A foggy walk.

Keith went shopping this morning and bought enough to last us the weekend. He went very early to avoid the crowds, and also to try and keep safe from the new variant that is rampaging through the country. The figures are getting higher every day (around 90,000 infections) and are the highest of the pandemic so far.

We managed to watch Saturday Morning Kitchen for the first time in ages, and it was lovely to see the travelogue pieces. I've definitely been bitten by the bug again after our Mallorca trip, but our choices are dwindling - France has now banned us from going, which is great! And we're supposed to be neighbours! We are due to go to France in April (re-booked from April 2020) but who knows? There's no entente cordiale between the two countries at the moment, and I think M. Macron doesn't like us very much!

As Sophie and I were so heartily fed up with being in the house, we ventured out for a walk in the afternoon. It was still very foggy, grey and cold. We walked up to the village and annoyed a small terrier that went mad when we walked past its house. It continued barking while we went to the triangle and turned around, and went loopy when we passed it again. It must drive the neighbours mad!

Back at home we lit the fire in the living room and watched a programme about the Christmas markets in Copenhagen, presented by Greg Wallace. We weren't sure when it was filmed as we didn't spot anyone wearing masks (in future years you'll be able to date programmes by whether people are wearing face coverings!), but I do wonder if they're on at the moment, considering Covid?

In the evening, before dinner, we enjoyed Vodka Martinis (I had a potato one and a rhubarb one from my Gin Advent Calendar), and Sophie beat me at Scrabble, which she seems to do every time now. After a delicious dinner of beefburgers and roasted veggies, Keith and I watched No Country For Old Men, starring Xavier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones. Sophie wasn't keen on the violence, but Keith and I enjoyed it. It had rather an abrupt ending though!