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Only a week off here. Weather is good and mild so why not take advantage of it while it lasts.
"Plan A" is to try and get a couple of weeks off.
Realistically, it really is a bit too long of a holiday, and I will go crazy if I sit at home for 2 weeks solid. So, I'm always on call and will no doubt get roped into something during this time.
I'll definitely be out gritting/ploughing if conditions deteriorate. Paperwork and planning is also something I can't avoid.
What's your "plan A" Luke?
I'm not that busy at the moment so will have an enforced holiday lol.
I don't see much work coming in around xmas & plan to put my feet up and enjoy myself :)
Well that's the plan anyway.
Early finish on Xmas eve thats it for a fortnight try and catch up on some of the jobs at home only had one week off in the summer (thats because her indoors insisted)
Landscape Juice will be open all through the Christmas period if anyone wishes to drop in for a chat.
I'm not asking anyone to own up to it but out of interest, LJN had 563 visitors on Christmas Day last year:)
We are finishing on Monday 23rd and starting back on Monday 6th of January, although if I get bored I might go and do a bit of firewood or tidy the yard.
I'll be making a kitchen unit to house our dishwasher (providing it's not too cold in my workshop).
On Christmas Eve - actually my favourite day and as big in Europe as Christmas Day is in the UK - we usually go into town to soak up the atmosphere and buy our food for our evening meal.
Christmas Eve tends to s nice entrecôte steak with nice wine and I usually have three or four oysters from the market (if you come to France at Christmas you'll normally see makeshift market stalls everywhere, stacked high with fresh oysters: a very traditional accompaniment at Christmas.
We buy our meat (only at Christmas) from our local butcher. The butcher is even open Christmas morning for people to collect.
Christmas Day we usually (I'm going to sound posh now:) have a bottle of Champagne first thing, followed buy either a cooked traditional English breakfast or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, with toast.
It's usually just the four of us so after we've feasted, opened presents and abluted, we then go for a 2-4 hour walk with the dogs to walk off the breakfast and build up an appetite for dinner. Dinner is usually served between 3-5pm (not rigid on timing).
Then we spend the rest of the day talking, watching a bit of telly, eating more and drinking more:)
I'm not a great fan of Boxing Day.
Pretty much finished for the season now. Need to service all of my equipment, a few repairs, re organise the workshops etc as well as finalising next years marketing plan! May have finished work but still plenty to do!
and catch up on LJN!
off xmas eve back 27th, off NYE and NYD then back for a couple of days, all 4 of us are doing the same lots of social housing grass to catch up with, it has been mostly underwater with the scag creating a mud bath. Need to work every dry hour at the moment
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