Re: Diary summary week ending 21st December 2025

[louisa maud]

Pleased you are back KG,   take it easy and rest.

LM

[Jebber]

Good to see you back KG, hope that is the end of your problems and you feel well enough to enjoy Christmas. Take care and get plenty of rest.

[Caw1]

Glad to hear you’re back online KG if in a limited form!
Pleased to hear that things are improving for you after a difficult time.
Best wishes for a good recovery and hope you’re able to enjoy Christmas with your family.
Take care

Caroline

[louisa maud]

Had yet another Christmas card with a letter to say they won't be sending Christmas  cards from now on, donating to charity,  seems as if charities will do  well if everyone donates to charities,  my card list  is getting shorter and shorter, haven't got to that stage yet as I do enjoy receiving  and giving cards, having said that our church has tried to suggest donations and no cards, I agree with that and have made my donation but still I have received cards and I am embarrassed  into reciprocating.
LM

[Gillg]

Like you, LM, I do enjoy receiving cards.  It's a way of keeping up to date with old friends and if I don't receive a card from them I'm afraid that I assume that they have died!  Of course, some of the cards I do receive recite a litany of illnesses or partners' deaths, so that can get a bit depressing, too.  Well, I'm still sending mine, though we do make a donation at Christmas time to a chosen charity and I hope that the charity cards we buy send at least some of their receipts to the charity they represent.  So far this year we have received over 30, delivered through the post or by hand.

I have made the mistake of opening the annual Q....y S...t chocolates box a bit too early and my husband has been helping himself rather liberally to them!  Since they have started wrapping the chocolates in paper rather than foil they don't look quite so decorative in the bowl.  Also there aren't so many in the box as they used to be and they look smaller, too.  And why has coffee cream, my favourite, disappeared recently?

[Caw1]

I quite agree Gillg… they’ve made lots of chocs smaller, more expensive and they don’t taste as chocolatey as they used to…
having read an article in The Times the other day prices of raw ingredients… the main part of the confection , have gone up and other things are added to keep that choc taste…
but I think some are definitely not what they used to be! Of course smaller sizes doesn’t mean lower prices if anything they’ve gone up 😳..
The trouble is that as you get older you remember how things used to be it would seem with much more clarity and I feel for people who will never know how good it was!
As to cards I love to send them as I make all my own and get great pleasure from doing so.. I like receiving them too but sadly often with bad news inside or not at all.. I do give to local charities rather than the big national ones as I’m never sure how much they actually receive.
Our family, on my mothers side, have never been good communicators and today after a phone call to a cousin I discovered her husband passed away in July and a 2nd cousin ( mid 50’s) passed away 2-3 yrs ago … I didn’t ask her why she didn’t think to contact me!
The sad thing is that we live within about 50 miles of each other! Hey ho that’s families for you.
Wet, dark and miserable today and I have an emergency dental appointment this a/noon which I’m not looking forward to.
Hope everyone else is not suffering from these seasonal bugs, flu etc and if they are then 🤞 all will be well for next week.

Caroline

[Viktoria]

I thought I had done all mine.BUT- I seem to have too many stamps left to have done all the cards on my list!
Oh dear ,nothing I can do now, they are ticked off my list
I imagine quite a few people will not be sending but I just hope if I have missed any out they are people not sending this year !

A lovely day ,bright abd sunny .

 Starting to get a few decorations up ,mostly greenery ( expensive imitation ivy and holly from an Italian holiday ,you really can’t tell the difference. Bought years  ago.)

I had a job finding a little silver trumpet at least 90 years old —- survived the Manchester blitz of 1940 ,in a sorry state now and so enclosed in a little
plastic  bag, but the last thing from my childhood .
Sentimental old thing that I am.

Well, post van here,it is very late.

Back to the grindstone —-after a cuppa!
Viktoria.

[ThrelfallYorky]

So glad we're hearing from you again, KGarrad - you may not know how much we all worried about you!
Just had visit from two female fire-fighters, "doing" the area, I believe partly as a result of a very serious fire nearby, the other week - and they fitted two new fire alarms, checked our monoxide monitors, and grab rails / fire exclusion door through to garage, etc. Nice to get checked over.
TY

[mare]

Yes welcome back KG and wishing you all the best with everything.

Good service with followup neighbourhood fire safety checks too TY.