A bit of this and a bit of that...
Categories: days-out, cat-comments, life-in-general
Date: 23 April 2013 14:57:37
Hello Peeps!
Today is St George's Day - perhaps we should have hung out English Cross of St George flag out of the window! Mr FD sometimes wears a red rose on St George's Day, but this year he's not left the house, so had no cause to do so.
But today is also the Very Bad Kittens' birthday! Happy Birthday, George and Millie! Happy (nominal) Birthday Pomme and Bib! We don't know when Pomme & Bib were born, but round about now would be a good guess for Bib, and Pomme - well, we have no idea! Perhaps we should have a Happy Adoption Day for Bib - she joined the Dormousehold on 1st June 2013, aged about 5-6 weeks.
We bought cakes to celebrate:
and I'll go to ShCarrefour later on and buy some yummy cat food for the Cats. I have to buy the ingredients for my cheesecake tomorrow, so I'll indulge the cats a little as well! Here are pictures (already seen, I know!) of our dear kitties:
I am happy too because I have won a Giveaway. Yay! Ellie over at Silver Scrapper's Craft Space picked me out of the hat to win a book about crafting ATCs. As I'm trying to create one ATC a month (I've made - but not shown - March's, and still have April's to do! Maybe tomorrow!) this will give me some inspiration (I hope!)
The weather has been completely mad recently. Last week was gorgeous, with the thermometer hitting about 26° down in Roanne, then this weekend it was snowing again! Poor Mr D went out with the combined forces of St Just and St Germain Laval Cycle Clubs to do a day's ride in the Lyonnaise mountains. They didn't actually do any riding! They holed up for the morning in a Mairie in a small village where our friend Louis' father was a BigWig, so Louis has some sway in the area. Mr D said he spent the morning failing to understand the rules of Belote. Cathy & I met them (together with other non-cycling members of the club) at a restaurant at the Col de Pavillon
for a set menu meal of salad, chicken in pepper sauce, with pasta & ratatouille, and then chocolate-and-raspberry-mousse-cake. It didn't stop raining all day, and at some moments, the rain was horizontal, such was the force of the wind. And there was definitely some sleet mixed in!
Despite that, Mr D was (in his words) "vaguely tempted" to ride. But he didn't!
Not too many lessons today - two cancellations, due to holidays & strikes - and none tomorrow. A bit of a break. Huzzah (not working)! Boo (not earning)! Film night tomorrow up at Cathy's - I'm taking cheesecake (of the white chocolate and ginger variety) so I'd better trot on down to ShCarrefour to buy the ingredients. And the Sheba!
