… sortie from my comfortable bed at about 02:00 in the morning, I had the sleep of the dead during the night. But one thing that I didn’t allow for in my calculations is that the immersion heater is in the attic behind a false wooded wall right by the head of the bed. Consequently, I was wide awake at 07:30 this morning.
Well, sort-of wide-awake anyway, or, at least, what passes for wide-awake these days. And the nurse didn’t take too long in coming either and so I had something like an early breakfast.
And we are not alone here in this house either.
I mean, you know that anyway, with Terry, Liz and her family. But even more importantly, Strawberry Moose is here. he’s come to stay for Christmas too. After all, Liz’s grandchildren are amongst his most faithful fans. This morning when we came downstairs, we found him busily trying to organise lunch for everyone, but he didn’t have a great deal of success unfortunately
He needs to work on his technique a little.
We spent much of the morning making templates of Christmassy items (and I do have to say that my Christmas tree looked superb) and then we used some of that snow spray stuff to spray the patterns all over the windows in the sun-lounge. And I do have to say that it all worked out rather well too.
Anyway, in the absence of fresh fish for lunch, we had a great big salad buffet. I had the rest of yesterday’s pizza and some sandwiches using some kind of vegan cheese and garlic spread that Liz had found in a health-food shop in Montlucon. That’s the kind of stuff that puts hairs in places I didn’t even realise that I had.
Everyone else had a wonderful time too for, as I have said before, the food that is served up in this house is the best that I have ever eaten anywhere.
After lunch, everyone went off to the Christmas market at Marcillat. I was invited but of course I’m not quite up to things like that right at the moment. There was some stuff that I wanted to finish, but I spent most of my free afternoon sitting on the sofa vegetating. However, I did finish my Christmas shopping by finding on-line something that I’d been looking for for quite a while.
I didn’t remain up and about very long this evening either. By about 20:00 I was done for, I reckon, and so I went to bed. An early night, and it’s getting earlier and earlier, but I don’t have the stamina these days. I managed to watch a film on the laptop, one of the Bulldog Drummond films that I’d tried to watch on several occasions that I’d downloaded from archive.org. Tonight, I managed to watch all of it before dozing off to sleep.
I can do with an early night.
