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We've been in Cambridge since Thursday, staying with two sets of friends, and catching up with others. It's been really good to see everyone, including both couples who got married in August, and Hazel and Alex. While we were in a city centre with time to spare, we also did rather a lot of shopping. Too much, perhaps? We are now the proud owners of a ceramic hen (called Henrietta...), several metres of different Christmas-patterned fabrics, a small counter-top bin for the kitchen, and fabric for the kitchen curtains.

On the way home, we stopped off at our 'old' garden centre (that is, the one near the old house), and had a mooch, picking up some Christmas bits and a few plants. Good fun to wander round: I think I still prefer it to our local centre, but there you go. Further on, we called in to the manufacturer of our kitchen units, to pick up some final bits, which will hopefully be installed this week.

We got home to discover our Van Meuwan order of perennials had arrived, so they will need planting out this week, or at least potting up. I'm not sure we're going to get everything we want done, but there you go. Hopefully the bigger tasks can be accomplished.

Unfortunately, it looks as though our eldest cat, Meriadoc, has gone a bit downhill while we were away. She's been doddery for a few months, but she's looking rather thin and tired. We'll try to keep her comfortable as long as possible, but I fear she's on an inevitable decline.