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Oh, BTW, Storm 'Auntie' Barbara didn't really affect us here, though I believe parts of Scotland became quite breezy. Next on the list is Storm Conor, I think, which sounds much more robust and manly...

IJ

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Where do they go, indeed?

One priest I know always anticipates a lowish attendance at Christmas, because most of his congregation are grandparents, and go 'away' to/with Family....

.....oddly, it never seems to work the other way round, with Family coming to them (and attending church).

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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
So many people seem to have been Struck Down (like me) by the Dreaded Lurgy (chesty cough, headache etc. etc.), common in this area in mild weather.


IJ

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... the Dreaded Lurgy ...

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Go on, how many read that as "Dreaded Liturgy"?

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You mean anything other than Cranmer's Matchless Prose™?

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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Piglet's roast lamb dinner reminds me of the words of the carol 'See, the tender Lamb appears, promised from eternal years'...

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Never thought of that!

We've had a very lazy day: we didn't have any a.m. at all ( ) and then we finished off the tender lamb (cold, with tomatoes and the re-heated left-over potatoes), then went for a drive a little way out of town before coming to D's office to use the computer.

We really ought to start organising ourselves though, as we're moving into our friends' house tomorrow afternoon. We've told the rental company that we'll be out of the flat by the 30th (the day our friends leave for France), so we have a couple of days to get our bits and pieces moved - the futon and the air-con unit can go in D's office.

We may have to rent or borrow something bigger than the Pigletmobile to move the futon, as we don't want the hassle of dismantling and reassembling it.

Our estate agent says there have been a couple more viewings of Château Piglet, but still no bites. Not holding my breath ...

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Christmas has been survived with a little help from Eric Idle and his rather graphic Christmas song - it is definitely NSFW but if you don't know it, as I didn't, then a quick search should reveal it.

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I assume that is the song with which he and John Cleese ended their performance here a few weeks ago.


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* Did you manage not to wake them? *

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Well, if we didn't, they were too polite to say. As most of you know, early mornings only feature in the lives of D. and me in extreme circumstances (having to catch planes, Easter services at silly o'clock, that sort of thing) and I think our friend has proved us right - after we'd eaten lunch (v. good) he said, "I've been up since 5 this morning, so I'm off for a nap".

Now, really, what's the point of getting up that early* if you have to have a nap in the afternoon to make up for it?

* In fairness to him, he does voluntary work at the local Palliative Care centre, and starts doing it at 7 a.m., so we'll let him off.

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Originally posted by Boogie:
See my 'room' and 'walk' blogs for photographic evidence

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It all looks very lovely Chez Boog and what a great place to have nearby for walkies.

We had a lovely Christmas with both Nenlets plus son in law here. The place feels pretty empty now but Mr Nen has gone out to see friends for coffee and lunch. I am feeling under the weather enough, and with enough of a dramatic cough, not to have gone with him, but well enough to be enjoying some time to myself with my books and journal and online stuff.

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Well, we live in hope....

Here, another chilly, foggy day, which reminds me of the apocryphal newspaper headline 'Fog in Channel - Europe isolated'.

Welcome to Brexit Island...

Oh, and I can't see why Piglet is worried about sn*w, with three months' worth of food and cooking to look forward to! Unless the sn*w is forecast to last for three months...

IJ

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Now you've done it. You wrote snow, now sn*w! You had better exercise host's prerogative and correct that.

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You're absolutely right, SS; I shall remedy my transgression forthwith.

We didn't get anything like the 6-8 inches promised so far.

After our friends had left for the airport, we went back to the flat to pick up a few more boxes of stuff (mainly food), and found that the rental people have turned the electricity off, so we had to faff about with just the light of the torch D. keeps in his pocket.

Having waxed lyrical about all the food that's been left, we ended up getting fish and chips from the First Nations chippy on the way back, but we will be doing Culinary Things, honest m'lud.

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Originally posted by Boogie:
Please, please, please don't put 'Brexit Island' in the new name

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If anyone tries that one on I may claim Hosts Prerogative and edit it out of sheer spite!



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