To write or not to write

 

I'm supposed to be doing something with a couple of Christmas Cards but I've twisted my knee and it's really painful so I've little inclination to deal with that today but first thing tomorrow might be possible I guess.

Tree is up and we have seen Mr S Claus on his travels on the sleigh this weekend, bring much delight to all young and old as we waved back at him and with any luck we might get a nice present for being...well nice.

Probably beats being given something for people to administer a spot of correction with I guess.

Things will pause next week as things will be busy, rotten knee or not making Xmas happen.

Advent again

 It's that month again so lasting just longer than Prime Ministers these days we start the BIG COUNTDOWN.

It's entirely normal here for there to be an Advent Calendar as that's what I grew up with and not much has changed with me anyway so there won't be any groan up versions.

This time around Disney is involved and why not?

How many Disney movies have you seen at the movie theatre or on the small screen, read the novelizations of  and coloured in the colouring books reasonably neatly?

Thought so. Here we have one advent calendar that has lots of mini story books included  you can read or better still, get some one to read them to you.

 

We should be bringing down the christmas tree for its annual decoration today together with the nativity scene that we've had for over twenty-five years on its base.

Things are starting to arrive although trying to organize Xmas with poorly grump you need to run errands for and keep an eye on.

I am working on the Christmas blogging schedule so I get a rest here and on the Tumblr, final post should be December 19th according to my main notes and resumption  being around the 26th.

I'm unsure if we'll do the blog on Xmas day thing this year with it being a Sunday and things here a bit up in the air.

Anyway, see you next week!

Advent edition

Well, it's a brand new Month tomorrow which by coincidence  also marks the start of the great countdown otherwise known as Advent which from childhood always was a magical thing aided by having a calendar.

 
Way back then, they were card based  with you pulling back a flap to uncover various things and at least in our house, nominally religious in character.

 This is a very nomable which is currently atop of a short floor standing bookcase facing the front room window cos I don't care anymore. 

 
A middle lives in this house and does stuff like this apart from colouring her Frozen colouring in most days!

 
Just open a door each day, eat some chocolate and see the days before Christmas go before your very eyes.

Here I'm always back in time, probably cos I never really went forward.

 

That's how I see me in my head in a lot of respects and anyone expecting much else is likely to have a very very long wait.

Wet ramblings

Greetings from Kitty Towers.

It's a bit of a damp weekend so I wasn't out Saturday although The Grump was which was a relief about the earache following getting a letter to say gas was going up three times and I really don't need constant background noise as much as obviously it is a concern especially for those less well off compared with ourselves.

It's hardly surprising then  that you're back to reading books of the sort that not only written for an audience that I share the same reading age with but the same sorts of topics that such stories centre upon.

It may sound odd but I feel so much more at home sat on a floor reading or playing with groan ups around than the whole older child in chair discussing more grown up topics with them, not least with the craziness of the adult political landscape and issues galore with the FIFA World Cup in Qatar when it comes to soccer.

 

There's always music to be played here, just don't ask how many records or compact discs they're are, a good many hundred is the short answer but that was what I was doing as a kid back home anyway.

That arrived yesterday late morning, a "audiophile" lp pressing in its slip case of Michael Jackson's Thriller album that's celebrating its fortieth birthday which I'd have to say sounds better than my original copy with really quiet surfaces brought very much in the day.

Expensive, hell yes, but if you loved the music then this is the best it gets on the original vinyl and it'll last you a lifetime if you care for it properly.

Then on Sunday there was the last two chapters of Castle Hangnail! by Ursula Vernon in story time which saves reading it off the page apart from being more like the story times we had at school then.

Ciao!

A post of updates

 There we go another Wednesday and another post here.

I'm a bit better than I was people and thanks for the comment left last week, being able to be about a bit more if not fully recovered which did mean I got outdoors to hear the Last Post on Armistice Day from the local Cenotaph being played.

I have walked a short distance this week, going slowly and avoiding jerky actions.

I did have some trouble with an international order whose arrival here got messed up by Hermes as in not arrived but did get my not inconsiderable money back from Ebay after putting a complaint in.

At the site where various stories are read in real time we almost but not quite finished Camp Hangnail by Ursula Vernon with just the last chapter to finish off which has been quite a gripping story about witches, minions, and one fantastic castle.

I struggled with Dragonheart  by the same author probably due to my poor for age reading comprehension and poor short term memory that makes holding on lots of details in a passage hard going.

That seemed to me me written for a Sci-Fi geek.

See you all next week!

Paused edition

 

I could sit by this table all day having a coffee and possibly the next given I'm immobile presently, unable to go out doors and struggling getting about indoors being off my feet. 

It all began early Monday morning in bed and it is taking its time recovering which tends to bring the more negative bits of my attitudes to the fore cos I just prefer being able to do things and soon get frustrated waiting for others to do stuff for me.

It's not that there isn't stuff I could do like read my comics and books it's just I like being active really instead and I can't put records on which is a bit limiting especially when you're expecting a new one any day soon.

Fun and Games edition

Seeing it's the annual Greenland's Bonfire and ghoulish weekend to which a number of my friends are attending, I thought I'd add something from a far as a contribution in kind to that magical spirit.

Pumpkins will be carved making them into lanterns, food will no doubt be consumed and finally that there bonfire will be lit which I think is a British tradition.

It was a bit late finishing Saturday night so we weren't in bed until Sunday morning but then we lost an hour with changing back to GMT which really affected my "spoons" later on.

We did go before people departed for an enjoyable meal at a local gastropub which was extremely tasty and also relatively inexpensive

 

Meanwhile all the stores are gearing up to Christmas time getting new stock  in and starting the promotions for toys and games which kinda reminded me of one we used to play both at school and at home.

The great thing about Junior Scrabble the word based games is there are two tways of playing.Younger players can begin with the exciting, ‘Words and Pictures’, a game expressly created to help with the recognition and formation of complex words. 

someone has mastered that there's ‘Rainbow Scrabble’, which is the more challenging version intended for younger players of age seven and upwards. 

The scoring system is identical to the ‘grown-up’ version, yet far easier to use and keep track of. In a clever move both games are also conveniently located on each side of the board, making it easy to swap from ‘Words and Pictures’ to ‘Rainbow Scrabble’.