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Piglet
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I suppose Tatze will be expecting a three-hour walk every day now ...

[puts on best Barbara Woodhouse voice]: Walkies! [Smile]

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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I suppose Tatze will be expecting a three-hour walk every day now ...

[puts on best Barbara Woodhouse voice]: Walkies! [Smile]

Siii - teh!

She's fit as a butcher's dog, for sure!

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Why would a butcher's dog be more fit than anyone else's? [Confused]

We're thoroughly enjoying having Nenlet2 home and tomorrow have a big family meal with Nenlet1 and her husband as well. I'm cooking roast lamb. [Big Grin]

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I'm guessing that traditionally a butcher's dog was taken out rabbiting for the shop.
My other half has just suggested it means a well fed dog [Big Grin]

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Is it because he'd get the pick of the best bones?

After working a few hours while D. was playing for Good Friday stuff, I had a lovely lazy afternoon/early evening snoozing in front of BBC Canada's Top Gear marathon (I'll head downstairs shortly to watch the Argentinian one, which I haven't seen in its entirety yet).

Our surplices are in the wash; they can be dried while I'm doing that.

A spot of pampering (haircut) and retail therapy tomorrow (I have a 20% voucher for a shoe-shop which expires on Monday and it would be criminal not to use it), then a very early night so that I can get up for the 6 a.m. service on Sunday ...

[Snore]

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Welease Woderwick

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I didn't get up for my normal walk this morning and feel a bit guilty - but only a bit. Normal service can/may resume next weekend when we will be guest-free.

Today is my bessy mate's last day in India as he flies tomorrow morning and has to be at the airport by 07.30 which requires leaving here at 06.45. I hope he has had a good time, I think he has. Today will include a beach trip so he can have his last swim in the sea - the water here may be a tad warmer than in Liverpool Bay.

And once he's gone it will be Pete's last few days before he flies off Penguin-bothering before heading back to Canadia. When he has gone I will be knackered but will have loads to do - priority number one being getting the website sorted...

...and sleep!

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Heavenly Anarchist, how did the tea-cakes turn out?

My attempt at Turkish Delight went badly wrong (tasted lovely, but didn't look right, so I had to eat it all myself) and that's put me off trying marshmallow.

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'WW do you know St Anthony's Church, Chenappady? I suspect that I have visited a twinned church if you do.

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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Today will include a beach trip so he can have his last swim in the sea - the water here may be a tad warmer than in Liverpool Bay.

Just a tad!

We went to Muiden Castle in Holland on the way home from Heidelberg. By ek, it was cold! The biting wind sent us into the café quick sharp [Smile]

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Welease Woderwick

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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
'WW do you know St Anthony's Church, Chenappady? I suspect that I have visited a twinned church if you do.

No, we've never been there, quite a distance south and west of us. Lots of churches dedicated to St Antony around here, we used to be near St Antony's Kaloor and now Himself and Herself go to the one at Chettikad - the masses on Tuesdays always attract thousands.

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I've over-ordered pears in my on-line grocery shop so I'm going to make a pear up-side down cake as an Easter treat. We also have some amazing looking marzipan fruits from our recent trip to Catania which I'm not sure I can bear to eat they are so pretty. The weather there was ideal for me 20%, sunny but not over-bearingly hot. Now I'm back I'm researching ideas for summer holidays - it's too miserable here in SW London at the moment.

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quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
Heavenly Anarchist, how did the tea-cakes turn out?

My attempt at Turkish Delight went badly wrong (tasted lovely, but didn't look right, so I had to eat it all myself) and that's put me off trying marshmallow.

I made marshmallow once many years ago from a usually very reliable Womens Weekly recipe book. It was to be used on biscuits. When I whipped it, it expanded enormously. Covered all the biscuits I had made and could have done another four or five lots.

Women Weekly books are always reliable It was a big selling point for them. Unfortunately not in this case. I had never made it before, so followed recipe closely. Have never made it since.

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The tea cakes were great, thank you. I thought they wouldn't hold together but was very surprised that they easily popped out of the moulds and all were intact. The marshmallow was obviously more runny than the real thing but I think my children were suitably impressed. I used the recipe from Lakeland that came with the mould, I think it is on their site. I cheated and used Dove's farm biscuits though, making my own digestives would have been a step too far [Big Grin]

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Well done Heavenly Anarchist! Maybe I should go hunting the recipe (or go shopping in Lakeland again), given how much Sandemaniac likes Tunnock's teacakes.

Will have to wait until we've finished my current effort though - chocolate brownie with raspberries in. [Big Grin] Also available for virtual tasting, as it makes 16 squares, so I'm going to have to take some over for the parental Knotweeds (and at least 1 sibling) on Monday before it goes stale or we eat ourselves sick on it!

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Have you tried the Belgian chocolate teacakes they do in Costa Coffee? Three times the size of a Tunnocks and with jam on the biscuit base under the mallow. I may treat myself to one tomorrow.
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quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
...(tasted lovely, but didn't look right, so I had to eat it all myself) ...

Damn it, don't you hate it when that happens [Big Grin]

Mother Arachnid has been making simnel muffins from the Good Housekeeping book, a reliable source of cake recipes. Maybe we can have a virtual cake swap.

