Monday!!!

We've had a nice peaceful weekend and got rid of some of the Christmas clutter. The cards have been taken down and put into a box with the few cards I had left from the ones we sent, the Christmas village has been dismantled, packed away and gone back upstairs.There is now just the tree which will come down at the weekend after DD's birthday and that will be it for another year.
I was ready for it all to go away on Boxing Day but I didn't want to seem like a killjoy.

Today I have had a little potter about doing housey things and when I had had enough of that I started kitting up some cross stitch projects. Fabric has been cut and zig zag stitched to stop it falling apart as I sew and threads have been chosen. If I get a chance I may start stitching tonight or I may have a sort out on one of my USB sticks and make some space to store my downloaded charts as last night I purchased a whole magazine in PDF format and it's quite a big file. I'll see what I feel like doing after tea.

We'll be having salad for our evening meal. I think I have gone off cooked meals for a while as yesterday I did pork chops with all the trimmings and I barely ate half of mine. I enjoyed the tuna sandwich we had at tea time much more....so light and simple for a few days now.
DD has a long shift to work on New Year's Day so I am just doing a buffet style tea....again with salad. I'll make some scotch eggs and vol au vents and put out a cheese board and that will do us.

Right....I had best go and do some chopping and slicing.
Hope you've all had it lovely day.....we've had bright sunshine and very blue skies.
Sheila-x-

So Long Turkey!!!

The last of the turkey has been sliced, wrapped and tucked away in the freezer for future meals and it may be a good while until it sees the light of day again. I certainly can't face any more of it for the foreseeable future.
Today we are having good old sausages and tomatoes with some crusty bread.

DD and I have been into the little town for a small top up shop and I was surprised at how quiet it was both on the roads and in the shops. Mind you we don't have any big stores really so I expect anyone sale shopping is out at the big retail parks in Stoke or Derby.....and they are welcome to that. There is nothing I want or need at the moment.

We are having another nice quiet evening and have no plans to go anywhere or do anything in particular tomorrow. We'll just take the day as it comes.
Have a lovely weekend.
Sheila-x-

Back To Normal Today!!!

It's just Andy and I at home today. DD is back at work and when she comes in it will just be a quick change and out again as she is going to spend the night at The Doodles while DDIL's sister is still here.
Andy has been out this morning and taken the rest of the stuff that needed going to the recycling centre from the old house. Tomorrow the keys will be handed back and it will be off their hands.
They are settling into their new house beautifully.

I am doing laundry....when am I not....lol.....and in between loads I am browsing Etsy shops for downloadable cross stitch charts to buy with the money DD gave me for Christmas. I'll get them printed off and then kitted up ready for stitching.
They will all be Christmas projects as they are my absolute favourites to stitch.

Having looked at the tv guide for tonight I think we may well have to dig around in our DVD's for something to watch while we have a simple tea of cheese, crackers and pickles.

To finish the day I will go up for a bath and use some of the gorgeous Sanctuary Spa goodies I got for Christmas.

I hope you are having a lovely day today.
Sheila-x-

I Must Have Blinked!!!

My word....that went by in a flash didn't it?

We have had a lovely couple of days.....Christmas Eve with our gorgeous Doodle family, breakfast cooked by DS and then the sheer joy of watching our girls open their gifts from us.
We also opened our gifts from them and everything was absolutely smashing.
By contrast yesterday was very quiet with Just Andy, DD and I at home. I was up very early to get the monster turkey fillet in the oven (it was gorgeous) and after lunch spent a good couple of hours on the sofa......they say I snored......I think they tell porkies.....lol.
Today is much the same....just us three and we have all just done our own thing. There is leftover ham and turkey, a bowl of salad and some crusty rolls for tea and I am really looking forward to that. It will be nice to just have the oven on for ten minutes for the rolls instead of the six hours it was on yesterday.

Thank you so much for the comments left over the last couple of posts.
I hope you are all enjoying a peaceful Boxing Day.
Sheila-x-

Merry!!!

Well....it's here.

Happy Christmas to you all.

I hope it is all you wish it to be.

Hugs

Sheila

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