It's warm inside.

The juice and zest from these went in our dried fruit

left to soak all the juice up over night

Tomorrow we bake our Christmas cake

 I have been planning my next bag, it's for my patchwork stash

I saw something similar on Pintrest, but this is my design

With my small cutting board being the template for size.

 My Spanish plant is doing well in this tube, it has grown loads

It's looking more like a plant and less like a cutting. 

it's grown over 10cms since I first got it home

 My tiny spider plant is also huge

again it lives in our sunny office

 Just finished this brilliant book

 Next I will read Song of the Skylark

We had a lovely Chinese meal at our youngest daughter's on Friday evening, we also sat at their new table and chairs, loads of chatter. Just a lovely evening together.
It's been a weekend of home and inside, I got up yesterday with a  bad throat and cough which is going around, so we have stayed in the warmth, and I have pottered. Yesterday afternoon I caught up with loads of taped TV programs, watched the last Gardeners World for this year.
Today I did the citrus fruit for the dried fruit, I love the smell in our kitchen and tomorrow it will be full of spices, we are a bit late cooking our cake, but there is still plenty of time to ice and finish it.
I did enjoy the planning of my new bag, I have a few things to work out, and want to patchwork the outside cover, I have not done the bunting, the noise of the sewing machine would be a bit much for me at this time, once the headache and cold symptoms go I can get my machine out.
I did spend a few hours on my last years blog book, all the pages are now in the book and I have sized the photo's. All I now need to do is look at each page, tidy the lines, check spelling, but there are 248 pages, it's the biggest book so far, I did alot of post last year.
I am also going to pull out Torchon O Christmas tree, I have not stitched this since May, and time will be running out to get it done for this year.