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Oct. 13th, 2021 11:09 pmI'm thinking very seriously of signing up for Yuletide this year. Never done it before.
What do I need to know? Any advice, anyone?
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We have just had a lovely visit from a friend I last saw slightly more than 21 years ago, at my grand 40th birthday party!! We picked up B and his lovely wife S from the station, and spent yesterday afternoon and early evening drinking Gewurztraminer and nattering very happily about all kinds of things—B has an encyclopaedic knowledge of all kinds of stuff, including what many, many friends are up to these days. Then we watched The Music Man together, which was unexpected but delightful.
Today we took them into the city and showed them bits of it—including a visit to Dippy the Dinosaur, still resident in the cathedral until the end of the month. We left them there to go and inspect a house with Boy, then rejoined and had lunch at The Belgian Monk, well up to standard, and took them through rural Norfolk to the hotel where they're staying for a walking holiday.
It was so nice to reconnect and find the connection so strong!
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We were supposed to be getting our cavity walls (ie on the 1920's extension) filled on Monday, but the truck could not get up the drive and had not come with the requested extra-long hoses. Grump. And it is proving quite difficult to get the outside of the oldest part of the house (solid walls - actually just the straight line of the northern wall) exterior insulated, because we can't find anyone willing to do it. This puts a distinct crimp in our intention of going for a ground source heat pump to replace the gas boiler. Grump again.
What do I need to know? Any advice, anyone?
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We have just had a lovely visit from a friend I last saw slightly more than 21 years ago, at my grand 40th birthday party!! We picked up B and his lovely wife S from the station, and spent yesterday afternoon and early evening drinking Gewurztraminer and nattering very happily about all kinds of things—B has an encyclopaedic knowledge of all kinds of stuff, including what many, many friends are up to these days. Then we watched The Music Man together, which was unexpected but delightful.
Today we took them into the city and showed them bits of it—including a visit to Dippy the Dinosaur, still resident in the cathedral until the end of the month. We left them there to go and inspect a house with Boy, then rejoined and had lunch at The Belgian Monk, well up to standard, and took them through rural Norfolk to the hotel where they're staying for a walking holiday.
It was so nice to reconnect and find the connection so strong!
*
We were supposed to be getting our cavity walls (ie on the 1920's extension) filled on Monday, but the truck could not get up the drive and had not come with the requested extra-long hoses. Grump. And it is proving quite difficult to get the outside of the oldest part of the house (solid walls - actually just the straight line of the northern wall) exterior insulated, because we can't find anyone willing to do it. This puts a distinct crimp in our intention of going for a ground source heat pump to replace the gas boiler. Grump again.