The start of it!

The fruit for the Christmas cake has all been weighed out and is now soaking in brandy.  

The preparations have begun!  

A really foul day, gales and sleety showers.  This afternoon I sat and knitted and watched Suite Francaise which I taped recorded many moons ago for just such an occasion.  Very moving and I did enjoy it, though that's not the right word, but not as good as the book. But then the film version rarely is . . . 

An awful drive to choir rehearsal, with horrendous weather and flooded roads, but nothing like as bad as further south.