Well, all presents are bought and wrapped, our fridge and freezer are stacked with food and our Christmas tree is up and making our living room look festive. Hurrah! Time to gorge ourselves on fine wine and mince pies and enjoy ourselves!
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got copy of November
I got a copy of November’s Saveur magazine in the post today, and if you look on page 16, you’ll see this picture, and at the bottom of the column, it says “courtesy Jane Fothergill”. One of my photos is in print 😀
found perfect Christmas present
I found a perfect Christmas present for Jono today – it was a cuddly moose in our local Safeway, with a Christmas hat saying “Merry X-Moose” on it’s jumper. But seeing as how a) we brought him a moose finger puppet back from our honeymoon, and b) he’s leaving the country on the 28th for good 🙁 it didn’t seem worth buying for him. So, instead, he’ll have to make do with this.
Last Monday 9th thought
Last Monday (9th) I thought I could finally say goodbye to the cough that had been plaguing me for the past few weeks. Hurrah! All was great until Thursday, when I started coughing again. By Friday I had a temperature of 101.5 and by Saturday I was a snot monster with a nasty cough again. I’m on the road to recovery again and have just been to see the Doctor and got some penicillin to shift the cough away from my chest. So, one week before Christmas and I’m on antibiotics. Lovely! Oh, and Christmas is running late in our house cos I spent all the weekend in bed – so no Christmas tree yet, (in fact our wonderful idea of going and digging our own at Wilderness Wood has bitten the dust as we’re going to have so many other things to do this weekend :-()
Our Christmas cards arrived
Our Christmas cards arrived from CharityCards.co.uk arrived today, so we can now get on with writing them. It seems like we’ve only just finished writing Thank You cards for all our very generous friends after the wedding. Maybe we should have gone for the Personalised Christmas Cards so we didn’t have to write anything – somehow though at the time that seemed just too impersonal, now I’m beginning to think it would have been a great idea!
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Sometimes just love the
Sometimes I just love the BBC News site. Today they’ve posted this – a statement from Santa explaining that he does exist despite what Reverend Lee Rayfield said in a carol service. And better still there are distinct wording similaries to Cherie’s statement. Nice one Beeb!
listened to Cherie Blair
I listened to Cherie Blair’s statement on Radio 5 on the way back from Chesterfield last night about the whole Peter Foster and flat buying thing. It left me with a couple of questions – why are there 2 flats in Bristol – what is the other one for?, and why isn’t student accommodation good enough for their son? With a government policy that seems to be making it increasingly hard for students to survive without debt, why should he get such a helping hand? I also hadn’t realised that he had government officials helping him with his homework this time last year! Nice!
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We were catching up
We were catching up on our tv watching last night and watched a Horizon from last week – about homeopathy. It was interesting, and the experiments were interesting. But, the experiments they were doing was to test the “Memory of Water“. Now, this relates to the fact that a homepathy concentration has no molecules in it – so how can it work? The theory was that the water has a memory of what active ingredients it had in before it was diluted. Now, the experiments they did were very controlled. They took one drop of histimine and put it into 99 drops of water. Then they repeated this process (1 drop of the new solution to 99 drops of water) until they’d got it to the equivalent of less than one drop in the entire seas in the world. So pretty concentrated then! They tested this solution against a control solution – just water. The results came out that there was no proof that it worked – some control solutions worked, some concentrated solutions worked. So they couldn’t say that the homeopathy principal worked.
Interesting, but… this is what got me. If you’re testing whether water has a memory, then how can your control solution be water? Surely, all water will have a memory won’t it?
The wedding photos we
The wedding photos we’d chosen to be enlarged arrived yesterday – so now we have to find some way to store them. We’re looking for plastic covers and then possibly a box. We’ve also ended up buying the samples from Pete so these, with the table cameras and other people’s photos will be put together into a couple of albums to record the day. A job for over Christmas I think.