My one totally free day this week but I decided I didn’t need to go anywhere in the cold windy weather. Mostly dry today.
I have sorted the under stairs cupboard.
Stir fry tonight as things need using up.
I’ll be at home tomorrow as someone is coming to measure for curtains and a blind, and my son is supposed to be coming over, then it’s choral society in the evening.
Terrific work out on the Bach B Minor last night, back to Elijah tomorrow night. I have been asked to help out another choir for their Evensong but have said no. My own church choir is doing an additional Evensong at another church on Sunday but I have declined that one too. There are limits.
It's snowing again. We're back on Flood Alert. Two of the other villages in our multi-church parish cannot be accessed directly from our village due to the roads being flooded.
Currently on a train back into London. It's not overly cold, but the heating is on. The fact that I'm right up against the heater, means my left leg is fine while my right is roasting. Clear, dry and light as we go through the outskirts of the city.
Hoping for a better day today than yesterday. There's a thorny project I've been working on and off since the summer. From the outset, I said I needed access to Old System, but was denied it. Instead, I had to use extracts from Old System that I couldn't check. Now it turns out that the data extracts (which run into the millions of lines) don't actually agree to Old System. Something I could have checked 7 months ago if I had had access to Old System.
We have taken a Sainz Breeze delivery this morning and being a domestic goddess I am making a bolognese sauce for tea later. Coffee with Mr Nen soon. Out to see friends after lunch.
Happy birthday to @Boogie 's son. Enjoy the rest of the special day. @sipech, that is annoying. I hope you can get something sorted.
It's Wednesday so usually a Ramblers day. There was only one walk on today and we didn't get a space. It was then cancelled anyway as the paths are water-logged.
Instead we are going into town where we both have people we want to talk to about projects. We also need to get the ingredients for tea tonight, which means I'd better go and write a list.
Said tea will be early as I have a planning meeting tonight, but at least that should be pretty straightforward. The last time I saw L, whose funeral I was at yesterday, was at last month's meeting. It will be very odd not having him there.
Well, YMMV (obviously) but the less Sn*w I see the happier I am. Having to hobble around on two crutches is no fun anywhen, but Sn*w and Ice mean I can't get out at all.
Mild and Sun-Shiny today in Arkland the Clement, though Rain is forecast for the next couple of days. Wash Ing must be hung out forthwith...
A busy morning - collecting the next two months' worth of Drugs from the Farmer Sea, followed by a visit to the village Co-Op, and concluding with a visit to the Arkland Orfis to collect some parcels. The Wind is from the east-south-east, which means that I can sit in the wheelhouse (yes, S&Q time!) without being in a draught. High tide is at 3pm, so there may be some boat movements to observe during S&Q...
Busy day of admin and marking this morning and teaching this afternoon. But it is nice to have an afternoon tutorial for a change.
I think tea is probably sausages as they need using up, with an avocado, feta and black bean salad (a salad recipe box that also needs using up).
My work is done. Captain P is in the bath, and at his own request is listening to Freddie Mercury. (Well, strictly speaking Freddie and Brian and Roger and John, but his actual request was for "Freddie".)
I am chalking this up as a major parenting success
Ventured out for the first to see if Brigid had passed by. Which she had, to the extent of a tiny cluster of primrose, a scatter of snowdrops and a promising clump of hellebore.
Comforting Stodge I fancy for dinner: leeks, pancetta and gnocchi in a cheese sauce.
Day got a little better. I'm currently working a fixed term contract maternity cover and had been told it was likely to be ended early (which is perfectly legal) as the person I'm covering for will be returning early and they didn't have the budget for a long handover. But today was invited to see the contract through as there's extra work coming, they want the extra pair of hands and have agreed additional budget.
Now waiting on the Jubilee line to start the journey home.
If only. Wouldn't stay long term. I'm a commercial and strategic finance guy but this is definitely a finance systems department. I'm not inept, but neither am I adept. It's paid the mortgage for the last year but a better fit surely awaits.
Does that mean you're just ept? 😃
Dreich and wet in West Lothian this morning, so I got quite damp on the way to work, and not much better on the way home.
I'd found a Jamie Oliver recipe for a chicken and pea risotto, which I tried this evening, and it was rather good. He suggests topping it with rocket*, so I bought some, which went very nicely. What the hell do you do with three quarters of a bag of leftover rocket??? 🤔
* in the book, which we bought in Canada, and had been translated into American, it's called "arugula" , which I believe is the same thing.
