What are you all up to

Shocked awake by nuisance phone call just before 7am. Your credit card has been debited £500 at Amazon or Ebay 🤔. Phone replaced at that point!

Very shocked to see the school field completely white! Beautiful full moon still out. Remaining, very, golden leaves being shown off by the rising sun. Checked my App, said -2c feels like -3c 🥶🥶🥶🥶. Regretted deciding it was cold enough to walk across the nearest fields 😱😱😱. I had snowshoes of mud very quickly..... We stuck with it but I'll choose more wisely tomorrow!

Once home Dora's feet enjoyed her warm dog shower, I used the facility to wash my boots. Was shocked, again, when I went out to find that splashes from the dog shower had turned to ice. I did stay upright - phew! Frost hasn't shifted in the shade all day. Forecast now saying we have 8 days of bitterly cold, more January February temperatures. Just seen yellow weather warning for snow bordering our area!

Good job I'd opened this thread earlier to read but got interrupted, as I'm now getting server errors....

Good to read folks news. Stay warm and safe

Loving the photos. 

DK, Middleton Hall is looking very festive this year. We might get to see it when visiting our son, although it would be a weekend and after your post re the traffic, it might be difficult 🤔

Finished work at lunchtime today,  this afternoon we had another trip through the cotswolds to Cheltenham this time. It was the Christmas Fayre at the Animal shelter where we adopted "Polly" from. It was lovely that the staff recognised her and we were happy to report that she has settled really well with us. She met Santa Paws and won a bag of doggy biscuits in the lucky dip 😂. No such luck for me, no raffle or tombola prizes. 😥😥

Very cold here tonight too. 🥶

We have had a nice day out today. Drove over to Castleton, bit of a walk, then had a late lunch in The George. -2c all day, very heavy frost, but a beautiful day. We finished off by having a look in Castleton Church that had a lovely exhibition of decorated Christmas trees inside, all done by local community projects and businesses. Around 40 in total, all wonderfully individual, a lot of creativity on show. Nice one by CC site staff😁 Our favourites were the one by Castleton’s ice cream shop, and another by a cave rescue organisation, made of climbing ropes! Castleton itself wasn’t very busy, but looked nice with lots of lights twinkling.

OH was a star yesterday.

We, loose description, unpacked the desk and cabinet that we bought from IKEA the other day and she proceeded with minimal input from self to put them together. Quite impressed that there was only the 1 Dowel left over. Set them up in the front room.

Trouble is that she definitely wants one for her "Artists Room" so it will have to be Click and Collect as for some reason IKEA said our postcode was in an area that didn't qualify for delivery. Must be expecting Welsh Bandits or something. Might have to wait a while. 

Trip to the "Tip" this morning with stuff that definitely needed chucking rather than Charity Shops.

Sounds like H&T and Ttda had good trips out.

Just taken Lizzie to the vet for her annual check.  Her heart continues to be a problem, but she's a Cavalier King Charles, so always will be!  She just has to keep on with the tablets.  We did a deal... I paid the vets bill and Carol bought the coffee's at Costa.  I know who came of best.... and it wasn't me!! 😀

David

Another very cold day again but a beautiful walk along Borrowdale from Grange to the top of Castle Crag. We all just feel so privileged to see such fantastic scenery.

My Brother in Law posted our Christmas Card in Northern Ireland yesterday afternoon at 2.20pm and it was delivered to us in MK before 10.00am this morning, and on a second class stamp! How brilliant is that? Perhaps the Club should send out the magazines from Northern Ireland

David

Enjoy it while it lasts DK. I have a calendar coming for OH’s birthday, ordered last week. On Monday I got a tracking update from PO saying they had the item, and it would be delivered later Monday. Then I got another saying it would be delivered Tuesday, then another saying it would be delivered Wednesday, and finally today’s update gem, it might arrive today before 7.30pm. Our PO post is shocking at the moment. Meanwhile, I ordered some eye drops for pooch this morning, they are dispatched and DPD tell me to expect tomorrow. Evri delivered something today ordered only a couple of days ago. It’s quicker, and cheaper for me to drive round and post our local Xmas cards than sticking a stamp on☹️ OH’s father would be incandescent at state of PO in our town. He was the local Post Master!

Fabulous Lake District photos, Corners - very envious, we've done all those walks but rarely in weather like that. The Buttermere one is looking up towards Haystacks isn't it - one of our all time favourites, just got to watch out for specks of grit on the mountain itself!  

As it's  (nearly) December, we've started planning a few trips for next year - two short hotel breaks and a cottage week sorted so far. 

Meanwhile, Mrs M got her hand caught in Ralph's harness at the weekend trying to get him away from a rather aggressive chow. Came home with her hand about 3 times normal size.  So a trip to the local minor injury unit who could only put on a splint and tape it up and send her of to A&E at Bath RUH! Fortunately, as she'd already been triaged she got straight through to the x-ray department and was seen within about 15 minutes (waiting time notice in A&E said 4 to 5 hours! ). It's a bad break on her right hand but as fate would have it she's left handed so can still manage the hoovering! 

That sounds very painful, mouleys, hope that the break heals properly. Very good service from the A&E dept. I guess that she won't be driving for a while.

Grand photos from both CS and tda. 

OH did well on the assembly front, WN, hope that the next one goes as well.

Complete the bookings for our Xmas trip yesterday, so it's a C&CC site, a commercial one and then 4 CLs up to after the N.Year. There will be a few more to do for our homeward journey. Following on from my second meeting with the audiologist, I now have a referral to the ENT Dept. This had to be done by my doctor, so phoned up at 8:00 this morning, had a call back by 8:15 and an appointment for 9:40 today!! Just now have to wait for the hospital to contact me. 

We had a cold but bright morning, after heavy frost over night, and a very icy walk along by Sandscale Hawse before  lunch. Saw Curlew, Lapwings, Little Egret and Stonechats.