Wednesday

Good morning, one and all.  Welcome to Wednesday (already - how??).  It's a dull morning so far but dry and mild.

Yesterday was a lovely day.  Groove was great fun - new block, new playlist, new sequences and they were great.  

Then I took the bus into town and met up with Beth outside John Lewis.  We spent ages browsing round the Jo Malone section (Beth and I are both devoted fans) before Beth spent a small fortune on fragrances and I - despite what I said last week about waiting until the New Year - bought the other perfume I wanted.  However, it's not all that bad.  Ernie (Premium Bonds gave the the cost of almost all of it and I have decided to wrap it up and pop it in one of the Twelve Nights bags.  Deferred gratification is what it's called, I think.

Unfortunately, they popped in a couple of samples and one is really lovely.  It's called cypress and grapefruit and wow!  Definitely not for now but in the New Year - maybe?

Then we went for lunch to Mowgli which, if you don't know it, is an Indian street food sort of place.

We went for a vegetarian sharing platter and wow, it was really good.  I have never been there before but I will definitely be going again, when funds allow.  Not too hot but definitely spicy and such flavours!!!
Beth had a birthday voucher from a friend and I paid the rest so it all worked out really well.

I popped into various shops on the way back to the bus stop and really enjoyed looking at the Festive earrings but I have more than enough (it's a bit of a self limiting things and wait until you see my daily Advent Calendar) so no temptation there, thankfully.

Today is a mostly homey day but with a real treat in the evening.

Lindsey has moved my personal graining session to tomorrow because late afternoon I will be on the Broomfield coach into London, heading for St Paul's to the Sir John Rutter's Birthday Celebration - he is eighty today, I gather.  Looking at the seating plan, it is an absolute sellout - I can only see three spare seats in the whole place - and I have no idea where our seats are so fingers are crossed.

Some of the bumph says:
Join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  for a concert celebrating one of the UK’s most accomplished living composers and icon of choral music, conducted by the man himself, Sir John Rutter.

I love his Christmas music - several of them appear in my Advent Calendar here each year (which I am certainly doing again through December this year) and they are so very singable.
I'm so excited.

Before then I have various homey bits and bobs to get done and dusted (literally) so I'd better stop waffling and get the day started.
Have a good one, everybody, and stay warm and safe.  xx