What I did today.

Allergies to Asda and to Dutch people!!
Put feet up, spoil selves, read undemanding book and PAMPER if you can.
Jeni you obviously can't take the risk of cooking for your guest, so she will have to do it for you.
Gally it's not the length of the mariage that counts, it's the quality.

Gally hope you feel better soon

Shared driving from Calais back to Switzerland - to find our cat, dog and house very well looked after - and hot soup and bread on the table + a cup of tea!
Aggrrhhh thanks our Greatnan - what a trooper x

Zumba, came home and raked leaves, raked more leaves, cut down tomato plants and chucked them on the compost, raked more leaves. Unearthed cases to start packing for a visit to the land of plenty (UK), ironing, cooked cauliflower cheese, sparodic dips into GN, fresh bedlinen now on the bed, and it'll be an early night. zzzzz

Made Christmas puddings with DH. Complicated by the fact that I forgot to buy suet in the UK (note to Butternut) and we had to buy kidney fat from the butcher and render it, which is smelly and messy.

jeni hope you are better now.
Have not gone to work today as have picked up a cough/ temp bug whilst away and it keeps getting better/ getting worse on alternate days! Hope tomorrow I feel and stay better!
Just watched THE Downton episode missed whilst away

Yes thanks. Still a little queasy so not eating today. Sitting with feet up taking it easy. I cancelled today's tribunal as I didn't think I'd be up to it!

Glad you're feeling a bit better, jeni.

Jeni Hope you didn't pass the dreaded lurgy to the Dutch visitor?
My sniffles seem to have abated today, but now have a cracker of a headache - probably spending too long trying to sort out my Tax Return - enough to give anyone a headache

jeni Sitting with your feet up sounds like a good plan. Get well soon.

jeni Gally

Hope you`re soon better Jeni.

Hope my details of the Christmas puddings didn't make you feel worse!

Just had a really funny 'conversation' with my 20 month old grandson.Think he has taken and worked out how to use his Mum's mobile- either that a or a very, very, giggly heavy breather has stolen it

Just stabbed the end of me thumb, trying to get a tight plastic seal off a drum of black pepper, and it flippin` hurts! AND won`t stop bleeding!

grannylin

I played host to a lady from the Cats Protection League this afternoon, and she`s given us the go-ahead to proceed with the adoption of our chosen cat, Mia, just waiting to find out now when we can collect her.

Great news, number. What a lucky cat!

number I'm delighted for you and Mia. Such lovely news.

Well, Gary put up a new bird feeder outside my lounge window for me! So while I've been sitting quietly with my feet up, I've also been watching the birds. (Also chasing off the darn squirrel) and no, I'm NOT going to let the old git shoot it!

Phoned myself on my mobile and nearly died of shock when THE PHONE RANG. Michelle from the Indian Call Centre [who has phoned me twice today, bless her] has sorted it. Or maybe it was going to take a week anyway. Either way, I can phone in and out [but only on one phone] and no sound on the internet but that might be something I've done wrong. Heating engineer who's coming out tomorrow to fix my leak might have a look at my computer perhaps. Oh joy!

Am really enjoying watching 'the great British food revival' about rabbit but am totally distracted by the long hairs on Clarissa D W's chin

Ha Ha Me too, Grannylin

I bought one of those Finishing Touch things today....so that I don't end up like Clarissa DW . I do hope it works....

Her chin could come in handy if she ever loses her pastry brush.