Good Evening lovely Kitchen peeps!
Trying to catch up with everyone's news.
Chicken what a relief. You must have been frantic. Looking at the news photographs today, it's the saddest thing. What a disgrace and a betrayal of lives.
Glad you are portrait-up-to-date today, soop and that there is good news of little Sweetie Pie. You don't say if she has gained any weight. Do hope so and that her presence is a cheery influence on your life when you need it.
Good to hear you have had a busy day and benefitted, anno. Little tots at that age are filled with such cheeriness, it's quite uplifting isn't it. You talk about comfy feet, how is the face problem? Did you get your bcc sorted and are you o.k.?
Life sounds as if it's lots better Yia. Antibiotics in doing so much good, do flatten our immune systems, don't they, so hopefully you have something now which agrees with you. Get properly well soon! BA Duncan and cats are like children - they're happiest with a box! He gets more handsome - and laid back by the day.
Brook have the happiest of times in Cambridge - even though you are bravely getting there on the magic metal carpet!!! ( ?). Well, you know me and planes........
A happy reunion with the GC's to you.
I don't know much about your Rehab plan, Blossoming but do hope you are not doing too much too fast. If you feel really exhausted after exercise, perhaps you could do less in the house? You know, pay someone to do all the heavy work so you can perhaps drift around with a feather duster or just deadhead a few flowers if/when the mood takes you. Seriously, take it steadily. I'm sure you want to be fully fit as soon as you can but baby steps might be fairly sensible until you build up your strength again. And remember, time wasted in those beach huts would never be time wasted!!?. Hope you're o.k. Jax and that you are not worrying too much, dragon. Things will get better.
You said it yourself, Sood, you don't know how people live with themselves, they're so dishonourable. Indeed! I can't think of any phrase rude enough to describe anyone who could do that. They've had your money all this time - or more likely the Agency has and wouldn't release it until the last moment. The so-called contract is always weighed heavily against you in that you are punished if you don't pay on time or change your mind and want to cancel. But any fly by night holiday home owners can seemingly do as they like and no matter that you would all have been looking forward to something which was booked in good faith and is now not going to happen. And even if it was possible, this year, to find reasonably priced accommodation, you're not going to find anything in less than a week.
I have a small holiday cottage. I never bothered to rent it out last year. At the start of this year, I told everyone who enquired that I simply could not stand the on/off/on/off drama and would not be taking deposits for holidays from anyone. It simply wouldn't work and I didn't want to be part of people's disappointment. I felt much better without that sort of responsibility whilst we've all been trying to guess what might happen for so long now.
Just to lighten your mood a little, I have suffered a slightly different drama when I bought a property which had a gite in the grounds. We wanted that for my Mum and for the family for holidays. The guys who sold the house - in France - had lots of bookings and on the day we completed and only then when we were handed the keys were we told about it. They had obviously spent the deposits and had no interest in cancelling the holidays months before, so just let us find out when it was too late. We spent our first months in our new home running around on some demanding foreign tourists who had actually been before and knew more about the property than we did. We NEVER wanted to run a holiday home, we just wanted some peace and quiet in the countryside. Instead, I ran about like an idiot making sure that all was as it should be for guests, and we lived out of packing cases and a new challenge or drama every day for the entire summer.
My language comprised quite a few new words by the time the summer was over! What we should have done, of course, was calmly told the Notaire, in front of the vendors, that we had no knowledge or interest in any contract that they might have made with people for booked holidays, there was no mention of it in the contract for sale so .... nuffink doing! But we imagined distraught Parisiens (one of whom arrived with a parrot, I kid you not) frantic and deprived of their annual hols, so we adopted a British stiff upper lip and just got on with it. Happy days ?!?!?!?!?!
Maybe you can actually plan something better for half term, when things might be cheaper and with less demand for bookings? A big family knees up should not be denied you.
Onwards and upwards and good luck!
Sleep well, dear peeps. Tomorrow will be better - it often is. Oh forgot to say, baked a really delicious Chocolate Amaretti cake. Turned it out, burned my wrist (don't ask) DROPPED the b*£^@y cake on the table! Managed to laugh - if a trifle hysterically. My coffee guests will eat it tomorrow morning. I shall be unrepentant about its condition - it looks a lot like roadkill, but they'll be kind once they get to taste it....and I've covered it with cream!
Nighty night from France where today's weather has been more manageable, only 30 degrees and with a fantastic wind off the mountains. Dried a lot of laundry, created a lot of ironing. ( Something not quite right about that phrase, I feel.)
Big hugs,
and good wishes to all, including dear Panache and Izabella and Susan. GrandmaB you better be feeling better! x
? You bet.
