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Phew I just had to dash to sourn to pick up his nibs his old car is back in the garage, its worth more when its got a full tank than it is in scrap value! A bit like my car poor thing is 14 years old but has only done 128 000 miles! For a 4 wheel drive that's nothing hopefully it will last for years cos unless I start getting some income from my writing I won't be driving if it dies on me!He's in trouble mother rang and gave him verbal for having a nap when he should be planting potatoes in her garden. I'm glad I'm not going to have to referee them not sure who'll win!
I'll keep you posted! Good news chapter sixteen is coming along nicely and I just took a sneak peak at what JK Rowlings doing - new book out in the autumn adult novel black comedy! Are we all listening they already have it down for a best seller, now we know what we're competing with at least.
Rubs her hands in glee, black comedy my style of writing!
Excellent I look dorward to your future projects ;o)I have loads of little crappy bits to do today at work. Got to get everything ready for the dreaded temp to take over next week. I hate having to come back to more work then there should be.
The price you pay for a week off eh!It could be worse they could save all the work up for you when you came back!
Talk to you as and when have a good week off and hopefully I should be able to finish a couple of chapters next week. Gulli permitting!
Cool, I look forward to getting them. Sometimes it would be easier, if I did come back to all the work, at least I would know it was done right!
Sharon wrote: "Cool, I look forward to getting them. Sometimes it would be easier, if I did come back to all the work, at least I would know it was done right!"Yeah but it would take you a week to get straight and by that time you'd need another holiday!
Will the olympics hamper your getting to work?
Yes unfortunately, especially as they have Archery at Lords Cricket Ground which is right next to the hospital. It will be too overcrowded on the tubes especially going home. Morning I should be ok as I get the 5.46am train, but I could be getting home 8.00pm and after - not good. Whoever thought to have the bloody olympics in London should be shot because they gave absolutely no consideration to those who actually live here or work here.
Sharon wrote: "Yes unfortunately, especially as they have Archery at Lords Cricket Ground which is right next to the hospital. It will be too overcrowded on the tubes especially going home. Morning I should be ..."Might pay you to ask your bosses to find a place to stay for the weekdays at their expense of course!
Sharon wrote: "They would never do that!"That's a bummer lets hope they put on extra trains to cope with the rush for your sake or you could take a sleeping bag and change of clothes just in case!
It's gone ever so dark here I think its going to chuck it down any minute.
We have sunshine at the moment, but you know british weather. We had hail yesterday, I just got home in time.
Sharon wrote: "We have sunshine at the moment, but you know british weather. We had hail yesterday, I just got home in time."It appears to have passed over. I finished chapter 16 just reading it through now as soon as i'm happy i'll send it through!
It's on its way now train reading!
Sharon wrote: "We have sunshine at the moment, but you know british weather. We had hail yesterday, I just got home in time."Missouri weather is much the same. We sit at the nexus of the country's weather patterns, and we have three rivers around us to mess with them. Mark Twain had a saying about our area. "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."
It wish it was 5 minutes to wait here. Normally when it rains, it never knows when to stop.
Sharon wrote: "It wish it was 5 minutes to wait here. Normally when it rains, it never knows when to stop."Ye ha that was a productive hour, I went to take Alain to pick his car up. It's dead going to the car graveyard cost more than its worth to repair! We called in at the bar and did the lottery for tonight there's a 13 million jackpot Alain played the Rapido and won 2 euros I who have played twice this being the second won 20 Euros! The first time I won 8 played again and won 40! I gave 10 to Sophie for her bank -- money towards her car when she's 18! If I'd have had the bottom number as well it would have been 100 Euros! Good omen for tonights lotto!
I will keep my fingers crossed for you :o)
Sharon wrote: "I will keep my fingers crossed for you :o)"I'll book you a ticket for the ferry so you can come over and stock up on wine and spirits if I hit the jackpot!
Sarah R wrote: "Sharon wrote: "I will keep my fingers crossed for you :o)"I'll book you a ticket for the ferry so you can come over and stock up on wine and spirits if I hit the jackpot!"
But you won't get very far on my 2 Euro gain sorry! Lol rule number one let the machine pick your lottery numbers at least then you stand a chance!
Hi hunAre you buried under a mountain of filing? I am still colded up Alain's seems to have gone but mine is lingering!