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Simnel muffins sound good - I love anything marzipanny. My pear upside down cake sort of exploded when I took it out of the tin, so I'm afraid my son and I eat quite a bit of it to tidy it up before my husband came home. Tastes Ok despite its messiness, so help yourself to a slice. The teacakes sound good too, I love all those moulds and tins in Lakeland, but have such a small kitchen I can't fit anymore kitchenware in - as it is the blender lives in my son's bedroom.

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Mine were also bigger than Tunnock's and featured raspberry jam in the base.

Brownie with raspberries does sound delightful. I've just made brownies with creme egg halves on top as I have to take an Easter themed dessert to lunch at our friends' house tomorrow.

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I'm afraid I can't get on with fresh fruit and chocolate - I love them separately but really not together.

Hair coloured (by me) and cut (by someone else), chocolate confection bought for D. The shopping centre was absolutely heaving - you'd have thought it was coming up to Christmas rather than Easter, with loads of wee brats queuing up to meet the Easter Bunny ( [Roll Eyes] ).

I tried to find something to spend my shoe voucher on, but there really wasn't much that took my fancy, and nothing that didn't cost about $100 (and I wasn't about to spend $80 on a pair of shoes I really don't need).

Never mind - I've got a "spend $100, get $50 off" from a clothes shop that comes into effect in a couple of weeks ... [Big Grin]

Happy Easter to one and all! [Smile]

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Along with the not-cross buns, I made the Jamie Oliver chocolate brownies*, from his 30-minute book - they have crystallised ginger, pecans and sour cherries in! [Ultra confused] The Dowager complains she has no sense of taste any more, so I hope she can taste something of these, I took her two tiny pieces when I went to visit yesterday.

She is much better, by the way, though she hasn't had a definitive answer from the consultant as to her actual condition or its treatment.

*I know they are scrummy because we once took them as part of a picnic to the motor-racing circuit at Thruxton. My petrolhead s-i-l looked longingly as the cold box and asked very sweetly if we could perhaps take the brownies in with us? [Killing me]

Mrs. S, looking forward to not-cross buns for breakfast again (mmmmmmm.......)

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The local sorbet (and ice cream) parlour had a batch of dairy-free dark chocolate, ginger and apricot sorbet which simply had to be tried out. It is rather nice - and I now have a litre of it in the freezer - anyone for an early morning scoop ?

This morning I celebrated the Easter vigil at a cathedral nearby (I am within striking distance of 2) and suddenly noticed that the mitred person in front of me was wearing lovely dangly earrings. It struck me that this will (at last) become normal (although this particular mitred person is actually from across the pond and not a home-grown one).

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Signing in after a very long day, which seemed to comprise singing punctuated by sleeping (I went home for a sneaky nap between breakfast and the 11:00 service, and snoozed off and on most of the afternoon).

All three choral services went really well, and both sermons* (the Bishop in the morning, the Curate at Evensong) were really rather good. Although less than half the choir was there for Evensong, we still made a very decent fist of Sumsion in G and Come ye faithful, raise the strain by an unfortunate bloke called Thatcher**.

Am now moderately zonked, so I think another early night is in order - it's business as usual tomorrow at w*rk, then we're going to friends for dinner in the evening.

* The silly-o'clock service doesn't have one.

** Churches with a sense of humour used to relish putting it on their music lists on the day after General Elections:
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Come, ye faithful Thatcher
[Devil]

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Yet another swan has been killed by a dog in our Park. We originally had two swans, who hatched about 5 cygnets, two went early on (probably crows or the big pike in the lake) and one was killed by a dog when it was quite big. The adult male swan was killed by a dog, and the female left. The two juveniles also went, but came back, and now one has been killed by a dog. Don't know if it is all the same dog, but there are so many out of control dogs around.

It makes me mad that dog owners let their dogs kill wild life. Lots of people, especially children, love coming to feed the ducks and swans, and it worries me that these out of control dogs are around when toddlers and small children are also around the lake.

and of course, the owners are never caught, any more than the dogs are identified. Our own dog was attacked by a couple of German Shepherds that the owner was actually teaching to attack the low lying branches of trees, and hang on.

Ok, rant over. Its cold and foggy here, waiting for the sun to break through which it will later, I hope.

Trying to lose more weight, so cookies, biscuits and all things comforting off the menu!

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Welease Woderwick

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My diet starts Wednesday after Pete has gone. It has been a while since I have been on the scales as they groan every time I get near them but strict measures will, or may possibly, be taken come the day. It will be great to get back to my early morning power walks instead of the gentle stroll I have managed since Pete arrived.

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Back to the subject of cold-calling - I was visiting the Dowager on Saturday and answered her doorbell to find two Jehovah's Witnesses. I gestured at the sign by the bell which clearly says 'No Unsolicited Sales Calls', and one of them responded 'but we aren't selling anything'.

'I consider you to be selling a religion, and I would be obliged if you didn't call again'.

I wonder if they will take any notice? The Dowager has been attending the CofE church in the parish for 52 years so I think they'd be wasting their time anyway...

