I can't believe it's been almost 4 months since I last wrote anything here! Plenty has been happening!
For a start we now have a granddaughter! She was born on 21st November and her name is Pearl Ruth Nile Liss and she is now just over 3 months old. She's beginning to make little noises and we get regular video clips of her 'talking' and smiling. It's just wonderful!
After the excitement of the birth, there was Christmas which this year was different. No kids with us on Christmas Day so we had a very civilised time with old friends. They came to us for hors d'oeuvres and turkey and we then decamped to their house for dessert, cheese, a film (Sideways) and more wine! On Boxing Day Rupert and Laura came and then Eliot, Nancy and the boys came for a few days. We took Abe and Saul to the Panto for the first time...with mixed results! Abe enjoyed it and stayed the full course, but Saul was clearly not happy and I left with him at the interval. On the way home he divulged that he thought some of the jokes were too adult and he had ideas about how they might improve the story! He was so right! Simon and Tania wisely decided to lie low over Christmas and came with Pearl in January for a weekend. Her first visit to Norwich!
January and February have been good months for films: The Post, Lady Bird, Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri, The Phantom Thread and one or two plonkers...Paddington 2 and Early Man. We also saw La Boheme at the cinema - transmitted from the Met in New York.
Then we've had upheavel in the house. Not just content with decorating at Southwold, where we are halfway through sprucing up the utility room, we decided to do something about the sitting room in Norwich which was looking a bit tired. Well, it has been over 20 years! We emptied the room and had the floorboards stripped. Then the decorator came and now we are tentatively putting things back. We're being selective rather than just tipping everything back where it was before. I love having a good clear out but Peter is very guarded about throwing things away. Pictures have been hung in different locations. We are testing out how they look before finally adjusting the strings and the heights. Pots are also being test positioned! The room looks like a gallery at the moment as the new sofas are not due to arrive until the beginning of April. Bad timing on our part! I have made a start on the new curtains for the sitting room - all 16m of it! Got back and shoulder ache already from hauling the fabric through the sewing machine.
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Next will be the turn of the TV room. Peter has removed the old carpet (yes, I've already walked on the gripper rod in bare feet!) and we have an estimator booked this week to measure up for new. It's amazing how sad and scruffy the walls look now that all the pictures are down and we can see the black marks on the walls! Still a debate going on about the colour. Peter had his first choice over the curtains for the sitting room, so I am getting to choose the paint colour for the TV room.
For a start we now have a granddaughter! She was born on 21st November and her name is Pearl Ruth Nile Liss and she is now just over 3 months old. She's beginning to make little noises and we get regular video clips of her 'talking' and smiling. It's just wonderful!
Then we've had upheavel in the house. Not just content with decorating at Southwold, where we are halfway through sprucing up the utility room, we decided to do something about the sitting room in Norwich which was looking a bit tired. Well, it has been over 20 years! We emptied the room and had the floorboards stripped. Then the decorator came and now we are tentatively putting things back. We're being selective rather than just tipping everything back where it was before. I love having a good clear out but Peter is very guarded about throwing things away. Pictures have been hung in different locations. We are testing out how they look before finally adjusting the strings and the heights. Pots are also being test positioned! The room looks like a gallery at the moment as the new sofas are not due to arrive until the beginning of April. Bad timing on our part! I have made a start on the new curtains for the sitting room - all 16m of it! Got back and shoulder ache already from hauling the fabric through the sewing machine. 
