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The 2019 Idle Chat Thread
Got Coffee - Back in a bit - got Kitchen to tidy
I just made a new Korean dish, Black Bean Noodles. Looks delicious. I picked it up off a K-Drama (yeah I know, how sad am I?) and looked it up on Youtube. There's a young couple in Seoul, the husband was raised in the US and went home for his military service, met Katy and stayed. They post recipes that are easy to do and very, very good!Off to cook the noodles.
Grab a cup of something, put your feet up and get idling!!What a nice thought - just wish I could! Maybe this time next week when I've caught up!
Coffee was administered - Oh who dat? Hello Anna I!I am a coffee freak - collect coffee pots - well as I was saying yes - coffee was administered with the desired effect so infact - now deciding who wins - living-room or Kitchen
Hello, fellow Brit! Finished all your mince pies yet? I daren't go too close to the kitchen too often.
We only had a few home made ones and the sausage rolls caught on it is truly a wonderful thing how fast the little blighters can disappear and hey !! it is near wnough to five o'clock - might be one left - in my secret corner of the fridge - unless we have a sneaky snooper has snuck in and snatched it
Here I sit with a cup of chamomile tea. This must be our china anniversary, DH pushed the boat out on the Christmas pressies and got me two (count em, two) Royal Worcester cups and one Port Merion plate. I finally asked him if there was something he wanted to share with the class--at his age (73), I worry! The plate is on show, not to be used for eating because knowing me I'd drop it. Never had the chance to be up close and personal with quality porcelain before. You can feel the difference in the glaze as well as the hand.
Glasses and some really lovely wine and a book on Witchcraft - what else!! - and some online books to put into my Kindle 10 - his name is Lucifer and there are so many gigs left and Lucifer has a jacket with a press-fastener and it is all over OWLS - my bird - well it had to be patterned with Owls or Cats or Bats - night critters like myself - oh yes and another nice rather chubbybook you have to colour as well as write in it - otherwise it would end up as a DIARY for Patti who is aged 83 and 2/12ths
Hello, EveryoneHowever you do it, I hope you all have fun saying goodbye to 2018 and hello to 2019.
Hi, Anna! I haven't heard from you in ages. It's so nice to hear from you!
I've been looking for some English cups to drink my coffee with. I can't seem to find what I want at a reasonable price.
Some of the glass-ware cups / mugs that have been sponsored by Nespresso - I personally find to be very agreeable to use - since I take coffee without milk and I appreciate seeing the different tints of the coffee in much the same way as the appreciation of the taste.I think it's time for another coffee - wretched machine - it cannot spell I put in "another coffee" and the word camd out as "another offer" - well coffee's on offer - back to the Kitchen
No wonder you're a night owl with all that caffiene in your system!
I posted this on the Words and Phrases Thread but I'm going to put it here too, esp. for Patti!!Alright, everyone – read this aloud
One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four Limerick oysters
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pairs of Don Alverzo’s tweezers
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time
(Background …According to Wikipedia this test was given “cold” (without an opportunity to warm up) to prospective radio announcers to demonstrate their speaking ability at Radio Central New York in the early 1940s.)
I have no idea if that is true but I love it anyway.
I wonder why it should not be true I woner if I could resurrect one similar - sure - but less words12 Days of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Twelve kaffir lime leaves
Eleven sumac berries
Ten mulled wine spices
Nine cubeb peppers
Eight bouquet garni
Seven piquin chillies
Six roasted garlic
Five curry leaves
Four fennel seeds
Three clove buds
Two peppercorns
and a nutmeg on a Christmas tree…
Seasoned Pioneers wish you all a very happy festive season! it is an adverisement and really only light heared but your entry is really fearfully scholarly - don;t try saying that on Gin and Lime
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "I posted this on the Words and Phrases Thread but I'm going to put it here too, esp. for Patti!!Alright, everyone – read this aloud
One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four Limerick oyste..."
Oh I am silly - I read that out loud to myself just to see if I could say it without tripping up.
Groovy wrote: "Hello, EveryoneHowever you do it, I hope you all have fun saying goodbye to 2018 and hello to 2019.
