Goodness me

A month again and now a new year to boot. Lots of outings of course mostly alone and either to the West-End of Westfield at White City, its the best way not to get spotted.



Prior to Christmas we were invited by our grandson to dinner at the restaurant where he is a chef, The Hawksmoor in Commerial Street, fabulous meal, lobster, potted beef, yorkshires, gravy and belly of pork and that was the starters! Then he and I had porterhouse steak and madame had chicken all of which came with mash and gravy, mac n cheese, brussel top and pureed spinach with anchovies, all at a huge discount, thankfully. Of course he was told he had amazing grandparents :-)

Christmas was hectic. The family came for xmas lunch, not bad only 10 of us which I cooked, we decided to roast the turkey xmas eve to lighten the load. All passed off well and we left them to it late afternoon and went off to stay with friends Dolenta and Andy in Cockfosters. Boxing day saw the arrival of Andys' cousin Steph and Peter and Sarah and much fun ensued and Dolenta became a domestic goddess and we came home the day after Boxing day. On the Sunday we were off again to friends in Kent for dinner and an overnight stay with the lovely Penny and Natacha. The Monday morning we took a trip to the seaside at Hythe then it was back home again to rest.
On Thursday we were off again to friends Ray & Sian on Canvey Island as they were going to get heavily into dressmaking, madame having taken her sewing machine.