January can be rather dreary here in the UK, but we have had some lovely skies. Here are some photos to cheer you up – in case you need cheering up.
On Tuesday after work as I drove home (I had finished in good time) the sky was fantastic, and I decided to go down to the canal to take some shots, but arrived after the main colours had faded – too late really… but I like this one
On the canal Continue reading “A little sunshine”
A trip to a large shopping centre is not necessarily my choice of how to spend a Saturday, but with a dying freezer (the bottom part of our fridge-freezer is no longer taking anything below -6c) we had to come to a decision promptly, and Milton Keynes has a very large store where we could actually compare, choose and order – all in one go. Continue reading “Concrete Cows”
No, not 2011, but it is all over for a while.
Maybe when the weather gets warmer we can strip her off and get her going again.
Sob.
Back in the late summer the Creekers met and decided to pave our access road. It had once been maintained by the County but about ten years ago they decided the last half mile or so was not theirs and abandoned it to its fate. Several of us appealed the abandonment, pointing out that the road had been regularly plowed during the winter and the local school bus used it when there were schoolkids to be hauled. “Nope” they said “If we did that it was a mistake, it’s not ours and we don’t want it”. The road had never really been paved, it was made by spraying tar and rolling fine gravel into the surface repeatedly over the years and twenty years of unmaintained use had almost destroyed the lot.
We got some estimates from several local paving outfits and decided on who would do the job. Not a cheap process building roads, they all proposed stripping the surface completely and relaying the lot in two three inch layers of hot rolled tarmacadam.
Half between Christmas and New Year and more than half the contents of the fridge are used up, with some waiting to be used as leftovers. It is a bit of a juggling act, balancing the nutritional needs of the family and occasional special dietary requirements, against other commitments and time factors dictated by ‘use by’ dates!
Today I checked all the dates, and promptly made trifle to use up the special custard I had bought for the purpose. We haven’t yet needed the gammon (but it will be used on Friday).
I haven’t been food shopping for a week, unless you count the dash for milk yesterday. My current guest left this morning and new ones arrive tomorrow. Today I have a long list of things to do. Bed linen changeover will be tight. A new menu plan needs to be devised and shopped for.
Why am I blogging?
Until yesterday we hadn’t seen sunshine for days: then about 3pm a slant of sunshine slipped in, to light up my front door – via a reflection in my neighbour’s window. How strange. The sun goes down behind the house and the front door only usually sees the sun early in the morning. I was lucky to see it. I just popped out to collect something from the car.
after the presents
and too much to eat and drink
there’s the Christmas cake…
Well, it is the season, and to encourage participation let’s make this one easy. We will all be doing this in the next few weeks, so take along that pocket camera and get some good ones.
Eat Drink and be Merry, closing time – Midnight January 15th 2012
The deadline is here, so, as Gregg Wallace says “STOP COOKING NOW!”
It is a shame there were not a few more pictures, but the ones that are there are varied and show some great imagination. I am surprised no-one took a picture of the fairy on the Christmas Tree. Yes, I know the joke about Grumpy Santa and his striking elves!
Continue reading “Results of the 19th Nervous Photographic Competition.”
The little tyke won’t leave me alone at the computer, and tries to catch the cursor as it moves around the screen. My eldest is calling me ‘mad cat woman’ as I talk to the cat gently about what it is allowed and not allowed to do…
So what I really need now, to distract from the cat is a good caption competition. Does anyone have a good photo for a quick-fire round?
Boadicea's Chariot 
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