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Curiosity killed ...
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I ended up so full of nasty bug that I had a cast iron excuse for not going to the work do. I went to the training day beforehand, had to lead some of the training, but was asleep by 8pm last night. And it was pretty obvious I wasn't feeling great.
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To North East Quine - Yes! Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens is there!
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Thank you! Much excitement in the North East household!
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Well done to North East Loon! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I've had a busy but not all that productive* day - having coloured my hair and made lunch, I really should have spent the afternoon producing comestible Christmas presents, but what I actually spent it producing was the Cathedral Christmas bulletin (at least that's out of the way).
Then when I got home, I decided that making soup for tomorrow's lunch would be far more therapeutic than making fudge or pâté of varying sorts.
There'll be a mad rush in the next few days, but then there usually is ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
* well, not productive in the way I'd intended it to be, anyway
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Naughty WW woke up this morning, woken from a rather disturbing dream by the alarm, then went back to sleep instead of going for a cycle ride.
I was thinking about doing a penance but...
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All presents wrapped and dispatched/ready to go. All cards sent to those who are still alive at Christmas. Xmas food now bought and ready to take to mother's for festive lunch.
45 unprintable minutes spent trying to get my deskjet printer to work, including rebooting, trying to reinstall software and finally speaking severely to the deskjet saying if it didn't work I would be binning it and getting a replacement. On which note, it immediately decided to co-operate, and I've now managed to print out some photos of my mother's wedding all those years ago, the best one framed as a surprise gift for her.
I was quite surprised that the shops didn't seem to be as busy today as last year, but perhaps that will come. Last year I got stuck in a traffic jam in the supermarket car park immediately on entering, and it took half an hour to get out, so I wasn't chancing it with the car today.
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Welease Woderwick
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Amazingly quiet on the roads in town here Sunday, too - and fewer shops open. Most odd.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... 45 unprintable minutes spent trying to get my deskjet printer to work ...
Well, they would be unprintable, wouldn't they?* ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
After a nice Evensong (our carol service isn't until next week), went out with some of the choir to celebrate the birthday of one of the other altos.
On coming home at about 10 o'clock, had a fit of goddessishness and made the chicken-liver pâté, some of which is for pressies and some for ourselves (or will be frozen and taken to the Choir party next week).
The "to-do" list is shrinking, slowly ...
* with apologies to the late Mandy Rice-Davies.
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I'm missing a TICH thread on which to complain about the burglar alarm up the road which has been ringing since yesterday tea time. Fortunately I can go to parts of the house from which it is not audible - it must be Hell for the immediate neighbours. The police will not intervene if there's no sign of an actual break in, so it's a matter of contacting the owners, who could be holidaying in Australia for all we know.
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Welease Woderwick
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A friend of mine in a similar situation some years ago eventually resorted to a stepladder and a hammer but that was after 48 hours of it.
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The law must be different in Scotland - some friends of ours came home after a week's holiday to discover that in their absence their burglar alarm had developed a fault and the police had broken their door down, disabled the alarm and then boarded the door up again to make the house secure. It cost them quite a lot of money to put everything back the way it was.
Apparently the police did try to find someone who had keys to their house when the neighbours complained, but couldn't. Nowadays they make sure everyone knows who has the spare keys when they go away...
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Most alarms stop after 15 minutes these days anyway ... but I don't blame the police for shutting it up, they make an awful sound!
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Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
... 45 unprintable minutes spent trying to get my deskjet printer to work ...
Well, they would be unprintable, wouldn't they?*
Oh, now that has made my day!! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
When do I get my certificate as hardware engineer?
Certificate, badge and rosette!
Just shows what watching the experts can do!
Wodders, I think what you need is this
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Welease Woderwick
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That's perfect, thanks.
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Of course, for matters non-electronic, the flow-chart you need is this one.
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Kipper pâté made.
Shopping done (except for some booze which I'm leaving for D. to look after).
Fudge made - I added the Bailey's, but I don't think I'll do that again: I feel as if it's all I can taste. Mistakes are available for virtual tasting - help yourselves.
I'll do the cherry-cake and French sticks tomorrow, and with a bit of wrapping-up that should be me about sorted.
I'll be glad of a week-and-a-bit off w*rk - I'm somewhat zonked.
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Baking here too, I'm about to start some gingerbread men, then a chocolate log and possibly some meringues.
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So long as the front room is tidied for Xmas, tomorrow is the baking day. Mince pies, rolls and olive breadsticks are the highlights. Eldest son is doing pastizzi (Maltese ricotta pastries) and curry puffs.
I think our Christmas Eve feast will be snacky, but with cheese, and chutney, ham and bread made at home, we'll do OK.
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You are all making me hungry! With a diabetic husband and a gluten-free daughter, I don't do much baking now ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
But I have made mince and apple pies - I at least6 can eat them!!
