Weekly Chat, 1 January 2012, Happy Hogmanay!

Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Saw snowdrops on a walk yesterday!!!  Today we've been for an hour and a half walk by the river.  Don't think I could have got wetter if I'd jumped in!  Mia loved it though which is really all that matters.  Clothes peeled off once home and deposited in washing machine.  Still warm though but supposed to be cooler tomorrow I think.

Thanks for all the pics and it looks like Bobbie was a very lucky girl at Christmas.

Welcome back WENDY, I wondered where you'd got to.  

Not long back from lunch with our minister and his wife and 3 others of our congregation. We had to leave early as OH was working and I needed to give Dillon his afternoon walk which I prefer to do before it gets dark. I am not scared of being attacked but just like to see where I am going and torches aren't really good enough.  

Had a lazy day as I promised myself, and filled in most of my Calendar for 2012 with birthdays etc.  Damp here but not cold.

georgeg:  I do hope that you have a better year with, as you say, less health problems. Hope you enjoy getting to grips with your Ipad. Keep warm!

Alicat:   Lovely pics of Bobbie enjoying her Christmas!

Lynette:  Thanks for pics of the fireworks - I do love fireworks & we recorded the London Eye display from BBC to watch over several times.

Diane:   Hope you have not slept right through all the celebratory events of New Year, after doing so much hard work to battle with your long To Do List! You sound as if you have earned a bit of a rest after that, though. I expect its good to have that feeling that you have done most of the important tasks. Take care.  (laughed at your wonderful fishy card!!)

AQ:  Keep cool!  Hope your air con keeps going OK during the worst of it. Thanks for your N. Year card.

Thanks to Everyone Else who has posted - I always read them all:  sorry not to reply to each & every one, but there are so many of us now!

An early look-in (it's almost 6.30 am) as I shall turn off computer very soon. No point adding to the heat, its fan is already roaring. The overnight minimum was 28 - and that is C not F!!! Expecting another scorcher of 40 today. We watched the Vienna New Years Day concert last night on TV. I enjoyed seeing the city scenes and recognized quite a few. "I've been there!"

Au revoir (as Del Trotter, would say)

Appologies for not having posted since last year.  Happy New Year everyone!  Hope you all have a fantastic 2012 :-)

Bonjour ;-)

Paul.

Well, call it Sunday or New Years Day – it’s been an odd one!  J has decided to go to our church in Annan rather than his previous one in Dumfries, so he went along this morning (no evening services while Minister takes his post-Ch******* break), but OH and I stayed home and made lunch – Chicken breast stuffed with Haggis, followed by Raspberry Eton Mess.  Then we decided we all wanted to have the Ch******* decorations down before we go out Tuesday, rather than have it still to do, so we packed all that away for another year.  OH cooked fish fingers for tea and the two of them are now washing up the pots.

Thank you for lots of posts today.  Sorry I won’t be able to answer all, but I think of each one as I read what you have written.

Sheila - you did well with Aunty - I hope that you can finalise full satisfactory arrangements for her at home, and won't need to do that journey quite so often.  I hadn't realised you were having another house-guest soon after her - you must be very tired - do get some rest.  Your dinner menu sounds very ambitious - you are brave to serve up new dishes for guests!

AQ – Hogmanay fireworks here first went off about 9pm then a gap until midnight – but didn’t go on as long as usual.  We slept quite late this morning – apart from all my usual coughs and fidgets around 5 am!    Sorry about the humid heat likely later in the week – I hope you’re a/c keeps going!

Heather – I hope the full family gathering went well.

Tiger, Chloe and Heron – good to see you – I hope all is well with you.

Lynette – good skies.  Last one reminds me of Lambs at Castle Ashby – but there must be other trees like that in Northamptonshire!

Wendy – good to see you here as well as on FB.

Annette – I am sure hectic means happy with all the family around – but do take care and, as you were planning, enjoy the quiet times!

Joan – so pleased you and OH had a good festive season – that will have helped time along towards getting a date for his op.

Dibnlib – those two shifts were very close together over New Year – I hope your OH has a good stretch of time off soon!

Linda – pretty lights in your trees, and sounds like a very pleasant day fro you on Saturday – gald to see a quiet day included for today!  I’ve also done little jobs like transferring birthdays to the diary. 

Alan – saw bits of BBC Scotland’s N Y prog, but Jackie Bird isn’t exactly a favourite in this house.  Liked hearing Old Lang Syne to the older tune – and I always like to hear Phil Cunningham play.

Terry – I think the wave was at about the time you would have been setting out from home!  Glad you made it to Caerlaverock – we haven’t been for ages – Barnies had only just arrived last time we went.  I agree about Alan’s coal – I thought it had to be a dark stranger!

George – good to hear from you, and I trust the cold/cough didn’t linger.  Sorry that Diesel needed cuddles fro the fireworks – but a good excuse for him!  I hope you enjoyed your wee celebration today.

Trish – I hope you soon got warm after the wet walk, and are feeling stronger and less tired than last week.

AQ – so hot, even at night?  Ouch!  I am sure the Vienna concert was made even more enjoyable by recognising parts of the city!  Do take care – drink plenty and rest a lot.

Off for coffee and jigsaw – a mining and railway scene in somewhere in the Rocky Mountains (made in Lafayette, Indiana).

Thanks to all for New Year Greetings. Too hot to comment individually. Temp has now reached 31.8 so early, not a good sign. I'm closing down now. Off to do washing - I reckon it will dry before I hang it on the line!

AQ   take care in that heat. Way too hot for me!!!

OG    OH opted to have Christmas off and so work New Year. Over the Christmas period he had 6 days off out of 7 and is now paying the price. His Hogmanay shift was a good one. He worked 1800 - 0200 and took the people he supports to the celebrations in the park. He said the fireworks were the best he had ever seen, so he was more than happy to be paid for doing that!!!!     Have started taking down some decorations, enjoyed the tree for one last day and will dismantle that tomorrow.  Used to always have real trees but for the last few years we've had an artificial one.

Hi, all. Just wanted to say Happy New Year and wish everyone a good Monday. No time to read or reply this evening. I'm keeping my computer off, because we have high winds (sustained winds of 30 miles per hour with gusts up to 50). No worries; I'm not in any danger at all, but the lights keep flickering. It's hard on my computer and difficult to really accomplish anything online. If I do a long post, I'll just lose it.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!!! I'll check in tomorrow morning and read posts.