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We have a significant amount of snow, not that much farther north than you Bishops Finger. Two inches lying before church and still snowing. It has continued snowing all day. Sadly the local council did not grit last night, although the tube station was, and only retweeted the amber weather warning this morning, when I was already in church, six hours after it was originally sent out. The Christingle service I was attending with Guides had to be hastily rejigged as those there for rehearsals hadn't managed to arrive, leaving the vicar as emergency stand in.
The High Street is now a compacted ice rink - really exciting - we saw a black cab stop for someone then spin his wheels trying to move off again. The cars behind had itchy hands on horns.
Last night I bumped into this year's SantaCon across Trafalgar Square and the South Bank, walking between seeing Oslo and walking to the Barbican to see Les Arts Florissants performing Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale. We, various people in the audience around me, spent the interval trying to work out which was the violone and which the lyrone - I recognised the theorbo.
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According to Wiki, this is a violone, and this is a lirone.
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... O, BTW, @piglet - hope you soon get the Pigletmobile back safe and sound ...
Thanks, BF. It was never really in any danger - it just couldn't make it up the road that leads to ours without sn*w-tyres. D's fault really - November here was so mild and unwinterish that when the weather did get seasonal (i.e. last night) it happened rather suddenly and caught him unawares (and by the time there was sn*w in the forecast, he was too busy to do anything about it).
We got home safely last night, and a couple of friends in the choir who were better-prepared than we were gave us a lift in this morning. The roads have now been treated, so we should be fine. It's D's birthday today, and he's suggested going somewhere nice for lunch ... ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
We didn't have a bad turnout this morning, considering the weather, but it's not such an issue here.
You'd think after 14 years in Canada we'd be used to getting ready for winter ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Whereas in darkest Surrey, we had some brief flurries of snow but it hasn't settled.
I'm wondering what the trains will be like tomorrow. There are people coming from west, north and south for a meeting and I do wonder who'll make it.
M.
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Not really much in the way of snow here on the edges of South-West London, though it was slushy enough at church (which is up a hill) for me to decide to catch a bus home rather than walk. Son has sent me several pictures of snowy North-East London including one of a snowman he built in his back garden. There wasn't a lot of snow when he was growing up so I guess he's making the most of it now.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Oh, I worked out the violone and lyrone because Douglas was playing the violone and Nora the lyrone, according to the programme, and checked it when I got home. The other instruments were a couple of violins, a cello, harp, harpsichord and harmonium.
Glad to know you've resolved your snow issues, piglet. We do seem to be dealing with quite extensive snow in areas of England and Wales - there are rail problems in the Midlands, Chiltern Railways network, Cotswolds, London area, East Anglia, Virgin trains network and Wales. There are problems at airports including Heathrow and Stansted.
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Very nice, too - and I guess the programme of Russian music is to mark the centenary year of the Revolution.
BBC Radio 3 has done so, and brought some wonderful (and little-known) music to us.
Enjoy!
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Very nice, Boogie. It beats the cocoa and crap tv I have planned.
We seem to have missed the snow up here. A tiny flurry but nothing extravagant. It is bitterly cold though.
I'll be laying wreaths with MuminElmet tomorrow, for my Grandparents and Uncle, and will be breaking out all the layers of clothing. We traditionally finish with fish and chips at the repurposed cinema-based shop near the cemetery which should help the insulation.
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... Glad to know you've resolved your snow issues, piglet ...
I'm not sure "resolved" is quite the word - judging by the temperature forecasts for the next week it won't be going anywhere any time soon. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
D. (bless him) cleared the drive this afternoon, but I fear there's more white stuff on the way.
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Well, having been a yellow warning to beware of Ice this morning, we have instead some nice northerly gales, accompanied by driving Rain.
Which, I suppose, could turn to Ice or even Sn*w at any moment....
...roll on, Spring! I don't like Winter at all at all, big cissy that I am.
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We’ve got my favourite weather today. Pretty snow, cold temperatures and sunshine.
I shall take the pup for a walk round a shop then a romp in the snow by the river ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Snow mostly gone, bright sunshine and a cold brisk wind - good weather for drying the towels after our morning swim!
