Chicken or Egg ?

It's been mostly dry today with the occasional very light and brief shower.

It's odd but since our Welsh lesson lengthened to three hours instead of two I seem to get more done on a Thursday. It's like that saying "If you want something done ask a busy person."

Today, instead of the usual quick wipe I gave the kitchen sink window sill a thorough going over. Everything got washed, all algae removed from the ferns in their hanging tubs and the spots of mould on the window bleached to smithereens. More like a spring clean but it's nice to have it done before Christmas.

 

We had a 15 minute break in class (sometimes it's 20 minutes) when I was able to start putting things back in place. I like having all these treasures on show so long as they are carefully placed.

Today we began learning the short form past tense (we've already learnt three other forms) and we did an exercise where we had to say I cooked ........./ I watched ........ or / I worked .... adding our own endings. I gaily stated that 'I cooked chicken custard in the microwave yesterday.' This had our tutor completely perplexed until she realised I'd mixed up the words for chicken and egg. Much laughter from everyone at that point including me. The next person then said "I watched my friend yesterday." thinking she was saying "I saw my friend yesterday." which had us all smiling again at the thought of her spying on her friend. It's all very good natured and we are all able to laugh at our mistakes. Much better to try and get it wrong than never bother.

I'm about to leave for the last disco aerobics of the year. We've been promised Prosecco (and No-secco) along with home-made mince pies and time to chat afterwards.

Pete meanwhile will be at the official lighting of the Borth Christmas tree by the RNLI to sing carols with the children from the local school, RNLI volunteers, the rowing club and anyone else. I would have gone if it hadn't been for aerobics at the same time. Too many things going on at Christmas.