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[Anita]

A previous charge of mine named his Lola Bonnie ,Wil is popular for the boys I know a Wilfred,Wilbur and Willoughby all under 2.

[suzysunshine7]

Val wrote: "We're hoping "Big G", as he's now been abbreviated to, will make an appearance in 2021.

I didn't think of those other Bonnies, but now you've reminded me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWU... "

Ohhh, I'd actually forgotten all about that one, Val!!! - LOL!!! ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Bonnie H****** ... sounds like a very good name for a Folk Singer?

That's Christmas taken care of? - buy her a Fisherprice Guitar! ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Seriously though, it is a nice enough name and I'm sure that she'll grow into it and make it all the more beautiful in her own special way ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Anita wrote: "A previous charge of mine named his Lola Bonnie ,Wil is popular for the boys I know a Wilfred,Wilbur and Willoughby all under 2."

I know, through a friend of my Mum's, of an 18 month old called 'Hilda Octavia Joan' - but everyone in her family already prefers to call her 'Tavi' ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Ohhh, I SO want one of these now! ;o> ...

[suzysunshine7]

Three days I've been thinking about that Fruit Cake? ... three whole days!

From the time I saw and ordered it, to waiting on it's Delivery, to it arriving and putting it in the Bread Bin last night ... all ready for a Slice (okay, a Slab ;o>) with a mug of Tea today ...

And it was okay'ish? - but was over-sweet and also slightly greasy and that's about all that I can think to say about it ... (*SIGH*) ... what an utter anti-climax of a Cake treat, hey?!

And so my Rating out of 5 for the ... 'Waitrose Genoa Sultana & Cherry Cake' ... has to be no more than a rather neutral and decidedly disappointing 2.5, I'm afraid ;o<

[[deleted user]]

My turn to do a lot of chasing round the house, get clawed and bitten then have to put up with a week of sulking from Phoebe.
Yep, it's time to change her flea collar - she's already heard the bell rattling on the new one as I took it out of the packing and has legged it upstairs to hide :)

[suzysunshine7]

Awww poor Phoebe!

At least that's one good thing about most woofers and especially woofers like our lovely Tia - it's usually all done, gone and best forgotten afterwards and in next to no time at all ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

I've just had one of the loveliest Teas ;o>

I felt far too icky and disinterested in the Cottage Pie that I had all set up for M&D's Tea tonight ... but we had still got a Bowl full of leftover Salad Potatoes in the Fridge that I had boiled with some Mint Leaves out of the Garden yesterday ... so I just drizzled a generous enough amount of Heinz Salad Cream over them, grabbed a Fork, and really enjoyed eating those for my Tea instead ... Yum-Yum-Yummy! ;o>

[Anita]

I've had that in the past yum!

[suzysunshine7]

The colder the better - I feel quite refreshed as well as satisfied ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Cold? - yuck!!

Potatoes should be hot and mashed with butter and cheese :)

[suzysunshine7]

Nooo, ice-cold Minted Potatoes with a light coating of Salad Cream ;o>

[[deleted user]]

NEVER!!!!!!

(Well, not for me) :)

[suzysunshine7]

GOOD!!!!!!

('Cos I'm not sharing them) ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Guess I'll have to settle for a cheese and garlic sausage sandwich then :)

[suzysunshine7]

Cheese ... AND Garlic Sausage ... ?!!

Now that's just weird, that is! ;oO

[[deleted user]]

I was going to put Marmite in there too but we seem to have run out :)

[suzysunshine7]

The addition of Marmite does sort-of make more sense somehow? ;o>

You could always try Marmalade instead? - LOL!!! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Now that's weird!! :)

I often have cheese, tuna and Marmite sandwiches for my pack-up.

[suzysunshine7]

Tuna & Marmite? ... ! ;oO

Is that a Truck Driver version of 'Surf & Turf' ... LOL!!! ;o>

[Val]

Anita wrote: "A previous charge of mine named his Lola Bonnie ,Wil is popular for the boys I know a Wilfred,Wilbur and Willoughby all under 2."

My other grand-daughter, Lucy, goes to childcare with a Walter (!) and a Harvey. Walter, or Wally as I like to think of him, had his first birthday last week.

[Craig White]

have you been yet, Walter?

[suzysunshine7]

^ ... I had to Google that one, tech! - LOL!!! ... ^

[suzysunshine7]

Hmmm? - I'm glad I don't do trendy and fashionable! ;o> ...

[P]

Tech XXIII wrote: "have you been yet, Walter?"

"I'll 'ave a narf."


Puds and cakes?
We had a family meet-up in Derbyshire yesterday (sort of an equi-distant location). Found a pub for luch. Couldn't resist their jam roly-poly. Oh, my - best I've ever had. Almost sponge-like suet, with not over-sweet jam. Bit of a push to justify a near 100mile round trip just to have some more, though.

