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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from me. I will try harder to be more active on the website next year. :)

I have been up since 6am, and we did intend to go walking today, we set off and found the fields around here are really flooded so we came home and are now sitting in front of a roaring fire. I am settling down to read my new Nigel Slater The Kitchen Diaries with a small glass of really nice Port (a Christmas present to my OH from someone) I will be asleep in half an hour I think :lol:
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Decided the remaining Charlotte were too small, so opened the Maris Piper sack, mmmmm, monster roasties. :D
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Well, I've dozed through half of the rather splendid production of Rossini's La Cerentola on BBC2 and after a nice cup of tea and some sandwiches will be gearing myself up to dozes through Downton Abbey :lol:
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Had a brilliant day here, despite helping Old Codger to find a leak from underground, in his chicken run. Then cooks Brother turning up to dinner with flu. But the thing that made it brilliant was, a nine month old, that didn't stop smiling and giggling nearly all day, very special. :)
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Best wishes to everybody :)

I hope you all had very nice day.

We spent the day in south London with the daughter and her family. Very nice it was too :D
Cheers PJ.

I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
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Just us & the critters here in Dorset - but enjoyed every moment. My new solar powered DAB Radio is all charged & ready for lottie! Happy Days!

Off to work tomorrow - catch up time on all the little things that didn't get done; (I hope!).

MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FELLOW GARDENERS!

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Hope you all had a good Christmas day and here's to a great new year :D
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Turkey sandwiches for lunch, then turkey and chips for dinner, and then another turkey sandwich for supper.

And who knows what tomorrow will bring..... :)
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oldherbaceous wrote:Turkey sandwiches for lunch, then turkey and chips for dinner, and then another turkey sandwich for supper.

And who knows what tomorrow will bring..... :)



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Alan, that is very funny.

I suspect most of us have been there to some degree or other. When I look at our bulging fridge i wonder what possessed us to buy so much. I think some of us still sometimes think we're back in the good old days where shops shut down for about four days at a time over the Christmas period and one was always fearful of running out of something "in case somebody dropped in". The reality is that most of us could probably survive on leftovers for several days quite happily.
The joint we bought for today's lunch actually ended up being put into the freezer because there was so much food left over from yesterday that I was loath to waste it.
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We had a Christmas evening from the past, playing board games with son and his partner in front of a nice log fire; after goose for dinner we nibbled off a cheese board and shifted a bottle of port, don't remember who won.
Today he is cooking us a curry - I've just been sent out to find bay leaves in the dark and the rain!
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I'm just going to plate up the veg and leg of pork left from yesterday and there's still enough left to feed half a dozen tramps - but couldn't find any!
Christmas pud. and brandy sauce for afters. It is feeling rather like Groundhog Day!

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas - we'll soon be back to normal.

I did hear from both my sons yesterday which cheered me up - one in snowy Estonia (-16C) and the other having a barbeque in Thailand (35C).
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Its our 25th anniversary of our first meeting . We have done a very muddy walk out of Grassington (though no rain) then I have made Rick Steins beef stroganoff with thin chips. Mmmmm. Tomorrow we start the diet (heathly eating)!! :cry
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I'm thinking the Westi family are totally to blame for the wet weather - he bought me a solar powered radio - I bought him a telescope! (At least my pressie has battery backup but I'm sure there will be a clear night for star gazing sometime this year :D ) Sorry :oops:

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