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The rain first thing this morning has changed from sleet to snow again, which is beginning to settle on the trees and the undisturbed snow. The weekly market is cancelled, several of the local village schools are shut or running from 10am to 2:30pm. The Central Line is warning that services may be disrupted later. I am dithering if I'll get home if I go out to the Penguin Cafe orchestra recreation at the Union Chapel tonight, remembering Simon Jeffes on the 20th anniversary of his death.
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Not sure if this belongs here or on the other thread… On Sunday lunchtime my parents’ church was holding a Christmas lunch. My parents thus spent Saturday afternoon dutifully peeling sprouts for fifty people.
Then six inches of snow happened. Christmas lunch was cancelled and the rents now have a rather significant quantity of sprouts on their hands.
(They’re hoping it will be rescheduled soon enough for them still to be edible by then.)
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Not sure if this belongs here or on the other thread… On Sunday lunchtime my parents’ church was holding a Christmas lunch. My parents thus spent Saturday afternoon dutifully peeling sprouts for fifty people.
Then six inches of snow happened. Christmas lunch was cancelled and the rents now have a rather significant quantity of sprouts on their hands.
(They’re hoping it will be rescheduled soon enough for them still to be edible by then.)
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Then six inches of snow happened. Christmas lunch was cancelled and the rents now have a rather significant quantity of sprouts on their hands.
Sprout soup is really nice
LRP's Post Christmas bubble and sqeak, using roasties and sprouts served with cranberry sauce is good. However my chilli con turkey is a sprout free zone.
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Ever since returning from Kenya I have struggled with the cold- today on the South coast it is beyond words.
We have the heating on, the fire going and we both have blankets wrapped round us (mine is fleecy, my husband's is a Maasai blanket)
I love the look of Winter , just not the cold!
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I will send yopu some heat, Mrs Beaky. High 30s, up to around 40 for Sydney this week many days. I get afternoon sea breeze but occasionally that is blocked by slow moving heat mass from west.
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I'd love to send you a few degrees, Mrs. Beaky, but we're currently in minus numbers here.
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Just above freezing here, after a very frosty night, but it's been a most beautiful, sunny day. More to come tomorrow, I believe.
That there Sun-Shiny Stuff don't half lift the Art, eh?
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Rats. I spoke too soon....rain overnight, Sun Shiny Weather towards the w/e.
Meanwhile, the long, dark evenings are being employed at the Episcopal Palace by rather geeky computer work. The laptop PC, which we use for music when an organist is n/a, has died, so I am busy transferring the CDs etc. onto a new PC.
Our Place is blessed by having two talented pianists/organists, but they are not necessarily available for every service, hence the need for what we refer to as the Karaoke Machine.
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) to all who give their time, and talents, to church music.
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We've had another couple of inches of sn*w today, so I did what any sensible person would: made soup. And bread. And didn't go anywhere.
D, who's not been feeling the best since Monday, went in to his weekly staff meeting at w*rk, but things like getting the snow-tyres sorted have been put on hold. With any luck, the hike in temperature they're forecasting for tomorrow will clear some of it away and give us a bit of breathing space, as I really need to get a few bits of shopping done.
not at all organised piglet
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I do admit, I feel so much more organised both in the organist's work and Main Paid Work for having had these very snowy days here in the Middle.
I didn't go out all weekend other than to church, and blitzed various lists and rotas. Along with about six months worth of filing. Then some household chores when I was getting antsy and needed to move about.
Monday and Tuesday, Main Workplace was mostly closed apart from the need for cover for residential students. I'm near enough to walk in, so I did. I'm also far enough away to have been sent home a bit early both days as the other colleagues in my department live even nearer.
I did try saying I had been lent the most splendid snow grips and felt as safe, if not safer, as I normally did. Also, strangely, any cyclists have been cycling on the road rather than the icy pavements. So, the only danger has been from people with inadequate shoes slithering especially those also with pushchairs with wheels with inadequate grip. But, line managers were having none of it and pointed me to the exit. Like they said, I'd turned up both days on time, making no excuses, put in the work without having to be told, supported my solitary student most thoroughly (Said student felt a bit over-supported and is looking forward to the return of the rest of the group) when a good number of others had done none of those things and have hoist themselves by their own petards via social media....
