Saturday Night & Sunday Morning

Last night I had a night out with two girlfriends, we are all a bit overspent at the moment so we went to Wetherspoons. We got to town about 7 O'clock and the place was reasonably quiet but by 9.30pm it was full of 15-18 year olds - oh how we felt our ages when we started commenting "god, she'll catch her death in that outfit". Anyway, by 10pm we were back at one friend's house swapping pressies and watching "Live at the Apollo" - we know how to live you know! Friend's husband had, as usual, gone to town on the garden Christmas lights - complete with moving reindeer - fab-u-lous. Friend's daughters are 17 and 20 and both have boyfriends so they are at the stage where they want to spend lots of time at Christmas at their respective boyfriend's places - it's hard for my friend who dearly wants everyone at home - the joys of having children eh?

Today I've only ventured as far as the garage to get a paper and Peter has braved the cold to dig up a 'test' parsnip from the garden. Said parsnip is great - a prince amongst parsnips. So we'll be digging up some more for Crimbo dinner later in the week.

Peter has also been baking chocolate chunk cookies today (a Hugh F-W recipe) and pretty delicious they are too. Peter will blog with the recipe later I think..... a man who bakes - great :-)

I'm currently watching 'Love Actually' - one of my favourite films - sniff sniff. The bit where Emma Thompson thinks her husband has bought her something thoughtful for Christmas but it turns out it was present for his mistress (but she doesn't let on she knows) is heart breaking....

Talking about films, I've been looking about to see what films are coming out that look good to cheer up January - so far they are:-

Sherlock Holmes


It's Complicated


Lovely Bones


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