Well it is all over. I have had a simply marvellous Christmas with family and, of course, the best part of it all was Kathryn coming over from Australia and us all being together on Christmas Day. Sadly the time went by all too quickly and saying goodbye was awful and left me very weepy. I holed up that day with a box of chocolates and some crisps and sat and watched the Bourne trilogy right the way through which filled up the day nicely. I enjoyed watching them back to back, they are really good movies.
So domesticity is the order of the day for a bit as I clear up and pack away and throw out. Kathryn was living out of a couple of suitcases while she was here and flitting backwards and forwards and my bedroom was piled high with stuff and boxes. Decided to leave all the festive mess until I was back home and now it is cleared. I decided a day or two ago to move my bedroom furniture around, not on a whim, but because my bed was against a very cold outside wall. So I emptied out the wardrobe,piled everything on the bed and managed to shift it. Oh the dust and dirt behind, shameful. Ditto large chest of drawers. So that took me all the morning but am satisfied with the result. I have a couple of bruises on my legs as a result and a few broken fingernails but it is now done.
Today it is defrost the freezer time as I am planning on having a cooking session with the chicken pieces, pork chops and left over beef from a festive lunch yesterday and will be putting meals away. Having checked out the stalagmites and stalagtites inside said freezer I decided best to clear it out first. The usual frozen peas lurking in corners, a packet of fish fingers with one inside (?), an old sponge cake I kept for making a trifle (I never did so have chucked it) and a few unidentifiable blocks of what looks like chicken stock, a carton of toffee fudge ice cream with such a tiny bit left it has frozen to the consistency of a brick - all the usual suspects. So it is slowly defrosting while I am writing this.
I have my oven to clean but am putting that off as long as possible and also have to clear out my glory hole which I have to do on a regular basis as it fills up with junk. I am never clear why this happens. No matter what I do it fills up again. At the moment I have a plethora of plastic bags everywhere so my New Year Resolution is to remember to take them when I go shopping and think of the environment.....ahem.
By now I am sure those of you who have logged on to read my sparkling prose and rapier like wit are keeling over with boredom so I will hasten to close. Last year was a great year but a trifle hectic as family moved out of one house into a rented house while their new house was being sorted then they moved into the new house so that was the second move in about six months then it was the summer holidays and no childcare was yet in place so I and other grandparents helped out and I spent most of my time bombing around the North Circular and it was all mad and and and....Phew.
All are now safely gathered in and settled into a routine and I now have a list of dates for the coming term lined up with Grandmother Numero Duo (forgive the lapse into la bella lingua I have been watching Mapp and Lucia of which more in another post) and my diary is filling up. I am determined in 2015 to make posting on Random more regular and less haphazard and to concentrate on it a bit more. All went a bit to pot in 2014.
Once again I wish you all a Happy New Year.
Au reservoir.
