Have your cake and eat it…

 Had a nice visit by two friends from the Horticultural Society, one borne down with a very tasty coffee cake. I think my lodger finds it difficult to understand this cake donation thing, all these ladies, giving me cakes! Both sets of neighbours have given us fruit cake, which he loves eating with a mug of tea. 

We had a go at fixing the pond yesterday but unfortunately my idea of tucking in the new liner under the existing edging stones is not going to work. So they are all going to be lifted and the new liner installed. I suspect most will break into pieces and I will have to get new edging stones. These will then have to be cemented into place.

I have not had the time or felt up to doing any English lessons, apart from the ones we do when I can fit them into our conversation. He does know a lot of food words like chicken. The pesky cold, well it’s a lot better now, but my leg is very painful, where the wires fit in. After the walk back from the physio yesterday afternoon, it was very bad. I just hope this is a good sign. Tonight we are having Beef Stifado, which I think is a Greek dish, quite simply, beef cubes, tin of tomatoes, thyme and oregano . It cooks in the oven until the meat is tender. This is it, just going on the oven. 


 I did ask on our local Twyford Facebook group for any volunteer suggestions that I could do, while in this unfortunate situation, I got some great ideas, most of them local things, where I can help the community. I hope that when I am better I can continue doing this kind of work. 

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