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Easing back into routine
Dec. 30th, 2024 07:39 pm... despite the fact that Silvester and New Year's Day are still looming on the horizon. Since that means another weekday when the shops are closed, I hopped down into the small grocery shop in the morning to buy a few necessities like bread and mincemeat and some apples. We still have everything else; I've stocked up the fridge before Christmas.
Tomorrow I'm planning some serious kitchen work: making a sausage roll wreath using ready-made puff pastry and Prue Leith's cheese and chive scones for the evening. Prue's recipe asks for homemade butter but I won't bother with that. Ready-made butter and buttermilk will do the trick just as nicely. I refuse to make such basic things myself, especially as they never turn out half as good as the ones I can buy.
We had leftovers today, and nibbled some cookies with coffee and eggnog afterwards. It was very nice and relaxing. The amount cookies has been seriously lessened now, so I could put away four empty cookie boxes, decluttering our environment a bit. In a flat as small as ours it's always a relief.
I did some crafting as well: sew together the body of the second rag doll. Now I have the basics of two bodies and one head. I'll work on them as fast or as slowly as the fancy catches me; it's so nice not to have a deadline for a project! Still, knowing myself I'll press on as much as I can. I'm one of those "let's do this quickly, so that we can do something else afterwards" kind of persons. *g*
Other than these things, I did a bit of writing, solved some crossword puzzles and had a nice, long nap. All around a good day with some small but very satisfying achievements.
Tomorrow I'm planning some serious kitchen work: making a sausage roll wreath using ready-made puff pastry and Prue Leith's cheese and chive scones for the evening. Prue's recipe asks for homemade butter but I won't bother with that. Ready-made butter and buttermilk will do the trick just as nicely. I refuse to make such basic things myself, especially as they never turn out half as good as the ones I can buy.
We had leftovers today, and nibbled some cookies with coffee and eggnog afterwards. It was very nice and relaxing. The amount cookies has been seriously lessened now, so I could put away four empty cookie boxes, decluttering our environment a bit. In a flat as small as ours it's always a relief.
I did some crafting as well: sew together the body of the second rag doll. Now I have the basics of two bodies and one head. I'll work on them as fast or as slowly as the fancy catches me; it's so nice not to have a deadline for a project! Still, knowing myself I'll press on as much as I can. I'm one of those "let's do this quickly, so that we can do something else afterwards" kind of persons. *g*
Other than these things, I did a bit of writing, solved some crossword puzzles and had a nice, long nap. All around a good day with some small but very satisfying achievements.
