Evening, everyone. It's been a gorgeous Autumnal day today. After a pretty chilly start, the skies cleared, the sun shone and it felt nice and warm. Lovely.
I went to Slimming World as usual and, also as usual, I had a good time there. Our leader/consultant, Jen, is leaving the area and moving up north and next week is her last week. Today, the lady who is taking over, Heidi, was there to get a feel for the group and to say 'hi'. We will miss Jen terribly but Heidi is very pleasant so fingers crossed.
After group I popped to Morrisons and now I have the Christmas Day meat safely in the freezer. I have decided we are having a nice leg of lamb instead of turkey. It's a nice feeling to know that it is there, all safe and sound.
Then I came home and, basically, just pottered for the rest of the day. I did some housework, some cooking, some clearing out, some crochet (the blanket is really coming on now) and booked some tickets.
One of the guys in the SW group, Mark, is vicar of a local Methodist church that has quite a good music and drama group and in a fortnight they are doing a concert performance of Chess and Mark is in it.
Now, I know the pro stage show didn't do terribly well and was heavily slated by the critics but the music is, I think, absolutely great and I'm really looking forward to this. I'm going with a couple of SW friends so that should be great fun.
On a less happy note, while I was filling dates in next year's diary, I realised that I have double booked so I have had to pull out of the coach trip to Legoland. I'm really disappointed and embarrassed but that's life, isn't it. Maybe they will do another one in 2026. and at least I have given them plenty of time to fill my space.
Saturday tomorrow but the diary looks pretty clear. I can do the on;line SET and then, weather permitting, I might attack the garden.
What are your plans for the weekend?
Sleep well, everyone. xx
My weekend plans involve emptying the van ready for winter as we have had some frost already! Also catching up with ironing and general housework! Catriona
ReplyDeleteAlready - oh, dear. Is that unusually early for round your way? xx
DeleteI am heading to the grocery early tomorrow to get two turkeys. One for our Thanksgiving and one for Christmas. I will be trying to get a quilt sandwiched and hand quilting started, as well as removing some of my plants in various pots and baskets.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It's all about prepping for the future, isn't it? Different ways of harvesting. xx
DeleteOh, that’s too bad. Hopefully you can reschedule. Leg of lamb sounds delicious! You are prepared. TheAwakenedSoul
ReplyDeleteSadly, no. it's not the sort of thing that happens again soon or can be rearranged. But perhaps they will run another similar trip in 2026 - it seems to come up every year. xx
DeleteI did a double take at the Christmas dinner taken care of! You are ahead of the game lol.
ReplyDeleteWell - the most expensive bit anyway! I just thought, while it is double pension October, it is going to be no-spend-November (that's the plan anyway) and to spread the financial load, and seeing as I had decided whet to have this year, why not?
DeleteIt also helped that lamb was a bit reduced. :-)
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The autumn sunshine is a bonus - it's so mellow. It's calm, bright and cool here but I'm a day ahead of myself and thinking it's Sunday already.
ReplyDeleteI kept thinking Thursday was Friday but it's all straight now. :-)
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It's good to get ahead, it's one less thing to think of in the run up to Christmas. I have no idea what I'll be eating at Christmas I shall have to have a ponder.
ReplyDeleteI think so too - there's enough to do that can't really be done in advance. I feel rather relieved that the meat decision has been made.
DeleteI wonder what you will go for . . . < just call me nosy >
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I'm doing Salmon Wellington for our Christmas lunch (husband says he wants it too, although he might well change his mind before then!), I bought a large piece of salmon that was yellow-stickered last week and froze it immediately. I'm pleased about that. Pity about your trip to Legoland. Lovely weather here so I've got washing on the line and have (finally!) got round to planting up my Spring bulbs in pots. Enjoy your weekend, Joy xx
ReplyDeleteOh, very nice. I did consider salmon but Alex isn't too fond of it. xx
DeleteA shame about having to pull out of the Legoland trip but at least with your new diary you were able to discover the double booking early on.
ReplyDeleteThe Chess concert will be something to look forward to, especially when you know someone who is involved and you can show your support.
Absolutely. And Ray was very nice about it too, bless him.
DeleteThere will be another opportunity, I am sure. xx