In With The New........

 
They say "out with the old" however as we are classed as old age pensioner's I'm ignoring the first half and going with the title of this post. As with every previous year " in with the new" for me refers to new hope for wrongs righted and conflicts quelled along with new understandings and new friends made.  

We invited two neighbours AM and JM up to see in the new year with us (as they each live alone) unfortunately JM was unwell and couldn't come, so three of us shared the Chinese we'd bought and then chatted and watched rubbish TV until midnight. There were a lot of fireworks going on around us, starting from about 8pm and of course all the fireworks shown on TV from midnight. Happy 2024 to all. 

Monday morning and even though it was a bank holiday we still had coffee morning. Feeling like he was ready for 'normal' Hubby decided after lunch on new years day it was time to put away the Christmas decorations. 

Between us it was soon back to heaps for bags and boxes. Packed upstairs for the loft followed by a good vacuum all over. 

Daughter's birthday and she didn't want to do anything special so Hubby dropped her card round on his way to Tesco. The weather was dreadful with storm Henk hitting us so she didn't even pop round for a cuppa and I don't blame her at all. 

With little to do in bad weather Hubby started the jigsaw I bought him for Christmas. 

This is a "Wasgij" one which we've not done before and it doesn't follow the picture, same subject and so far looks like the same characters but all in different places and lots of things emerging that aren't in the picture at all. A fun challenge. 

After a couple more bad weather days, he's more than half way. 

We went out Wednesday night with our usual friends, just four of us not six this week. Hubby has also been needed next door to help neighbourA with his broken Hive system which after two days and being sent a new box still isn't working. Apart from that we've had a chilled week gradually sorting stuff and that's when I found at the back of the fridge in a sealed box the turkey giblets I'd saved to make soup with on boxing day but obviously had forgotten. Word of warning, don't ever lift the lid on two week old offal! 

Don't have nightmares over it, in this case "out with the old" hahaha

See you next week.

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