A much more relaxing day after yesterday’s busy, busy.
Blue skies and sunshine greeted us this morning. Up fairly early, but didn’t go out until the sun had warmed the garden a bit.
Just about lunch time we went for a walk to the shops to get some things for Scamp to make a trifle, plus odds and ends we’d forgotten. M&S was really quite busy, but they’s put some thought into laying out their aisles a bit more sensibly, allowing more people to get to the checkouts, except this was Cumbersheugh and too many people looked at the people manning the empty tills and looked away again. What’s the use of having a cleverly planned set of aisles when the shoppers are too stupid to use them. They just follow the person like cattle.
Rant over.
We walked back up to the house and I went for a walk in St Mo’s. The bright sun was really too low to get decent lighting, but I did find one or two shots worth taking. PoD went to a thorny wild rose stem.
Not long after I’d returned, Scamp was complaining that she didn’t have the tinned fruit she thought she had, so I volunteered to go get some from the wee local shop. I even found they sold ready made and measured do it yourself trifle kits, so I got one of them as well as a tin of mixed fruit. I took a camera with me, but didn’t take anything with it.
Dinner was Fish Risotto and for dessert we had the remaining Pastéis de Nata, one each. These ones were Bramley Apple flavour. Expensive, but delicious.
We watched another Christmas Mastermind and then the 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life. I’d never seen it before and neither had Scamp. Absolutely brilliant.
Still a few things to do tonight, but I’m running late and need to get to bed before Santa does his rounds. Hope you all have a great Christmas and look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow, all being well.