Saturday Was Our Last Day Of Trading,

and I was amazed, 

at the steady stream of customers calling in, not to buy anything, pretty much everything had been sold, but to say how much they appreciated our help and advice over the years and wished us all well for our futures, it was indeed a sad day as we closed the door for the last time to our customers, 

the shop Kingfisheries started in 1953 at its present location at the corner of Croydon Road and Yew Tree Avenue, I started work there in 1963 as a Saturday Boy, something I never hear of nowadays, joining the shop full time in 1966. Work however will continue for us for the next week as we continue to strip down the aquariums and stands as well as everything else accumulated over the years, I am not going to post about our holiday today, so on to Sunday,

in the garden a rare guest, 

a Green woodpecker, (Picus viridis), we hear them often enough, but seldom see them,

Diana was at work as Christmas is a busy time, so often she has to go in on Sunday's, for myself the latest issue of Private Eye, 

followed by a prawn cocktail, 

and a cottage pie with mashed potatoes, 'Cheers!',

and what better to round off a near Christmas lunch? a couple of all butter Jamaican rum mince tarts! then feet up until Diana returned home from work, in the evening a snack as we watched,

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which was very enjoyable, after which, you guessed it! a couple of Midsomer Murders before we were off to bed.