Relative normality is returning to Main Work Place today - but I'm placing bets on half not being in!
BF, aren't cold dark evenings made for geeky computer projects? Mine is the joining up of what has been very disjointed church social media! (Website, FB and the tweeting thing.) It is beginning to pay off!!
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Husband en rouge is famous!
The education minister has decided, among other measures, that he wants all middle schools everywhere to have a choir. Husband en rouge runs a rather successful one (90 kids registered this year and an annual concert at the Town Hall of the 15th district). The other day a group of education ministry bigwigs and Radio Classique (Classic FM equivalent) reporters turned up in his classroom to record the choir and interview husband en rouge and a couple of (handpicked, well-behaved ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) ) students. He was on national radio for a good thirty seconds yesterday.
I now have ambitions of becoming a celebrity trophy wife ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
No snow here, just gloom, rain and bad tempers on the morning commute.
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We're back to rain, for which I am rather grateful: I live at the bottom of a cul-de-sac off a side street. The main roads and part of the pavement in the centre of town had been cleared, the side roads not so much. Two days walked on snow becomes ice, walking on ice does not compare to tramping freshly fallen, snow.
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Rainy and rather gloomy here, but, as Japes says, ideal for busying oneself with geeky computer work! CDs are busily being ripped onto my other PC as I type this....
Madame la vie, are you intending to be a celebrity trophy wife like this one ?
(Safe for work - does not feature anyone whose name rhymes with 'dump'.)
I'll get me coat.....
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It’s been the yukkyest of yucky rainy days today - I’m glad to be home in front of the fire 🔥
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We got a bit of freezing rain last night (ugh!) then a bit of ordinary rain this morning (hurrah!), which has helped to shift some of the snow, so I did a spot of shovelling this afternoon. The snow on the deck and the path wasn't too bad, but when I went out to clear the drive so that we could get the Pigletmobile out, the stuff that the plough had churned up into the opening was very wet and heavy, and some of it had accumulated into "boulders" which were a right pain to shift.
D. is usually I/C snow removal chez Piglet, but he's still not feeling quite up to it; we think he may have pulled a muscle when he was clearing the drive on Sunday, so it's down to me.
We went and did a spot of minor shopping, which only served to make me realise how hopelessly behind myself I am, although I've now got jars, so the manufacture of red-pepper jelly can commence.
I'll get there ... eventually ...
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It’s been the yukkyest of yucky rainy days today - I’m glad to be home in front of the fire 🔥
Got soaked waiting for a bus this morning, a nasty drive to church later on in the rain and dark. A bit of sunshine in between.
We haven't got a fire...
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An unexpected fall of snow last evening (on top of partially-thawed and refrozen snowy ice) has made everywhere very slippery today. Although he sun is shining, it is also very cold.
I was very glad to get back to the house after church this morning without falling. Too many people I now are recovering from fractured femurs and shattered shoulders.
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A lovely, bright, mild day here - but bodily fatigue from yesterday means that I have to rest within the Palace precincts today.
I find that, despite my reasonable recovery from brain surgery last year, I still get very tired very easily. It's not all that easy to learn how to pace oneself, no?
Geeky computer stuff continues, but the fact that my two functioning PCs have to be at opposite ends of a Palace corridor means that I get at least some exercise by wambling from one to the other... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
Fortunately, supper is almost ready. CHICKEN with cheese sauce, and a BAKED POTATO. Yum yum.
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Chicken, cheese sauce and a BP sound just about right, BP.
D. seems to be getting better, slowly. After a lazy morning (we set the alarm for 11:00 a.m. and I was actually woken by it - I must have needed the sleep) we had a light lunch (beans on toast) and went down to D's office to sort out the order for the carol service. D. had made a start on it, and I finished it off, then we did a spot of copying of music* and made sure everyone's folders had everything and that took us until choir practice. We had a very good rehearsal - even the carols that we thought were going to be tricky (notably Quem vidistis by Poulenc) went frighteningly well.
It is, however very cold: currently -15° but feeling like -24, and the ground is peppered with Patches of Treachery™.
