Making : oat cakes to go with the cheese mountain
Cooking : marzipan fruit cake
Drinking : Taittinger
Reading: One Day in December by Josie Silver
Wanting: another long walk, after an extended lunch with family yesterday
Taken at Upton house, a National Trust property
Playing: with my new iPad!
Deciding: To eat lots of fruit and veg today
Wishing: that you all have a lovely Crimbo limbo
Enjoying: time with family
Waiting: for a few new series to start on Netflix and Prime: Grace & Frankie, The Grand Tour
Liking: Our Christmassy house; lots of twinkly white lights
Wondering: which case to buy for my iPad (it’s 6th generation 2018, any recommendations?)
Loving: the Corinne Lapierre felt embroidery kits which I’ve been given for Christmas
Pondering: whether to try a little crochet (I know, it’s banned)
Considering: feeding my sourdough starter. I think I’ve made three loaves in four days, but it has been appreciated
Buying: nothing at the moment, after all the Christmas shopping – presents and food – if we haven’t got it, we can’t have it!
Watching: The last episode of The Kominsky Method on Netflix. Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas are funny together
Hoping: they commission a second series, there’s only six episodes
Marvelling: how I have lost my capacity to drink anything other than a couple of glasses; having done dry October and then nothing alcoholic again since the last weekend in November, until Christmas Eve
Cringing: at loud drunken people
Needing: a tissue, I’ve got the sneezes
Questioning: my mind is a relaxed blank
Smelling: Nothing, see above!
Wearing: sleepwear as I’m dictating this to my iPhone first thing in the morning, still in bed
Following: nothing particularly, screen time has been minimal this week
Knowing: I think about going back to a text-only phone then remember I’ve just been given a lovely new iPad!
Thinking: about putting an audiobook on next
Admiring: this father
Sorting: things to go to the charity shops
Getting: rounder! That’s the power of Christmas
Bookmarking: actual books
Coveting: some Simple facial wipes, used my last one
Opening: kitchen cupboards and finding chocolate and nuts everywhere
Giggling: at Albert Finney in Scrooge
Feeling: happy
Snacking: “Please take it away, I’ve eaten enough!”
Helping: with the washing up
Hearing: birds tweeting
Mixing: socially
Worrying: –
Slicing: vegetables, later, for a stir fry
Celebrating: Christmas, with family
Forgetting: nothing, I think I covered it all
Winning: at Christmas, It’s been a really lovely relaxed week
Pretending: I did cool auntie dancing yesterday
Sneaking: Rocky Road last night while watching TV
Embracing: my nieces, even though they were aghast at my auntie dancing
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I hope you’ve had a really nice Christmas and things are going well with you
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And that’s a year of Taking Stock:
