Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, people.
It's definitely summer here. mother in law has invited family tomorrow and I spent a lot of yesterday and some of today, baking foccaccia so we can have toasted ham, cheese and salad with foccaccia tomorrow as an easy lunch. My cold/laryngitis has freshened up, though. I noticed this morning that my sinuses are filling up and pressured. No, it's not my visits to the beach (no matter how much mother in law would like to blame them) because I'm not spending much, if any, time in the water. Sitting on the beach in a swimsuit, in high summer heat, does not put you at risk of a cold!
I just admitted the sinus complication to mother in law - she now wants to cancel tomorrow's lunch. husband & I are both insisting she NOT do that. I think it's her hamfisted way of showing that she cares about me (as is her insistence that my going for a swim on Boxing Day caused the problem even though I was already sick the day before).
I would prefer to be home in bed tonight, but we're seeing in the new year at mother in law's. We're taking an easy option, cooking frozen fish and potato gems in the oven. We would have bought takeaway, but in this village, the takeaway restaurants all shut at 5 pm. Crazy! We met a lot of other people at the supermarket also stocking up on frozen food and grumbling at the closed takeaway shop.
Tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter. It should be fairly pleasant here because the sea breeze will keep temperatures below "the ton" (100F). A cool change is forecast to come through late on Sunday.
I went to the beach again this afternoon, but not really planning to swim. Then when I got there, I found a lot of bluebottles had washed in anyway. There were people in swimming and nobody got stung while I was there, but I wasn't going to risk it. We don't normally get bluebottles until late January. For those wanting to know what I'm talking about - look up Physalia physalis. Portuguese man-o'-war. I've only ever been stung three or four times in my life, the last time about 20 years ago. These ones form today will dry out overnight and if no more blow in, tomorrow will be more pleasant at the beach. After the family leaves will be plenty soon enough to go to the beach for a swim (maybe). But even if no swim - it was pleasant today sitting there on the sand, against my favourite rock, feeling the breeze and doing a puzzle. The place was surprisingly empty, but a small family played in the water. Maybe the rash shirts on the kids prevented the stings. Back when I last got stung, people didn't wear rash shirts at the beach. Now all kids do, and most adults.
So enjoy your new year's celebration, however it goes.
Marg
It's definitely summer here. mother in law has invited family tomorrow and I spent a lot of yesterday and some of today, baking foccaccia so we can have toasted ham, cheese and salad with foccaccia tomorrow as an easy lunch. My cold/laryngitis has freshened up, though. I noticed this morning that my sinuses are filling up and pressured. No, it's not my visits to the beach (no matter how much mother in law would like to blame them) because I'm not spending much, if any, time in the water. Sitting on the beach in a swimsuit, in high summer heat, does not put you at risk of a cold!
I just admitted the sinus complication to mother in law - she now wants to cancel tomorrow's lunch. husband & I are both insisting she NOT do that. I think it's her hamfisted way of showing that she cares about me (as is her insistence that my going for a swim on Boxing Day caused the problem even though I was already sick the day before).
I would prefer to be home in bed tonight, but we're seeing in the new year at mother in law's. We're taking an easy option, cooking frozen fish and potato gems in the oven. We would have bought takeaway, but in this village, the takeaway restaurants all shut at 5 pm. Crazy! We met a lot of other people at the supermarket also stocking up on frozen food and grumbling at the closed takeaway shop.
Tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter. It should be fairly pleasant here because the sea breeze will keep temperatures below "the ton" (100F). A cool change is forecast to come through late on Sunday.
I went to the beach again this afternoon, but not really planning to swim. Then when I got there, I found a lot of bluebottles had washed in anyway. There were people in swimming and nobody got stung while I was there, but I wasn't going to risk it. We don't normally get bluebottles until late January. For those wanting to know what I'm talking about - look up Physalia physalis. Portuguese man-o'-war. I've only ever been stung three or four times in my life, the last time about 20 years ago. These ones form today will dry out overnight and if no more blow in, tomorrow will be more pleasant at the beach. After the family leaves will be plenty soon enough to go to the beach for a swim (maybe). But even if no swim - it was pleasant today sitting there on the sand, against my favourite rock, feeling the breeze and doing a puzzle. The place was surprisingly empty, but a small family played in the water. Maybe the rash shirts on the kids prevented the stings. Back when I last got stung, people didn't wear rash shirts at the beach. Now all kids do, and most adults.
So enjoy your new year's celebration, however it goes.
Marg
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