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[Lisa]

Enjoy your weekend in Bournemouth, Sarah. Good luck with your training :)

[Joan]

For an English shandy you need to that Lemonade in England is what americans call lemon-soda, like sprite. What Americans call lemonade the English call lemon squash.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Shandies here are as Sarah described. Half lemonade (what US calls sprite) and half beer. But only really old ladies drink it. One former Prime Minister drank one in a pub the night before the election and got mocked and probably lost votes for it.

Interesting Peggy. Here a radler is premade in bottles, but usually beer with lime and/or lemon through it. Like the juice, not soft drink. So just as alcoholic but refreshing in summer.

When I turned 18, my Dad offered to buy me stout with raspberry cordial in it, as that was common "back home" for ladies to drink to make beer more palatable and you couldn't see the cordial in the stout. I responded with "I'll have a straight stout thanks". Why would you do that, and how horrible must that taste??

Hope the course is good Sarah. Always fun to get back into learning!

We just came home from our (old) housemates 10 wedding anniversary party. I'm forcing myself to stay up late so I don't feel old.

[Peggy]

That sounds exactly like our radler Rusalka.

Haha, it's so confusing with all these names for drinks and ingredients slightly different everywhere!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Oh I misunderstood. To be honest, we probably pinched the name off you guys, so I'm glad it is the same thing!

[Peggy]

My bad! I think I used 'lemonade' wrong. I meant lemon juice, not the soft drink.

[Travis]

On way to a wedding tomorrow in lancaster PA. Presently in Scranton. Leaves are about peak of color change. All hills or mountains of beautiful fall colora entire drive

[Sandra, Moderator]

Pennaylvania is beautiful in fall. Safe trip, Travis.

[Tejas Janet]

Peggy wrote: "The picture was taken in my office. I have lots of chocolate here for the study I'm running. I used to keep it in the lab but bars got stolen, so now I have them in my office. They are right across..."

Yikes, I don't know how I'd do facing down a wall of chocolate in my office every day, lol!

[Travis]

I swear Pennsylvania has the worst roads so narrow. When you are used to big wide NY roads then go to Pennsylvania its white knuckle but heading back to NY breath of fresh air. Nice wide ahouldered roads and mostly flat. The hills start in NY Sandra and our foliage is a bit ahead of PA next week would be better cruising PA

[Sandra, Moderator]

That is what I was thinking. Fall is justatarting

[Sandra, Moderator]

Oops, I pressed post.
Fall is just starting. In s few days it will look wonderful.
Are you staying for a week then?

[Travis]

Nope. Leaving Sunday. I'll have to make due with partial fall foliage until we get to NY again

[Sandra, Moderator]

You have an excuse to come back then. :)
We should visit NY state sometime. I have only see NYC, that it IS something, but it is a shame that being so close we have never gone around up there. We usually head to the south, but we plan to change that next summer. The plan is to try a spot on Lake Erie.

Enjoy the wedding!

[Travis]

Front desk just called. Apparwntly we are partying too loudly amd the room downstaira turned us in. My brother in law and I are watching history channel on mute with closed captioningwhile my 6 and 3 yr old are playing with their 1 year old cousin. Of which the 3 year old was hopping around a little but loud enougj to complain. Give me a break. I think they need to chill the f out downstairs. People.

[Travis]

Survived night with no more complaints. Just vouldn't sleep. I jave the hardest time sleeping anywhere that isn't my house. Then I gave up on sleep at 430 amd stared at walls. This always happens too

[Kristie, Moderator]

Sorry to hear that, Travis. I'm a terrible sleeper when traveling too. Actually, I'm not great at home, but on the road it's worse. Hope you get some sleep tonight.

[Tasha]

Same here! I hope you get some good reast tonight, Travis.

[Sarah]

I'm the same. I stayed at a friend's last night before day 1 of my course today and i couldn't sleep. I think it's worse when i have to be somewhere for a set time, like today. My brain goes "what if my alarm doesn't go off? What if i don't wake up in time? Then I'll be late. So let's not bother toing to spend p then i know I'll be awake for when i need to be and i won't be late." Yeah thanks brain! Anyway, day 1 was great. Met some lovely people, learnt some good stuff and I'm looking forward to day 2 tomorrow.

Enjoy the wedding Travis.

[Janice, Moderator]

We've had snow in our little mountain getaway. Went to the hotsprings while the snow fell. It wa funny seeing the lifeguards in parkas, toques, and boots while everyone else was in a thing suits.

The road is blocked off west of us from a rock slide. The roads are lined with semis that are stranded and have to wait. Today, we're going to one of the lakes called Medicine Lake to see if it has disappear. It disappears each year. When we were there in June, it was full.

Two of my nephews living in Florida have checked in safe. One nephew is in Jacksonville which got hit pretty bad. Haven't heard from my cousin yet.

[Janice, Moderator]

Bathing suits. What the heck are thing suits??

[Travis]

Its weird as we head north the trees really havent started changing until the lehigh tunnel. As you head straight for the wall of trees they are ablaze with color and then its all colorful foliage stsright through northbound

[Sarah]

I'm back from the course and I had a great time. My head is full of information and I'm excited to put what I learnt in to practice. I have lots of homework, some of which is reading (about hypnosis). Looking forward to next month's module now.

[Tasha]

I'm glad your relatives are safe in Florida, Janice. I have a good friend and family in Fla and SC and they both checked in safe as well. The one in SC had to evacuate to GA.

