Good Morning Sunday New Years Eve 31st December 2023

Good morning from a cloudy but dry Crewe, where we arrived safely yesterday after a reasonably good journey for which we shared the driving.

We were warmly welcomed by my DD2 and family and shared in the excitement of watching a local darts player, Littler, trounce the world champion in a quarter final (?) of the World Championship! Later we enjoyed a meal in a local hostelry.

I’m glad you liked spotting the actors in Wonka, grandMattie and a Lebanese meal sounds interesting.
Going to the ballet sounds an ideal way to spend NYEve, baubles. In contrast, we’re seeing our DGD, for whom ballet is her favourite dance form, on stage in the panto, Snow White, a semi-professional performance in Hanley.

This is my second attempt at posting after the website crashed as I finished my original one. 🙄 Lesson learned and I’ve typed it in Notes!

That church sounds beautiful, Ladyleftfieldlover!

Have a relaxing NYEve, if you can. 🦩🥂🥰🥂🦩

Morning all from a still dark West Oxfordshire. It is dry now but torrential rain woke me at 4 am,
Church this morning at the smallest church in the Benefice. It is only a 5 minute drive away and is a beautiful Georgian building on on the edge of a country estate. Lunch will be a snack because I am cooking leg of lamb this evening. Younger son is still here. He has decided not to go to any NYE festivities but will return to London, probably on Tuesday.
OH would like plum crumble for pudding. Not one of my favourite fruits but we have a stash in the freezer together with some crumble mix I made a while ago. I usually make raspberry crumble, so I suppose he should have his own way sometimes!
Have a good last day of the year.

Good morning from the South Downs. We had gales thunder and torrential rain during the night, and it is still wet and windy. Will get blown around on our walk no doubt and the robins who usually serenade me on my walk will be silent. I’ll take some mealy worms for them i think, also some nuts for the squirrels.

Well, the last day of a year of no particular success on human part with war, climate change and everything related to it. Let us hope that 2024 brings better results.

I fervently hope for peace and harmony.

Rain all day in s somerset, with dark sky until late afternoon and then there is the added wind, not nice

Nine days until my cowl is replaced and I put some protection on the fire grate, after taking the throat plate off. I heard rain drips coming from the flue, the drips are now collecting in a bowl on a small tray, on silver foil

I did a fair bit of cooking yesterday and now have some easy food ready in the fridge and freezer. I also did some tricky sewing on my bag with just the lining today and strap and grommets tomorrow. The bag is difficult to make and manoevre under the sewing machine but the challenge is good and the bag is looking very nice

I too will be glad to get back to normal activities

Have a good day

Good morning from N Bucks where I only know what the weather is like because Rosie asked to go out, took one look at the rain and shot back in.
Is it ever going to stop raining?
I suppose it’s down to climate change. ( ie rain instead of snow) but it reminds me of how in my childhood in Scotland while we rarely had a white Christmas, it would often start to snow between Christmas and New Year and continue well into January. Commiserations to Northern Grans who may be experiencing just that.
Plans for today? None really. Don’t need more than a bottle of milk so I may get that from the village shop or might pop to Waitrose and indulge in a coffee, cake and peruse their Sunday papers.
As years go, 2023 has not been a great one for the world or for many on here so I just want to express my sincere good wishes to you all for the year to come. 🥃

Good morning from dark and damp South Lanarkshire.

We were later than expected coming back from childminding yesterday so I’m behind in my preparations for our family meal tomorrow. I’ll have to get cracking to get organised before I go to church. We will be leaving straight afterwards as we’re heading into town to go to the ballet. Scottish Ballet performance of Cinders, I’m looking forward to it immensely.

This evening we will see in the New Year at home, I’ll probably go to bed shortly afterwards as we have a full house tomorrow.

Wishing everyone a good day as we see out 2023. All the best for the Bells!

Good morning from Bristol. It’s damp and mild.
I had a very busy day, yesterday, withDD and Iris coming to lunch. We then left Iris to play on the computer, while we measured and decided what furniture to but, what size, etc.
Then we went into town join SiL and GD1 and go to the cinema. “ Wonka” is very sweet, if somewhat saccharine (forgive the pun). I had a great time, trying to identify where I had seen the actors in the very many cameos. It was curious that the cast was almost entirely British, but the protagonists were Americans!
After the film, we went to a Lebanese restaurant for dinner, delicious mezzes although, to start with, the girls threw tantrums about eating there - they wanted pizza!
Today, church, then empty.
I’m finding the closure of regular events discombobulating asi I’m confused as to which day is which…
May today be kind to all. Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