8 days to Christmas
Jude is getting ill which is a very bad thing but our holiday to Thailand is looming which is an incredibly good thing.
Jude is getting ill which is a very bad thing but our holiday to Thailand is looming which is an incredibly good thing. The 25th is now just over a week away and things are still strange. Jude is getting sick which is really worrying although not at all surprising. I shall force Echinacea down his throat when we get home tonight and try to leave him to sleep for as long as possible tomorrow. He is very grumpy which I really don’t blame him for but my evening has passed to a sound track of him and Tom arguing with each other in between sneezes. His, not Tom’s, although given their proximity, Tom will probably succumb in a few days. Fabulous.
Unbelievably, we are still nowhere near to knowing when the drains will be resolved so again, the Christmas spirit comes and goes but certainly never hangs around for that long when it comes.
Today, we discussed who would be in charge when we finally run away to Thailand on January 3rd this year which started to make it feel closer. If we did not have that to look forward to, I think we both would have collapsed into a dribbling, gibbering heap by now. It is entirely possible that to look at us, many people would believe that this had in fact already happened. I am certainly getting people telling me how tired I look daily which I should be counteracting with skilfully applied make up but I’m not. I really must learn how to do that.
Tonight was the last School of Wine in Lordship Lane, with Clapham on Wednesday. I will be sitting down to write a shorter ‘Secondary School of Wine’ at some stage in 2008 due to popular demand as many of the students want to go on. That is very inspiring – certainly anything that involves thinking about positive aspects of 2008 is a very good thing at the moment. This particular group in Lordship Lane were wonderfully patient considering that we have had to do the whole 13 week course in the bar, the back of the shop where the tasting room is supposed to be having been lost to the Drains Debacle. This is absolutely not ideal as it is noisy and distracting. Such immense unhappiness was caused one night when we asked a particularly noisy couple to leave the snug (they had drunk rather too deep) that we did not do it again, but our loyal students bore the brunt and did so with very good grace. Thank God for lovely customers. I must keep remembering that in the next few days as the closer it gets to Christmas, the less lovely some people become and I need to try to remain calm, smiley and helpful at all times.
I may need to start drinking rather heavily.
Unbelievably, we are still nowhere near to knowing when the drains will be resolved so again, the Christmas spirit comes and goes but certainly never hangs around for that long when it comes.
Today, we discussed who would be in charge when we finally run away to Thailand on January 3rd this year which started to make it feel closer. If we did not have that to look forward to, I think we both would have collapsed into a dribbling, gibbering heap by now. It is entirely possible that to look at us, many people would believe that this had in fact already happened. I am certainly getting people telling me how tired I look daily which I should be counteracting with skilfully applied make up but I’m not. I really must learn how to do that.
Tonight was the last School of Wine in Lordship Lane, with Clapham on Wednesday. I will be sitting down to write a shorter ‘Secondary School of Wine’ at some stage in 2008 due to popular demand as many of the students want to go on. That is very inspiring – certainly anything that involves thinking about positive aspects of 2008 is a very good thing at the moment. This particular group in Lordship Lane were wonderfully patient considering that we have had to do the whole 13 week course in the bar, the back of the shop where the tasting room is supposed to be having been lost to the Drains Debacle. This is absolutely not ideal as it is noisy and distracting. Such immense unhappiness was caused one night when we asked a particularly noisy couple to leave the snug (they had drunk rather too deep) that we did not do it again, but our loyal students bore the brunt and did so with very good grace. Thank God for lovely customers. I must keep remembering that in the next few days as the closer it gets to Christmas, the less lovely some people become and I need to try to remain calm, smiley and helpful at all times.
I may need to start drinking rather heavily.
