Project 52 2024 week 49

Another week ending in horrendous storms, would be nice to have normal cold winter for a bit. I’ve felt quite productive this week, and the best thing is having the aga back on. Yay, although I have to get used to timings for cooking again.

Sunday – realised in bed last night that I’d forgotten to put out the advent calendar and coins. Oops.  N told me in the morning. Nearly 14 and insists he still has the advent calendar out which is nice.  Made my clusters of mini bauble decorations that I’d wanted to make after seeing them in store and not having the right colours (or at a reasonable price).  I did the usual chores, then nipped out to pick up a few things from the farm shop, and couple of shops in town. 

Monday – my INR was back within range again. Yay. Not much else went on apart from the OH’s mad cleaning spree continued – seriously deep cleaning all the cabinet doors and tiles, so the kitchen was like a show home ready for the aga to be serviced. It’s very annoying I don’t have a bin area on the work top though. Every little bit has to be taken through to the utility room bin. It’s a bit unlived in! Wonder how long it’ll stay like that.

Tuesday – I didn’t do my exercise this morning because the aga service was due early. But I could have had the time. We got a slap on the wrist for not turning the aga off properly when it ran out of oil (that’ll be why it stopped then!). Apart from the cooking, the Aga is the OH’s remit as I have no idea how it all works/he thinks I’ll probably do something wrong. We were lucky there was an air bubble between the aga and pipes, otherwise we’d have had a lot of oil draining into the wrong place.  It was smoky enough as he burnt it through, but all seems to be ok now and not too smelly. 

More mad cleaning in the evening. Anyone else’s husband brought the leaf blower into the house to blast the cobwebs and dust out from behind the radiators?!

Wednesday – the last of the Christmas presents arrived today. Had to nip out at lunch to do various chores. Tick for dropping off N’s laptop to hopefully be tidied up/fixed, but fail for dropping off a parcel because the post office queue was way too long, and then also didn’t have time for the tip either.

Thursday – in office day for Christmas updates and festive evening. It was a good day, met new people, had chats to lots of others across the evening. And we did bowling. All fun, although I still get confused by the car park door signage which really doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Friday – busy end of the week. N was making pasties in school, but he came home with a lot of the ingredients because they’d not had time to do more than one tray. Someone came from the village to pick up all the board games we were selling. 

Saturday – Storm Darragh came in overnight. I hardly slept because of the wind so I dread to think what it’s been like further west than us. Our dog doesn’t like the rattling of the kennel run cage, so she escaped, then spent most of the morning shut up in one of the vehicles to stay safe. I baked easy crusty bread (which despite being off carbs I had to eat and it was worth the carb sacrifice for today only!).

And wrapped all the Christmas presents, so I think I’m done. I just need to find something to post my best friend’s and her children’s gifts in. My Fantasy League isn’t going to go well, with captain Salah’s match cancelled, my Everton benched player also in that match. And then one of my forwards being benched to keep him fresh. So hopefully my 2 subs who’ll have to replace them will have successful matches.

New posts this week:

• Neverland Christmas at Blenheim Palace

Things I’ve enjoyed this week:

• crafting decorations
• listening to Christmas music while wrapping
• work Christmas social including bowling

Things I’m grateful for this week:

• Having time out for Christmas celebrations at work
• The aga being back on
• Having all the Christmas presents bought (and birthday ones for January too)