Quick blog before the weekend’s over
Nothing much to report really; I was ill with a nasty cold so nothing more than the essential stuff happened last week. Probably shouldn’t have gone to school either but we had lots of fun Christmas things going on that I didn’t want to miss! Knew I was really ill when I didn’t play much AC at all … and then knew I was better when I felt like WiFi-ing again on Friday (sad but true!).
Very happy to finally have a couple of pictures up on the wall going up/down the stairs, we had the Montmartre portrait framed so that’s gone up, and another one of my all time favourite photos from 2000, which I’ve had in a clip frame for years but it hasn’t been on the wall for ages.
Nothing else new. Well, I had my hair chopped short – now it’s short and sticking out instead of long and sticking out, so not much change there.
Anna sat her Grade 5 cello exam, don’t have results yet obviously. And then she spent the entire weekend on music one way or another. The Suzuki group is playing carols in town on the last Saturday before Christmas again so we (all 3 kids, Abbie joins in on her flute!) had a practice for that on Saturday afternoon, plus orchestra all morning, plus an extra random strings workshop that she was invited to this afternoon. Along with youth group on Friday night and church this morning as well, it’s a good thing she didn’t have any homework, or if she did it hasn’t got done!
Plugged the lights in on the snowman that’s been in our fireplace since last year … that’s the only decorating happening here this year, bah humbug (we are taking tree to holiday house on 20th though!).
Think that’s about everything. Caught up with washing this weekend as Steve was off racing a Ka round a track, played a bit more ACCF and let the kids watch too much tv while I played it, cooked Winter Vegetable Christmas Cobbler (ie used up veg box items that needed using in a casserole with cobblers cut with christmas cookie cutters!) for dinner this evening [as an aside, Steve had never heard of cobblers - is it just him? I often had them as a kid, not sure where they're from? a midlands or northern thing perhaps?] as the last of a run of comfort food that I’ve made this week!
Really not sure if I’m ready for the onslaught of the next two weeks which are full to overflowing with Christmas activities at work and afterwards as well, not to mention a birthday to fit in, but hey, in two weeks it’ll all be over …
December 7th, 2008 at 22:12
i have no idea what cobblers are, but could be because I grew up in Germany?
December 7th, 2008 at 22:15
A cobbler makes shoes, why on earth would you cook one?
Never heard of ‘em!
December 8th, 2008 at 10:49
We had them lots as kids, though more often as a pudding, with stewed fruit underneath. And I lived probably about 800 miles north of where you probably mean by Northern!
December 8th, 2008 at 18:54
Never knowlingly eaten a cobbler – must be a northern thing?
December 8th, 2008 at 18:55
Have hardly anything Christmassy on at all – not with kids, work nor just me. Feeling bit unloved ;(
December 8th, 2008 at 19:14
Sarah, PLEASE can you ask anna to update her blog?! The last post was on the 3rd of June! Thanks!
Charlotte mu!
December 8th, 2008 at 20:21
And having asked my mum about this, she said we often had savoury ones as well, but she had to call them something else to get us to eat them. Apparently we could only accept the fruit ones as being called cobblers, and she called the savoury ones “eberdeenies”. But that was extremely local, lol. ie to my family only, as an eberdeenie is actually a type of roll
December 9th, 2008 at 15:42
coming from Yorkshire, i can confirm that beef cobbler (and other varieties) is definately a northen thing.
I remember asking my grandma why it was called that when I was a kid so I remember well. She said it was because the rounds of pastry/scones on top resembled the ‘cobble stones’ that paved the streets in the industrial north before they were tarmacked.
December 9th, 2008 at 22:37
Cobblers–I know the two types. The fruit ones which are like a crumble, and meat dishes. Basically it’s similar to putting a dumpling on top of a casserole/stew. The fruit one, especially peach is very popluar in the States.