Hi, Anna! I haven't heard from you in ages. It's so nice to hear from you!
I've been looking ..."
Hi Groovy - I've been totally overloaded (but not overwhelmed), mostly good stuff and all to do with the children - bless their cotton socks. I'm hoping for a quieter couple of months and then it will all start again.
Anyway, here I am to wish you all a very happy new year and I hope you all choose books that you like because there's nothing worse than spending time on a book only to have to abandon it half way through. So if I could choose a gift for you it would be the gift of choosing the right books - ones that are right for you.
I love the sound of that because I did just now ask Anna's permission to follow her - my Gra'mere brought me up she was my father's mother and a charmer - but oh so strict - so much of what I didwas not punished - she simply said "My Darling - One is disappointed with what you said then" I do not feel completely at ease with the 21st Century - so I do not go out
Hi Groovy Hi Ori I am back to bother you, yup got a new computer any ideas on how to use it...
Well hey MrB!! Good to see you!! As for new computer, I can hardly use my old one! LOL
It's irritating now the dam thing is talking to me and has linked to my phone, I think it is trying to replace me...
I don't think I like having a phone that is smarter than I am, MrB.
You could roll over, hands in the air and just let it take over!
Or wave your hands in the air like you just don't care!!
I have finished the 35th and final square of my Nativity themed crazy quilt. I found fabric for borders in my stash and I think, maybe, just maybe, enough fabric to line it. Tomorrow we play checkers on the sitting-room floor to lay it up.
Ooh... that sounds clever, Orinoco. Hope you'll put a pic of it on here.
Maybe if I figure out how...LOLYou should have seen the conversation I had with a student who is an engineer. He helped me calculate if I had enough background fabric for another quilt I want to do, and said, "Why don't you just sew two lengths together? That'd be more than big enough."
"No," I replied, "I have to cut 12 inch squares and appliqué the flowers onto them."
Pause. You could see the wheels going round in his brain.
"Let me get this straight. You're going to take this big piece of fabric and cut it into smaller pieces."
"That's right."
"And then you're going to sew the smaller pieces together to make one big piece."
"Right."
Pause. Pause. And then a look of total disbelief.
"Why??"
It's a hobby.
Welcome back, Mrbooks! I just hope you and your new computer will be able to connect and become one--LOL! As smart as you are, I'm sure you'll have it eating out of your digital hands in no time.Anyway, due to circumstances beyond my control, I must bow out for awhile. Look me up on FB--Groovy Lee. Eventually, I'll read it--LOL!
Miss Groovy, you take care and come back as soon as you can we will miss you.
You're making this very hard, mrbooks. I'm going to miss you, as well, my friend. I'll try and reconnect as soon as I can. In the meantime, take care of yourself, have fun with that new computer; make it do some fantastic feats--LOL. Until later, everyone:)
Gosh, I hope your new year improves, Groovy!!
Every day that passes might bring you closer to coming back, Groovy. Know that you are missed.
I know that electronic gadgets often malfunction in my presence, whether here at home or out and about; all I have to do is step away and they behave. But yesterday I was trying to cut some squares of fabric with a rotary cutter. First the cutter fell apart in my hand...then the automatic pencil did!! The components just came apart and hit the table. What goes on here!I can't carry a Pilot retractable pen in my bag, either--when I reach in to get it I find the pieces all scattered around inside. The ink cartridge and spring even come out of the tube!
Ori - you could blame it on the weather or perhaps suspect a Spiritual attack Religious people seem to fear HELL but another person may practice Spirituality because they have been there already and do not seek to go back - that is not expressed here as a theory of my own but it was related by a friend
Today's been weird too. Gosh I hope the p*lt*rg**st doesn't show up again. I had enough in 1991, I won't even write it down just in case.
Patriciaenola wrote: "Ori - you could blame it on the weather or perhaps suspect a Spiritual attack Religious people seem to fear HELL but another person may practice Spirituality because they have been there already an..."I don't fear Hell, since I'm with Jesus Christ Fire and Extended Life!