* just choir copies of things we already have in books, so that we don't have to cart a whole load of stuff around on Sunday - no illegal copies here!
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Originally posted by Piglet (re the awful O holy Night) :
eta: I had to turn it off after the first line, and I still need ear-bleach.
you have to endure more than that to truly appreciate its deliberate (and IMO hilarious) awfulness.
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I think I'll content myself with imagining the awfulness/hilarity; just thinking about OHN gives me the most awful earworms.
I've had a busy-ish day today. The lunch-time organ concert was done by members of the local organists' society; D. wasn't supposed to be playing, but one of the others got the Dreaded Lurgy and had to pull out, so he filled in with an improvisation on Christmas carol tunes, which was really v. good (completely unbiased opinion of course ).
After a nice leisurely lunch, did a quick scoot round Costco to get ingredients for our contribution to the choir Christmas party (D's renowned shepherd's pie - I'll make some bread as well), then home for some Quality Bear Time™, and I've just finished making a few jars of red-pepper jelly which will be given as Christmas presents.
Now I'm going to see if the Wine Society's web-site will talk to me* so that I can get my UK relations' pressies sorted out.
* When I tried to tell it our new address it was having none of it, as it wanted a UK post-code. It had our Newfoundland address, so I don't know what it's on about. I hate internet shopping.
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It feels a bit more Christmassy now I've been to a few Christmas Concerts. Thursday night was Belshazzar's Feast on their Christmas tour.
Yesterday was I had a ticket to the afternoon BBC Singers live concert from Temple Church which was lovely, and then tickets to World Service Click programme on technology in music that is going out on Boxing Day. There were some amazing guests including Andrew Hockey's ball bearing instrument which walked past me down the road while I was queuing outside, and Beatie Wolfe singing a couple of her songs, along with another musician* and a teacher of technology and physics with as basic synthesiser.
* I can't remember her name well enough to google her.
Very sadly, not, the Click tickets meant I couldn't possibly attend the work Christmas do when my successor mentioned in on Wednesday, phoning me to ask how to do something. (She had to wait until I got back from Guides, too.)
The mountain of reeking stuff is slowly reducing, I'm hoping it will have gone enough to put up some decorations soon.
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Speaking of laundry, I received a lovely incarnational Christmas card today from my fellow Blue Scarfed Menace.
It depicts Our Blessed Lord, as a baby, lying on the ground in his cradle/Moses basket, or whatever, whilst His Blessed Mother hangs out his newly-washed nappies on the line to dry.
The message on the front of the card reads:
'Behold the handmaid of the Lord'
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Speaking of laundry, I received a lovely incarnational Christmas card today from my fellow Blue Scarfed Menace.
It depicts Our Blessed Lord, as a baby, lying on the ground in his cradle/Moses basket, or whatever, whilst His Blessed Mother hangs out his newly-washed nappies on the line to dry.
The message on the front of the card reads:
'Behold the handmaid of the Lord'
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I love it! I wish such cards could be found around here.
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I think I'll content myself with imagining the awfulness/hilarity; just thinking about OHN gives me the most awful earworms.
I was just shopping at a wonderful independent bookstore nearby. Unfortunately, they were playing a recording of OHN crooned by some female singer who should find a new line of work.
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Speaking of laundry, I received a lovely incarnational Christmas card today from my fellow Blue Scarfed Menace.
It depicts Our Blessed Lord, as a baby, lying on the ground in his cradle/Moses basket, or whatever, whilst His Blessed Mother hangs out his newly-washed nappies on the line to dry.
The message on the front of the card reads:
'Behold the handmaid of the Lord'
IJ
Luther put it better: Other men see their neighbour hanging out nappies and laugh at him; God does and gives a loving smile.
Think of washing nappies in a North German winter 500 years ago - or any pre-machine days for that matter.
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Nappies may be one of the reasons D. and I decided "having children" was something Other People did.
After a nicely lazy morning and afternoon, we went out for a cheap-'n'-cheerful bite and then spent an hour or two sorting and tidying the heaps of music in the choir library*, then back to get the food ready for tomorrow's party. D's shepherd's pie just needs to be baked when we come home at lunchtime, and my loaves are currently on their second rise.
