I'M GOING TO MOSAICS TODAY, AND CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE

 

This morning I'm heading over to Cambridge to mosaic group.  I will be working on my bird hanging... which I am looking forward to.

I am also picking up a Christmas Cake recipe from one of the mosaic ladies.  I've made it a couple of times before, and it's amazing.  Only, I can't find the recipe here at all.  So, thankfully I can get the recipe again.

It's got lots of fruit and crushed pineapple in it, a lovely moist cake.

I intend making one in 3 weeks time, for Christmas. I'm drooling just thinking about it! 😋😉

When I get home, I shall probably just chill out for a while, have me lunch etc.

So, a fairly quiet day ahead.

Catch ya later.

ABOVE:  Before I went to Mosaics, I had a quick drive around the new housing area that has developed in the past 6 years, since we left Cambridge.  This area was all farmland behind our home ... now it has at least 100 new homes, a new retirement village, shops and so on.

A whole new subdivision... that playground is huge!  And just beautiful.  A real credit to the town developers.

ABOVE:  More of the playground.

ABOVE: There were only two of us at mosaics today, as most of the other girls had other commitments.  

ABOVE: I was thrilled with how much I got done on my Bird Hanging today.  All the pond and rushes ... tick tick.

Next week, if I can get there, I will work on branches and leaves further up.

ABOVE:  I shall never lose this recipe again!  Once on the blog, always on the blog. lol

I will make it sooner, thanks for the advice Marie.

I think I will be making two in fact... cos who says ya can't eat Christmas Cake all year round?  😂😊😋

It is now 12.12 pm, I'm making me lunch, then I will be into Crabby Quarters, working on that runner.  If I don't get it finished today, it will certainly get finished tomorrow.
4.11 pm, and I've been sewing since lunchtime.  I have all the stitching done, and tomorrow I will cut and stitch on the binding, so I will definitely have it done tomorrow, in time for Saturday's market.

It is looking gorgeous.

Stew should be home in the next hour, and I'll drop him off to the pub, then visit the kids before joining him at 7 pm for the obligatory hot chips.

ABOVE:  8.36 pm, and we are just home from the pub. What a lovely, lovely evening we have had!

I visited with the kids, then chatted with Steve about Sunday plans.

He's coming around to help move the fountain and do a small job with Stew in Crabby Quarters.

Back to this evening, after leaving the kids, I met up with Stew and the 'gang' at the pub.

I decided to have a couple of glasses of bubbly wine.

Ha!!!

I'm now kinda tiddly.

HAPPY TIDDLY... as in slightly pissed as a chook.

I'm seriously a cheap drunk!

It was a really lovely group at the pub tonight, lots of laughs, which are so needed sometimes eh?

I need to join in more often at the pub get togethers, and not just for the hot chips.  😌

Time to sign off for the evening, catch ya tomorrow.