A couple of blogs previously I mentioned that I was looking forward to a particularly busy time during December. I had somehwere in the region of sixreen appearences to make at church for various services, carol services, choir practices etc. Then there were three dates as Santa, plus two or three dates when I was speaking to various groups and organisations.
One of the groups I spoke to was the local retired businessmens group, known as the Janus Club. They informed me that it was their Ladies event, when they invited their wives along, and concluded the proceedings with a Christmas Lunch. As I was speaking I was asked if Dot would also come along and we were invited to join them for their Christmas Lunch.
What I didn't mention in previous blogs was that I had been persuaded to go on a diet. "What a wonderful time to start a diet," I hear you say! Well with the exception of the aforementioned Christmas Lunch I have stuck to it like superglue, and the result was that 6 weeks after I commenced it I went to pay a return visit to the dietitian and was delighted to be informed that I had shed one and a half stones!
Dot has booked a trip to the local Aagrah Curry House on Saturday for my birthday treat, and Sarah has invited me for a meal at the Busfield Arms on Sunday (another celebration of my birthday), then there is the Christmas lunch on Dec 25th., with Hannah cooking the Turkey and Potatoes and briging them up to our house, so I am really going to have to watch the food intake!
Well, here we are on December 21st. and I have more or less managed to get through it all unscathed! Well, not quite - my wife insisted that I pay a visit to the local hairdressers so that "You will at least look repectable." I haven't yet worked out how having a hair cut and a beard trim can do that, but to keep the peace I visited the said hairdressers.
Whilst I was in Bingley I paid a visit to two of the local charity shops (which I hadn't been in for some time) and, simple soul that I am, I celebrated the loss of weight by purchasing eleven dvd's and a cd. The sum total for all this lot was £1.20 believe it or not!
I've already watched one of the dvd's - Slum Dog Millionaire, a very entertaining story of a poor boy who manages to get on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and finishes up winning 50,000,000 rupees.
Oh! We have three temporary residents with us over the Christmas period. Hannah had brought the school rabbits home and they have taken up residence in our garage (in a new hutch - I hasten to add). Ruby is busy doing her motherly bit and paying regular calls on them to see that they are settled in and happy!
So just a couple of birthday meals, a Crib Service, A Midnight Mass and a Christmas Morning Service, then it will be a couple of nights relaxing at the King's Head in Masham!
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