Does that mean you're just ept? 😃
Dreich and wet in West Lothian this morning, so I got quite damp on the way to work, and not much better on the way home.
I'd found a Jamie Oliver recipe for a chicken and pea risotto, which I tried this evening, and it was rather good. He suggests topping it with rocket*, so I bought some, which went very nicely. What the hell do you do with three quarters of a bag of leftover rocket??? 🤔
* in the book, which we bought in Canada, and had been translated into American, it's called "arugula" , which I believe is the same thing.
Glad you've got an extension @sipech, but hope something that is more to your liking turns up next.
A useful day yesterday. I went into town in the morning and talked to the owner of one of my favourite cafes about an event I'm doing there next month. The venue is free, I just need to encourage people to drink his excellent coffee and eat his very nice cakes. Then in the evening I had a useful ten minute chat on the steps of the Town Hall with the leader of the opposition group about a couple of things that will be to our mutual advantage.
Tea last night was a recipe from the Ocado magazine. Very quick and easy, orzo with a sauce made from (vegan) feta. We're going to add it to our regular staples list as I think it could be adapted to whatever veg we have in the house.
It's Lipreading and book shop day today. I'm still dithering as to when to resign from the shop. I'm more and more coming round to the idea of sooner rather than later.
A dry, breezy & sometimes sunny day on our bit of the south coast yesterday, so I celebrated by pegging out a line of tea towels before the sun came up (washed the previous evening & left folded ready to hang out as soon as I was up & dressed).
Then finished a bit of a repair to one of the raised beds that should have been completed in the autumn. That involved a bit of bending, but my back was not too bad so moved on to the small flower border at the end of the garden.
I have not been able to work up any enthusiasm for the garden for 3 or 4 months, but have been able, for several days, to see from the kitchen window that the hellebores are in flower - mostly obscured by the straggly remains of last year's flowers & weeds. I love my hellebores, which have moved with me several times over the years, so went out with the secateurs to improve the view from the kitchen.
Managed to cut off all of last year's grotty leaves from the hellebores, pull out lots of bare stems from various weeds & flowers that had long been denuded of seeds by the birds, clear some of the dead grass lying on the ground ( digging up roots will have to wait) and cut down the dead stems from a clump of (forgotten name) and put in new supports for the new growth.
Never got round in previous years to doing that in time to catch them before they flopped over everything else, so very chuffed about that!
My back had lost almost all flexibility by then, so headed indoors strap a hot wheat bag to it. Pretty stiff & achey for the rest of the day, and surprised that I could get out of bed this morning. Mr RoS and I both overslept. No gardening or laundry today, everywhere far too wet.
Dinner last night was enchiladas made with some minced beef, beans & veg that needed using up, spiced up with quite a generous amount of garlic paste and paprika. Not done that before, but will do it again as Mr RoS enjoyed it.
Fish pie tonight, not home-made.
I've never been a gardener and have tried for many years to enjoy it more as I think it's a lovely hobby and I do love a pretty garden. The house we are hoping to buy is currently owned by people who clearly do enjoy it and I'm hoping they have given me a good start which I can carry on with if we end up there.
"If" being the operative word as it's all a bit of a rollercoaster at the moment: one day (Monday) we are talking about dates for exchange and completion, today (Thursday) another potential delay has come to light and our solicitors appear to be unavailable. :rolleyes: Mr Nen is preparing to head out and present himself at their office.
In other news, I've been out on this chilly grey damp day to my usual aerobics class, followed by coffee with friends.
Chilly, grey, and damp in Arkland the Mizzly (that is, a mixture of mist and drizzle), but not too cold. Tess Coe has been visited, and supplies laid in for the next day or so.
Hope the house move starts moving on again pronto @Nenya. I really like the looking at properties and day-dreaming about what will happen when we move bit. I hate with a passion all the legal stuff and the ups and downs of getting a date etc. We bought this house from someone who was selling it using Lasting Power of Attorney as the owner was ill. About three weeks after we agreed to buy the place the owner died and then we had a whole load of bother about probate and tax before we finally managed to move. The upside was that my daydreams of life here were nowhere nearly as good as the reality turned out to be.
A truly wet and miserable day here. I got very wet going to my class this morning and very cold in the book shop. It's so lovely to be home and not have to go anywhere for the rest of the day.
I might have ventured into town this morning as it was market day but it was too wet and miserable, so I gave the bathroom a really thorough clean instead, then cooked meatballs in home made sauce for lunch, plus a portion for the freezer.
I was intending to cook these yesterday but my son brought me some lasagne so I ate one portion and popped the other in the freezer. My son dug out some roots of overgrown shrubs which had hidden the hellebores. I can now see a few flowers but not much foliage. Hopefully they will recover and spread now they have room.
I am going to a friend’s church for Evensong tonight, a rare event there, but they are performing works by a living local composer, whom I greatly admire. I was invited to sing with them but couldn’t make their rehearsals.
Edinburgh is out to remind us what a fantastically apposite word dreich is.
(I understand dreich to mean the weather is putting enough water in the air to make everything grey and damp, but thinks actual rain would take too much effort.)
Yes. I don't think we Southrons have quite such a suitable word, though My Old Mum (who retained the remnants of a Kentish country accent) would have used the word 'dull', pronounced 'doll '...
Her mother (my Nanna) had rather more of an accent, and would say (for example) that she was 'gooin to git the iggs owt the in-howse'.
It is, as forecast, once again raining here in Arkland the Darkling. Time for some nice hot SOUP.
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.
Some way away from the happy highways, another really Gruesome Graham of a day in Arkland the Saturated. Not much shining, either, apart from a half-hour gleam of Sun-Shine an hour or so ago, during which I hobbled to the car and back to check that this morning's higher-than-forecast tide hadn't affected it (it hadn't - all is well -praise be to Hadad).
It's still raining, though I suppose we should be glad that it isn't Sn*wing. No need for me to go out again until tomorrow...
I didn't hear him come on board, but I was pleased to find a Food Parcel from friend Mr D when I looked into the wheelhouse earlier. I now have two nice spicy Apple Crumbles for the weekend, a can of BEER, and a pan of his home-made Pea & Ham SOUP, which will be boiled up for Supper later.
Meanwhile, some SALMON FILLETS are warming up in the Dragon, to go with some CHIPS. At least the Pleasures of the Table are left to me, as I grow ever Feaker and Wheebler...
We have it mild and showery. This morning I had the thrill of going to get a tetanus vaccine, after which husband en rouge and I went out for lunch to a very nice Thai establishment. I had stuffed mussels and then cod with vegetables. It was very tasty.
This evening we are going to listen to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and Dvorak's 8th symphony at the Seine Musicale.
My daughter asked me to pop over the road to Aldi as she forgot to put cat food on her supermarket order. Duly purchased but not sure when I will next see her to hand it over.
I was able to buy some hake (for myself, not the cats!) , which they haven’t had in stock for the past three years or more. I cooked some tonight and really enjoyed it. A second fillet is in the freezer.
We had an excellent discussion in the French group answering the question How green are you? The journey was a bit circuitous as two roads were completely closed ( and we got lost on the diversion) and another had a long delay for traffic light controlled road works. I bet they’re not fixing pot holes though. One road was definitely closed by the water board.
I'm back in the UK at short notice, but not unexpectedly, as my brother-in-law has just died, and we have come to help my sister.
We are in a BnB between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge for our first week of three.
I brought clothes for the cold weather, but not for the rain, though it has been steady, but not heavy.
Welcome to Kent @LatchKeyKid - though I'm sorry to hear it's for a sad reason. The rain may well cease today, or tomorrow...
You're in that part of the world which was my boyhood home. It's been a long time since I visited the area, but I still feel nostalgic about it:
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
(A E Housman)
My childhood home also; I went to secondary school in Sevenoaks.
I am sorry about your brother-in-law @LatchKeyKid .
Grey and wet today, although I managed to walk up to town to meet friends and back again without getting more than A Bit Damp. It poured with rain while I was out, though.
Spaghetti bolognese for tea, washed down with red wine. Most acceptable. Now wondering how long it is before I can decently go to bed, curled up with my current comfort re-reads - the Chronicles of Narnia. Nearly finished The Horse and His Boy.
Cold and raw in West Lothian; I managed (just) to get to work and back without getting wet.
I mentioned about a year ago that a cheque written to David from his Canadian pension provider had arrived in the post. After much to-ing and fro-ing, I finally got a cheque today written to me, so I hot-footed it to the Banking Hub to pay it in.
Could they take it? Of course they couldn't - I'm going to have to take time off work and get a bus to Falkirk where the nearest branch of the Royal Bank is, and then it's going to take until Easter to clear and cost about thirty quid. It's for a respectable sum - four figures when translated to £s - but still - what a faff!
Supper was ... it's Friday - what do you think it was?
