Post by Ian/Cath FordOn Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:46:05 -0000, "Ginnie Redston"
Post by Ginnie RedstonAny of this year's A level people got news of offers yet? Where are this
year's A level people anyway?
Hey, how's things?
None of this revising or procastinating for me you now. Small children
are in varying stages of hyper-ness, the mother in law's come to stay
and apart from that it should be a nice holiday for me :-) Cake is
iced, now it's lemon posset and pasta to make and then I'm done.
Lovely.
Hope things are fine and dandy.
Ian
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Hi Ian,
Things are fine thanks, though since I changed my job a couple of years ago
(and it involves living in outer London during the week, only returning to
Oxon for weekends and holidays) things have been very rushed.
Still, 2004 has been the year of the House. Said new job has enabled me to
finance the conversion of my tiny 2-up, 2-down semi (which had a large
garden) to a 3-up,3-etc house, complete with newly installed mains drainage,
condenser-boiler central heating, a spacious but comfortable kitchen (after
years of having gone off the whole idea of cooking, suddenly getting very
keen on it again, including homemade bread, a very well-brandied Christmas
cake complete with proper lemony-almondy homemade marzipan, a newly
discovered Cranks recipe for beetroot and tomato soup - very pretty .... you
*know* you'd approve!)
Before all this happened, much improvising in sometimes bizarre conditions
was involved. Most of the summer holidays were spent with just basic running
water and no bath. I think the best bit was when the only working loo, left
from what had been the bathroom, remained upstairs; it had become an open
plan design, as the walls around it had been knocked down and beyond was a
large, still open-ended gable with just a piece of sacking to prevent
passing villagers from observing me when I was enthroned. Very draughty.
Both Os were off in Brussels at Christmas, so I relaxed here, dropping in
on, or being dropped in on by, friends from time to time. The YO returns
tonight, followed by EO next week, so we are planning a major gathering/meal
then.
I'm sure you survived the mother-in-law, not to mention hyper Offspring. The
lemon posset sounds very good, or is it only intended for consumption by
small people?
Happy New Year everyone
:-)
Ginnie