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[Patti (baconater)]

Ah. That 'splains it.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Well, both meetings were cancelled 10 mins before the first one was due to start! Eye is still twingy, think I might go to the optician next week. Came straight home, but my neighbour was going to Aldi so cadged a lift with her, she was taking one of the other neighbours too! Means I shouldn't have to use the car this weekend

[Patti (baconater)]

Yeah, that'd be nice Desley. Not looking forward to the drive to the airport tomorrow.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

No, I don't envy you that. At least you are going back to better weather

[Patti (baconater)]

True. But my arse is still numb from the drive yesterday. :(

[Patti (baconater)]

Chocolate brownie cheesecake.

Orgasmic.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Ice cream on a stick. Mildly exciting.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh that lovely feeling of running your teeth over the stick to get the last bit.

Argh.

Sorry.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Morning! Big community beach clean this morning so I've got to collect my grabbers from the store and park the car down at the front early to be sure of getting a space. Good news is it's dry and there's no freezing cold wind.

[Jim]

Dry at the moment but looks like it's going to be wet later.
Have to go up to Rydal which will be good when I get there but not looking forward to Lakes Holiday traffic :-(

[Patti (baconater)]

It's pissing down here.

[Benjamin]

Morning! Dry here, we're off to see Isle of Dogs later. Sadly the cinema won't allow the actual dog to come...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, was sunny when I got up at 8 to feed the cats, is now raining - no wonder Lucy wasn't in a rush to get up!! Headache still slightly lingering. No plans other than housework and watching TV

[Kath]

Morning, each. I've been for more teddy wool! It's an obsession, I tell you!

Editing for a while, then back to reading and knitting. I need to get the strimmer on the chicken field. It's so trashed with shallow dust-bathing holes that I cut it last year with hand shears. Not again! Borrowed sister's strimmer. Better shut Mattie up while I do it, though. Chickens are nosy creatures.

[Alicia]

I was wondering what a 'strimmer' was; am disappointed. I love new words.

[Kath]

Yes, the whole experience was a disappointment - except when compared to cutting the tussocks with sheers, on my knees.

[Patti (baconater)]

I prefer 'weedwhacker'.

Safe and sound at the airport, waiting for our gate to be announced.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Safe flight

[Patti (baconater)]

Thanks Desley.

It's so hot in here Ive had to dig my Japanese fan out of my bag!

[Alicia]

How chic.

[Patti (baconater)]

Chic chick, me.

We're back in Baku.

Uneventful flight and all the meat I brought back stayed frozen! Yay!

[Kath]

Welcome back - there. Sounds odd but we all know what I mean.
Typing hindered this morning by the tiniest gardening nick in my index finger. I shall soldier on! Typing and gardening.

[Elizabeth]

Morning everyone.

Pleased you managed to save your bacon, Patti.

Are you tetanus-proofed, Kath?

I need to get into the loft for the suitcases because I'm the one who is still flexible enough and has enough balance to negotiate the hatchway and boards balanced across the beams. Himself will stand at the foot of the loft ladder ready to receive! I may need a holiday after that...

[Kath]

Oh yes! Tetanused up to me eyeballs!
Himself emptied our loft a year or two back because, within a year or two, anything up there would have to stay!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, Lucy made me stay in bed for ages, so got a slight headache as I overheated. Housework and TV, felt nice pegging washing out

Glad you arrived safely and food was still frozen. Good luck Elizabeth. Hope your finger isn't too sore Kath

[Benjamin]

Afternoon, all. Taking advantage of the weather clearing up to go for a run.

[Lindsay]

Afternoon all,

Hope everybody is well?

Not been around too much lately, been ridiculously busy at work and home.

I feel your pain Kath, I was in the garden yesterday and have managed to get the end of a thorn stuck in my finger and i can't get it out!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Lindsay wrote: "I feel your pain Kath, I was in the garden yesterday and have managed to get the end of a thorn stuck in my finger and i can't get it out! ."

Were you playing Game of Thorns?