I'm from Norf of the Estry, but spent 6 years at boarding school near Maidstone, and 3 years at university at Canterbury, so have many fond memories of the land of the Cantiaci and of Hlothhere. Sadly the only things I really recall of where the BF Ark is moored is submarines in the river awaiting scrapping, and a teenage panic attack at the top of the castle.
I was born in what was Kent at the time, but is now part of Greater London. I spent quite a few childhood holidays on the Kent coast too.
I've had yet another flood warning. I think we'll be OK, though the river seems to have risen rather a lot over the last few hours.
Glad you've finally got the cheque @Piglet. I hope you can get to a branch soon and it doesn't take that long to clear.
Intermittent drizzle here and I have yet to achieve anything other than a walk. Mr Heavenly is in his study and listening to 1990s music whilst doing some doing some electronics stuff so I might go into my office and plan the next couple of paragraphs of my thesis chapter (impact of sociocultural changes on early modern medicine/mental health).
I have a friend’s 40th birthday party to go to this evening so might have to summon some energy later.
We had a work morning at church, pruning and generally tidying the grounds. It was very wet and we didn't stay out all that long, but we got quite a lot done and it was all very jolly!
Cold and miserable here, and the river is on the verge of flooding the nearby park, which could mean our back garden will be next, though at present it is OK.
We went into town today so I could go to another bathroom showroom. I think I know which showroom I'd like to do my on-suite just need to organise them visiting.
Tonight I'm off to the local 'last night of the proms' in aid of the local twining association. I need to turn up early to meet the burgomeister of our German twining town. I've met him before and he is very entertaining so that should be fun.
Damp and miserable in Arkland the Depressed, but not too cold. My Legs are aching badly, but painkillers are helping...
Lunch was DUCK with NOODLES, a new popty-ping meal from Tess Coe, and very tasty it was. Time for some snoozage now, but later on I shall partake of one of Mr D's home-made APPLE CRUMBLES, which I have no doubt will be as toothsome as usual.
Still fairly light at 5pm, despite the cloud and gloom. Spring is not far off...
I managed a quick walk between showers today! Made macaroni cheese for tea, a Rose Eliot recipe with lots of sauce, not much macaroni, and breadcrumbs and cheese on top. Yummy. Enjoyed it with a glass of Chardonnay.
Yesterday's concert was a thoroughly delightful business. We'd never been to la Seine Musicale before, but it's relatively close to home and not all that expensive. They have some very nice classical concerts so I think we'll be back.
The only thing putting a bit of a damper on the last couple of days is a nasty headache. I suspect it's a side effect of the vaccine I had yesterday. It's finally started to bugger off this evening.
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I have sorted the under stairs cupboard.
Stir fry tonight as things need using up.
I’ll be at home tomorrow as someone is coming to measure for curtains and a blind, and my son is supposed to be coming over, then it’s choral society in the evening.
Terrific work out on the Bach B Minor last night, back to Elijah tomorrow night. I have been asked to help out another choir for their Evensong but have said no. My own church choir is doing an additional Evensong at another church on Sunday but I have declined that one too. There are limits.
As I didn't want too much faffage between work and Night Church, supper was BEANS on TOAST.
Hoping for a better day today than yesterday. There's a thorny project I've been working on and off since the summer. From the outset, I said I needed access to Old System, but was denied it. Instead, I had to use extracts from Old System that I couldn't check. Now it turns out that the data extracts (which run into the millions of lines) don't actually agree to Old System. Something I could have checked 7 months ago if I had had access to Old System.
Now a walk down the river, it's cold and sunny.
I hope the snow soon stops being such a problem @North East Quine .
Hope your day goes well @Sipech .
We have taken a Sainz Breeze delivery this morning and being a domestic goddess I am making a bolognese sauce for tea later. Coffee with Mr Nen soon. Out to see friends after lunch.
@sipech, that is annoying. I hope you can get something sorted.
It's Wednesday so usually a Ramblers day. There was only one walk on today and we didn't get a space. It was then cancelled anyway as the paths are water-logged.
Instead we are going into town where we both have people we want to talk to about projects. We also need to get the ingredients for tea tonight, which means I'd better go and write a list.
Said tea will be early as I have a planning meeting tonight, but at least that should be pretty straightforward. The last time I saw L, whose funeral I was at yesterday, was at last month's meeting. It will be very odd not having him there.
Tonight I am giving a talk to the local Recorded Music Society.
It's not shaping up to be much of a Winter.
And it's only getting worse: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/crmzvekrlg2o
Mild and Sun-Shiny today in Arkland the Clement, though Rain is forecast for the next couple of days. Wash Ing must be hung out forthwith...
