Keeping busy…

The Christmas cake is baked, it’s now stored for a few weeks, being topped up with Brandy, periodically then it will get a covering of marzipan and royal icing. The latter might be a bit tricky!


Meanwhile I decided to tackle what I thought might be an easy puzzle, but it’s not, the pieces are triangular in shape and take a lot of getting used too! But there are only four hundred of them, so not so bad. 

I have the keyboard in the house now, plus some books, the beginners book looks like even I might be able to do it, but whether I progress beyond it, let’s see. 


I have setup a WhatsApp group for our road, it was an idea suggested to me, so I created it and I put some flyers through peoples doors to invite them to join it. I think we have about half the houses represented now. I have decided to make up a batch of the Christmas card I showed on this blog a week or so ago, and send to people I know around here. We will be sending a few others, but not as many as we used to. I think the next cake will be a Bakewell Tart or Ginger cake, the ingredients for them plus some other shopping will arrive tomorrow. I have seen a few less people this week, I am still walking into the village, but yesterday as I was delivering my fliers I did not do so. At the physio I did my first walk with no sticks, but walking properly and not limping. I am not sure I can keep it up for long, after a while I get this very strong dull ache around my ankle where the wires go around it. It’s chicken basque style tonight, a photo of that next time. 

Kalo Mina, good month in Greek!


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