Christmas seems to have gone on and on this year. It started with a pre Christmas supper at Brenda and Warren's on the Friday before Christmas, and ended yesterday morning with a breakfast at Hollow Trees farm Shop for five of us:- Ann and I , Hilary, Gloria and John.
The day after Boxing Day (Thursday) our friend Audrey had open house for about twenty people and provided 'drinks and nibbles' - and pretty solid nibbles they were too - mainly leftover Christmas fare I should think - excellent.
The next day, Friday, Hilary had an 'At Home' and absolutely excelled herself, providing drinks, mince pies, then a very good, hot, lunch (Hilary described it as a 'light lunch' which didn't do it justice). Lunch went on till just after three, when the party started to break up. Ann and I had been helping to ferry some of the older guests to and fro, and, while this was going on, Hilary hissed at us to come back when we'd done ferrying, and we'd have a three handed game of scrabble to end the party. We accepted and Ann won the first game and I the second. I told Hilary I was lost in admiration of her sense of duty as a hostess in letting her guests win, at which she burst out laughing, and confessed she'd had rotten hands in both games.
Today, after morning service (which was a fiasco- don't ask) then lunch, we motored across to Risby, where there is an Antique Centre, at which I purchased a rather nice pewter quart measure. The top picture is of a wayside cottage on our route. The next two are of a farmhouse and barn, on Risby village green. As I said before (I think) - Been a lovely Christmas.
Good night All.
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Have just pencilled in Risby for a New Year introductory jaunt - thanks Mike!
A pleasure Rog. Just as an added attraction, not only is there an antique centre at Risby Barn, but on the last Sunday of (well -almost -there wasn't one yesterday)every month there is an antique fair at the village hall. Neither are invariably productive for me, but we often strike lucky, and you never know your luck.
Sounds marvellous, Mike. Best wishes for the new year too.
Thank you Zoe. We wish you and Russell a really good New Year.
Happy New Year to you both from the Bears.
Dear Steve and Liz - thank you very much, and the same to you both.
Concerning the service .. I will ask .... as David thought he handled the time warp very tactfully and is feeling very hurt.
Dear Wendy. My apologies for giving a wrong impression. The 'fiasco' I mentioned was entirely our own fault, and I should have made that clear. WE got the time of the service wrong. Ann should have been serving, and I should have been singing in the choir, both of which WE managed to forget. The three things together made up the fiasco. David apologised after the service for the slightly unusual time at which it was held - We should have checked the Parish Magazine (where the time was given.
Again - our apologies to David.
Glad you had a nice Christmas, and we want to wish you and Ann a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! I have really enjoyed your posts.
What a wildly gay time you've been having. We are recluses in comparison but the social and family calendar is now filling up.
One can't do it too often so here's wishing a very happy and healthy 2013 to you both.
That's very true Pat, and we wish you both a very happy New Year.
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