A busy morning - collecting the next two months' worth of Drugs from the Farmer Sea, followed by a visit to the village Co-Op, and concluding with a visit to the Arkland Orfis to collect some parcels. The Wind is from the east-south-east, which means that I can sit in the wheelhouse (yes, S&Q time!) without being in a draught. High tide is at 3pm, so there may be some boat movements to observe during S&Q...
I think tea is probably sausages as they need using up, with an avocado, feta and black bean salad (a salad recipe box that also needs using up).
I am chalking this up as a major parenting success
Comforting Stodge I fancy for dinner: leeks, pancetta and gnocchi in a cheese sauce.
Now waiting on the Jubilee line to start the journey home.
Dreich and wet in West Lothian this morning, so I got quite damp on the way to work, and not much better on the way home.
I'd found a Jamie Oliver recipe for a chicken and pea risotto, which I tried this evening, and it was rather good. He suggests topping it with rocket*, so I bought some, which went very nicely. What the hell do you do with three quarters of a bag of leftover rocket??? 🤔
* in the book, which we bought in Canada, and had been translated into American, it's called "arugula" , which I believe is the same thing.
Rocket can just be added to salads.
A useful day yesterday. I went into town in the morning and talked to the owner of one of my favourite cafes about an event I'm doing there next month. The venue is free, I just need to encourage people to drink his excellent coffee and eat his very nice cakes. Then in the evening I had a useful ten minute chat on the steps of the Town Hall with the leader of the opposition group about a couple of things that will be to our mutual advantage.
Tea last night was a recipe from the Ocado magazine. Very quick and easy, orzo with a sauce made from (vegan) feta. We're going to add it to our regular staples list as I think it could be adapted to whatever veg we have in the house.
It's Lipreading and book shop day today. I'm still dithering as to when to resign from the shop. I'm more and more coming round to the idea of sooner rather than later.
Then finished a bit of a repair to one of the raised beds that should have been completed in the autumn. That involved a bit of bending, but my back was not too bad so moved on to the small flower border at the end of the garden.
I have not been able to work up any enthusiasm for the garden for 3 or 4 months, but have been able, for several days, to see from the kitchen window that the hellebores are in flower - mostly obscured by the straggly remains of last year's flowers & weeds. I love my hellebores, which have moved with me several times over the years, so went out with the secateurs to improve the view from the kitchen.
Managed to cut off all of last year's grotty leaves from the hellebores, pull out lots of bare stems from various weeds & flowers that had long been denuded of seeds by the birds, clear some of the dead grass lying on the ground ( digging up roots will have to wait) and cut down the dead stems from a clump of (forgotten name) and put in new supports for the new growth.
Never got round in previous years to doing that in time to catch them before they flopped over everything else, so very chuffed about that!
My back had lost almost all flexibility by then, so headed indoors strap a hot wheat bag to it. Pretty stiff & achey for the rest of the day, and surprised that I could get out of bed this morning. Mr RoS and I both overslept. No gardening or laundry today, everywhere far too wet.
Dinner last night was enchiladas made with some minced beef, beans & veg that needed using up, spiced up with quite a generous amount of garlic paste and paprika. Not done that before, but will do it again as Mr RoS enjoyed it.
Fish pie tonight, not home-made.
"If" being the operative word as it's all a bit of a rollercoaster at the moment: one day (Monday) we are talking about dates for exchange and completion, today (Thursday) another potential delay has come to light and our solicitors appear to be unavailable. :rolleyes: Mr Nen is preparing to head out and present himself at their office.
In other news, I've been out on this chilly grey damp day to my usual aerobics class, followed by coffee with friends.
GAMMON for lunch, with New Potatoes.
A truly wet and miserable day here. I got very wet going to my class this morning and very cold in the book shop. It's so lovely to be home and not have to go anywhere for the rest of the day.
I was intending to cook these yesterday but my son brought me some lasagne so I ate one portion and popped the other in the freezer. My son dug out some roots of overgrown shrubs which had hidden the hellebores. I can now see a few flowers but not much foliage. Hopefully they will recover and spread now they have room.
I am going to a friend’s church for Evensong tonight, a rare event there, but they are performing works by a living local composer, whom I greatly admire. I was invited to sing with them but couldn’t make their rehearsals.
Happily, the Dragon is working well - but even so, I'm wearing a thick pullover...
It's actually colder than it feels, if that makes sense - possibly because, just for once, there is very little Wind here.
