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Darkangel wrote: "Hmmm, no notifications for me again!"Eva wrote: "Darkangel wrote: "Hmmm, no notifications for me again!"
That happened to me the other day, it's really annoying!"
LOl I haven't been getting them for weeks!
Yay I have my own keyboard back I was using Sophie's it's smaller and blooming French!
Sarah R wrote: "Eva wrote: "I cant find it, is it on goodreads?Naked Heat
It's one of thriller books, the series are on tv, completly hooked"
Not on French tv it aint - I am reduced to Lie to me repeats and that..."
I tend to watch some things online, you might like this link, you can watch series and films...
http://www.1channel.ch/index.php?sort...
God! I've been trying to write today but cant seem to get my thinking cap on...being in goodreads all the time isnt a good idea either
Eva wrote: "God! I've been trying to write today but cant seem to get my thinking cap on...being in goodreads all the time isnt a good idea either"No I know what you mean, but I think its more to do with the weather, I haven't even logged on to HOD today nor yesterday. Don't worry about it, I don't you know the saying all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
We have a nice breeze here, very refreshing I will go outside in a while for now Sophie is in the pool and I have peace until another earwig jumps in to join her!
Eva wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "Eva wrote: "I cant find it, is it on goodreads?Naked Heat
It's one of thriller books, the series are on tv, completly hooked"
Not on French tv it aint - I am reduced to Lie to me ..." I'll copy the link and look at that next time I don't want to be French!
Morning Darkangel! How was your weekend?
It was good! Went for a barcue on saturday and on sunday to the beach, my husband cant stay still on his days off so we have to keep moving, knackared today.
That's a good thing, when my other half is off, he stays watching re-runs on tv, bless him - at least he is taking me out on Saturday.
Not extactly, but at least he is paying. Dish and chips down the coast but in a lovely restaurant, not just a shack on the beach - LOL
Sounds good! At least is not just a take away and eating it at home...an excuse to dress up.
Morning Shazzyloulou.Well depending on the weather on Saturday we will see how I dress up.
Morning ShazzyLouLou! How was your weekend?
good thanks - very busy. A shopping trip to Murcia on sat and catching up with friends. Didn't actually buy anything, but came back with lots of ideas for our new kitchen and had a lovely lunch so not a complete disaster! :-)
Darkangel wrote: "Not extactly, but at least he is paying. Dish and chips down the coast but in a lovely restaurant, not just a shack on the beach - LOL"Fish and chips taste best eaten walking across the seafront in newspaper and eaten with your fingers! with lots of lovely mushy peas! Need to get some new oil for the chip pan and make that this week, its one of Alain's favourites, minus the mushy peas though!
How was it gettig in to work this morning?
Morning Eva, morning Shazzy Loulou!
Getting to work was fine, I think it will be worse getting home, we will all probably come out at the same time. At least I can finish early on Friday. Finishing about 2ish - hee hee.
Darkangel wrote: "Getting to work was fine, I think it will be worse getting home, we will all probably come out at the same time. At least I can finish early on Friday. Finishing about 2ish - hee hee."Nice, that way you should miss the crush! The sun is shining here again today, not quite as warm as last week thank goodness. We had a little rain yesterday, two downpours and then the sun came out again.
Same as us, Had a thunderstorm for about an hour then it was fine again. Cleared the air that was for sure.
Darkangel wrote: "Same as us, Had a thunderstorm for about an hour then it was fine again. Cleared the air that was for sure."No thunderstorm just the downpour, Jo got flooded out on Friday evening they had hailstones the size of golf balls too!
I heard this song this morning, got me in a good mood straight away!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn...
Eva wrote: "I heard this song this morning, got me in a good mood straight away!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn..."
How is everyone doing with Hannah's book? I finished it Friday evening, Hannah and I have so much in common, she is my age she lives in Axel Holland the very same place I visited when I was 10 years old with school! How neat is that!
well, my husban has nicked my kindle so I haven;t had the chance to read it.I've been writing that xmas story, can you please have a look and see what you think. Bear in mind that I still don't know how to get the thought in italics.
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...
Eva wrote: "well, my husban has nicked my kindle so I haven;t had the chance to read it.I've been writing that xmas story, can you please have a look and see what you think. Bear in mind that I still don't kn..."
Okay I'll take a look and you're not on your own I can't figure out how to get italics on here either!
ShazzyLouLou wrote: "@ Sarah, here's an update on the house: http://itsallmanana.wordpress.com/xxx"
House is looking good hun but poor Simon, no KFC here's a recipe I pulled off the net they reckon this is as good as if not better than KFC!
1 cup flour
1 tblspn salt (worried about that amount I would halve it personally)I tblspn Black pepper. 2 tblspn paprika,1 tspn dried garlic, 1 heaped tspn powdered mustard, ground thyme,ground basil,ground ginger and 1/2 tspn oregano. I cup buttermilk, chicken up to 3lb of pieces. oil to fry
Mix dry ingredients together in large plastic bag.
Marinate chicken in buttermilk for 2-4 hours turning frequently remove and drain. Toss in dry mix and fry in pan half full of oil turn frequently.
Find some red and white stripey paper plates and serve!
Ps your paintings are amazing! Are you going to do a mural of the Flamenco Dancer in the house? I would if I could draw and paint like you - The only things I paint are walls with emulsion!
Sarah R wrote: "ShazzyLouLou wrote: "@ Sarah, here's an update on the house: http://itsallmanana.wordpress.com/xxx"
House is looking good hun but poor Simon, no KFC here's a recipe I pulled off the net they rec..."
Wow! Thanks! I will deffo give this a go! I have most of it in the larder I think....except ginger... worth a go to get me back in the good books I think!
