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[Kath]

Afty! Aww, Benjamin. Sad sight, a man with flu!
Got our door rings done yesterday but I was truly beknackered by five. I've put mine on Facebook. It's got the added bunches of Red Sentinal crab apples from my front garden tree. Think I'm just going to decorate indoors with foliage this year. Traditionally.

Will put the photo in my section and add a link in a bit.

https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm just about to tuck into a lovely big plate of sour cream and grated cheddar. There may be some very healthy, veggie filled chilli hiding under it. Some. Portion control, n all. ;)

[Patti (baconater)]

Benjamin wrote: "Good news Lynne, glad to hear.

(I'm off work with flu and probably not well enough to be online either. Ssshh.)"

Ah, but being in here will increase your happiness levels and will therefore decrease your healing time.

We are the cure!

[Patti (baconater)]

Elizabeth wrote: "Morning everyone.

Nice to hear good baby news on all fronts.

Starting to feel the festivity pressure and that's having decided to duck out of the whole Christmas cake and pudding thing - our visi..."

Yeah, now I'm tempted to private message you with my address so you feel obligated to send me a Christmas card.

I can be so vicious. :D

[Patti (baconater)]

Kath wrote: "Afty! Aww, Benjamin. Sad sight, a man with flu!
Got our door rings done yesterday but I was truly beknackered by five. I've put mine on Facebook. It's got the added bunches of Red Sentinal crab app..."

Stunning, as usual.

[Kath]

Thank you, dear!

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

I second that. It looks really festive.

[Alicia]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "Good morning, I’m a bit late but I’m going to cook my Christmas pudding. Fruits been wallowing in port and a dash of brandy for a couple of days so I’ve got no excuses. I want to make some ravioli ..."

Husband insisted it was going to pour all day today. Not so far, but we have a sky which looks unhappy.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

That's lovely Kath.

[Alicia]

Still no rain. Still looks as if it would start any minute.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, can't believe I'm the first here! Cough is annoying me. Not much else to say

[Patti (baconater)]

Five year olds. Papier maché.

'nuff said.

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Morning all. It's a dark morning in the valley. We've been promised snow for Friday, but I can't see that happening, it's 11 degrees here today. Science for most of the day, and the mocks are coming up, so it'll be mostly study (I hope).

Time to grab a coffee and get going, I think!

[Benjamin]

Morning all! Flu's dwindled to a cough, so I'm back to my desk today.

[Kath]

How do? Done a load of shopping, both for us and a village event, so feeling both virtuous and tired!

Baking mince pies for tomorrow's cake club later.

I hope everyone's safe from Storm Caroline.

[Elizabeth]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Morning everyone.

Nice to hear good baby news on all fronts.

Starting to feel the festivity pressure and that's having decided to duck out of the whole Christmas cake and puddin..."

As in Cointreau-related viscousity? ; )

PM me any time. It's not too late for FB - even cheaper...

[Will]

What storm?

I knew a Caroline, a very long time ago....

[Elizabeth]

Morning everyone - just!

Lovely wreath, Kath. So natural and not a bit of tinsel anywhere.

Need to change energy suppliers. The existing prints on their bills that we are on the 'cheapest similar tariff' - and then you can see on the net that they actually have a much cheaper one. So they can screw themselves into their own light fittings...

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I've got a sore throat. I never get colds and I refuse to have one now. (is it too early for whisky? Probably. Particularly when I have a lot to do this afternoon)

[Jim]

Will wrote: "What storm?

I knew a Caroline, a very long time ago...."

this one sounds like somebody's ex-wife ;-)

[Jim]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "I've got a sore throat. I never get colds and I refuse to have one now. (is it too early for whisky? Probably. Particularly when I have a lot to do this afternoon)"

Many years ago I discovered that having a cold didn't excuse me from having to work (mind you I've milked twice a day through an attack of Norovirus) I wasn't going to let them stop me doing anything else either
So I treat colds with lofty contempt and get outside as much as possible.
My experience is that the worse the weather, the stronger the wind and the more driving the rain, the less the cold likes it, so after an hour or two of this, the cold just gives up and goes off to infect somebody more civilised ;-)

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Yes you are absolutely right Jim. When I worked outdoors I wasn't ill at all. I shall go out for a long walk this afternoon and scare it off. Then I will have a whisky mac just to make sure :)

[Patti (baconater)]

Don't forget your onion boiled in milk!

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Good morning. It’s wild & windy outside. Starting to rain hard as well. I wanted to go out but I’m not going in this. I think I’ll make some more ravioli instead. I think I could do better than yesterday.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Don't forget your onion boiled in milk!"
What do I do with that then - rub it on my chest? Or puree and eat it?