* I love the Advent Procession, but it does involve a lot of Stuff. At least D. had the wit and foresight to print each of the plainsong Advent O antiphons on different-coloured paper, so they're easily identified.
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Think of washing nappies in a North German winter 500 years ago - or any pre-machine days for that matter.
I used to wash our baby's nappies (by hand) in West Africa. In the dry season, they dried so quickly that, having hung them all out on the line, I could immediately start bringing them in again. But they were stiff as boards.
In the wet season, they took days to dry, even under cover.
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Disposable nappies were a new thing when Boogielet1 was born. I bought large quantities, pleased that nappy washing wouldn’t be a thing in our household.
He decided to be born with a clicky hip and needed double terry nappies for three months.
That boy always has been awkward ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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The card I mentioned was produced by the Franciscans (Community of St. Clare), but doesn't seem to be on their website. Maybe my fellow BSM has had a number in stock for a while!
ION, our rose-pink chasuble got one of its two annual outings this morning, to the edification of the Faithful Few who turned up in spite of the Feezing Frog. Advent has been very low-key so far this year.....
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....but the Feezing Frog was replaced by Wind and Rain this afternoon, reducing the congregation at Carols and Lessons to...you guessed it...the Faithful Few.
O well - the Winter Solstice will soon be past, and then the darkness will begin to withdraw.
The quicker, the better.
(BTW, O piglet, was young Master Gibbons' excellent little piece, This Is The Record Of John, suitably rendered today?).
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Don't know how it went in the New World; here in England it went very well at Choral Matins (Byrd Responses, Jubilate by Prince Albert forming the other musical delights).
In fact attendance at Matins is on the up: having stuck at around 35-40 for some years, this year we are averaging 50+ - in March there were over 70 for Matins, complete with The Litany.
Our aim in the new year is to introduce a monthly choral evensong...
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... BTW, O piglet, was young Master Gibbons' excellent little piece, This Is The Record Of John, suitably rendered today?
It was indeed (with solo piglet), and I got lots of very complimentary comments afterwards, which was nice (especially as I'm nursing the tail-end of a nasty cold, and though I got through it, I could have felt more comfortable than I did).
It really is the most wonderful anthem.
The carol service went off very nicely this afternoon, with a decent congregation, and D. was very pleased with it. Afterwards we had a very enjoyable choir party, which is why I'm so late coming into the Ship's tea-shop.
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Well done, O solo piglet!
It is indeed a wonderful piece, and just so right for the season - unlike the sugary effusions one hears in shopping centres.
Wonder what they'd make of a nice drop of Gibbons or Byrd?
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I went with two friends today to Hinton Ampner, a NT place near Winchester, to see their Christmas decorations, and they had really surpassed themselves. Last year's were wonderful, but this year they've done Grimm fairy tales and the decorations are simply awesome. The imagination, the details, the realisation of their plans just floored us, like Rapunzel's hair streaming all the way down the great banisters to the hall, and the tiny shoes in the shoemaker's shop...
I know the NT does some contentious stuff, but things like the Christmas dressing of their houses are just Something Else ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Mrs. S, still awestruck
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I'm not long back from the Cathedral staff-and-partners bash at the Deanery. Good company, plenty of wine and v. good, v. rare roast beef (although there was an end that was well-enough done that D. could eat it).
The house was beautifully decorated: it's a hobby of the Dean's wife, which she's considering turning into a profession. She's worked in a bank all her life but is considering taking early retirement and doing Christmas decorations professionally. She'd be very good at it.
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In other news, we now have sn*w-tyres on the Pigletmobile; D. had to defrost the lock on the shed to get at them, but the advantage of being as slow off the mark as we were was that he was able to just drive in to the tyre place and get them done straight away without having to wait.
It's just as well - there was a wee bit of sn*w this evening which would have probably been enough to make getting home a bit of a faff.
relieved piglet
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Doing Christmas decorations professionally would only be a seasonal job, though, no?
Or perhaps not, given that Christmas starts around mid-September....
....and Planning Ahead is good.
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