DJ update - we've got one

For future reference, while Moss Bros in Stevenage are pretty useless, the one in the Hatfield Galleria are friendly and helpful.

The start of Dark Season

It's been cold all day. The first flurries of snow started an hour ago, but the Defender Wind dealt with that and it's turned to rain. Hope everyone's got their woodpiles stocked up?

Little lambs eat ivy?

I wonder where that phrase came from? Ivy's poisonous, isn't it?

It's those little improvements...

...that you don't notice until you realise what you've just done.

Years ago, I cooked my first ever Xmas dinner. Much planning and panicing later, we had roast turkey, we had veggies that were neither raw nor burnt, we had packet stuffing, and the gravy was recognisable as gravy - just.

Tonight, after a tiring day, we had a meal based on what was in the freezer that needed using, and what had come in the organic veg box. I threw it together while doing a few other things without really thinking about it. Roast turkey, a few veg (spuds, roast rosemary parsnips, cabbage&bacon.... what's "plain" mean?), a homemade stuffing, gravy....