Welcome daylight savings

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This week has been more like winter than spring, with a strong southerly wind, and some heavy rain. Some welcome sun appeared towards the end of the week, along with the return of the shorts, and with having changed the clocks this weekend and had an extra hour of daylight in the early evening, there is a feeling of winter slowly receding into history. For now. I think Tuesday is going to be very wet!

Along with Nicky’s M/W/F church routine, she has had another enjoyable trip to the cinema to see Downton Abbey again (with Stella and Ros), and a ukulele and sing along concert (in town). This was followed by having way too much fun in Smith & Caughey’s, and coming home with lots of free makeup samples.

The beginning of the week involved more house design discussions, and the end of the week was focused on cooking for Saturday night. We had invited a number of my fellow Deep and Meaningful attendees for a winter dinner, and eventually 13 of us sat round the table (well, three tables actually, pushed together). Nicky made a three-ingredient fruit cake (her most successful yet I think), and I made a large lemon curd cheesecake and a 3kg Christmas Pie (chicken, bacon and cranberries soaked in sherry, with a hot water pastry crust). We also provided two dishes of vegetables and baked spuds and kumera. Our guests brought a wide array of pre-dinner nibbles, salads, and dessert goodies, so we didn’t go hungry. The evening was enjoyably rounded off with a game of Black Hole, to which were we introduced to by one of the under-45’s. This involves guessing the identity of a famous person while being given fewer and fewer clues.

What with having spent most of Saturday cleaning the house and re-organising the living room furniture, and then washing the dishes that wouldn’t fit in the dish washer, we were tired little hosts as we headed off to bed this morning.

Nicky went to church later this morning and over to Stella’s for Scrabble this afternoon, while I had a quiet day doing three loads of washing while we had the weather to dry it. Other than that it has been a gentle day of reading and tellyboxing. Long may they continue!


Take care, Rick

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