Storm Goretti

 Well, I made all sorts of preparations for Storm Goretti - candles out, matches, torches, Thermos flasks of boiling water for hotty botties and cups of tea, electric blanket on early, mobile fully charged etc.  I watched all three episodes of Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club, and greatly enjoyed this series, despite falling asleep sitting up in Episode 2, so had to watch it again.  The earlier heavy rain turned to lighter snow, and even when I went to bed, there wasn't much in the way of wind, let alone storm, so I will assume we were on the edge of it here.  Phew.  It's dark yet, but looks like we only had an inch or so of snow.  I'll put the news on shortly and see how the rest of the country fared.  So much for all the nay-sayers on Facebook who said we would just get rain.  Many of the roads in the Welsh valleys were struggling with the heavier snowfall and even Swansea, on the coast, got a goodly amount.

I made good progress with my jigsaw yesterday, and really enjoyed it.  Not too challenging.  I think Tenby will be more demanding as there's lots of sea in that one.

I will probably bake a cake for my neighbours who did the shopping the other day.  I have bananas and cooking apples to use up.  I will walk round to their house with it, to get some fresh air and stretch my legs.  I will make a pan of Minestrone soup too.  This weather calls for soup.

January is one of those months which can easily be frittered away doing nothing and watching tv, so I will try to get more into craft mode.  I am enjoying sewing the Pippi-cat embroidery.  Really need to do some quilt making too.

I hope all the other UK followers are OK, and that the ghastly bush fire in Australia hadn't affected folk.  Someone had put up a photo of what appeared to be storm clouds in Oz, but was the smoke from the bush fire, and I pray they are ok.