Christmas Minus Six
Dec. 19th, 2008 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaceyGot most of my cards in the post today (still have to do the ones I need to include letters in).
Dropped a load of TV programmes from the hard disk recorder to DVDs. This was pretty time consuming but I'm hoping to empty the hard drive and reformat it in time for the recording of programmes at Christmas.
Packed up what I expect will be the final few CD and DVD orders from the Artisan website - though there's always someone on a last minute push calling for stuff to be sent first class on 23rd December.
Took Number One Son to the Megabus stop at Woolley Edge services in Wakefield as he's off down to London for the weekend to schmooze with architects and catch up with friends. Managed to shop at the Marks & Spencer food-shop on the M1 and get a few emergency items like a box of chocs and another of Turkish Delight so I can have something handy available if anyone brings unexpected presents. Discovered that they have to ask your age for Turkish Delight because apparently it contains alcohol. No, I'm not under 18, but thanks for asking.
:-)
Called at the local fabric shop in Denby Dale to see if they had anything that would do for the bathroom window once Best Beloved has finished the decorating. They kinda did but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. White muslin would work but all they have is poly cotton or silk. Checked out their fleece. They have the worst set of colours imaginable. Orange, shocking pink, mauve, beige or deep red. The deep red is the best of a bad bunch but it's still not good. Isn't anyone doing subtle colours and/or patterns in fleece these days? They would if they lived in Birdsedge because they'd realise that fleece is not just for kids. Also I've promised to make my friend S. a pair of fleece trousers for Christmas as she has some diabetic leg damage and her legs are always cold. Somehow I don't think she had orange, pink, red or mauve in mind. I'll have to see if she can cope with beige. (The big fabric shop in Wakefield was no better last week.)
Called at the health food shop in the mill complex in Denby Dale and managed to get some of the Orange, Mango and Cinnamon tea that neither Sainsbury not Morrisons had last week. They only had Gayles set honey though. Apparently there was some local bee disease this year and 'set' honey is in short supply. Last week's delivery was the last local set honey until next summer's honey season. (And, of course, I missed it.) They had runny honey (borage).
Managed to annoy a set of muscles in my lower back that are subsequently twingeing. I knew I shouldn't have lifted that bed, but I was being whatever the female equivalent of macho is. Errr... Stupid? I have this old 'war wound'. Having been thrown violently from a young horse I was helping to break when I was 20 I now have this tendency for my lower back to remind me that it has been smacked into the ground once too often.
Have snagged a small piece of Kingspan insulation from Best Beloved's barn renovations and currently have it under my desk where it is insulating my feet from the floor (which is carpet on top of stone flaggs on top of a (very) cold cellar). The temperature of my toes is considerably more towards the comfortable range.
Bathroom is almost finished. Only the last layer of wallpaper to go on now and having bought it last year I'm surprised to find that a) I still like it and b) it's the right colour and marries the grey tiles and the white tiles together nicely. Hopefully BB will slap it on the wall tomorrow.
Put some Aberdeen Angus beef sausages, potatoes and parsnips in the oven to roast and by the smell, they're ready... See you later...
Dropped a load of TV programmes from the hard disk recorder to DVDs. This was pretty time consuming but I'm hoping to empty the hard drive and reformat it in time for the recording of programmes at Christmas.
Packed up what I expect will be the final few CD and DVD orders from the Artisan website - though there's always someone on a last minute push calling for stuff to be sent first class on 23rd December.
Took Number One Son to the Megabus stop at Woolley Edge services in Wakefield as he's off down to London for the weekend to schmooze with architects and catch up with friends. Managed to shop at the Marks & Spencer food-shop on the M1 and get a few emergency items like a box of chocs and another of Turkish Delight so I can have something handy available if anyone brings unexpected presents. Discovered that they have to ask your age for Turkish Delight because apparently it contains alcohol. No, I'm not under 18, but thanks for asking.
:-)
Called at the local fabric shop in Denby Dale to see if they had anything that would do for the bathroom window once Best Beloved has finished the decorating. They kinda did but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. White muslin would work but all they have is poly cotton or silk. Checked out their fleece. They have the worst set of colours imaginable. Orange, shocking pink, mauve, beige or deep red. The deep red is the best of a bad bunch but it's still not good. Isn't anyone doing subtle colours and/or patterns in fleece these days? They would if they lived in Birdsedge because they'd realise that fleece is not just for kids. Also I've promised to make my friend S. a pair of fleece trousers for Christmas as she has some diabetic leg damage and her legs are always cold. Somehow I don't think she had orange, pink, red or mauve in mind. I'll have to see if she can cope with beige. (The big fabric shop in Wakefield was no better last week.)
Called at the health food shop in the mill complex in Denby Dale and managed to get some of the Orange, Mango and Cinnamon tea that neither Sainsbury not Morrisons had last week. They only had Gayles set honey though. Apparently there was some local bee disease this year and 'set' honey is in short supply. Last week's delivery was the last local set honey until next summer's honey season. (And, of course, I missed it.) They had runny honey (borage).
Managed to annoy a set of muscles in my lower back that are subsequently twingeing. I knew I shouldn't have lifted that bed, but I was being whatever the female equivalent of macho is. Errr... Stupid? I have this old 'war wound'. Having been thrown violently from a young horse I was helping to break when I was 20 I now have this tendency for my lower back to remind me that it has been smacked into the ground once too often.
Have snagged a small piece of Kingspan insulation from Best Beloved's barn renovations and currently have it under my desk where it is insulating my feet from the floor (which is carpet on top of stone flaggs on top of a (very) cold cellar). The temperature of my toes is considerably more towards the comfortable range.
Bathroom is almost finished. Only the last layer of wallpaper to go on now and having bought it last year I'm surprised to find that a) I still like it and b) it's the right colour and marries the grey tiles and the white tiles together nicely. Hopefully BB will slap it on the wall tomorrow.
Put some Aberdeen Angus beef sausages, potatoes and parsnips in the oven to roast and by the smell, they're ready... See you later...
