Burns Supper....

24th January 2018 (Wednesday) .... 11.00   Now this is what I call a weather forecast .... Uckfield Weather ; “rain starting in 9 minutes”.    And it was near
There's something wrong with this!
enough spot on... light rain began to strike the window 7 minutes later!     It’s now raining (properly) ... and windy, as per forecast .... but not cold, the temperature is 12c, and that is with a brisk (wet) wind.

I went downtown early to avoid the rain;  did the ‘hole in the wall’ (the machine I used is being removed in April), bought toothpaste, and had a cuppa in ’The Centre’, with Ruth.    I didn’t stop long because I knew the weather forecast was not ‘good’.    The weather has been a bit ‘iffy’ this holiday;  a lot of wet days.
19.00    The rain cleared away and I was able to wander up to the local corner shop to buy the ingredients needed to make cranachan .... raspberries, double cream, oatmeal and honey....  the other important ingredient we had loads of;  three tablespoonfuls of malt
Janice with what looks like a bottle of Tomato Sauce!
whisky.   There are loads of different recipes for cranachan, but I did it as Maggie would have done ... the simplest, and best.


This afternoon I watched ‘The Gruffalo’ and assorted friends, with Sullivan (great grandson).     Sullivan (hereafter ‘Sully’)has seen the Gruffalo cartoon(s) umpteen times and was able to tell me who would appear next on the screen.   The pair of us made  much noise.    Watching the Gruffalo, with a happy two and a bit year old great grandson, is very relaxing; though it can get noisy!
 22.00      We had our Burns Supper in “No1” tonight, because Janice is babysitting tomorrow night.   Michael used tonight’s ‘Supper’ as a run through for the Blackboys Burns Supper on Saturday evening.    We had Cock-a-leekie Soup, Haggis neeps and tautties, followed
Cranachan.
by Maggie type Cranachan..... oh and the odd dram to help it all  go down.    Puku is contented!


I will bumble downtown tomorrow for some exercise, and a cuppa in The Centre:  the weather is forecast to be less windy, and dry with some sunny spells.   I’ll buy another Post Box to send home;  it will lighten the load for carrying onto the train.

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