Roll on the droghte of Marche, as Chaucer puts it.
(I understand dreich to mean the weather is putting enough water in the air to make everything grey and damp, but thinks actual rain would take too much effort.)
Her mother (my Nanna) had rather more of an accent, and would say (for example) that she was 'gooin to git the iggs owt the in-howse'.
It is, as forecast, once again raining here in Arkland the Darkling. Time for some nice hot SOUP.
It was more blustrous than dreich here: there was really quite a bite to the wind.
Having braved Tessie's at lunchtime with the Trusty Trolley (you'll be glad to know I am no longer sans vin), supper was fish cakes with veggies.
Luckily the wind was behind me as I was hauling my groceries home - I could almost feel it pushing the trolley.
We are in a BnB between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge for our first week of three.
I brought clothes for the cold weather, but not for the rain, though it has been steady, but not heavy.
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.
Welcome to Kent @LatchKeyKid - though I'm sorry to hear it's for a sad reason. The rain may well cease today, or tomorrow...
You're in that part of the world which was my boyhood home. It's been a long time since I visited the area, but I still feel nostalgic about it:
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
(A E Housman)
It's still raining, though I suppose we should be glad that it isn't Sn*wing. No need for me to go out again until tomorrow...
I didn't hear him come on board, but I was pleased to find a Food Parcel from friend Mr D when I looked into the wheelhouse earlier. I now have two nice spicy Apple Crumbles for the weekend, a can of BEER, and a pan of his home-made Pea & Ham SOUP, which will be boiled up for Supper later.
Meanwhile, some SALMON FILLETS are warming up in the Dragon, to go with some CHIPS. At least the Pleasures of the Table are left to me, as I grow ever Feaker and Wheebler...
This evening we are going to listen to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and Dvorak's 8th symphony at the Seine Musicale.
What were the mussels stuffed with ? Enquiring minds need to know...
I was able to buy some hake (for myself, not the cats!) , which they haven’t had in stock for the past three years or more. I cooked some tonight and really enjoyed it. A second fillet is in the freezer.
We had an excellent discussion in the French group answering the question How green are you? The journey was a bit circuitous as two roads were completely closed ( and we got lost on the diversion) and another had a long delay for traffic light controlled road works. I bet they’re not fixing pot holes though. One road was definitely closed by the water board.
My childhood home also; I went to secondary school in Sevenoaks.
I am sorry about your brother-in-law @LatchKeyKid .
Grey and wet today, although I managed to walk up to town to meet friends and back again without getting more than A Bit Damp. It poured with rain while I was out, though.
Spaghetti bolognese for tea, washed down with red wine. Most acceptable. Now wondering how long it is before I can decently go to bed, curled up with my current comfort re-reads - the Chronicles of Narnia. Nearly finished The Horse and His Boy.
I mentioned about a year ago that a cheque written to David from his Canadian pension provider had arrived in the post. After much to-ing and fro-ing, I finally got a cheque today written to me, so I hot-footed it to the Banking Hub to pay it in.
Could they take it? Of course they couldn't - I'm going to have to take time off work and get a bus to Falkirk where the nearest branch of the Royal Bank is, and then it's going to take until Easter to clear and cost about thirty quid. It's for a respectable sum - four figures when translated to £s - but still - what a faff!
Supper was ... it's Friday - what do you think it was?
I've had yet another flood warning. I think we'll be OK, though the river seems to have risen rather a lot over the last few hours.
Glad you've finally got the cheque @Piglet. I hope you can get to a branch soon and it doesn't take that long to clear.
Obviously had enough of Jack Dee...
I have a friend’s 40th birthday party to go to this evening so might have to summon some energy later.
We went into town today so I could go to another bathroom showroom. I think I know which showroom I'd like to do my on-suite just need to organise them visiting.
Tonight I'm off to the local 'last night of the proms' in aid of the local twining association. I need to turn up early to meet the burgomeister of our German twining town. I've met him before and he is very entertaining so that should be fun.
Lunch was DUCK with NOODLES, a new popty-ping meal from Tess Coe, and very tasty it was. Time for some snoozage now, but later on I shall partake of one of Mr D's home-made APPLE CRUMBLES, which I have no doubt will be as toothsome as usual.
Still fairly light at 5pm, despite the cloud and gloom. Spring is not far off...
The only thing putting a bit of a damper on the last couple of days is a nasty headache. I suspect it's a side effect of the vaccine I had yesterday. It's finally started to bugger off this evening.