and last night attending a concert called ‘ Men Allowed’, a charity fundraiser for prostate cancer. The men had only 6 weeks to learn and perfect their songs, sung by heart, most of them never having sung before except in the bath or at a match. Amazing performance, directed by the same chap who became a temp MD for our church choir last year. He is so versatile. He actually emailed me this morning to thank me for being there!
I’ve caught up with the chores, shopping done, washing was out by 9, surveyor has been and gone, now waiting for my son to arrive to finish building the rockery.
That sounds like a wonderful weekend @Puzzler and a very productive morning. You and @North East Quine are very industrious. I learned on an earlier Zoom call that today is, among other things, National No Housework Day but as I'd already done some by then I'll have to wait for it to come round next year. (Who am I kidding? I have plenty of No Housework Days .)
In other news it's a bright sunny day here, though still cooled by the arctic breath of the Ice King. I have my book group this evening and will get fed, and as I Domestically Goddessishly plated a roast meal for Mr Nen at the weekend it's a No Cooking Day For Nen, which is always a Good Thing.
I'm now thinking to hire the car in Reading and return it there, and use RailAir from there to get to Heathrow for our 10pm flight. I will have to use the M25 to and from Sevenoaks. I just hope it won't be raining then.
Oh, bad luck. In the UK hoping it won't rain means it will.
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Sevenoaks and Sheffield are certainly easily reached by train! A car would make life a bit simpler, though, for at least part of your stay, and the airport is probably the easiest place at which to hire one - my sister finds it so, when she visits from France.
Another day of hazy Sun Shine in Arkland the Dusty, and today's morning Task has been a trip to Tess Coe. There are still no Pilchards - maybe the species has become extinct? Or has Trump frightened them away?
This afternoon's Task is to carry out a small repair to the ceiling of the Ark's saloon, where a section of tongue-and-groove has come loose. Boats flex slightly, and I have a Cunning Plan to keep the loose plank in place, but still allow it to move laterally (only a few millimetres or so) when it wants to.
Lunch is a good ol'Tess Coe ready meal of Braised Beef, Mash, and Carrots.
What an important and lovely ministry that must be
I'm cooking chips and southern fried chicken, I've got some 50s rock n roll blasting (fats domino) and a homebrewed ale on the go.
Off to collect the middle twanglet from uni at the nearby-ish (couple of hours drive) city tomorrow.
It's been a good bit cooler in West Lothian today; unlike @Sarasa I'm not quite out of warm clothes yet.
The sun has come out though, and there may well be a decent sunset later.
F&C for supper (the F was a bit mean, imho, compared to their usual portion sizes
I'll need some more HCBs.
They have been sighted in numbers in our Co-op, maybe worth a look if you have one locally?
Or maybe no-one knows what they are this far inland?
Indeed.
Our Place's FatherInCharge takes an assembly at the local infant/primary school about once a term, and sets great store by it.
(not overexcited. Much.)
As long as they're not in the living room.
Bit grey and nippy here. I spent the morning in the continual redding out of the craft room (anyone want two stacks this high of knitting magazines/books?).
I've reduced the fabric stash to two boxes, the yarn to one. There's a wooden box of sewing kit, and a basket of craft sundries. There's beads need to be sorted, but are unlikely to drop below one storage box and two baskets.
One shelf of the bookcase is paints, brushes, sketchbooks, pencils etc. Another is blank and semi-blank notebooks plus stationery sundries. Another basket is candles, incense and holders. That leaves oddments, like carnival masks, keyrings, watches, gonks, jewellery stands (from when I always wore earrings).
Firenze, I have just thrown a huge pile of old sewing and crochet books out today. Alas, my fabric pile is several shelves worth in my new office and we haven’t got round to moving the yarn yet. But the office move, coupled with end of term in less than 2 months, means I might get the opportunity to do some sewing and spinning again soon.
Last night I went (online) to the inaugural lecture of a colleague who is now one of only 74 black women professors in the UK. A great occasion and a very good presentation on decolonising higher education.
A slow day, this morning I did admin and then did an extra task as reviewer of a new disability toolkit for tutors. This afternoon I did my own study on health in the early modern period (diet and sleep). Then some tidying this evening as tomorrow we are driving to York for lunch with the Master Heavenlys and then bringing home Master Heavenly the Younger and his girlfriend who are visiting for a couple of days.
French group this afternoon provided stimulating conversation, as we were asked whether we would make different decisions, if we had our time over again.
This evening was the last of our four Lenten Celtic Communions. The liturgy has been the same each week, but we have had readings from Stephen Cottrell’s book The Things He Did. Tonight’s theme was the Last Supper. There were eleven of us. Each week our priest has made a ‘ display’ on the floor in front of the (makeshift, because not using the nave or chancel) communion table. This evening, obviously, there were grapes and a home made loaf of bread. It was extremely moving.
I like sardines (especially the big Portuguese ones, cooked on a barbecue) but not pilchards!
That suits me. Oz and Japan are where I've driven in the last few years.
We are arriving from Trieste via Milan and Paris by three train journeys to St Pancras, so I don't think an airport is a convenient pick-up place, though it would be a convenient drop-off for our return home.
At the moment it would seem that car pick up would be after leaving Reading, Sevenoaks, or Sheffield.
The journey from Sheffield to Southwell requires a car.
@Sarasa , I hope you had good shared reminiscences of your friend T.
That's really excellent and helpful. I will follow that up.
Coffee time now then we are off to our son's in Bristol for lunch.
