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 6 am bucket of coffee time. I’m waiting for my lateral flow test to complete I have to test before every shift. from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3H9vBZ9

New garden gnome named Joe (after Joe Biden) - Thank you Frances, Stew and Phoebe 🎄🎄🎄 Christmas cracker joke: Q. What do you call a cat in the desert?.... A. Sandy Claws (Groan!) Christmas Day Feast 2021 Roll call Mr Yorkshire Pudding, Mrs Yorkshire Pudding, Frances, Stewart, Phoebe Harriet and Peter and Cheryl (Stewart's parents). Apologies: Ian and Sarah (COVID) Starter Homemade butternut squash and chestnut soup garnished with grilled pancetta and wilted  sage leaves. Served with slices of Persian flatbread from our local Persian Bakery. Main Course Roasted turkey Pigs in blankets (small sausages  wrapped in smoked bacon) Roasted potatoes - cooked in duck fat and garnished with rosemary Roasted carrots Roasted leeks Roasted parsnips Garden peas Red cabbage Yorkshire pudding - golden and sexy as a Hollywood film star Homemade bread sauce Homemade sausage meat stuffing Homemade chestnut stuffing Sage and onion stuffing Cranberry sauce Homema...

 I’ve just got back to Bwthyn Y Llan I’ve seen my sisters and their husbands , my nephews, niece, and great nieces and it was a loud cacophony of Christmases missed. I’ve had a lovely day, a bit of cry on the way home and have watched a pitch perfect Queen’s Speech with a nice cup of builder’s tea The dogs have climbed aboard, as they always do And just like that,  Christmas is almost over from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3EoXM4p

If Winnie was still here, this is how she would look this morning I hope everyone reading this will have at least a peaceful day. It’s been a funny old two years, has it not?  Slightly easier of late, but still a time  of challenges and some sadness. But like the shopworn  Carlotta out of Follies we can say I’m still here Happy Christmas    from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3ErHfg0