Blogmas, day 12

Good morning again.  It is Friday; two more weeks and Christmas will pretty much be over apart from the leftovers!  

Thank you for your lovely comments yesterday.  I'm definitely not well enough to be going anywhere today, either on my own or in a crowd of vulnerable elderlies - some of them are anyway!  
It's just a cold, not flu - disgusting but not dangerous in anyway.  After a rough day yesterday, I slept really well for the first time in a week and didn't properly wake until nearly seven.  Bliss . . .  Getting up was rough (you know what colds are like) but it's OK, just yucky!!  I have a nice fresh cuppa tea beside me and I will follow that up at some point with a coffee.  Perfect!

I spent a lot of time doing cross stitch yesterday because that's what I fancied doing, so the advent bit of it is out of sync, but there'd a lot of border to do so I expect it will take me until Christmas day to do all of that anyway, and maybe through the Twelve Days as well.

I caught up with Sunday's Game of Wool.  I know it has taken some stick but I am enjoying it and the most recent one was great - making yarn jewellery and a panel of lace.  I( have always found knitted lace fiendishly difficult and this was a very complicated pattern, both in the following and in the unravelling and picking up when a mistake was made.   I feel it has now found its feet.

Dear Chris went and got me some throat/cough sweets and some Vick (Morrisons cheapo version) and they helped considerably.  She's asked me if I need anything else and I think some cough stuff might be a Good Idea.  I thought I had some but then remembered I saw it was out of date a while ago so chucked it out.

So here we go with today's stuff.

Today's tea bag is cranberry, rose hip and hibiscus - that sounds really nice.

There's the usual candle, tin and puzzle section plus a pair of tine Christmas stocking earrings.

The crochet is another heart.

All good, all usable, I'm keeping up with the candles and using the tins.  One of them is going to be for these Christmas earrings!!

Is anyone else totally baffled by the fuss over last week's Strictly elimination and the amount of toxic hate there is around.  Yes, a good dancer went but he had a worse dance both on the day and in the dance off.  And it's a Game/competition, for goodness sakes!!  

Today is going to be a lot like yesterday, I think, but crochet instead of cross stitch.  I have a couple of box sets to watch, should I need something, and I'm feeling tired.  They say sleep is the best medicine, don't they?

I really want to feel better by Sunday.

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Today's Advent music is the beautiful Thorns in the Straw, written and performed by Graham Kendrick.

Here's a link to the lyrics. 
https://grahamkendrick.co.uk/thorns-in-the-straw-since-the-day-the-angel-came/