Hiya, thats a shame. How was your birthday anyway?At the moment I am correcting all invoices that was meant to go out last week (which I told her not to post, which is just as well, considering she can not add up). I have not even started todays work yet and I still have 2 more piles of invoices to go through. AAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
Okay, Alain took me out for lunch to the Chinese in town, my idea I love chinese, it's a novelty to eat it in a restaurant for me though I did have lunch in the posh Chinese restaurant in Manchester city with Jo we went to demonstrate a veg slicing and dicing machine and they invited us to have lunch on the house! They didn't buy the machine which was a shame. But I learnt what deep fried seaweed actually consists of! Spring cabbage!Poor you, fancy having to do it all again, what a waste of money for your boss too! I used to hate doing invoices too! Not mathematically orientated, lol at the moment not orientated at all. My head is full of cotton wool most of which seems to be stuffed into my sinuses making breathing through my nose impossible!
I am sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon. Chinese has to be my favourite. We had it last Tuesday after lunch with friends then 4 hours in the pub, a certain person was hungry, so he said about getting chinese as I was not cooking - LOL
Sharon wrote: "I am sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon. Chinese has to be my favourite. We had it last Tuesday after lunch with friends then 4 hours in the pub, a certain person was hungry, so he sa..."yummy but not diet friendly!
I gave up on the diet last week, back to it this week though :o)
poor you! its horrible here windy, wet and miserable!
It is the same here unfortunately. Bloody April showers!
I am having toad in the hole for lunch today! Its in the oven cooking now reason for toad today Alain said we'd need hot dogs Saturday night and no one wanted any so I had a load of merguez and chipolatas defrosted for nothing I have cooked them all and I will make a meal for Geraldine to feed the girls tomorrow with the other sausages, a sausage casserole with pasta so at least they won't get wasted!
With a colorful name like that, I have to ask... What's a toad in the hole?
I will just have the hole, still can't eat sausages.@JP - Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter (like a yorkshire pudding) you normally have it with potatoes and vegetables.
Sharon wrote: "I will just have the hole, still can't eat sausages.@JP - Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter (like a yorkshire pudding) you normally have it with potatoes and vegetables."
Lol you haven't seen the size of the Yorkshire it filled a dinner plate we didn't bother with the potatoes just cauli and broccoli. How can you not like sausages? You can always have the Linda McCartney ones surely they are less fattening?
@ JP A giant yorkshire pudding, filled with beef in beer with mushrooms and onions is a pub favourite. Lol even the French like it!
I have never liked sausages even when I was a child. But I can eat veggie ones.
Sharon wrote: "I have never liked sausages even when I was a child. But I can eat veggie ones."I don't like French sausages much, too much salt, too coarse, they put garlic in them in chunks and big blobs of gristle and fat yuk!
I prefer to make my own, pork and apple with cider is my favourite and cumberland I need Jo here with me to help with the process, it's not something you can do by yourself you need someone to fill the machine and feed the sausage into the skins!
Which is something Joanne finds highly amusing, especially when we have to put the skin onto the tube!
I can see that getting very messy! LOL
Sharon wrote: "I have never liked sausages even when I was a child. But I can eat veggie ones."Going completely off the sausage subject did you get time to read the reworked prologue and three chapters last week?
@JP - Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter (like a yorkshire pudding) you normally have it with potatoes and vegetabl..."Oh, Gods. That sounds incredible. We went to a local Irish pub on Saturday that served some of the best lamb sandwiches and sheperds pie with this thick brown mushroom gravy that I had ever eaten.
Sharon wrote: "I can see that getting very messy! LOL"Not too messy the thing Jo finds funny is feeding the skin onto the tube, a bit like a giant open ended condom!
Jp wrote: "@JP - Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter (like a yorkshire pudding) you normally have it with potatoes and vegetabl..."Oh, Gods. That sounds incredible. We went to a local Irish ..."
Lol English haute cuisine! Only very occasionally do we eat English food, but Yorkshire puddings are always a hit, with medium rare roast beef, horseradish sauce and roast parsnips and potatoes and garden peas!
My cooking is not typically any nationality, anything from Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Italian, French,and Spanish!
Sarah R wrote: "Jp wrote: "@JP - Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter (like a yorkshire pudding) you normally have it with potatoes and vegetabl..."Oh, Gods. That sounds incredible. We went to a loca..."
Do you guys have "American" food over there? We've always had difficulty defining what that is. No one here says "Oh, hey, man. Let's go down the street and grab some American!" or worse yet, "Let's go grab a bite of Canadian, eh?"