[Kath]

Put a plaster over it, Lindsay. If it comes off, put another on. It'll soften up the skin and the thorn will eventually come off stuck to the plaster. We got a piece of glass out of our son's knee like that. It had healed up with the glass inside and he had a painful lump there. Took nearly a week!

[Patti (baconater)]

Got a copy of yesterday's times for free on the flight. Dave is pouting cuz there seems to be no sudoku in it.

Have stopped doing them?

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Good afternoon. I’ve just cocked up. I had 3 big chicken portions and i made a curry. It was big enough to save and freeze half but on serving up I forgot I meant to save half. I could hardly take it off the plates when I realised so he says he can hardly walk as he’s so full and I’m pogged. Still I won’t have to do any tea.

[M.T.]

Afternoon all. Je suis en France. It's overcast but warm and I have just bought the most beautiful rummer from a junk shop for €5.

Skiing was wonderful. I didn't but there were walks through the trees in the sun and it was stunning. I also wrote any insane amount while they skiid. The walking was only to use enough calories to be able to stuff my face as much as the others.

Now working on a blog post but it won't be up until next week.

Cheers

MTM

[Patti (baconater)]

I just served up pasta I'd frozen before we left. Thank goodness I did as I sure as hell didn't feel like cooking.

I'll do a curry this week if I don't get called in. I'm booked on Friday but I've already told Dave we'll be going out for dinner Friday night.

What's a rum met, Mary?

[Patti (baconater)]

Or a rummer, even.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Or a rummer, even."

Something to transfer rum from bottle to person?

[Alicia]

Watching my youngest daughter's ballroom dancing competition at Rensselaer Polytechnic via livestream. Nice quality, but a lot of dancers. Next best thing to being there, except I can't focus on just my chick.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Glad you've had a productive week MT. All I need to do is wash up after tea

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

A rummer is a large drinking glass Patti - I'm surprised you don't know that! ;)

I am recovering from having 223 people turn out to help clean the beach yesterday. Only had about 60 grabbers (which is usually more than enough) to give out! Some of the wee ones spent the whole two hours nurdle hunting - they're those tiny little bits of raw plastic - and managed to fill a bag. What a team :)

It's been a lovely day here. I went to air my beach hut, it's slightly damp after the winter.

[Patti (baconater)]

I think you can blame David Attenborough for the turn out, Nosemanny.

[Patti (baconater)]

Do you own ginners?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I don't know what they are :)

And yes I'm sure you're right about David Attenborough

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Morning all, cold but dry and bright out. Think I only have a boring admin day today

[Jim]

foggy here

[Benjamin]

Morning all. Dry and bright here (we're meant to reach the giddy heights of 10 degrees this afternoon), but rain on the horizon.

[Patti (baconater)]

Not a cloud in the sky. Balcony door wide open.

[Kath]

Morning. As was. Grey here...

On the upside, my mega bag of toy stuffing is due this afternoon. Allegedly. It should have come Tuesday, then an email said it would come on Saturday. A semi-literate message later from Hermes said they'd tried to deliver it on Saturday which they most defintiely didn't. I suspect they attempted to put it on the van but it was full!

Now - today. Don't hold your breath.

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Kath wrote: "Morning. As was. Grey here...

On the upside, my mega bag of toy stuffing is due this afternoon. Allegedly. It should have come Tuesday, then an email said it would come on Saturday. A semi-literat..."

I wouldn't hold my breath - Hermes were the ones who lost a heated drier that we ordered for mum, and Amazon never told us it was lost until we emailed to find out where it was. DPD delivered a replacement the next day. And Amazon still got it wrong by telling us that we had to return the first one or they would charge us for it.

[Will]

After a few frustrating days and some yelling, I now have a newly rebuilt phone line and a new router.

And I seem to have stable internet, for the first time in almost a month.

[Alicia]

Finally - long may it prosper.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Will wrote: "After a few frustrating days and some yelling, I now have a newly rebuilt phone line and a new router.

And I seem to have stable internet, for the first time in almost a month."

Let's hope it lasts.