[Jim]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Don't forget your onion boiled in milk!"
What do I do with that then - rub it on my chest? Or puree and eat it?"

personally I'd recommend the latter, it was my late mother's remedy for a stinking cold :-)

[Benjamin]

Putting Olbas oil in the shower often works well for me, at least in terms of bringing back your ability to breathe.

[Kath]

My old ma used to slice an onion, sprinkle it liberally with brown sugar and stand it by the fire for an hour. We were given a spoonful of the juice that seeped out as a cough remedy. Certainly stopped coughs spreading as nobody would come near enough to catch it. You didn't half whiff of raw onion!

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "My old ma used to slice an onion, sprinkle it liberally with brown sugar and stand it by the fire for an hour. We were given a spoonful of the juice that seeped out as a cough remedy. Certainly sto..."

never heard of that variant

[Elizabeth]

Morning everyone

Woken up by the gales at 4.00am so have written as many Christmas cards as I could and still need to go out and buy another 20 or so.

Hope at least one remedy worked, Rosemary!

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Good morning, that’s where the gales went is it. When the wind is in a certain direction it catches something and makes a real roaring noise. It’s lovely when it stops. Got grandson later today so clearing the decks ready for the onslaught. The dogs love him so the three of them race about like loonies. They also mug him for food. Big dog even steals his juice bottle.

[Benjamin]

Morning all! Our puppy has now decided he prefers a stolen bottle top to every toy we have ever bought him.

[✿Claire✿]

Morning! Day off today, thoroughly enjoyed my shift yesterday, got to be out in a car and it was good to see the difference between that and my normal shifts. Then managed to get to the climbing wall and get the new climbing shoes I've been eyeing up for weeks!!
Housework and homework day today I think. At least the council have picked up the molten remains of my bin from the bottom of the drive now!

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Benjamin wrote: "Morning all! Our puppy has now decided he prefers a stolen bottle top to every toy we have ever bought him."

Fortunately mine chooses larger items, he loves to pinch a melamine coaster. He has his ‘go to’ steal items and usually sticks to the same things if he gets half a chance to snaffle them.

[Kath]

Morning! Cake Club at record numbers today - 31 people. I call that a success. After eight years I thought it might tail off.

Hope everyone survived the gales? We had rain and high winds but everything stayed where we put it.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Morning all. Two big bits of flashing blew off our roof last night. It's often very windy here so last night must have been quite extreme - sadly the anemometer is no longer reporting so perhaps it is also MIA.
The various cures seem to have scared the cold off though.

[Patti (baconater)]

Well hello there.

I'm shattered. But I gorged on sushi for dinner, so that's alright.

Not booked to work tomorrow. That'd be nice. I've read exactly 12 pages since Sunday.

Not on.

[Will]

Is it possible to gorge on sushi???

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm happy to demonstrate for you some time.

[Benjamin]

I get most of my reading done on the train to work - don't know when I'd manage it otherwise.

[Will]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm happy to demonstrate for you some time."

Who's paying?

[Patti (baconater)]

You are, of course.

[Patti (baconater)]

Benjamin wrote: "I get most of my reading done on the train to work - don't know when I'd manage it otherwise."

I get my mid-week reading done when I go to bed. Just need to stay awake for longer than half a page.

[M.T.]

morning all. Phark. Prayed for a Scroogyoctomy in church tonight but this year everyone seems to be struggling.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Evening, also got woken up by the weather but Lucy was snuggled into me so I stayed in bed. Had to be in work early for a meeting, then we went to the new subway for lunch, it is on my favourite retail park that I hate in Dec, so got enough food and litter for the fosters till the new year. Dull afternoon at work, then a fun hairdresser appointment, although too much talking to finish my book. Really cold here though, relenting tomorrow and seeing the doc.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Evening all. Well - even more sh 1 t has hit the fan now. My Niece has been diagnosed with shingles - so can't go to the hospital to visit her Mum. She has to go to hospital tomorrow for IV antivirals as oral wouldn't work due to her chemo having laid her immune system low. We just arrived at the hospital this evening to visit my Sister and got a phone call from the home where my Brother lives, to say they are waiting for the ambulance to take him to hospital as he is retaining urine, his kidney function is very poor and he's anaemic...... so it's official now - I've had enough. I think I'll take my ball and go home!!!! ;-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Poor you and your family Flo, it seems never ending

[Alicia]

So sorry to hear of the escalation of problems, Flo. You have so much in your family to deal with.

Thinking of you.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Thanks both. xx

[Alicia]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "relenting tomorrow and seeing the doc..."

Hope it goes well. It's been a tough year for you.