But yeah, it's always trippy to hear of your own kitschy stuff turned into another country's exotic fad-food.
Jp wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "Jp wrote: "@JP - Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter (like a yorkshire pudding) you normally have it with potatoes and vegetabl..."Oh, Gods. That sounds incredible..."
I suppose we have hamburgers and hot dogs and pumpkin soup, I even made pumpkin pancakes and pumpkin creme brulee. Yep got it in one we had 7 huge pumpkins to wade through! Blueberry muffins, and not forgetting meat loaf and Tex mex Chilli con Carne!
Other than that I'm game to try most things, I hate plain food and my man likes experimenting with food as long as it doesn't contain sweet peppers, courgettes and sweetcorn!
Reckons he's not a cow or a chicken, but finds snails and frogs legs okay to eat! Yuk he's on his own with the fauna and flora!
Yeah, I guess Tex Mex would really count. We still call it Tex Mex here, but it was technically American originated. God, that stuff's good. Any good barbecue places out there?
Jp wrote: "Yeah, I guess Tex Mex would really count. We still call it Tex Mex here, but it was technically American originated. God, that stuff's good. Any good barbecue places out there?"Lol yep my back garden, I make the best ribs ever, so I'm told the French are just starting to understand the sweet and savoury mix, most reckon they don't like it several of those have ploughed their way through ribs at barbecues here and not got past the ribs to the honey mustard chicken and mustard and beer sausages!
No the French are Nouvelle cuisine, you know the stuff 3 miniscule pieces of meat with sauce painted onto to the plate with 4 peas 2 carrots sharpened with a pencil sharpener and a few spinach leaves lost on the biggest plate you have ever seen! Food Art or starvation diet? Now you know why Parisienne women are stick thin, malnutrition!
And yegads the prices they charge at least over here for that crap is ridiculous. I could get three steak dinners at a nice restaurant for that amount and eat the leftovers for a week.
Jp wrote: "And yegads the prices they charge at least over here for that crap is ridiculous. I could get three steak dinners at a nice restaurant for that amount and eat the leftovers for a week."Same here, the food looks almost too good to eat, you feel if you move a pea you will destroy a work of art!
There are some up and coming chefs that believe in proper portions with the same pazazz thank goodness!
Morning Hun how's the ploughing going, I now have a cough but at least I can breath again but now Sophie's gone down with it too!I had a brilliant idea in my delirium filled sleep in the night for the next twist to move the story back to France you're gonna love it!
I'l start work on it this afternoon in between coughing!
The ploughing is getting there. I have just done the last part of the cataract lenses audit. Look forward to the new twists. Think I will have a jacket spud with tuna for lunch. Still healthy but too cold to have my milkshake.
Sharon wrote: "The ploughing is getting there. I have just done the last part of the cataract lenses audit. Look forward to the new twists. Think I will have a jacket spud with tuna for lunch. Still healthy..."
I started on it before lunch but had to switch off for a passing thunder/halestorm really wierd weather! Suns out now but it's cold I've got the fire ticking over nicely.
Mrs Robinson just called, she may have a job looking after an elderly woman with Senile Dementia near St Malo English people so that will be good for her. Nearer her current beau too who lives in Brest!
But the other one lives in Fougeres, well you can't keep a good tart down!
Oh dear - LOLWeather here is grey and cold. It just can not make up its mind.
Sarah R wrote: "Jp wrote: "And yegads the prices they charge at least over here for that crap is ridiculous. I could get three steak dinners at a nice restaurant for that amount and eat the leftovers for a week."..."
We have a Sushi house here that creates MASTERFUL works of art using the sauce and sushi rolls, but I feel little guilt eating them just simply because they're so good. I've been saving them for posterity by posting pictures to my Facebook.
Sharon wrote: "Oh dear - LOLWeather here is grey and cold. It just can not make up its mind."
Nah can't make it's mind up here either. Wind, rain sun, halestorms and thunder and lightning. Biblical weather, all that's missing is the fire and brimstone, talking of which I watched the most wooden film I've ever watched last night - Rosemary's Baby with Mia Farrow!
I think I have watched it once, a very long time ago. I can't remember much about it now.
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No, what for quick maths told him how many litres we had we were well under. All they were concerned with was that we weren't smuggling people in under the blanket. As I pointed out there wasn't room for another packet of saucisson never mind a person!