Old Style Daily Sunday 4th February 2024

nannywindow

Morning all, despite it being dry when I posted yesterday it then mizzled the rest of the day. Today is meant to be dry too but I'm not sure about that either.
I got a few jobs done and dusted yesterday, why did I procrastinate so much ? I have a delivery today, my new latex pillow and I'm looking forward to using it tonight, my old one has definitely seen better days.
Dad is coming over for lunch and we're going to have haggis, something I've never had before. We'll have mash, peas and some of the carrots I cut up yesterday with gravy. Don't know how authentic it will be but I will try it anyway, it'll be a change. 
Gers you can still get them on Amazon. 
Have a good Sunday if you can.
Take care all
nan xx

Gers

Thanks @Floss and @Nan - those ones on Amazon look much more refined than the early Rain Mates. I remember then being very thin / flimsy and folded like a concertina so less bulky than the modern version. Every newsagent sold them, right next to the Handy Andies tissues. 

Must stop looking back!  Before I came downstairs I rooted around a few drawers, removed a couple of sets of bed linen which I don't use any more, tried on the flannel pjs I found hiding in the wrong drawer and decided to donate them to a CS when I do down to Glasgow on Tuesday. I'm dithering about a well-loved and use Radley bag, it's too big for every day use but useful when travelling.  When will be travelling abroad again? Apart from going to mainland Europe I can't see myself doing any more long distance flights. So, still dithering.

Lovely dog @Izzy. Great companions but when I see one of my neighbours from a mile away trudging through the rain walking his lovely sprocker it always turns my mind away from getting one!  I'm not that dedicated.

RedRuby1231

Morning all

Dry here for now but some rain due later, I have stripped the beds this morning and got the bedding in the wm it’s about to finish but I’m not sure it’s worth trying to hang it out.

DD has gone wedding dress shopping with her bestie today there are a few girls going, dd is a bridesmaid and along with her bouquet she will carry the brides 9 month old down the aisle which I think is lovely 😊 

We ended up going to the pub for dinner last night which was very lovely my FIL insisted on giving us some money to get ourselves a meal it was nice not having to cook, so we will have the salmon tonight.

Big pup has hurt her leg again she is far too exuberant when out on a walk and seems to damage it quite often so she is on bed rest for a few days and then lead walks for a while, I have got her some joint tablets so will start on them today and see if they help.

Got to do mum an online shop later, I don’t know if I said but she decided she didn’t want the helper I found for her 🙄 and said she will try and do her online shopping herself, I knew we would end up doing it again, it’s not that I mind it’s just another job for us to do.

Have good days all and take care xx 

IzzyBee

Ruby my dog is on joint tablets they have definitely worked on her and if you get them straight from the company online they work out a lot cheaper 

dp1

Afternoon everyone
Dull and drizzly here. I've been down to sit with dad this morning while mam was at church, we did his email to DD in Germany and had a good natter. This afternoon is going to be very lazy - I have my Sunday Times and am reading a good book. I will also need to get on with the sorting the photos I want printed, I put it off as it always seems to take ages.
Since I started with Long Covid I find reading and retaining what I've read really difficult - it takes me ages to read a book as I have to keep looking back to remember what has happened. I have always loved reading and was never without a book on the go, so I find it very frustrating.
Gers - you've traumatised me!  Up to about the age of 12/13, if we were out somewhere and it started to rain, my mam would be straight into her  bag and out would come two of those rain mates, one for me and one for her. I used to hate it with a passion and never understood why my brothers were allowed to just get wet!
Izzy I remember my brother bringing home a video recorder - we were the first in our street to have one. My dad used to bring pirate tapes back from the pub....I can remember watching a very fuzzy ET. When we got a microwave, we'd sit at watch it going round!
I'm going to get a few jobs done and then I can be lazy. Hope everyone has a good day x

zcrat41

Hello all,
quick query for those more knowledgeable than me. I made a massive pot of spicy Mexican bean stew. However it’s rather too spicy. What can I add to of to reduce the spice. Last night we had it with a mountain of sour cream but wondering if there’s anything else? 

TravellingAbuela

Dp1 you have reminded me of when we got an automatic washer in the early days of our marriage! We pulled up chairs and watched it washing and spinning mesmerised by it doing it by itself!  Prior to that we had an old top loading smal hotpoint with a mangle which, by then, was probably 3rd or 4th hand at least! X

Chrisca50

I remember getting our first microwave.  The first thing I cooked in it was sausages.  Surely they take longer than the book says thinks I, result = cremated sausages lol

camelot1001

I tried to cook fish fingers in the microwave - they looked like doll's house food!

-taff

zcrat41 said:

Hello all,
quick query for those more knowledgeable than me. I made a massive pot of spicy Mexican bean stew. However it’s rather too spicy. What can I add to of to reduce the spice. Last night we had it with a mountain of sour cream but wondering if there’s anything else? 

Not really, you could try a sprinkle of vinegar or lime juice when it's in your bowl, but soured cream or yoghurt, anything like that is the only way  sorry....or make a chilli less chilli and mix, or add more toms/beans etc to dilute the spice.