Life in miniature

Grandma and Gramps went shopping today and bought some lovely cooking utensils and a kettle and toaster that really pops up!  They were very hard to get out of the packaging so we thought we should get it done straight away.  There's no furniture or kitchen units in our alternative house so Gramps is in his workshop right now making a worktop.  It sounds like a straight bit of wood, but as it has to be cut into all the vertical wall supports it's not that simple and Grandma is keeping a strategic distance having already pushed her luck with the suggestions!  We bought plastic food as well - what are we like?

Clogwyn Weekend

Another long weekend, starting on Thursday morning this time.  We left at 5.30 am and stopped for breakfast at Corley and toilet at Dobbie's in Shrewsbury, and were with the family by about 11.30.  We call it our apple weekend - we took picked Bramleys and windfalls with us, and made a large apple crumble for pudding on Friday, then went out to a garden centre in Caernarvon on Saturday and discovered it was apple weekend there.  They had a grower discussing vaious blights and maggots, apple trees for sale grown from a thousand year old tree on Bardsey Island, and various apple dishes in the restaurant.  We took Mum with us and she enjoyed it more than the photgraph indicates.  She did get tired, but was delighted to be able to treat us to lunch.  Bob drove the long way there through the mountains, and the short way back.

Rachel had taken the weekend off work, so we were able to eat together every evening, and she cooked us a superb Sunday lunch before we came home.  It was a pork roast, so Bob decided we must have apple sauce.  None of us had entered the longest peeling competition in Caernarvon, but we wished Bob had had a go!

This is Tuesday evening and I have completed my surgeries for the week!  Tomorrow I have to give a talk about the SPECAL method for Alzheimer's at our quarterly clinical governance meeting.  It will be my first power point presentation.  The power point is courtesy of the SPECAL people, but I put my own words to it, so hope people make sense of it.