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Last Thursday  morning, the weather was glorious so  I took Elsie for a lovely walk in our village  wood. It isn't large, about four acres, but is a great place to take your dog, or to visit for a bit of quiet contemplation.  Sadly, it's situated next to the village primary school which is oversubscribed and has parking issues.  There are plans afoot to take some of the wood to create extra parking, which I think is very sad and short sighted.  I've signed a petition to stop it happening, but I'm not optimistic. Talk about 'paving paradise and putting up a parking lot'.

We were the only ones there and Elsie could run off lead for a change, which she thoroughly enjoyed. The wind caught my dog treats bag and all the goodies fell out onto the grass, but she shot over and hoovered around for about five minutes, so I guess she got most of them.

On Friday, Mr. and I met up with friends for lunch at our local smokery restaurant.  

Taken from their website |(a bit old as the artwork is much nicer now)


Mr. had smoked eel,  I had smoked chicken breast and we both went for the roast veg and garlic potatoes to accompany our meals.  It was so delicious and yes, I should have taken some pics, but again, to keen on filling my face.  Loved catching up with our friends, who we've known forever,  but I felt a bit sorry for the other diners as we were all rather animated and there was a lot of uproarious laughter.

In the evening, my sis and brother in law came over for supper. Mr. cooked tomato free chilli, served with baked potatoes and  garlic bread.  Yes, we were incredibly piggy that day, but Mr. has his appetite back and I only had as small portion (no, I'm not lying, honest)  Again, we had a great time, lots of laughter and hilarity.  We were quite exhausted by the time we fell into bed.

On Sunday, we had Mr.'s Mum and Dad  over for lunch, together with M, who is Mr.'s brother's mother in law (does that make sense? )

Mr. cooked a shoulder of  pork in cider overnight in the Aga, and served it with crispy crackling, roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots and steamed sprouts and peas. His cider gravy was so good, I could quite happily have eaten it with a hunk of crusty bread, as a separate meal. 

I provided the pudding, deconstructed Black Forest gateaux and a sticky toffee pud.  The whole meal went down a storm, which is always good.   Sadly, the afternoon just flew by and with the light fading, they headed home.

Tomorrow all the decorations come down.  I know, they should have been down already, but as our Christmas was a bit of a damp squib with Mr. being ill, we thought it would be much nicer to keep them up for our late festive visitors.





They will  all come down tomorrow, apart from some of the twinkly lights that I will keep out, with extra candles for a bit of  hygge.  Then it's a deep clean and freshen up for the whole house, not my favourite thing to be doing, but I know that the end result will be hugely satisfying.

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