Sunday 18 September 2011

Visit Day...

Finally arrives..the house is looking spotless..well almost, and all the clutter is out of the way. Don't like to think what would happen if you open some of the cupboards though!.Everywhere is clean, and all ready for Christmas which is only something like 98 days away!!
Our American visitors said they would be arriving early afternoon, in fact it was about three o'clock. We had been hanging around for ages, didn't know whether to have any lunch so we did eventually,we did all our crosswords while we were waiting too. In fact they were quite easy today, apart from one clue that I got wrong on Vin's one. The clue was ..Who pplayed Miss Marple for 12 episodes? I said it was Joan Hickman, in fact it was Joan Hickson which meant one of his intersecting clues was wrong. He got there in the end.
Our visitor used to live two doors down from our house,and he spent quite some time talking about Old Hightown and the things that went on and some of the people he remembered. The only problem was that I had a job hearing him I have to admit. He is quite softly spoken actually,so it was hard to catch the drift of the conversation.God, it must be lovely to have good ears..if I had three wishes one would be to have good ears, aniother good eyesight..don't know about the third, I'll think about it.
Vin gave him the photos that he had done for him, and the disc that he had had scanned of the other three , and he seemed really pleased with those.Our next door neighbour had said that he might like to look round his old house, so when they had finished with us, Vinknocked on her door and she took him through to his old house. Then Vin took him round to one of our neighbours who still lives here, and who had supplied the photographs. They chatted for a while then they left to go up to the Lake District area. I should imagine it would have been a lovely trip back in time for him, seeing his old family house. So, all in all a successful visit!
Vin and I had a bit of a row last night. Jane rang up to say that we were to keep the 12th of October free. When pressed she said that there were three tickets to see Peter Kay in manchester. 5 Rows from the stage ..Well Vin got all crabby, grumpy, cross and everything else as well. He started waving his arms about, and said he wasn't going..he didn't like peter Kay and so on and so on..he wasn't driving to Manchester in the dark, and then coming bacck late from there either..etc., etc.,. it ended up with us having a fairly long argument, which is quite unusual actually. I told him to ring Jane to say that he wasn't going..which he did, so she was annoyed and will probably sulk for England now. What a performance.Went to bed cross...not a good idea. Seem to be ok today though..
Tonight we are having:
pizza with tomato sauce,Oops forgotten to take it out of the freezer,
potato and egg salad with avocado pear and baby plum tomatoes
potato saladd and a pasta salad for Vin.

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