Thanks for the comments about the paintings. I've always wanted to do a mural but haven't had the time/space. Now I have, I definitely will. I was going to do one at the villa, but I'm glad I didn't bother given all the arsy emails I'm getting.... saying that, it's all gone quiet on that front so hopefully they've got the message now! :-)
Bizarrely, my favourite picture is just of the shoe. (bit of a random subject I know) I think its the best one - it took me the longest at any rate!
ShazzyLouLou wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "ShazzyLouLou wrote: "@ Sarah, here's an update on the house: http://itsallmanana.wordpress.com/xxx"
House is looking good hun but poor Simon, no KFC here's a recipe I pulled off ..."
Let me know how the KFC works out! I think if buttermilk is a problem you could use ordinary milk. though I think the buttermilk is quite acid and that is what tenderises the meat, I have everything in my larder except for the buttermilk. Alain eats it for supper with bread dipped in or with a kilo of boiled potatoes! Weird! I use the rest in scones so next time he buys some I will try the KFC too!
I decided what is going in the kitchen, Alain is useless with design, if he can't dig it it's not worth the effort. He'd cover everywhere in horrible pine slats and varnish it if I wasn't there to stop him!
He mentioned it and I gave him the dead eye, 'don't you dare, you are paying out thousands to have it plastered and then you're going to cover it up with that!' He wasn't amused and neither was I! I want to paint the kitchen red and silver grey with black Japanese motifs stencilled on, I have the stencil and I will probably be able to manage that I will practice on a sheet of plywood first though! Red is his favourite colour so he's happy with that.
Hey everybody!I'm wanting to get a pen pal. Hopefully in France or somewhere over there. Does anyone know any good programs to do it through or any suggestions? Anything will be helpful!
Morning all,What delights tickle our fancy today? ;o)
Darkangel wrote: "Morning all,What delights tickle our fancy today? ;o)"
I have to go into town and then to the bank when I finish my coffee! And then atsome time this week I have to take Sophie to the stables, like I promised!
Sounds like a nice fun time.I have just decided to enter one of my poems into a competition - write a sonnet. First prize is £100. I have nothing to lose right? And need to work on a new one for a competition first prize is £5000. Clearly there will be a lot of entries for that one but got to be worth a try!
Darkangel wrote: "Sounds like a nice fun time.I have just decided to enter one of my poems into a competition - write a sonnet. First prize is £100. I have nothing to lose right? And need to work on a new one f..."
Yep too right, go for it. talk to you later off to pick up some chicken and buttermilk to try the KFC recipe I gave Shazzyloulou yesterday to try and get her out of the doghouse with Simon!
Morningyou should go for it, you might win; and if you dont try youll never win!
This is true. I think I will definitely enter, be a nice surprise if I win anything.How are yo today Eva?
Darkangel wrote: "This is true. I think I will definitely enter, be a nice surprise if I win anything.How are yo today Eva?"
Morning Eva what are you up to today?
I'm back, had to cut trip short the auto bank where I get my money from was out of service so I had to drive all the way across town to get some money. If I use a certain bank till I don't get charged for transferring it from my English bank!
They don't tell you though the crafty beggars, it works out quite expensive at 1% plus another tax at about the same!
So Kentucky fried chicken recipe will have to wait until tomorrow!
Darkangel wrote: "This is true. I think I will definitely enter, be a nice surprise if I win anything.How are yo today Eva?"
Morning everyone, still having issues with my computer all my protection was switched off firewall the lot, I don't know who did it, it certainly wasn't me!
I have installed new protection and hopefully I should be okay, you should have seen the list of stuff it quarrantined! War and Peace almost!
Hi ShazzyloulouYou okay? How did the KFC go? I haven't tried it yet issues with my computer which are thank heaven now resolved and I did it all by myself. I went back to the future and restored the system and then put a new anti virus, anti malware anti any blooming thing that wants to sneak into my computer I've got it! Plus my firewall is back on!
Girl Power! Maybe now I can get back to writing!
Morning allGood news about the computer Sarah.
Darkangel wrote: "Morning allGood news about the computer Sarah."
Yep two days of trial and error I restored the computer twice and the new anti virus programme must have been dizzy it was downloaded that many times! I even managed to speak to Chris last night too! He was impressed that I managed it all by myself though he wants to put an all singing all dancing anti virus programme on for me to stop it happening again!
How's you? Olympics not causing too much hassle I hope?
Believe it or not, the tubes are empty, so still getting in at normal time.I have booked in for my manicure and pedicure and also eyebrow threading for next Thursday (only time they can fit me in).
Darkangel wrote: "Believe it or not, the tubes are empty, so still getting in at normal time.I have booked in for my manicure and pedicure and also eyebrow threading for next Thursday (only time they can fit me in)."
Eyebrow threading? That sounds painful! Must be all these posers going to the olympics well they want to look their best we might catch a glimpse of a bit of them if we're lucky on tele! The coverage here is more or less biased to the French teams efforts, quelle surprise!
We have about 20 channels dedicated to the olmpics. Monst has been watchign the weight lifting.
Darkangel wrote: "We have about 20 channels dedicated to the olmpics. Monst has been watchign the weight lifting."Alain was fighting with the judo gold medalist, his legs and arms were all over the place!
Got woken up at 2.30 this morning by a mosquito so in a few minutes I am off to town to buy a refill for my plug in protector, Sophie has one in her room but mines empty!
TTYL
Darkangel wrote: "OK TTFN"I'm back,stressed Alain whinging Sophie too, and I wonder why my Bp is raised! At least I won't be woken up by the mosquitos tonight, I bought 2 new refills for the plug ins plus a load of other stuff as usual, you go in for one thing and come out with extras!
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