An early December morning.

Yoghurts for the week just done during the night.

( picture should come after the coffee but decided not to… so it comes first!)

Early morning view.

Hello Friends!

Early in the morning I like to lit all the Christmas lights!

The Christmas lights tree is not here yet but this year it will be a smaller one as the grandsons are not coming.

I will go and get it from our garden center.

( more and more flowers to come on my Amaryllis!)

This weekend we did some house cleaning and tidying. 

I had the idea to hang all my necklaces to tidy all the jewellery boxes I had for long.

I forgot about most of them and now can choose from the hooks.

This is the little reading corner in one of the bedrooms 

 All my magazines are gathered in this little corner: country living, Victoria’s magazines…

I am now having my breakfast bread 🥖 butter and coffee. On Saturday when we went to the little shop which 

is also  a B&B so the owner makes delicious jams for the
Called Childhood jam apple, cinnamon and vanilla! 

And coffee! Our new coffee maker is a great trouble for my husband. It cleans itself after each coffee and you have to put a glass underneath… but he forgets and had to run before it cleans itself after each coffee! So drinking coffee ☕️ does you good as you do sport at the same time! 😂 

It’s all for today! I must go out but will wear a mask flu 😷 epidemic is here!

Christmas carols and hot chocolate ☕️

We had our Saturday Christmas Carols  afternoon drinking hot chocolate or hot red spicy wine. There were a lot of cakes, biscuits and chocolates. I brought the lady owner of the shop a little gift and all the Christmas biscuits I baked.

They had great success.

Then we listened to Christmas Carols and chat with people we did not know but it was very friendly, I enjoyed the afternoon!

This is a tiny little  shop with a wood opened fireplace  which was burning. We bought a new cushion a Christmas mug then

Went to the Abbey to pray. From the abbey shop I bought some wax for the furniture and some jam.

It is very small so we went to the abbey and then went back to have a second hot chocolate! Not very good for the diet but good for the brain! 😂( for Mari!)

Love these little angels 😇 

The blue lamp is beautiful… but very expensive!

 This is the little shop and the couple singing sometimes outside and then by the fireplace. It did not rain fortunately! Only for that day! Rain is starting to again today.

We also had to get a new vacuum cleaner ours is not working anymore, a lot of our devices broke down last month so we have a brand new one specifically for dogs hair our dog a Jack Parson Russell is loosing hair all year round so I have to vacuum all the time, I hope it will do a good job.

In the morning we went back to the concept store and we have to drive through the forest. This is hunting season and animals are scared and wants to escape and what happened is a deer 🦌 just crossed the road in a hurry to escape the guns just in front of our car but as we drive very carefully because of the wild animals we both were safe.

This was our day yesterday I was not too bad and  able to go out and that’s a good thing! 

Enjoy your Sunday!

Preparing Christmas, but…

All my cutting shapes when I was making Christmas cookies with our children.

 

Hello Friends!

Yesterday I baked mince pies for our Christmas 🎄 meeting on Saturday. 

I had the mince meat since last year when our son came for Christmas. It has been travelling from England to Dubai and back to France ! ( not a carbon free mince meat!) 😂 

I made my pastry from my old English  baking book ( from the 80’s) I used half butter and half lard and it is the British touch ! On the net they use butter only but lard makes the difference!

I did my Christmas decoration with traditional colours, but I added a pink ones  on the console for a little touch of fairytale and childhood!  

Last month I should have been to Dubai but i decided to go in January end of January.

( i didn’t tell you but I am not feeling too well for some  months. I’m I having terrible  headaches and troubles with my eyes and I have been waiting long to get better…

I don’t know if you remember but long ago when I was a baby I have been the victim of a car crash and had brain,  eyes damages and cervical vertebra and since my spine cord surgery 

I have a lot of headaches and eyes problems, so December for me will be unfortunately a busy month going to appointments. First the ophthalmologist, then ultrasound sound and MIR the day after Christmas. Anyway, I will be going to visit my son in January and see my grandsons with assistance like I did last time. I have been wanting to see if it was going to be better but now husband doctor’s orders I must do all these annoying things! 16,22, 26 of December.) it is  usually very long to get appointments so December is not too long I have no choice but to go.

It’s not great fun!

 I tasted the mince pies and they have a very good taste, I love mince pies at Christmas !

On another subject. We have a program on tv which is called “ the cleaners” these people are helping to clean and tidy very, very dirty homes. On last Sunday as it was raining I watched an episode of it. I am telling you this because I can hear my husband cleaning the bathroom right now. Each time I watch an episode he is shocked and is cleaning and tiding everything! On Sunday he tidied until late at night! It is very helpful! 😂 ( I must tell you our home is clean and tidy! But he wants it to be perfect!

So he bought their book and clean 🧽! And we finally are both involved in the process…) 🧹 🧼 

Today, I will bake Christmas cookies for our Saturday event. On the picture below there are Italian goodies Panettone we use to have one for breakfast on Christmas Day so good with a strong coffee!☕️ 

( source:ZZZOe)

Thank you for all your visits and comments!

I wish you a good day.

This and that !

Hello friends!

Yesterday was a busy day. I had no time to go on my blog.

9 O’clock I drove to the butcher to place an order for Christmas Eve meal, then drove 12 kms to get the food for two weeks in total I had to go to four different shops

Then come back home at 12 h 30 unload the car, put everything away in the fridge… and have my salad eaten!

It was very heavy so hurt my back had to take painkillers 

For the rest of the day. But then I started

my Christmas decoration and  but I will get the tree 🌲 on Saturday with my husband too heavy for me!

I made an oranges garland with the oranges I dehydrated.

Our grandchildren had a four days bank holiday and my son took them to ski Dubai and the next day to have a picnic in the desert.🐪 they have seen camels.

Here are my two little boys! Then I had a chat with Maxime which is always great fun.

Last Saturday the weather was miserable but we went out

All day and went to one of our favourite  shop to have a look and say hello. This is the little shop and B&B

The owner is a very nice person and we made friends with her. So she invited us next Saturday to have a hot wine and cookies with other customers one of them will play music while his wife will sing Christmas carols and we will sing together.  It will be red wine with spices and oranges in Normandy we also do it with cider only for Christmas.🎄 so I am impatiently waiting for this convivial moment! 

Making mince pies’ I remembered there is lard in the shortcrust pastry in my English recipe book and it was hard to find but I have got it! It really makes the difference!

Pictures from last Spring ! A house nearby so beautiful!

Today, will be baking day ! Baking Christmas cookies for Saturday’s event!

I wish you a nice day!
 

A busy weekend.

Hello Friends!

This is the only new decoration for this year I have got too much!

Macaroni cheese

Last husband Lego creation!

We had lunch in Le Neubourg

This is the Brasserie restaurant which is called “ the two zebras” because the owners are twins. ( zebras in slang are the two funny zebras ( guys) )

I always found it was a strange church architecture?

We finished the two vegetable puzzles.

This weekend it was a busy one! We went to a town called Louviers where I ordered some clothes from the Tuesday live. Before ( I forgot) we went to the concept store

And I bought two new little puzzles  and had a latte macchiato. Then we drove to another town Le Neubourg and we had our lunch there. I should not have eaten this lemon meringue  cake… but so good!😊 

 

(Source : ZZZOe)

Some views from Rouen i found on Facebook  this is “ The big clock “

(Source: Rouen en photo on Facebook)