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Wet, dark and miserable again today. Been like that for days now house lights on all day.

WN, totally agree with you Re workmen, we are trying to get a plasterer to do a couple of small jobs, he lives 4 doors away but can you pin him down to do the job. Think it will require the hard line and have a work with his missus  once he is here he does a good job its just getting him here.

Got to pop into town today, need to take stuff to my sister and I need to buy cards, 3 birthdays this month. 

No decorations up for us, might not even bother with the tree. Can't be bothered with the whole event these days. We don't see the boys or the grandchildren as they prefer to be at their homes with their kids. I understand that as I was the same with ours. We will of course do a video call so will 'see' them and have a chat, as much as anyone can chat to teenagers 

We are meeting up with our eldest son on Friday when he comes up to collect his 2 from boarding school. Table booked for lunch then they will drive back down to north Yorkshire. Think he will be on Christmas dinner duty as his wife fell over last week in the snow and has fractured her radial head in her elbow. 

Right must get a move on and get out.

I had to take a sea sickness pill looking at your Waves David. Good end result though.

Early delivery from IKEA this morning. Poor driver said he's already behind schedule due to having to find diversions as quite a few trees down in the area. I think the amount of rain that has fallen over several weeks will have softened the earth and made tree fall worse.

Mrs WN currently getting to grips with putting it all together. I've got a few Christmas letters to write on the computer. Still can't write with a pen as fingers not quite there yet. Just glad I don't haven't had to sign any documents although I can do a passable signature left handed now. Obviously had to give up my counterfeiting enterprise.

Pouring with rain at the moment.

About to post this last night at about 9.30pm when the forum went down rather early!

We couldn't make up our minds whether to bother with Christmas Decorations this year but in the end we decided that we would, although we have gone for a minimum approach in the house. Decided to put the Christmas Tree in the porch rather than the lounge. I have also put up some outside lights. The three year old from two doors down seemed rather excited about the lights which made it all worthwhile. Not many of 35 houses on our estate have so far bothered with outside lights. Perhaps I need to go for a walk in the dark! 

For me this time of years is jigsaw puzzle season. I have completed one with three more to do, although I sometimes find by Christmas day this number increases! The one I have completed is called Waves, see picture. 

David

Missed all of yesterday's posts on here because of the dreaded Essential Maintenance so have a lot of catching up to do. Nice to read all the updates from B2, H&T, Millie and wish Moulesy all the best with cooking the Xmas dinner, rather him than I. Hope Mrs M's finger is not too painful and that she soon has full use of it. I know from experience how painful and backward broken/dislocated fingers and thumbs can be.

Good to hear that the WNs and the tdas met up, and that the latter made it to cottage and has also had a good day out today.

Better still I checked out server error thread to post,I keep it open as a tab, as I do this thread, it's been removed 🤐 and I get road signs........ page not found

Well just checked in on my tablet. Server error thread is still there............

Good to read others news.

All mince pies, 5 dozen, made frozen and safely in containers 😀

Early for us but we've been putting our decorations up. Anything to cheer up the days! Christmas cards are coming in - I love them. Good to read sender's news, not generally round robins, but a few lines of news.

Spent several days trying to locate the Christmas tree. Reshuffled the loft cupboard to do so and find the electric plate warmer. Horrified to find the Christmas tree bag empty and neatly folded 😱. More scratching of heads..... OH has been saying is it in the loft? - definitely not I reply we don't use it! Eventually today he says I remember putting it in 2 bin liners as it was. Penny drops!  We opened the loft hatch, he's not steady enough and I DON'T do ladders. So peering in from the landing with a torch 'bingo'. Now have to wait son's visit, should be tomorrow, to retrieve it, as he placed it there last year.

No sign of plate warmer, so last resort, the 4 bed drawers at the head end. Means moving bedside drawers. Double 'bingo' in the first one we looked. All items now sorted for Christmas catering.

I blame moving, 36 years of things have the same storage location........

Managed a dry dog walk. Round the village streets. Lots of water running fast through the ditches (dykes as the natives call them 😉). Tried what's usually a hard off road walk but gave up halfway as I was slipping and sliding everywhere. At least dog got an off lead run. Our dog shower is a fabulous boon. She returns muddy, me too, trots round to the back of the house awaiting nice warm water shower to get the muck off. Must be heavenly on cold wet paws and fur. Good on my wellies too. I rarely wear wellies, preferring supportive walking boots, but they've certainly been very necessary this last week.

Milliehull sounds like a fabulous day. We have our grandson tomorrow while mummy and daddy go to make door wreaths. Then I'm feeding us all. 🤣🤣 can I still cope with an inquistive almost 3 year old and prepare a meal? IF it stops raining I'm aiming at a dusk walk to see lights in the village. We have a house covered with illuminations which raises money for local air ambulance and the rest of the village puts on quite a show.

Right must wrap present from NZ for grandson as their package arrived  with various things for distribution including labels. She orders online for delivery here. I return the favour 😉 by sending labels and send her out shopping 🤣🤣. Now getting to the age that things will probably be noticed....... this year its a nice box 😊

We have just been with our nearly 4 year old great grandson to see Father Christmas with his mummy and daddy and a great time was had by all 🎅. It is our annual treat to him. It has rained here most of the week with Wednesday being the only really dry and bright day. It teemed with rain all night last night and all morning but a dry, bright and windy afternoon but not as windy as predicted thankfully. We put our Christmas decorations up this week  including a few outside lights.

I hope Mrs Moulsey's injury is getting better. Our eldest son dislocated and broke his finger a few months ago (trying to stop a ball going out of play at our granfson's football game). It took a while before he got full movement back but all is well now.