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Hsve secured a lobster at a reasonable price for Christmas lunch
Quite amazingly they're doing whole cooked lobsters in the local supermarket for just £6. The dressed ones don't cost much more.
Very little left to do now except get a couple of last-minute things tomorrow and sort out what telly programmes to watch. Then hole up with a stack of DVDs, books and a bag of dark chocolate lebkuchen. And there is nowhere I have to be, and no commuting until next year. O bliss.
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I've just made a large pot of cranberry sauce to take to my mother in laws for Christmas. I need to go out for some sticky-back plastic to stick the labels I calligraphied (is that a word?) for the sauce and the damson gin. I'm expecting a man to come to check our drains, but he's two hours late, dithering whether to assume he isn't turning up and go out or wait a bit longer.
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Christmas meal is what I can find when I get there tomorrow afternoon! With gluten and dairy allergic daughter arriving later as she has to stay until lunchtime or take leave. We'll live, it just could be very random.
We're going somewhere we can both get to reasonably easily this year. And she now lives somewhere that isn't a straightforward journey anywhere.
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Mr Nen and I did The Big Shop first thing this morning so now bird and sprouts are in the house and the main meal event can happen. I've made a tray of chocolate covered flapjack as my contribution to the Boxing Day get-together with Nenlet1's in laws.
I'm sleeping badly at the moment and feel worn out. What I'd really like to do this afternoon is curl up in front of a programme I don't mind missing and go to sleep, but I don't think that's an option. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Nen - who feels exhausted just hearing about all the baking everyone else is doing.
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D. just phoned me from Costco - he's braver than I am going there two days before Christmas ...
Fudge has been cut and bagged (and some delivered to colleagues in the lab); D. reckons it's tastes all right, if rather rich, but as it's Christmas I don't suppose that matters.
If anyone has any spare energy, may I have some?
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I went to bed and had a sleep.
Nen - feeling slightly more human now.
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It's lovely living in a house with people who like to shop and do virtually all of it - I just hand over the cash and go back to my book.
I've got my own computer back at last so thanks to Himself for letting me use his for a couple of weeks. New computer for Nephew Person will be delivered late morning. I must go to Larger Local Town to get a few things that others can't buy for me, but that should be okay as I know pretty well what I want and where to get it.
Midnight Mass tonight and then bed - must also buy a bag of sweets to hand out to the carol singers later.
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There's definitely something Not Quite Right. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
It's 10:45 p.m. on the 23rd, and I appear to be at the stage of organisation that I'd expect to be at this time tomorrow ...
Pressies are nearly all wrapped, except for the perishables, which I'll leave in the fridge until the last minute, and the French sticks*, which I've just taken out of the oven, and will wrap in cling-film before I go to bed.
I must have forgotten something - if anyone can think what it is, please let me know (preferably before the shops close tomorrow).
* Some friends are getting pâté and some are getting spiced lentil soup, so the French sticks will go nicely with both.
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I've wrapped all presents but the other half's. We usually do it Christmas Eve but we're out to dinner at a friends' house tonight.
We have a last minute pop to the shops as a relative has requested we bring a Christmas pudding and drinks to their house over Christmas. Then some tidying.
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That's it then - all shopping completed by 8 am this morning. Early indications are that the supermarkets are going to be packed soon, they were filling up as I left.
Watched "The Snowman" on television last night - strangely I hadn't seen this before, what a lovely little film. I don't normally like animations but this was beautiful.
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I must have been a real treat seeing 'The Snowman' for the first time - a loevly film.
My mum stayed with us last night so we don't have to make a detor to pick her up which given the likelyhood of heavy traffic would have added two or three hours to our journey to my brothers. She's now got up so I need to go and get dressed, packed and sort out the piles of presents for various people. ALl of this is compounded by the fact my husband and two of his siblings have birthdays round Christmas too.
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Well, that's w*rk done for this year - finishing up now until Monday 5th January.
I love my job, but it's nice not to have to do it for a wee while!
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It's now just about the right time to wish my fellow Brits a Merry Christmas - I'm messing about on here, having wrapped all the pressies that will be delivered tonight, baked another batch of loaves, which are cooling, and have some time to kill before D. gets back from the 7:30 p.m. service and picks me up for Midnight Mass.
Afterwards, we'll probably take a turn down to the pond to feed the ducks and wish them a merry Christmas, then home to watch the Mass from St. Peter's on Channel 21 and see whether the organ goes mysteriously sharp* whenever it comes in after an unaccompanied bit ... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
* I feel sorry for the poor old Pope - his choir really isn't awfully good.
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The singing at Midnight Mass here last night would have brought tears to your eyes, Piglet & D, it really was not very good - but they tried their best, I suppose.
Got home about 01.00 which was surprisingly early - going to have a bit of brekkie and open presents soon. Herself had her present weeks ago so I didn't bother to take it back and wrap it for her.
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* I feel sorry for the poor old Pope - his choir really isn't awfully good.
