Saturday, 16-12-23: Blogmas 16

Morning, everyone.  It's the weekend!  Would you call it the last weekend before Christmas?  Christmas Eve is next Sunday so maybe it it, maybe it isn't.  Anyway, five days before my Big Day.  Woo hoo!

Yesterday was a good day.  SW was, as always, enormous fun with lots of laughs and a few cards and gifts might have been exchanged.  Then I popped to Morrisons; now I know what's happening on Sunday, I have been able to get the few more things I need.

Then, as I left the shop, something magical.  Outside, the choir (that was MY choir, a few decades ago) were singing Christmas songs.  Of course, I stopped and watched/listened to them to the very end.
I only knew one singer, the grandson of a friend, but that didn't matter.  It just took me back to the times I brought them over the road.
Oh, it was so lovely.

Then I went home, put shopping away and pootled off to LIndsey's for the last personal training of the year.  It was, as always, really good although I wasn't at full strength, unsurprisingly.

Once back home again, I set to in the garden while my lovely cleaners sorted out the house.  I've moved pots around, chucked stuff in the brown bin, swept up mud and leaves . . . it's not finished or right yet but it looks loads better than it did and there are plants in pots breaking up the view of the garden room from the house.  It's going to look good eventually.

The mat runner arrived and is now in the shed in front of the freezer.  The little dehumidifier is doing a great job and the little frost alert heater is helping a lot - the condensation isn't nearly so bad now.

I also managed three loads of washing through the day after I had changed my sheets, some of which is now dried and ironed while some is still drying on the rack.  Whatever the weather forecast predicted, we didn't get any sunshine at all.  Not a single gleam!

Today's Advent thingy from the Body Shop calendar is another shower gel.  I'm so happy with these.  For a start, Body Shop does such lovely, fruity products and this one just smells of summer days.  It's gorgeous.  Also, these small sized bottles are perfect for my Christmas jolly.  What more could I ask for? 

I've almost finished the shampoo and conditioner.  I won't be getting any more for now because I have other products to use up first, but when I need more hair stuff, I will be getting some.   The 60ml contents has been enough for four washes and conditions as I have short hair nowadays and I plan to refill them with the Avon stuff I am currently using and that will do me.  Very neat!

Today I am going into town.  Yes, daft as it sounds, I am.  I'm getting an early bus - there's one at half past eight - so maybe I will be just ahead of the crowds - fingers crossed.  I do have a fair list of niggly little things things and it was either today or Monday.  At least I won't have to worry about parking.

Then, packing starts in earnest.  I do have a Plan in my head, a sort of order, which I am hoping will mean I don't forget anything crucial.  I also have ironing and stuff like that.  

Then, come the evening, it is the Strictly final which I am celebrating with some nibbles and a few drinks.  I'm really looking forward to it and have absolutely no idea who will win.  Usually I do and usually I'm correct, but it is so close this year.
Who do you want to win?

Today's Blogmas music is a lovely, jolly carol that most people know, if only because of the amount of puff needed to sing the chorus without breathing in the 'wrong' places.  'Ding! Dong! Merrily on High', beautifully sung by the choir of King's College, Cambridge and arranged by David Willcocks.