Nevertheless I have unboxed the plants that came in the post yesterday - a clematis and a patio rose - and left them out beside a tray of dianthus and a couple of pots of trailing petunia, for when the temperature goes back to double figures.
The rest of day will be spent in the warm, probably knitting.
Moussaka for din-dins.
St Pancras isn't so practical for our itinerary.
Two nights London
Two nights with friend in Acton
Two nights with friend in Reading
Two nights in Sheffield
So Sheffield seems the place to hire a car and go to Southwell or else hire in Reading.
Today's Task was to remove the Dragon's chimney cap/cowl, ready for Neighbour S to bring along his flue brushes tomorrow - he's kindly offered to wield the said brushes, working from the top, whilst I stay below ready to hoover up the dislodged Soot when he's finished.
A quick glance down the chimney revealed the fact that, as I suspected, there has been a considerable build-up of Soot. I thought I'd swept it before lighting the Dragon last Autumn, but I now suspect that I didn't...
I also suspected (and Professor Google confirmed) that the chimney is not quite tall enough, so Mr E Bay is sending me an extra length of flue pipe to improve matters.
O! the excitement of it all!
Lunch (rather late) is PORK PIES n'CHIPS, to be followed by this afternoon's Task of cleaning the Bathroom.
So having had the idea planted in my mind that since I had solar panels at home, an EV might be a good idea, today my son came with me to test drive a 5 year old Renault Zoe. It's all a bit scary but also exciting this new car malarkey. And was also rather surreal....for sitting in the second hand car dealers talking to the salesman....there was music playing somewhere in the background that seemed totally out of place....a congregation lustily singing 'And Can it be?' I have no idea how such music could encourage car sales, but what do I know?!
It's not been a bad day here, although still definitely Not Warm. Having said that, I've done absolutely bugger-all apart from go to choir practice (more ghastly crappy choruses
I'm in the process of making a recipe from a cookbook called A Year in an Orkney Kitchen by my late b-i-l's cousin; it's a sort of pasta arribiatta - a tomato sauce with BACON and a touch of chilli, to which some crème fraîche will be added once the pasta's cooked. With luck there should be enough for tomorrow as well.
Now off to drink wine and watch a film.
Thanks, @Heavenlyannie - I'd probably have imagined it was earlier than that. Now I know. 🙂
Having thought we were going out this evening we pulled our Sunday Roast Evening With Wine and Chocolate to yesterday evening. Now this evening's meeting has been cancelled so I didn't need to do that. It has thrown my menus for the whole weekend and the first half of next week into disarray and I'm Not Pleased.
There is some Sun Shine again, though, and this morning's Task of sweeping the Dragon's chimney was successfully accomplished, courtesy of Neighbour S and his extendable brushes. An appalling amount of Soot was shifted, but the chimney is now reasonably clear. The soot box needs some attention, but that can wait until later in the week - it's best done in the morning, when the light is right, and I can see the bits that need a tad more fire cement or whatever.
Lunch was COD MORNAY n'MASH & PEAS again, and very tasty it was. There is some nice CHEESE (Brie) for later.
This afternoon's Task is to sit in the wheelhouse and enjoy the aforementioned Sun Shine, as the sweeping job involved me in a fair bit of moving around below decks whilst S plied his brushes from above.
Laundry has been laundered, crappy choruses have been avoided (because serving - see post in Eccles - although I did have to hear the congregation making a right bollocks of them), snoozage has been achieved and now I must check over the lessons I'm reading at Evensnog.
Supper will be the other half of the pasta thingy from last night.
Tea tonight was a chickpea and sweet potato stew with crispy kale.
Diabetic eye screening in the morning (deep joy).
I'm now thinking to hire the car in Reading and return it there, and use RailAir from there to get to Heathrow for our 10pm flight. I will have to use the M25 to and from Sevenoaks. I just hope it won't be raining then.
We are supposed to be meeting one of my husband's friends and his family for lunch. However, two different places were suggested, 25 miles apart, and there's no confirmation yet as to which it will be. Or exactly when.
Iron has entered my soul re the state of the house, as we are still in a guddle over redoing the NE Man's bedroom / the NE Man's study (formerly known as the Loon's bedroom) / finding a home for the contents of the NE Man's work office, now moved here in the wake of his retirement. While this has been going on, the NE Man has taken over the guest bedroom (formerly known as the Quinie's bedroom) as his own.
On Saturday I redded out the living room, enabling us to reclaim the living room as a functioning room! Yesterday I redded out our hallway, enabling us to reclaim the hallway as a functioning hallway! Today I attack the kitchen.
Brilliant weekend, with Celtic Communion Friday , performing the German Requiem Saturday, and last night attending a concert called ‘ Men Allowed’, a charity fundraiser for prostate cancer. The men had only 6 weeks to learn and perfect their songs, sung by heart, most of them never having sung before except in the bath or at a match. Amazing performance, directed by the same chap who became a temp MD for our church choir last year. He is so versatile. He actually emailed me this morning to thank me for being there!
I’ve caught up with the chores, shopping done, washing was out by 9, surveyor has been and gone, now waiting for my son to arrive to finish building the rockery.
In other news it's a bright sunny day here, though still cooled by the arctic breath of the Ice King. I have my book group this evening and will get fed, and as I Domestically Goddessishly plated a roast meal for Mr Nen at the weekend it's a No Cooking Day For Nen, which is always a Good Thing.
Oh, bad luck. In the UK hoping it won't rain means it will.