He needs Gareth Malone. I was idly channel-hopping yesterday evening and the Military Wives were on, and I hopped no further. Fantastic stuff.
Listened to some of the midnight service from Westminster Cathedral later on but as always I fell asleep before the end. I remember thinking that some of the music pieces seemed to go on for an unusually long time, but that might just have been my perception.
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Why do we do it to ourselves, year in and year out?
I daren't get on the scales for at least a week.
Christmas lunch here in The Developing World consisted of 17 separate dishes, all cooked this morning - and each of them separately delicious!
Stupendously delicious!
I have decided that I am officially a fat @#$%^&*!!
I think I might have a nap soon.
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Well, that was simply wonderful.
Our Church did a full Christmas meal today with all the trimmings for 100 people including 20 homeless and 30 meals taken out to the housebound. Everyone putting in a really big effort and pulling together. The person who organised it all is a marvellous woman - gentle, kind, organised and sensible.
A really special reminder of just what can be done
I was washer-upper-in chief Now I'm home and it's time for feet up and TV on
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Same every year, I am always surprised, even after having lived here all these years, that on my evening walk around the village I see buses running and shops open on Christmas day - but then I realise that actually less than 20% of the population is Christian so why am I surprised?
As usual lots of Hindu homes have lit stars hanging outside but this year far fewer Muslim homes doing the same.
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Christmas morning Eucharist sorted - not a big congregation, but there never is. Sherry, sausage rolls and mince-pies afterwards courtesy of one of the wardens' wives and a member of the choir, which was nice. Then home for present-unwrapping and GIN followed by phone-calls home - one to Dad who seemed in v. good form (he'd been to a Sally Army Christmas lunch and enjoyed it), and somewhat-less-than-sober one to my sister, who's got The Mob round at hers for the day.
Had "merry Christmas" called out to me by my two-year-old great-niece, which made for a nice "aaaah" factor.
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Hope you're all having a great day.
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Back now from dinner at D & M's, and very nice it was too (although over-indulgence may have occurred).
Nice lazy day tomorrow, methinks; we were given a present of some of those cute little soup-bowls with a single handle, so I think a spot of therapeutic soup manufacture may be on the cards. I'll let you know when it's ready for virtual tasting.
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Lazy days?
Never!
Although I will confess that I just turned off the alarm at 06.00, turned over and returned to sleep so no cycle ride this morning.
![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
However I may cycle in to town later as there is a new ice cream parlour I want to check out to see if it is suitable for future visits.
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WW, my sons always wondered how I could cook a slice with the corner missing. Quality control of course had kicked in.
You seem to be along the same lines. It might just take a couple of visits to be sure you have decided correctly.
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Well yes. You want to form an objective and unbiased assessment, based on some representative samples.
I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday. Peace and quiet, good food, and I've watched more television than I have in an entire month. It was particularly nice to see Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes", as it's one of my favourite films.
A peaceful pre-dawn St Stephen's Day at the moment, frosty and full of birdsong. Nobody about, no cars... I wonder if we will get the snow they've promised later?
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Very heavy frost here, but overcast. Feel I need coffee: lots and lots of strong coffee.
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Cloudy here, too, but no frost as yet.
After the stupendous meal yesterday it was followed by Malabar Fish Curry today which is cooked in a sauce based on cashew paste. Feast fit for the tables in Heaven!
It's sad but I have heard that it is totally unsuitable for people in wheelchairs...
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Had a lovely day yesterday with daughter and good food - delicious apple and mincemeat tart with gluten-free pastry contributed by her (plus brandy butter, of course!)
Grey day today, and cold. Looks like snow.
What do you give old ladies for Christmas? Why, hand and body cream, lots and lots of it, all smelling like a summer day
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I'm just off out to walk to Grantchester for the annual barrel race. Then it will be back here for a lazy afternoon of sherry and good food
I hope you are all having a good Christmas.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
...It was particularly nice to see Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes", as it's one of my favourite films...
Ariel, you're a bad influence! I've just ordered that and two other early-ish Hitchcock's on DVD and it's all your fault!!
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Ariel
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Happy to be of service ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) It's on my wish list as well.
I regret to say that I've just succumbed to the Boxing Day Sales. I now own a shiny new mug which I can take to the office in the new year, and a copy of Ben Aaronovitch's latest Peter Grant book, "Foxglove Summer", on offer at half price. I is sorted.
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Welease Woderwick
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At just six quid for three Hitchcock movies it was hard to say no - so I didn't bother trying. I really must find myself a copy of The Birds as it is so well done.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
...It was particularly nice to see Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes", as it's one of my favourite films...
Ariel, you're a bad influence! I've just ordered that and two other early-ish Hitchcock's on DVD and it's all your fault!!
Watched it with my father in law, Mr Bee having gone up to bed. He was busy spotting actors, though it was I what noticed Michael Redgrave. Was an unexpectedly funny film with many laugh out loud moments, though we had both had sherry and wine earlier!
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