Well, the slow cooker arrived on Saturday, which was jolly good. Unfortunately we realized we didn’t have any slow-cook food, so had to go shopping. Which was bad. The first and second of of November are big family holidays, so the supermarket was full of people buying legs of jamon and more legs of jamon just in case. We stopped for a picnic on the way back (at Berlanga – the place where Mum, S, Ian and I had a picnic in a not-yet-opened toilet). When we got home, although we’d not been gone very long, I realized that we didn’t have enough time for slow cooking our slow cook food, so we ended up with fast cook food again. Happily, we’ve had a couple of meals now using the slow cooker and I am surprised that we didn’t think of this before.
Saturday was Halloween, so we hid in my workshop. It is relatively low key, although there is a lot of throwing rice around, which I am a little unclear about. But we did have visitors at about midnight (we had gone to bed so they gave up when we didn’t answer).
The big holidays are Sunday and Monday and we went for a walk on Sunday and saw lots of people going to the cemetery with flowers. I think that the Day of the Dead celebration is a nice one, it is not as carnival like as the Mexican celebrations, but likewise it is not a sad day – and being a national holiday the whole day is spent in family groups.
October was what the Americans call ‘my Super Bowl’. Everything has been busy. I guess it will carry on until Christmas, well the new year, now. However it was like all of a sudden a load of people said ‘we must get crafting’. I haven’t got my Christmas project written up yet, but I’ve set aside Weds and Thursday to do this. I have been getting MakeForBusiness fleshed out though, and have spent two days working on it. I feel quite positive about it, but we’ll see….
Brain training going well. I have discovered that I am not a morning person, nor indeed am I an evening person. However there is about 20 minutes just before lunch when I perform well. So I do my brain training then and I showed an improvement this week. Just a tad disappointed that I am at the peak of my mental prowess for such a short space of time, and that this tiny window coincides with me making beans on toast. Hey ho…