an even quieter place…
…is where I currently am, for some last minute R&R before the Christmas panic excitement gets into full swing.
I will be back for business as usual from Wednesday, which will also mark two weeks to the day since I baked my Christmas cake for the first time in a good few years! Cake 2024 is wrapped up safely awaiting a nice drink (as am I), and will be taken out periodically when I get back, eventually to be rolled in marzipan and icing (if only). All courtesy of this kit from Waitrose (which has ensured for the first time ever that I’m not still trying think of ways to use up mixed peel in August) and a bit of help from the spice box – there’s never enough, after all.
The vigilant will have spotted the Christmas hours page is up and with relatively little effort required beyond changing the days, since for the first time in probably a decade I have no availability between Christmas and New Year – sorry!
Despite this being traditionally a good week for everyone to get up off the sofa, brush the Celebrations wrappers aside and stagger into town for a bit of a change of scene, the timings plus station closures have made it sufficiently impractical so as to be not worth the bother. Plus the last time I worked on a New Years’ Eve was somewhere between farcical and catastrophic and I will not be chancing that again.
But it’s still a month away! For the next couple of weeks, it’s going to be busy busy right up until Saturday 21st. Not quite yet, though.
Some calming nostalgia is required just to set the pace for the next few hours, and who better than Gomez, whom I once saw in a field somewhere I was too mashed to remember the following day, let alone some twenty five years on. You can never have too much Gomez.
More soon! I will be back directly…..
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