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Morning all.
Ruby, I'm sure we will all be thinking of you tomorrow. What a good idea to have a breakfast instead of a wake. You sound very organised.
NannyW. You sound like a veritable dynamo. All that deep cleaning and now a delivery to sort out. You will have earned that afternoon on the sofa.
AOD I'm picturing this vision of elegance wafting around the house doing housewifely things. I dont think many of us have had much use from our usual winter wardrobe. I have lived in baggy jogging bottoms, (wearing the bottoms is the nearest I will ever get to jogging!) warm, baggy tops and a happy smile. No one is going to see me. No one is coming into my house either, I'm with Nelski on that, why bother?
Sadly, it seems that inertia is my default setting.
Today will be different. Today I am going to be making the last Clementine marmalade until next Christmas. And my lovely neighbours went to the farm shop yesterday and brought me back a load of fresh salad stuff.
I know it's not really salad weather, but in my book every weather is salad weather. With a jacket potato, some ham and cheese I will be happy.
Keep warm and cosy if you can.I believe that friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet when our wings
Have trouble remembering how to fly.13 -
Morning all. Ruby, we might as well get cocktails then because Weather Snap! -3....I've just got a splinter in my thumb from fetching some wood to burn that I can't see not even with glasses on. Oh well, wood works it's way out as my mother used to tell me. Today I have plans to post something to my sister, she asked me to print some stuff off for her and send it, so that's a trip to the local post office later. When I'm fortified with breakfast and duvets for the walk there. We had shoulder steaks and risotto last night, there's risotto left for frying for lunch so that means pizza for supper. I have unearthed the bread flour and will let it prove slowly in the lean to. And get my artichokes out! [Big jar,I love them!]Gers,hope your home problem is sorted quickly and your running water Camelot. Glad to see you more up and about Rosy. Nanny, I can see your sparkly diamond of a house from here.You're putitng mine to shame AOD, I see your outfit and I raise you a double hoodie and a wrap. Nels, thank god it can limp along a bit more. TA, I think I may take culinary inspiration for soup and make some lentil and bacon too. A pack or two of cooking bacon fell in my basket on Tuesday, at 75p I thought that was a bit of a steal. Ruby, wishing you strength for tomorrow. Hey all reading along, hope you're ready and willing to fight for the right to stay warm in this weather with numerous layers. And no one is watching so go crazy with the layers!Shampoo? No thanks, I'll have real poo...13
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Still -4 and I'm making elderly vegetable soup for lunch.
Washing g machine has just finished a load done on the economy cycle.
Monna, we are going to have salad with our pizza. I like salad any time.
Ruby, am thinking of you.I was jumping to conclusions and one of them jumped back11 -
Been to dig the car out. It wasn't too difficult as I normally park right at the end of the road so there's no room for a car to get behind. The snow on the car was very high but the ice underneath wasn't very thick. I can't reach the roof of my car so it's still got it's white bonnet.During my drive to the shops a spanner icon appeared which sent me into a worry phase so I only went to the tip and Marks, no coffee or fresh cakes! As the car is already booked in for a service on Monday I was resigned to not using it until then, however a wee search online finds that the spanner seems to indicate that a service is due within one week. End of worry phase.DP1 - how's your mouth doing now? Hope it's better.Taff - my neighbour hasn't got back to me about the problem so either he's sorted it out or he hasn't been. It's in the garden so I'm not overly worried and country folk are not the best at communicating.Ruby - I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. It won't be easy though you should be proud of what you are doing and how you are doing it.Keep warm everyone.11
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It's official. I have finally cracked. I've just put the washing machine on with a dishwasher tablet in it!! The correct capsule is waiting for it to finish washing and I'll put it on again! It's only bath mats and towels so no great loss if it's ruined them.
I had a lovely surprise after all this morning. My friend in Oz rang me and we were chatting away for two and a quarter hours! Once we had exhausted the Covid situation we then got on to reminiscing about our mis-spent youth. It perked me up no end and I was (almost) raring to go cleaning the kitchen and bathroom. Lunch has now been eaten and feet are up for an afternoon reading. The sky is blue and the sun is shining but it is making no impression on the lying snow. We need to get a bit above 0 deg for that to happen.
I'm another one that lives in jogging pants and cosy fleece day in day out. Can't beat being snug, warm and comfy in these Arctic conditions. And there is hope on the horizon, Paul the Weatherman just said it will be milder at last by the end of the weekend.
RUBY I hope all goes as well as it can do tomorrow and the bacon and eggs afterwards are enjoyed. GERS I hope the problem at your own house isn't anything too serious x"If you dream alone it will remain just a dream. But if we all dream together it will become reality"12 -
I've read somewhere recently about people using dishwasher tablets to clean their washing machines11
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Fear not fellow OS'ers I'm only a dynamo when the moon is aligned with Jupiter or some such planet or it's a blue moon, i.e.not very often. Perhaps I'll have to put up a sign saying "go past the hall at your own risk" but no one goes past there anyway nowMy delivery included 2 easter eggs for the DGC ( they will also have money or presents ) but the outer boxes were a bit bashed so I checked one and there is another box inside, a cardboard basket look-a-like, so I can feel my crafty side coming out. I'll probably add more choclatey bits and sit it all in some shredded paper then wrap the whole thing in cellophane and add some curly ribbon. Voila-Done !!I have just spent the last hour trying to get my head around Mr Fix It's new spreadsheet for when we get our SP's, mine in June his in September. I've got it now, I think, but only when he sent it to my laptop and it was in front of me, him spouting figures at me wasn't doing a thing except making my head spin ! I think he could give the Chancellor a run for his money as he seems to love a spreadsheet almost as much as I love my listsRedRuby I hope everything goes well tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you.taff you'll need your sunglasses against the shine If I can't get the splinter out I put on a plaster to draw it out. Don't know if it works but perhaps it's worth a try ?Gers fingers crossed that it was nothing to worry about at your home.Monna I agree any day is salad day, I'm having some with my gammon and jacket potato later.Right I'm really going to shut up this timeTake care all, hugs for those who need them.nan xxFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again, but this time more intelligently13
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Just been having a catch-up
Camelot - if you can take the top of your cistern, pour in some cold water and the running water will stop. My upstairs loo keeps doing this but the housing association are just doing emergency jobs just now, and it's not classed as an emergency because I have 2 toilets.
Gers - thanks for asking. My mouth is a lot better now though still tender. The first 3 days before the antibiotics kicked in were agony. I have an appointment today at 5pm as the dentist wanted to check everything is healing ok, I expect he'll be quite happy with it. He seemed genuinely concerned last week that he had caused me so much pain.
I had work this morning - we built a rather small snowman as the snow is now quite soft, and dressed him in one of our nursery jumpers - the children were delighted!
Last day tomorrow and then half term, though I don't seem to have actually done much since Christmas. We're still on part time hours after the holidays - who knows how long for...
Got a rather nice chocolate brownie to have with a cuppa before going into the town to the dentist. I'll get the bus in as the paths are very slippy.10 -
I shall be thinking of you and your family tomorrow RedRuby and hope it goes as well as it can do. I'm sure a breakfast will go down well in this weather xx
:heartsmil 'A woman is like a teabag: You never know her strength until you drop her in hot water'. (Eleanor Roosevelt)7
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