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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,349
    Sorry Pat - bit carried away with thoughts of cake there - good morning to you - glad you had an undisturbed night image
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,315

    Yes Jo, that's what I figured out. She had her 6 weekly shower and shave a week ago and she has been doing this 3am thing since then, so I realised she was probably cold. She is a skinny old thing - only weighs 4kg. Loving though. The trouble is that once she starts something, it very quickly becomes a habit and we could strangle her at times.image

    Clari, your blanket sounds great. Hang on to it as long as you can. Re having a song stuck in your head - I've a lovely friend who is a Mandolinist with the Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra who describes this problem as having a flea in her ear.image  I only have to play one of their CDs, to have the same problem. Eurydice, Gluck, etc. etc. I've probably got the spelling wrong, but can't be bothered going to the other room to read It.

    my November GW mag hasn't arrived on my iPad yet. I'm getting anxious.image

     

    S. E. NSW
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,315

    Hello Topbird. I can just about taste the cakes!  Trouble is that since my type2 diabetes diagnosis, we've been VERY good about avoiding those sort of things. At least our efforts worked and the Doc is happy with me.  

    We see Mary Berry with Paul Hollywood on TV. They've recently started an Australian version of the show with two of our well known cooks. The most irritating thing about it is that the two female assistants who are trying to copy the behaviour of the two in the UK version (And not very well).image

    S. E. NSW
  • LesleyKLesleyK Posts: 4,029

    Morning Pat.  As kids, my cousins and I would be up to mischief ( nothing dreadful) and be sent off with a flea in our ears (meaning a good telling off).  The ear worm seems a slightly better description.  I think that came from Germany.  Both better than 'I've got a song stuck in my head'image

    Pleased to hear that HRH had a good night so that you could tooimage.  I'm turning in for the night so ... See you tomorrow.

  • ClaringtonClarington Posts: 4,949

    Oh bless her 4kg! That's like my dogs head! (At almost 30kg he's a complete runt for either of the two breeds he's a cocktail of and we met a lovely lady dog whose the same mix and she's pushing 45kg: I'm sure I could have used her as a donkey!)

     

  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,315

    Wow. Does your dog get to sit on your lap?  That's mine in my avatar (In a different jumper from the current orange and brown one) 

    sleep well Lesley! And everyone else who is closing for the night.

    S. E. NSW
  • Hi everyoneimage

    Clari, loved your story, made me laugh. Hope he was pushed lol.

    Hosta, my sister has arthritis. She can't eat tomatoes now either, really makes it flare up.

    Jo, lemin drizzle with raspberries sounds very yummy image

    Panda, great news your OH is working too image x

    Really sorry, forgotten the rest again image hope all poorly peeps, pets, knees are on the mend. 

    DD  i was thinking the same about your poorly OH, probably really frightened too.

    Time for a cuppa and maybe a biscuitimage

  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,315

    Hello SGLily. I also need to be careful with tomatoes. I discovered some years ago that I have an intolerance to MSG. I was directed to a publication by the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital dietitians )Sydney) which listed foods that are naturally high in MSG. I avoid oranges as well as restricting tomatoes. It's worth googling foods that are high in MSG, because it's easy to reduce your intake of those foods when you know which ones. I don't get any aching joints anymore.image

    S. E. NSW
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,326

    Well, I think the best group won... sorry Hosta...  image

    Pat, I've brought the mending home to assess, & maybe sew some of the less fiddly bits by machine.  Mum's fascinated by my knitting though (I'm making stripey socks at the moment) so I often take that when I go to see her.  I have really mixed feelings about her move; I think a specialist home will suit her well, and the place we've found is lovely, but... I'll miss being able to drop in and see her whenever I want.  I've been looking up cheap rail tickets to the north-east so I can visit her often!  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,315

    That sounds promising, Lirio. The new home sounds lovely! but as you say, you've become used to dropping in often. Is rail travel expensive? I suppose that unless you need to use rail often, such as going to work every day, it's not worth getting seasonal tickets or whatever the UK version is.  Because we're remote from any public transport, I'm out of touch. In Melbourne, Hubby had to travel into the city to work so used to buy a monthly ticket and that was rather expensive. I'd just about forgotten that. image

    S. E. NSW
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