Yes, yes, I’m still alive and kicking – mind you, I don’t do the Cancan<\/a> quite as well as I used to “when I was young and charming”, but that’s a story for another time! \ud83d\ude09 Julian and I have been fairly busy over the past few days, as well as getting in a bit of extra WoW time, along with our\u00a0usual<\/em> Sunday foray into Northrend – so lack of evening time has sort-of stymied my nightly Episodic Updates – and tonight I was too busy constructing what I hoped<\/em> would turn out to be a viable Header option, and it seems that my theory was right! It did work! Yayyy me! \ud83d\ude42 Lessee now – on Friday night\u00a0we decided that sleeping in on Sundays was all well and good, as well as being very enjoyable, but it meant that we also lost<\/em>\u00a0a great deal of valuable WoW time, so from now on, our sleeping-in day will be Saturday<\/em>, and we’ll get up at our usual<\/em> time on Sunday, so as to be able to get in more WoW-ing. So we slept in on Saturday, then after a slightly latish breakfast, Julian went off to do the usual “Saturday shop”, while\u00a0I got stuck into WoW, sorting out my “new-look” Saurfang Horde girls. After lunch, we decided to have a “short sortie” \u00a0into Northrend, which somehow managed to take up the entire rest of the\u00a0afternoon – so there I was with no time left to write my blog afterwards! Sunday, of course, was our Officially Dedicated and Designated WoW Day, so once again, I was left with no time in which to write anything. Roll on Monday… :\/ Well, Monday rolled around, as it usually does, and the weather fell all to bits, didn’t it!<\/p>\n Our cleaning lady was here in the morning, terrorising poor Sal and Satai with the noisy vacuum cleaner – hmm… you know, I don’t think Auric and Dapple really care much about the vacuum cleaner one way or the other! Strange, that… surely<\/em> they can feel the vibrations in the water\u00a0– but I must say that the house looks a lot<\/em><\/span> better after the cleaner’s visit! (I was quite aghast at one point! Satai was being his usual naughty self, so Julian threw him a screwed-up envelope, to distract him for the moment and to keep him occupied – far away from him! Satai was thoroughly delighted with this somewhat spindled and mutilated new “toy”, and proceeded to vigorously chew and rip up the crumpled-up envelope up into little itty-bitty pieces of “confetti”, which he then happily scattered all over the lovely, clean, “just vacuumed” carpet! Gesturing towards the “confetti” strewn, previously clean carpet, I said “Julian! What did you do that<\/span> for?!? Kelly’s just finished cleaning this room, and now<\/span> look at it!” *rolls eyes*<\/em>) After our cleaning lady left, Julian went off to finish off Saturday’s shopping (that is, to get the rest of the items that he’d forgotten to get on Saturday, plus more cat food, our lunch, and a new tidy bin for the kitchen, because I’d pinched the one that used to reside there\u00a0for my bathroom!<\/em>) He came back with all of those things, plus a very nice surprise! My very favourite eldest daughter, who’d managed to get\u00a0caught in a rainstorm on her way home from uni! She was soaked through, so we dried her off as best we could, and gave her some lunch. After she’d dried out a bit, and had a play with the cats, Julian drove her home, and by the time he got back I had less than an hour before Sean was due – and after he’d left, well… dinner didn’t take very long to prepare, because we had the first of our four lots of absolutely delicious<\/em>\u00a0left-over “Lamb and Harissa Lasagna with Feta and Oregano” that we’d had the other night (the recipe makes five lots of “meals-for-two”, which is very<\/span> economical!<\/em>)<\/p>\n While he was out on Monday, Julian received a message that my new glasses had come in! I was supposed to book in for what’s called a “Field Test<\/a>“, to be taken\u00a0when I came in to pick up my new glasses, but the Optometrist who tested me the other day wasn’t in today, and I was<\/em> sorta-kinda in a hurry to get my new glasses – so I’ve booked the Field Test for Friday morning. \u00a0I was due to have a Warfarin blood test on Thursday, but I’ll have it on Friday instead – one day later won’t make\u00a0any difference to the results (unless I eat a whole bowl full of Brussels sprouts the night before! Then<\/span> it will!<\/em> \ud83d\ude09 ) after my Field Test – we can pick up the Dry Cleaning on Friday too, so it works out well all round! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I think we’re supposed to be having a “day in” tomorrow, though Julian will have to go out to get more cat food. The problem with the cat food is that Sal and Satai are both still supposed to be on “kitten” food, and the supermarkets don’t sell much of it – at least, not the sort that Sal and Satai like – but there’s a Pet Barn type place up at Vermont South next to Aldi that has a Dine kitten food that they like – the trouble is, they never carry very much stock, so we’re forever having to go up and buy what few tins they have, as we have two voraciously<\/em>\u00a0hungry teenage cats to feed, and we don’t want them to start eating us<\/em>! I’ll have a look online later to see where else it’s available – after all, all<\/em><\/span> cats start out as kittens, so someone<\/em> must have a goodly supply of kitten fodder available! If not, we might have to get the Pet Barn type place to order it in for us! :\/<\/p>\n Anyway, Julian is already cooking dinner, and I’ve pretty much caught you all up on what’s been happening around these parts. We bought our next lot of “test” Hot Cross Buns this afternoon, from the Ferguson Plarre shop in the big complex on the corners of Burwood Highway and Blackburn Road – we shall have them for breakfast tomorrow morning, so you’ll receive my report on them tomorrow night. Anyway, that’s about “it” from me for this evening, as I have to go and feed Auric and Dapple! Do<\/em> drop in again tomorrow night, as I will<\/em><\/span> be here (promise!<\/em>) to regale you all with tall tales and true from this side of the black stump! \ud83d\ude09 Until then, please do try to bee good,\u00a0remember that the future is now – it’s time to grow up and be strong, because tomorrow may well be too late, and don’t forget to always drive carefully, to keep cool \u2013 or warm, depending on the outside temperature, and to look after yourselves\u2026 but\u00a0above<\/u><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>all<\/em>,\u00a0please<\/em>\u00a0don\u2019t forget to\u00a0stay<\/u><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>safe<\/u><\/em>! ciao, all! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 05.23 pm Yes, yes, I’m still alive and kicking – mind you, I don’t do the Cancan quite as well as I used to “when I was young and charming”, but that’s a story for another time! \ud83d\ude09 Julian and I have been fairly busy over the past few days, as well as getting in Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltapestries.com\/myword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}