Saturday evening we had a very nice evening at the Jitrada in Sale with our good friends P & J. It being Christmas there were crackers provided for each table. My 'gift' was a lovely pair of plastic lips.
I have mentioned The Jitrada in a previous blog, and our food was, once again, simply delicious. The service too was exemplary. 10/10.
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Sunday was our traditional "End of Birch Avenue" get together. Not the end of Birch Avenue in that it is going to fall into a sink hole, or burn down, but that we live at the end of Birch Avenue and we invite our neighbours round (usually) on the Sunday before Christmas for a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.
Two sorts of mulled wine were provided. One with alcohol, and one for those who opted to drive, without wine.
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Monday I visited with a good friend N for a coffee and a chance to chew the fat, in Alderly Edge. We covered topics as wide as finance of the UK economy, the Sex Pistols, NCAA and NFL football, what a knob Jose Mourhino is (sorry if you're a regular reader Jose, but you gotta say it how you see it), and other stuff. A thoroughly pleasant afternoon.
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Roadkill
As I might have touched on previously, there is something in the weather that is distinctly odd. It's way too warm for the time of year and it's having an effect on the indigenous wildlife.
This time of the year it is usual that the Cheshire "Wild Potato" would be deep in its winter hibernation. This morning I went for a ride. It was warm and windy, but dry. but even so would not normally expect to see this rare creature. However there was evidence that at least one specimen had been out and about over the last couple of days, and, judging by the gouge mark in it flank, had been caught a glancing blow by a passing car.
Please, it's not too late. Turn off a light, turn the central heating down a few degrees. We need to slow the environmental changes to our planet, and save rare and beautiful creatures like these.
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Every day there have been cards and parcels arriving at our front door. Today we got a really nice parcel from Germany.
It's that there Lebkuchen from that there Germany. Big thank you to Miriam. Nom nom, and indeed nom.
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