Afternoon all, Sorry to hear you still have the rat problem @punkdoc, but at least the poison is still being taken rather than ignored, so it should work it’s magic in time 🤞. It’s a nice day here, too, with some watery sunshine and a light breeze. The rain is forecast from tomorrow evening. Glad you are feeling better @Pat E. Just general tidying up jobs to do here today, but taking a coffee break. Hope everyone has a good day.
Commiserations @AnnaB. Our burst water pipe was not so serious - it was the outside loo where a pipe was gushing water but our local plumber arrived quickly and isolated it. Obvs no water to the outside tap or loo now but that's OK - it can stay like that until March.
Glad you are feeling a bit better @Pat E - as Dove says, hope the Doc is pleased with you.
Glad you enjoyed the walk from the garage @Busy-Lizzie. Hope the car gets a clean bill of health so your walk back to collect it doesn't have you gnashing your teeth.
I made a nut roast for supper last night, from a recipe in the Guardian's Feast magazine. It was a lot of faff and we discovered that 2-year out of date hazelnuts really aren't very nice (luckily before I used them, substituted with walnuts and cashews of which we eat inordinate amounts). But the cabbage-leaf wrapped nut roast was delicious.
I agree @punkdoc ... there's never just one rat ... if they're taking the poison they'll be gone eventually. It is very annoying tho' so you have all our sympathy.
I've made our Dundee cake, it's cooling in the kitchen and smells simply wonderful. I've also set out our Christmas lights and ornaments and the hearth is decorated with faux crystalised fruits, pine cones, angels, a candle lit chapel and woodland scene, a bold robin, a garland of berried vines, two beautiful matryoshka sets that son brought us back from trips to Russia, a carved wooden Father Christmas and lots of gold and silver baubles ... and our Scandi candle 'bridge' is on the big windowsill. A heap of presents next to the hearth is growing ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good afternoon, I was wide awake at 6 but fell back into a deep sleep and didn't wake till 9 have had a head full if cotton wool all day a result. OH has a really nasty cold and bad throat, it's very unusual for her to suffer and not me . I am dosed up on Echinacia extract and vit D, hopefully I'll avoid it. A man came to look at removing the old sliding door wardrobes which will need to be done before we get new ones in the new year. He will send quote tomorrow. 2023 is already shaping up to be a very expensive year.
Afternoon everybody, started off raining but then turned to lovely sunshine and almost springlike weather for a few hours. After my usual walk I changed the guest bedroom bedlinen in readiness for daughter's visit on Friday, did more washing and cleaned the ensuite, will leave main bathroom till Friday am. We're expecting a late SM delivery tonight so around lunchtime I had a poke around in the fridge for dinner tonight - empty and freezer, ditto, oops, slight miscalculation there. As we've only a smallish fridge/freezer I'd been running down the contents in readiness for the big Xmas shop. One frozen chicken leg was all I could find so had to nip down to our local Tesco's. I also collected our prescriptions as the pharmacy is nearby.
Don't think I could walk 3kms any more @Busy-Lizzie, so good for you. Hope the MOT is not too expensive. Rats are a real pain @Punkdoc, I was surprised we didn't see ours around the bird feeders in the cold weather - perhaps they just avoided me.
Hope nobody has any medical emergencies today, stay safe folks.
Thank you @didyw and @Lizzie27. My car passed its MOT and the garage have unblocked the rear windscreen washer. I didn't walk to the garage as I'd planned, knee was hurting. I called a taxi.☺️
I've finished wrapping all the Christmas presents and pruned most of the grape vine.
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Long, long day today, 72 Cupcakes, seems like a million Mince pies, Breakfast with Santa was a huge success, we make no money but it's a massive publicity/good feeling moment.
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Sorry to hear you still have the rat problem @punkdoc, but at least the poison is still being taken rather than ignored, so it should work it’s magic in time 🤞.
It’s a nice day here, too, with some watery sunshine and a light breeze. The rain is forecast from tomorrow evening.
Glad you are feeling better @Pat E.
Just general tidying up jobs to do here today, but taking a coffee break.
Hope everyone has a good day.
There is never just one rat @punkdoc!
Glad you are feeling a bit better @Pat E - as Dove says, hope the Doc is pleased with you.
Glad you enjoyed the walk from the garage @Busy-Lizzie. Hope the car gets a clean bill of health so your walk back to collect it doesn't have you gnashing your teeth.
I made a nut roast for supper last night, from a recipe in the Guardian's Feast magazine. It was a lot of faff and we discovered that 2-year out of date hazelnuts really aren't very nice (luckily before I used them, substituted with walnuts and cashews of which we eat inordinate amounts). But the cabbage-leaf wrapped nut roast was delicious.
I've made our Dundee cake, it's cooling in the kitchen and smells simply wonderful. I've also set out our Christmas lights and ornaments and the hearth is decorated with faux crystalised fruits, pine cones, angels, a candle lit chapel and woodland scene, a bold robin, a garland of berried vines, two beautiful matryoshka sets that son brought us back from trips to Russia, a carved wooden Father Christmas and lots of gold and silver baubles ... and our Scandi candle 'bridge' is on the big windowsill. A heap of presents next to the hearth is growing ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A man came to look at removing the old sliding door wardrobes which will need to be done before we get new ones in the new year. He will send quote tomorrow. 2023 is already shaping up to be a very expensive year.
We're expecting a late SM delivery tonight so around lunchtime I had a poke around in the fridge for dinner tonight - empty and freezer, ditto, oops, slight miscalculation there. As we've only a smallish fridge/freezer I'd been running down the contents in readiness for the big Xmas shop. One frozen chicken leg was all I could find so had to nip down to our local Tesco's. I also collected our prescriptions as the pharmacy is nearby.
Don't think I could walk 3kms any more @Busy-Lizzie, so good for you. Hope the MOT is not too expensive. Rats are a real pain @Punkdoc, I was surprised we didn't see ours around the bird feeders in the cold weather - perhaps they just avoided me.
Hope nobody has any medical emergencies today, stay safe folks.
My car passed its MOT and the garage have unblocked the rear windscreen washer. I didn't walk to the garage as I'd planned, knee was hurting. I called a taxi.☺️
I've finished wrapping all the Christmas presents and pruned most of the grape vine.