[suzysunshine7]

You'll just have to make it a 3 to 4 time a year reunion, P! ;o>

Try to remember though to remind them that it's because none of you are getting any younger and that you are very fond of them all ... rather than just blurt out ... "By eckythump! - that Pudd was summat good, weren't it?!!"

[[deleted user]]

Just a quick hello - late home again but fortunately dinner on the table as I walked in and now it's bedtime.

Lucky me - I get to do it all again tonight :)

[suzysunshine7]

Hiyah! ... (*waves back from Stockport*) ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

x NN x ST x SD x

[Granny]

mashed potatoes with heavy cream and butter. if you're talking food, that is.

[suzysunshine7]

Ouffff! - it's much too hot and far too early in the morning yet for me to talk about food ... can I have a strong Ringtons Kenyan Tea with just a splash or two of Skimmed Milk to drink out on the Patio please? ;o>

Hiyah Granny - it's wonderful to see you again. I hope you and yours have been keeping well ... x x x

[suzysunshine7]

The Tomatoes are coming along really beautifully this year. We have several vines in the Greenhouse and I also ordered Dad his three Tomtato Plants as usual.

Last year one of the Plants gave us mutant sized and shaped Tomatoes - LOL!!! - huge and long Pepper-like Fruits that had us all rather confused and quite amused while they were growing ... but they did turn out to be Tomatoes on cutting them open, and very tasty ones too, when they were finally ripe enough for us to start harvesting them.

This year it was obvious on Delivery that one Plant had very different Leaves to the other two - and it has turned out to be a Potato Plant minus the Tomato grafted Plant that would have made it into a Tomtato. My Dad is more than happy enough about it though and so I didn't bother letting the Plant Nursery know that they hadn't sent us all three of what I had ordered off them.

You may recall me mentioning earlier on in the year the absolutely terrible Reviews I came across online all about their absolutely shocking and appalling Customer Service?! We have got no complaints about the extremely healthy Plants that we have received again this year and so I'd rather not contact them and get to deal with the dragon lady owner unless I ever have no other choice but to do so - LOL!!!

So this year we are growing and will be having extra Potatoes to harvest and share out ;o>

[Helen The Melon]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "The Tomatoes are coming along really beautifully this year. We have several vines in the Greenhouse and I also ordered Dad his three Tomtato Plants as usual...."

Doh! I've not heard of "Tomtato" before, I've always just thought it was a typo in the past, Suzy! Had a look on Wiki.......also known as a "Pomato" apparently.

[suzysunshine7]

LOL!!! ;o> ... Yeah, Thompson & Morgan made a huge deal of advertising that they were creating these Grafted Plants a few years ago and so I bought 3 extremely expensive ones from them that year as a Father's Day gift and they turned out to be worth every penny ;o>

You pick the Cherry Tomatoes off as usual and then, just as the Plants are about done and have reached the end of their Harvest, you dig the Roots of the Plant up and there you'll find lots of little Salad Potatoes waiting for you ... clever, hey?! ;o>

We were SO delighted with the amount of absolutely delicious Tomatoes and Potatoes we got off them - plus the novelty of them thrown in - that I've been buying them for my Dad, alongside a few other types of Tomato Plants, ever since. However the Plants are clearly a very time-consuming and specialised thing to create and Thompson & Morgan first branched out into selling another kind called 'Egg & Chips' Plants as well (which were Aubergine & Potato Grafted Plants) then suddenly just stopped selling them without any explanation whatsoever as why.

For a year then we did without, as despite spending hours searching all around using Google nowhere else in the UK appeared to sell them anymore - and my Dad was left feeling SO disappointed all of that year. However I kept on Googling and asking around until I suddenly came across an old Gardening Article online that mentioned that Thompson & Morgan had just started selling them and that the only other place in the UK who were was a little Nursery in Ashford who apparently don't even do anything to advertise that they still create and sell them.

They are obviously slightly different types of Cherry Tomatoes to the patented Thompson & Morgan ones - but are just as delicious and as plentiful in their yield. I even had to search all around the other Nursery's Website to find them ... but there they were! ... and this is now the second year that I've managed to buy Tomtato Plants from them.

The originals were these ... https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/tom... ... and as you can see they just state that they are no longer available anymore.

And the ones that I get now (and at a much cheaper price each as well) are these ... https://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/T... ... and as far as I know they are the only place in the whole of the UK to create and sell on these remarkable Plants ;o>

You need to order them very early though as they are always a limited speciality and tend to show up as being sold out by around the Christmas-time/New Year before they are eventually delivered in the following June.

I must add that we do get quite a glut of Tomatoes off them which we always share out with anyone who ever wants any - but I always buy three Plants just in case they don't all survive transit through the Post or don't thrive as they should. Last year they arrived slightly damaged through rather careless packaging but all recovered nevertheless including the Plant that produced mutant sized and shaped Tomatoes that looked far more like huge red Peppers! And, this year, we have been sent two Tomtato Plants plus one that is purely just a Potato Plant - so ordering three at a time to try to guarantee that we always get at least one good Plant continues to make very good sense to me ;o>

... which has just reminded me that I'd better place my Order with them for our 2020 Tomtato Plants now! ... not least because they can sometimes go up in price from being around a fiver each to being almost a tenner each nearer to their Dispatch.