I understand your devotion love - but I prefer what I can experience for myself - I do not doubt the existence of the Christ - since Christ means anointed - he's a lovely Spirit to believe in but so many facets to a Diamond - without wishing to cause any offence dear one, there are a few - thank Him in number - who present His life in a very aggressive manner - I believe you understand my concern
Of course. And I know you have the brains not to blame Him for those who claim to work for Him! I too have known quite a few who give Him very bad press, to the place where I myself have said, "If that's a Christian, I don't want to be one!"
Thank-you, Ori and Anna. I appreciate that. Bye:)
Groovy, I hope you come back some day.The idlest of chat: I finally found a decent hair cutter after 3 plus years of messing around. I've always preferred a man to cut my hair, and for my style, they seem to do better than the ladies I've allowed near my hair with scissors. The latest woman cutter has taken to opening her shop just whenever she feels like it, so I went in search of someone with more interest in the job. Found a youngish man who is definitely FOD, but an excellent cutter and a nice person. And he opens at nine AM, so I can nip in, get a quick cut and be out again before 10! Less than five blocks away, too. He knew exactly what I wanted and how to cut it. I don't spend any money on clothes or makeup, but to me decent hair is vital. This style (1925 shingle bob) is my favourite, wash and go.
I really applaud your choice of a man to cut your hair - and your many reasons for doing so I dropped in - "thud" just to see what was going on and happened to chance upon Orinoco's message 26 - thank you Ori I have read it rather often but it still has a tremendous power to lift a bad mood from me - because the baddest of moods should never happen but they sneak out of the wainscoting just to trip you up.
Patriciaenola,Bad moods and wainscot wow what a connection. Not to many people know what a wainscot is but bad moods are an integral part of life.
Bad moods are the muggers in our lives, just when everything is going just right and you are on top of the world the mugger, I mean mood jumps up and assaults you in broad day light.
My dear Sir= permit me in honesty to enlighten you since you are already a gentleman of learning -I have 83 years behind me - briefly - in 1939 when 'i was four years old - my Daddy went to war with some meanos who wanted our Country and when he went to war my Mommy went to pieces - so I went to Gra'mere's and the Cats - but Gra'mere was of her turn brought up by her great grand mama and some stray great Aunts -I normally have a tag of antiquity about my speech - I also talk to trees my best friend is a silver Birch and I cried when the big wind blew the oak over and and spoiled him - you see he was a personal friend - I threw down food to the squirrels who lived in his branches -sure I am -something of an antique myself - may God Bless you little brother, ask my friend Will - he says "If there is madness yet there is method in it" - Ori knows where-at
Hamlet of course! I too have used the word Wainscot in conversation, and received raised eyebrows. What do they call it now? Cladding? Cause they're still putting it in.
Patriciaenola, you are making me blush, wow gentleman of learning, The only learning I have is from the school of life. I do thank you for the complement.
mrbooks wrote: "Patriciaenola, you are making me blush, wow gentleman of learning, The only learning I have is from the school of life. I do thank you for the complement."You can read, and you do. Which is more than I can say for many professors of my acquaintance (see also doctors, lawyers, and clearly! politicians).
Yeah verily you speak the truth, reading is a passion Like Don Quixote's passion of knight errantry the only difference being I do not imagine windmills are dragons and whine skins are the heads of giants. In saying that I can easily visualize most of the action in the books I read.
One of the reasons I like reading Martin's Song of Ice and Fire - as opposed to watching "Game of Thrones" - some things belong in print - and though I hear Mr. Martin is pleased with the rendition of his book into TV etc - DRAT the film - I love the book - I am just at this time not reading - my work for "Knit for Peace" has conquered my waking hours
I saw a few of the episodes of Game of Thrones and much prefer the books. He may be satisfied but I feel they butchered the books.
AMEN Most sincerely do I agree -
Regarding message 45 - Politicians Ori what do they read I have long wondered
Patti for many years I read only hardbacks that would open flat on my lap so I could knit while I read. You might try that.
Grab a cup of something, put your feet up and get idling!!