Minimal noisy aircraft for a couple of days, the Eid fireworks have finished, cool enough to sleep well and I survived the full moon! Been out picking chamomile flowers for tea and feeling refreshed and a lot calmer
I rather jumped on you @Hostafan1 on the washed chicken thread because I didn't read your post properly and I apologise. No guarantee I will do better having had a good sleep but I will try.
OOh treats @islandanchoress and wool! Fingers crossed they get to you
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I rather jumped on you @Hostafan1 on the washed chicken thread because I didn't read your post properly and I apologise. No guarantee I will do better having had a good sleep but I will try.
It started with our 45th wedding anniversary and we treated ourselves - and it’s not exactly romantic I know - to an expensive but stylish and gorgeously renovated antique typewriter.
Then my wife was asked to take part in a PR video for Spire Hospital. There was a token payment of £50 but because the PR company cocked up and messed us around they upped the fee to £100.
Then today we heard from Mont Blanc that they’re repairing free of charge the pen I dropped on a stone floor. My mistake but Mont Blanc waived charges. I thought it was also my mistake that the new shoes I bought online were too small because I ordered the wrong size - US9 not UK9. I had worn them outside so there was no way I was getting the £100 refunded but I phoned up the company and they said the mistake was theirs and the shoes would be replaced for nothing.
What would round the week off perfectly is if the video clip I made on Saturday is shown on Gardeners’ World tomorrow. However no chirpy children, no recycling and refusing to say the magic words peat free compost renders my chances negligible. I’ll still be watching in anticipation.
Went to a tile shop the other day, to try to find a near match for the kitchen floor tiles. (The oil boiler has been removed, leaving a 60x30cm area of bare concrete.) Found a perfect match for colour, though wider and longer than the existing tiles; however, most of the area will be covered by a new freezer. Asked for 2 tiles, plenty to cover the concrete. How much? Oh, you can have those for nothing...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Nice news for you @BenCotto, and a great result @Liriodendron. Restores your faith a bit in the human race doesn't it, when it's a bit difficult to have any just now. Or is that just me? I had the 2nd ripe tomato yesterday, but much better than that was the youngest of the two juvenile robins, who was completely unfazed by me faffing around nearby
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not just you, @Fairygirl - though there are wonderful stories as well as awful ones, if you know where to find them. I bought my son & DIL a subscription to "Positive News" magazine for Christmas, because they were unable to watch TV news any more as it was making them more and more depressed. I get the news feeds on Facebook from it and it's really helpful in providing a bit of balance.
Those tiles should have been €17.99 a square metre, so it was a real gift. As was the fact that the builder cut and laid them for me, so I only need to grout them - was expecting to have to do the lot myself.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Brilliant @Liriodendron. A very good saving, financially as well as practically. Must be all those cuppas you're making for him I stopped watching the news as well, other than our own news - occasionally. I have the radio on all day, so there's more than enough gloom and doom being absorbed.
He wasn't quite the perfect Adonis, was he - that bloke @herbaceous? That would have put you off your bratwurst for life
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No indeed @Fairygirl although I was paying less attention to the physique and more to the idiocy of chasing a wild boar (with young) and all your 'equipment' on show just to retrieve a laptop he could easily have ended up with no bratwurst!
Somebody's priorities need reviewing.......
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
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I rather jumped on you @Hostafan1 on the washed chicken thread because I didn't read your post properly and I apologise. No guarantee I will do better having had a good sleep but I will try.
OOh treats @islandanchoress and wool! Fingers crossed they get to you
It started with our 45th wedding anniversary and we treated ourselves - and it’s not exactly romantic I know - to an expensive but stylish and gorgeously renovated antique typewriter.
Then my wife was asked to take part in a PR video for Spire Hospital. There was a token payment of £50 but because the PR company cocked up and messed us around they upped the fee to £100.
Then today we heard from Mont Blanc that they’re repairing free of charge the pen I dropped on a stone floor. My mistake but Mont Blanc waived charges. I thought it was also my mistake that the new shoes I bought online were too small because I ordered the wrong size - US9 not UK9. I had worn them outside so there was no way I was getting the £100 refunded but I phoned up the company and they said the mistake was theirs and the shoes would be replaced for nothing.
What would round the week off perfectly is if the video clip I made on Saturday is shown on Gardeners’ World tomorrow. However no chirpy children, no recycling and refusing to say the magic words peat free compost renders my chances negligible. I’ll still be watching in anticipation.
Or is that just me?
I had the 2nd ripe tomato yesterday, but much better than that was the youngest of the two juvenile robins, who was completely unfazed by me faffing around nearby
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53692475
Those tiles should have been €17.99 a square metre, so it was a real gift. As was the fact that the builder cut and laid them for me, so I only need to grout them - was expecting to have to do the lot myself.
I stopped watching the news as well, other than our own news - occasionally. I have the radio on all day, so there's more than enough gloom and doom being absorbed.
He wasn't quite the perfect Adonis, was he - that bloke @herbaceous? That would have put you off your bratwurst for life
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Somebody's priorities need reviewing.......