[suzysunshine7]

Done! ... 3 x Tomtatoes (£14.97) Available from approximately mid May 2020 (they usually come in mid to late June in my experience) + Royal Mail Delivery Charge of £3.75 = £18.72 and a very happy Dad next year! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

BLT with a few chips on the side for dinner today - just cooking it now :)

Got in trouble this morning at work for breaching the Working Time Directive yesterday - I worked 10 minutes over a six hour period without taking the required 15 minute break.
When the manager asked what I'd got to say for myself, I replied "I was so excited at the thought of finishing work at a reasonable time that I had just miscalculated".
"Well," he replied, "At least you're honest!" :)

I just had to sign a form to acknowledge that I'd been a naughty boy and told not to do it again :)

[suzysunshine7]

Well what a day I'm having?!! - and it's not even Lunch-time yet! - LOL!!!

Mitz has absolutely got it on her today! ... she has already tried her very best to distract poor Tia into giving over her Breakfast to her ... by eating her's first extra-fast and then suddenly charging up the Hallway and barking her Head off at the Front Door when there was no-one there.

Tia, ever the dutiful Sister, immediately left her Breakfast to go and loyally stand by her Mitz in seeing off all potential Burglars ... only for the devious little Moo to leave her stood there (barking away furiously without even knowing the reason why she was doing so) while Moo took off and raced around in a sideways stealth movement through the Dining Room and Lounge and back into the Kitchen just so that she could get to wolf Tia's half-eaten Breakfast down!

Luckily, we all know the 'Magnificent Moo Manoeuvre' only too well in this House, even if Tee does still fall for it occasionally - and so Moo ran straight into me as I stood guard in front of Tee's Breakfast Bowl! - LOL!!! ;o>

I had to make an important Phone Call and so I went upstairs with my own Breakfast, a plate of Toast, to escape all the fun and games and general noise going on downstairs ... and had just got through and started talking when Mitz suddenly headbutted my Bedroom Door open, marched in, plonked herself in front of me, and then actually started mumbling and muttering and then even more loudly moaning and groaning at me?!! ;oO

I was trying to talk, and listen, and put a Finger to my Lips and hiss ... "SHHHHH!" ... all at the same time - when she suddenly sat up, glared at me as if to say, well, you asked for this and now you're gonna get it, then threw her Head and howled just like a Wolf at the Moon! ... followed on by a very loud and meaningful long slow drawn-out yodel of a conversation whilst staring right at me!

The Guy on the other end of the Phone couldn't believe his Ears! - and when I explained that it wasn't an attack by a Werewolf but one of my little hairy woofers demanding that I should share my Toast with her as I had just thwarted her in her attempts to steal her Sister's Breakfast?! - well, he simply couldn't stop laughing then!!!

I wouldn't mind so much but she knows she isn't even allowed any Toast anymore as she is now happily balanced and settled (thankfully) on a Wheat-free Diet ... and so I offered her the choice of a Knuckle Butty, a sharp kick up the btm, or a swift exit ... and she chose the swift exit option and stomped off!!! ;o>

And I can hear her right now yelling through the Letterbox at the Postman as I type ... it's clearly going to be another one of those very, very, very l o n g days! - LOL!!!

[suzysunshine7]

Grizzlygrump wrote: "BLT with a few chips on the side for dinner today - just cooking it now :)

Got in trouble this morning at work for breaching the Working Time Directive yesterday - I worked 10 minutes over a six h..."

Oooh! - so I'm putting Mitz AND you on the Naughty Step today then?!! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

At least I can guarantee that I'll sit there like a good boy! :)

[suzysunshine7]

Yeah, Mitz will barely make it to a minute before sneaking off somewhere! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Am I allowed off the naughty step yet?

I've been here for ages and, yes, I know I've done wrong and, yes, I'm sorry for what I did but, most importantly .........



........ I need to go to bed!! :)

[suzysunshine7]

Hang on ... (*checks Clock*) ... wait for it ... Okay - you can go to Bed now ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

x NN x ST x SD x ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

When you SO want to be good but ALL that you can think about is ...



... ! ... (*sigh*)

[suzysunshine7]

And your Mum promises you a special treat and then brings you this? ...



;o<

[suzysunshine7]

I mean? ... COME ON?!! ;oO ...

[theDuke]

I'm eating a lot of cold salads, at the moment.....

...just sayin' like! :)

But yours could do with bit more garnishing, Suzy!

[suzysunshine7]

Yeah! - first empty the Bowl of any kind of Salad ingredients .. and then fill it up with a generous sprinkle of Jelly Tots and Dolly Mixture mixed in with an equal amount of Smarties ... ! ;o>