Boxing Day
The Morning After
Hope you all had a good day yesterday, & that none of you found coal in your stockings, unless that was what you wanted of course. We had a very pleasant time. At an hour which seemed far too early, but was in fact 8.30am, H turned up with scrambled eggs & smoked salmon on toast, orange juice & tea for me, in bed. So I was very careful with the crumbs. H is wonderful.
We spoke with our lil' girl, who's staying with her boyfriend as the shop wanted her back in at 10am today. He was busily preparing their Christmas lunch (nut roast, she's veggie), they were well. I started on the lunch, S finally descended & had his scrambled egg & smoked salmon as starters! Then we had roast beef (rare), Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, choice of brussels sprouts (I chose not to bother), carrots, cauliflower, brocoli & peas, with gravy, followed by M&S Christmas pudding with Chanel Island Cream with Corvoisier. Our stomachs loved us but our arteries hate us!
Then coffee & open the presents. I'd gotten everyone things from the Present Aid catalogue - so they're now building a school, paying for a teacher, & running a woodwork course. D said she was most chuffed by the Girls' club sponsorship we'd given her. So that will benefit many. w00t! I got a knitters planning & record book from S (Thinx: is this a hint that he wants a jumper?), a QI book from H (as well as breakfast in bed) & a wonderful At Knit's End - meditations for women who knit too much from
annelaure. Having read it through, & it is fascinating, I find that I do not qualify by the author's definitions of women who knit too much - which are sprinkled throughout the book. Well, not til I got to the last one anyhow: - You know you knit too much when . . . without your knitting you feel lonely!
One more knit fact - this book, written by a Canadian woman living in the Toronto area & printed in the US, was sent to me, in England, by a French LJFriend, who spotted it in the American bookstore in Paris & knew it was for me! How is that for Globalisation?
Then we sat around & watched Harry Potter & the Philospher's Stone, the Christmas episode of Dr Who - BTW Katherine Tate (in full Bridal fig) was considerably bovvered,
papertowlbtrfly may want to skip the following paragraph!
Dr W: Jump
KT : I'm not jumping from a taxi on the motorway.
Dr W: Your taxi is being driven by a Santa robot. Whatever it is they want you for it is not good! Jump!
KT: I am in my wedding dress!
Dr W: Yes. You look lovely. NOW JUMP! So she did!
An interesting episode, made more interesting by having S, who lives in Cardiff, here saying things like "I know where that is!" & "So that's what they were doing there/then!"
Then we watched the Dr Who music concert which was recorded at the Cardiff Millenium Centre concert hall for the BBC Children in Need appeal. It was fun.
OK, Dr Who fans who did not see the Christmas 2006 episode last night can look now!
The Apostrophe's Revenge (Da da DAAAAAH!) Having banged on somewhat about the Greengrocers' apostrophe
yesterday I now find that pushing the relevant key on my keyboard yields a whole 4
dul;'
To add interest - NEW FOR TODAY (only, I hope): - the question mark key yields BHJthe square bracket key -[6-gy
close square bracket ]5
3 qwerikp
Curly bracket GY_{6-
close curly bracket IKP}53QWER
double quote key (open)
4
& close double quote key puts in a D & both deletes the last line! Fortunately control X restores it. Aaaarrrggh!
OK, I shall stop there, but you can see why my writing style may have been altered a little today! Merely to say that either S has been on this machine far too much! (NOT! - S) or the LJ machine has been overindulging in the Christmas Spirit.
Ah well, 2 hours nearly up. Think we may wander down to the sea front, then along for a while, to help counteract the overindulgences of yesterday. (spot word rearrangement to avoid using an apostrophe! Darn, I KNOW how to use them properly, when the key works!)
Y
4dul;'all have a good day now!
Hope you all had a good day yesterday, & that none of you found coal in your stockings, unless that was what you wanted of course. We had a very pleasant time. At an hour which seemed far too early, but was in fact 8.30am, H turned up with scrambled eggs & smoked salmon on toast, orange juice & tea for me, in bed. So I was very careful with the crumbs. H is wonderful.
We spoke with our lil' girl, who's staying with her boyfriend as the shop wanted her back in at 10am today. He was busily preparing their Christmas lunch (nut roast, she's veggie), they were well. I started on the lunch, S finally descended & had his scrambled egg & smoked salmon as starters! Then we had roast beef (rare), Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, choice of brussels sprouts (I chose not to bother), carrots, cauliflower, brocoli & peas, with gravy, followed by M&S Christmas pudding with Chanel Island Cream with Corvoisier. Our stomachs loved us but our arteries hate us!
Then coffee & open the presents. I'd gotten everyone things from the Present Aid catalogue - so they're now building a school, paying for a teacher, & running a woodwork course. D said she was most chuffed by the Girls' club sponsorship we'd given her. So that will benefit many. w00t! I got a knitters planning & record book from S (Thinx: is this a hint that he wants a jumper?), a QI book from H (as well as breakfast in bed) & a wonderful At Knit's End - meditations for women who knit too much from
annelaure. Having read it through, & it is fascinating, I find that I do not qualify by the author's definitions of women who knit too much - which are sprinkled throughout the book. Well, not til I got to the last one anyhow: - You know you knit too much when . . . without your knitting you feel lonely!
One more knit fact - this book, written by a Canadian woman living in the Toronto area & printed in the US, was sent to me, in England, by a French LJFriend, who spotted it in the American bookstore in Paris & knew it was for me! How is that for Globalisation?
Then we sat around & watched Harry Potter & the Philospher's Stone, the Christmas episode of Dr Who - BTW Katherine Tate (in full Bridal fig) was considerably bovvered,
papertowlbtrfly may want to skip the following paragraph!
Dr W: Jump
KT : I'm not jumping from a taxi on the motorway.
Dr W: Your taxi is being driven by a Santa robot. Whatever it is they want you for it is not good! Jump!
KT: I am in my wedding dress!
Dr W: Yes. You look lovely. NOW JUMP! So she did!
An interesting episode, made more interesting by having S, who lives in Cardiff, here saying things like "I know where that is!" & "So that's what they were doing there/then!"
Then we watched the Dr Who music concert which was recorded at the Cardiff Millenium Centre concert hall for the BBC Children in Need appeal. It was fun.
OK, Dr Who fans who did not see the Christmas 2006 episode last night can look now!
The Apostrophe's Revenge (Da da DAAAAAH!) Having banged on somewhat about the Greengrocers' apostrophe
yesterday I now find that pushing the relevant key on my keyboard yields a whole 4
dul;'
To add interest - NEW FOR TODAY (only, I hope): - the question mark key yields BHJthe square bracket key -[6-gy
close square bracket ]5
3 qwerikp
Curly bracket GY_{6-
close curly bracket IKP}53QWER
double quote key (open)
4
& close double quote key puts in a D & both deletes the last line! Fortunately control X restores it. Aaaarrrggh!
OK, I shall stop there, but you can see why my writing style may have been altered a little today! Merely to say that either S has been on this machine far too much! (NOT! - S) or the LJ machine has been overindulging in the Christmas Spirit.
Ah well, 2 hours nearly up. Think we may wander down to the sea front, then along for a while, to help counteract the overindulgences of yesterday. (spot word rearrangement to avoid using an apostrophe! Darn, I KNOW how to use them properly, when the key works!)
Y
4dul;'all have a good day now!