Ever since my Old Person`s heating allowance arrived, the central heating has not worked, my watch (bought from a charity shop it is true) has packed up, the TV ditto, and several light bulbs which are too high for me to teeter up ladders to replace, have conked out . I am reading my good pile of library books instead of watching TV, and using shawls and hot water bottles and the odd candle. I have been waiting for an odd job man to come for weeks, to put up a blind, repair the kitchen curtain track, and other items. He is highly recommended but difficult to pin down, also the plumber for the boiler.
Otherwise I am extremely contented and delighted that the much dreaded recital for the Old Folks Club is now over. The worst part was getting my cello and spinet from here to the Unitarian Meeting House in the village which entailed getting two elderly gents from Dumbrells Court to stagger along carrying the coffin shaped object on uneven paths in the dusk. We got through our programme without actually losing our places or dropping our instruments.
I have been making Christmas cakes (stir up Sunday) and chutney for small xmas gifts, so the bung smells very vinegary and cakey. We are putting a bit of an embargo on presents this year restricting them mainly to the consumable variety. I am also just about to start on the Christmas cards and they are all recycled too.
It is the Infants this afternoon and they are all practising their songs for the end of term show. Teacher puts on a CD while they are doing craft activities and they all sing away I love it.
B.Wiggins went to a local agricultural college to the Small Animals Grooming Department and had some students doing his full haircut plus teeth, nails, ears and bottom. He was there for four hours! He looks very smart but has to wear his blue jumper when we go for walks as only his ears and tail are furry.