I'm also happy your course went well, Sarah! I love learning new stuff too. I'm going to a homeopathy class this week ad can't wait. :)

[KimeyDiann]

Fall is sort of starting in Mississippi. We've been having cooler nights and a couple of cooler days. Saturday only got up to a little over 70F (20C) and was extremely windy. But yesterday was in the mid 80s F (30c). Leaves aren't changing very much here, they are just dying and falling off of the trees. Someone said it is because it has been so dry, but I don't know if that is true. It has been really dry though, we've been under fire bans. We went to a wedding reception Saturday night that was outside, there was supposed to have been a bonfire, but they couldn't have one due to the fire bans and because we were under a red flag warning. A nice sweater and a bottle and half of wine managed to keep me warm... and a shot of Crown Royal Regal Apple whiskey. Needless to say, I slept really good when we got home!

[Peggy]

Your fall sounds like our summer KimeyDiann ;-) What's Mississippi like in winter?

[Lisa]

Glad to hear your relatives and friends are safe, Janice and Tasha.

[KimeyDiann]

Peggy wrote: "Your fall sounds like our summer KimeyDiann ;-) What's Mississippi like in winter?"

Very mild. I don't know if I could survive a real winter! Highs are usually in the upper 40's to lower 50's (around 5-10c), lows are right around freezing. Of course it does get colder than that sometimes, and I hate it when it does! LOL. We usually get a light snow sometime in January. An inch of snow is a big deal. Last year we had a really big snow (for us) of about 7 inches.

[Peggy]

Oh, that sounds not very different from our winters. We are slightly colder maybe, but there's so many extremes in the past few years.

[Mariab]

Good thing all people and relatives are safe.
Glad to hear your course went well, Sarah (is always satisfactory to see that one's time has been put to good use)
Here the spring is also mild, with warm days and pleasantly fresh evenings

[Sarah]

Typical! I start "school" and pick up a cold. I had a sore through developing yesterday and I've woken up today with a cold. My head is pounding but I'm going to have to go to work regardless. Although I might end up regretting that come the weekend when we're off to Vienna. I really don't want to be ill for that. :-(

[Sarah]

Typical! I start "school" and pick up a cold. I had a sore through developing yesterday and I've woken up today with a cold. My head is pounding but I'm going to have to go to work regardless. Although I might end up regretting that come the weekend when we're off to Vienna. I really don't want to be ill for that. :-(

[Peggy]

I hope you feel better soon Sarah!

[Lisa]

Get well soon, Sarah. Try and get as much rest as you can.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Get well, Sarah. I have had this before, about your cold. It is like when all the excitement calms down, the body is too tired and weak, and ends catching something that is around. It also seems like the first cold days are always worse than the most cold days. Here at home I have a few of my kids with a cold too, but I know after this they won't probably get sick in the rest of the season. Unless they do something stupid, like don't wear clothes warm enough because it is not cool. *rolls eyes*

[Tasha]

Oh no!! I hope you get through this very quickly!!

[Sarah]

I've had it like that too Sandra. But I think this is a case of public transport followed by lots of new people that is to blame. This time of year colds and bugs are rife because of the change in season but mainly kids started back at school. When I worked at the university, once the students returned, that first week or so, I'd come down with a bad cold as would many of the other staff and students. Nothing for the rest of the season though.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Feel better soon, Sarah!

[KimeyDiann]

Peggy wrote: "Oh, that sounds not very different from our winters. We are slightly colder maybe, but there's so many extremes in the past few years."

If your winters are pretty similar, I'm blown away that your summers are so cool.

[Mariab]

Get well, Sarah!

[Peggy]

Yikes. Those clowns some of you talked about some days ago have been spotted in the netherlands now too. One was carrying a knife and the other a hammer and a knife.

[Sarah]

And here toonow, more in the same vein as the US ones.

[Travis]

Stupidity is contagious. Hopefully after the new version of It comes out things will cool down. But costume stores can barely keep supplied with Pennywise and a clown from American Horror Story? maybe

[Sarah]

Thanks guys! Hot toddies are amazing! I've been in to work the last two days but I think I'm going to take tomorrow off to relax. I think I over did it today with loads of walking.

I made overnight oats last night for the first time for both myself and my partner. We both loved them. So it looks like we'll both be having breakfast a bit more regularly now. Anyone else do this?

[Sandra, Moderator]

How do you prepare the overnight oats, Sarah? Do you use a slow cooker of something? We are not used to eat oats for breakfast, but I have been wanting to introduce them for a while.

[Peggy]

I have breakfast every day but mostly because I have to, it's my least enjoyable meal of the day. I want something that takes no effort but I grow tired of everything so quickly. I alternate a bit between a sandwich or granola with oat milk.

[Sarah]

No cooking is required Sandra which makes it perfect! I put some oats (larger ones) in to a tub, with some rice milk (but you can use any milk of course), half a sliced banana, a sprinkling of chia seeds and ground almonds, a few blueberries and a pinch of cinnamon. Then put the lid on the tub, place it in the fridge and leave it overnight. The next day, it's all ready for you to eat! The oats soak up the milk. And because it's in a little tuppaware pot, I can take it to work with me as I don't always like eating as soon as I've got up. The beauty with this Peggy is you can vary the fruit, add nuts, seeds, coconut, etc so in theory, shouldn't get boring. I've even seen some recipes with jam and nut butters put in it.

[Sarah]

Here is a link which will give you some ideas - http://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and...

[Peggy]

Thanks Sarah! I'm going to give it a try. I don't mind preparing it in the evening but I don't want to hassle with warming things up in the morning, unless it's weekend. This sounds great!

I've heard that it's also very filling, much more than a sandwich or something.

[Sarah]

Cool. Let me know what you think. I was a bit concerned about what it would be like cold as I've generally only had plain oats in porridge warmed up but it's really good. It is indeed very filling. I'm quite excited to have found something easy to prepare the night before.