Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Pyxis

I need to catch up with the thread! I forgot to log out Thurday night, and then didn't have internet access, and then was travelling, and then last night my internet access at home failed! So although have been logged in for the last 2+ days! I haven't actually been online!

Anyway, had a good journey back, and now need to catch up with STUFF! Including this thread.

Hope everyone is ok.

elsien

Today I am making the most of the weather. Putting the garden to bed and doing the winter pots.
As I was busy all last weekend the housework has gone by the board yet again, which isn't unduly worrying me at the moment although the dust is setting the allergies off a bit.
I so need to work part time. Or not at all, as long as I can keep Gitdog in the style to which he would like to become accustomed.
When I've got nothing on I feel like a sad person with no social life. When I've got lots on (out 3 nights this week) I long for a night at home.
Wish I could make my mind up!

tea_lover

I have an important life question for you......how much Red Dwarf is too much for one day?

Pyxis and elsien...... I've also had a busy week and really need to sort stuff today. Not happening so far.....still in pj's, watching cast commentary episodes.

Georgiegirl256

I always leave myself logged in, I have all the tabs that I use most open all the time....so it probably looks like I'm on twenty four seven!

I watched the first episode of the new series of Red Dwarf, but just couldn't get into it the same for some reason, and I used to love it.

Need to go and give the shed another layer of paint, but I don't want to go outside, it's too cold brrrrr!

tea_lover

Georgie, the second episode is much better. I liked the first one (in that I'm obsessed, and will always enjoy it), but the second one is really good.

Pyxis

tea_lover wrote: »

I have an important life question for you......how much Red Dwarf is too much for one day?

Pyxis and elsien...... I've also had a busy week and really need to sort stuff today. Not happening so far.....still in pj's, watching cast commentary episodes.

In answer to your first question, I would say 350 episodes is quite sufficient for one day!


STUFF is being done as we speak. Important STUFF like catching up with various MSE threads

In my defence, after I got home yesterday, I did wash and hang up all the dirty clothes, and this morning tackled the post pile. Have yet to do email.....they were read while I was away, but some have to be printed out, and others have to be acted on.

However, my first full day back after a holiday is always spent in rest mode. Quite apart from the fact that I've done something to my knee, not sure what, as it only started after I arrived home yesterday, and also have a nasty twinge in an abdominal muscle.... again, not sure why.
So I have decided today is a TLC day, especially as I've got holiday withdrawal symptoms too! Wail!

onomatopoeia99

Don't think "too much" is a thing for the amount of Red Dwarf you can watch in a day :rotfl:

Sunny here so trying to get myself out the back door to work in the garden again, though I've got loads to do n the computer as well (correspondence, agendas to type, homework) which isn't getting done at the moment

tea_lover

Have decided if I can get some ironing done at some point today I'll count that as a win :rotfl:. My house is a complete tip but I have zero motivation to do anything about it. Am now onto 'making of' DVD extras.... that's the rest of the day taken care of.

Pyxis

Tes, that sounds good to me. Sunday is a day of REST, after all!



Had to laugh; when in Montenegro. I was talking to the breakfast waitress about the language, and I said that of course, the most important word to learn was the word for the loo!
Then she said that next most important word that people asked to translate was 'internet access code'!

So there you are, folks! Before you go abroad, learn the local word for loo and for internet access code!
Gotta get our priorities right!




On Friday, our last full day, we spent the day at the huge Lake Skardar, which is half in Montenegro and half in Albania.
Firstly, we went on a boat which sailed up the lake and then into a river. We saw cormorants and egrets, and the crew stopped at one point so people could have a swim. Not me, as I need to be able to feel the bottom. The crew pulled up some wild water chestnuts that were growing in the lake. They were nice!
They fed us snacks of the local fried doughballs, which are yummy, and the local soft cheese, and the local grappa-type spirit.

Then we landed up the river, and were taken to a local small-holding up the mountain, to meet a family and have lunch on their terrace, of local produce. They grow their own veg, and the meat and fish is very local too. We looked around their vineyards and then had dinner too, of locally-caught trout, which was lovely!

Then we had a good old sing, and drove back to the hotel, where the staff, who had taken us to their hearts, gave us a farewell glass of sparkling wine! Then it was fall into bed for the early start to the airport on Saturday morning.



Very, very interestingly, the border-crossing into Croatia (the airport was in Croatia), was much more involved than when we had arrived; this is because, Croatiia is in the EU, whereas Montenegro isn't, so the immigration checks into the EU were more stringent.

Funnily enough, Croatia, although it is in the EU, doesn't use the euro, whereas Montenegro, which isn't in the EU, uses the euro! I got confoosed! Luckily at the airport they did accept euros, because I was puzzled what kuna, the currency, was all about! :rotfl:

onomatopoeia99

90 minutes doing general clearing in the garden and I'm ready for a nice cup of tea and a sit down, and the rest of the pack of bakewell tarts I accidentally bought yesterday :rotfl:. Can't face the melee that is the tip on a sunny Sunday today, so I'll do my other jobs after lunch and leave the piles of tree for another time.