Monday. 02-01-23

 Morning, everyone.  It's dull but dry outside at the moment and Beth and Alex are still warm, snug and, hopefully, sleeping peacefully upstairs.  And why not?

Thank you all for such lovely comments yesterday.  I'm so lucky to have such lovely 'commenters' in here and always appreciate what you say.  Thank you again.

Yesterday went pretty much according to plan, thankfully.  Beth and Alex arrived around four and we watched the Festive Pottery Throwdown (I'd already seen it but Beth and Al hadn't).  Then we started playing Yahtzee, had our buffet, played some more and went to bed when we wanted to - me before the other two but that's OK.

Poor light, but you can see what we had (I forgot to take a photo before we attacked the food, sorry).  It pretty much all went apart from the cheese and the Christmas cake, obviously.  The cake will keep longer term, properly wrapped, and I'm hoping Beth will take some of the cheese while I will grate and freeze the ones that will grate and freeze. 

Must remember not to buy so much cheese next time (yeah, sure!!!!)

Rather more seriously, I am considering making a much smaller cake next year, probably half quantities.  That would make a lot more sense.

So now it is Monday.  Circuits class doesn't start until next week because this is a Bank Holiday, but we're back to Groove tomorrow and from then on all is back to normal routine.

Beth and Alex will go home at some point this morning and I am thinking I might drive down to the Tower Gardens car park and have a stroll around the parks, weather permitting.  I think that would be nice.
I've got rather lazy over the last few weeks and am thinking about definitely having some sort of walk the days I don't have a class, all depending on weather, of course.  The problem is motivation so please send the relevant vibes in this direction, if you can spare them.  :-)

I did this during our lockdowns - walked quite a lot, I mean - and it was really rather nice.

Here's today's Twelve Days gift, bought in one of the Crompton Mills shops in Matlock.

The one on the left that looks like a sponge bag unzips into a back pack while the one on the left is a shopping bag.  They're both very pretty and I think I will get good use from them, especially the back pack when I go on these walks I plan to have.  

Once Beth and Al have gone, I will do a bit of housework but this morning I have some washing in the machine that needs redoing (ooop) and I'm going to start dismantling the Christmas clutter.  Not the tree and the bigger things, they will stay until Thursday/Friday, but things like candles, cards, etc, perhaps even the nativities.
By Friday afternoon, I would like everything to be back to normal to give the cleaners a clear run 9of the place.

Have a great day, everyone.  Stay well and be happy.  xx