Time continues to slip...
Dec. 30th, 2022 05:20 pmIf things had gone according to plan, D. and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
valydiarosada would have arrived yesterday to spend the New Year with us: but two days ago, D. phoned: valydiarosada had been suffering the symptoms of a heavy cold, had tested for covid and proved positive. So the traditional New Year's visit has been deferred until a time to be agreed once everyone has tested negative. I'm disappointed, of course, but not devastated. The New Year is just a date on the calendar; it's not as if I hadn't already, of my own free will, deferred my Christmas Day by 24 hours. I will enjoy their visit whenever it happens, and meanwhile I will observe the New Year as I choose - which will probably mean going to bed at pretty much my usual time. I won't be watching Jools Holland's Hootenanny. Sorry, Jools.
We have also deferred our planned visit to D.'s sister and brother-in-law, who live in the high Pennines: we were to have spent New Year's Day with them, but we have agreed to wait until D. andvalydiarosada are here. Which makes sense. But, I complained to durham_rambler, I was ready for a day out... He had a suggestion: a business called Stack are applying to convert the space vacated by Marks & Spencer in Durham city centre into a vibrant multi-unit food and drinks and games venue, and he is deeply immersed in drafting the response of the City of Durham Trust to their licensing and planning applications. We could go to Seaburn and look at their existing business there. So that's what we did.
We made the most of the excursion, calling in at Boots to collect a prescription. Which meant a bit of navigating by dead reckoning, and a magical mystery tour via Lambton and the Penshaw Monument. A short stroll along the front at Seaburn, a quick circuit of the various bars and food outlets in the Stack - nothing wrong with this set-up on an otherwise empty site on the front, but how will it fit into the city centre, snuggled up to the World Heritage site? No doubt we'll find out, because I think it is likely to go ahead... Fish and chips for lunch at the Salt House (next door but one to the Italian restaurant where we usually meet the family), and then home.
We've also invited J. to dinner on New Year's Day, to help eat some of the food we had laid in for visitors. It's going to be quite a sociable New Year, one way and another (by my standards, at any rate).
valydiarosada would have arrived yesterday to spend the New Year with us: but two days ago, D. phoned: valydiarosada had been suffering the symptoms of a heavy cold, had tested for covid and proved positive. So the traditional New Year's visit has been deferred until a time to be agreed once everyone has tested negative. I'm disappointed, of course, but not devastated. The New Year is just a date on the calendar; it's not as if I hadn't already, of my own free will, deferred my Christmas Day by 24 hours. I will enjoy their visit whenever it happens, and meanwhile I will observe the New Year as I choose - which will probably mean going to bed at pretty much my usual time. I won't be watching Jools Holland's Hootenanny. Sorry, Jools.We have also deferred our planned visit to D.'s sister and brother-in-law, who live in the high Pennines: we were to have spent New Year's Day with them, but we have agreed to wait until D. and
valydiarosada are here. Which makes sense. But, I complained to durham_rambler, I was ready for a day out... He had a suggestion: a business called Stack are applying to convert the space vacated by Marks & Spencer in Durham city centre into a vibrant multi-unit food and drinks and games venue, and he is deeply immersed in drafting the response of the City of Durham Trust to their licensing and planning applications. We could go to Seaburn and look at their existing business there. So that's what we did.We made the most of the excursion, calling in at Boots to collect a prescription. Which meant a bit of navigating by dead reckoning, and a magical mystery tour via Lambton and the Penshaw Monument. A short stroll along the front at Seaburn, a quick circuit of the various bars and food outlets in the Stack - nothing wrong with this set-up on an otherwise empty site on the front, but how will it fit into the city centre, snuggled up to the World Heritage site? No doubt we'll find out, because I think it is likely to go ahead... Fish and chips for lunch at the Salt House (next door but one to the Italian restaurant where we usually meet the family), and then home.
We've also invited J. to dinner on New Year's Day, to help eat some of the food we had laid in for visitors. It's going to be quite a sociable New Year, one way and another (by my standards, at any rate).