Mrs. S, scourge of doorsteppers everywhere! [Mad]

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I once scared off a couple of JWs by answering the door in my dressing-gown* (it was early on a Saturday morning, and I was half-expecting a recorded-delivery letter about the then-recent purchase of the house) and saying "I don't come round to your house on a Saturday brandishing a copy of the Book of Common Prayer, do I?"

* not a pretty sight ... [Eek!]

eta: now that I think about it, JWs aren't allowed to celebrate anything, are they?

Maybe Mrs. S. should have said "Happy Easter!" [Devil]

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Nenya
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quote:
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Our own dog was attacked by a couple of German Shepherds that the owner was actually teaching to attack the low lying branches of trees, and hang on.

This is one of the many things that puts me off having a dog - along with the tie they are even if you're going out for a day, having to go out for walks on cold wet mornings and evenings, and scooping the poop. Your own dog can be well trained and perfectly fine but I've got a number of friends with horror stories to tell about their dogs being attacked by others while the owners watch bemused.

I'm heading into the garden shortly to get out into the warm sunshine and to take my mind off the fact that Mr Nen and Nenlet2 have left for the airport for Nenlet2 to head back to uni. [Waterworks]

Nen - post-Easter diet starts tomorrow.

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quote:
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... having to go out for walks on cold wet mornings and evenings ...

I beg to differ.

I love long early morning walks. In fact, I love dog walks at any time of day. My friend has Tatze when we go away and I have her dog when she does. Guide Dogs sort boarders out for Gypsy. And, of course, Gypsy can go anywhere I do. Mr Boogs is happy to see to Tatze when Gypsy and I are out and about - no problems.


[Big Grin]

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quote:
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Originally posted by Nenya:
... having to go out for walks on cold wet mornings and evenings ...

I beg to differ.

I love long early morning walks. In fact, I love dog walks at any time of day. My friend has Tatze when we go away and I have her dog when she does. Guide Dogs sort boarders out for Gypsy. And, of course, Gypsy can go anywhere I do. Mr Boogs is happy to see to Tatze when Gypsy and I are out and about - no problems.

On a morning like this morning, Boogie, I agree it would have been glorious. [Smile] I'm sure I've told the story before of how some years ago we came this () close to getting a black lab puppy. The following winter was one of those long icy ones that started in November and I spent the cold mornings when I woke up and the cold evenings when I got in from work being thankful we hadn't got a puppy to walk.

You haven't had any trouble with other dogs attacking yours, then? And you've obviously got Mr Boogs trained. [Biased] Mr Nen says he'd like a dog but he took zero responsibility for the one we were looking after for the day a while back. [Roll Eyes]

In other news, with Nenlet2 on the way back to uni there's a very "holiday's over" feel to things around here and I'm looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow.

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We've enjoyed a gorgeous spring day at the Dean Forest Railway. It wsa lovely to be able to eat our lunch sitting outside in the sunshine.

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quote:
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The following winter was one of those long icy ones that started in November and I spent the cold mornings when I woke up and the cold evenings when I got in from work being thankful we hadn't got a puppy to walk.

I have all the right clothes for any weather!

I love the cold walks just as much as the sunny ones. Honestly.

I have never been without a dog. My first dog as an adult was Boogie (who I name myself after) he was a gorgeous Heinz 57 from Battersea Dogs Home and lived to a happy healthy 19 years. After that we had Cavaliers as my parents and MIL looked after them during the day and wouldn't have managed big dogs.

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You haven't had any trouble with other dogs attacking yours, then?

No, mine learn to speak 'dog' from a young age, so when we meet a potentially aggressive dog, they give it a wide berth.

Thankfully the law has changed regarding assistance dogs as both dog and owner are very vulnerable when the dog is working. Two recent high profile cases will, hopefully help to make dog owners stop and think.

(As you can see from my obsession 'DOG' replaced 'GOD' in my affections long ago - is there a special place in hell for those who love animals more than they love god?)

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I managed to miss most of the weekend with an Orrible Cold, but I'm much improved so last night I went to evensong with my friend (the cathedral is about 5mins walk from my house, but I hardly ever go).
And today my sister and brother in law came to see us, so we went to the pub and wandered around in the sunshine and generally had a good time catching up. Sadly no baking chez. Marzipan but my sister gave me a dozen eggs from her hens so I'll probably make something during the week (Om nom nom)

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... I went to evensong with my friend (the cathedral is about 5mins walk from my house, but I hardly ever go) ...

I hope you enjoyed it and it'll make you want to go again - Choral Evensong is a lovely service, whether you're singing it or attending and listening to someone else singing it.

Just back from v. nice post-Easter roast lamb with friends from the choir, and contemplating another early-ish night (that 6 o'clock start on Sunday wiped me out)!

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Welease Woderwick

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It's Raining!

[Yipee] [Yipee] [Yipee]

I know that might not sound like such great news to most of you to us it's a time for celebration. I celebrated by going up on the roof, stripping naked [try not to envisage it, not a pretty sight] and sat in a plastic easy chair and got thoroughly soaked!

[Yipee] [Yipee] [Yipee]

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Sounds marvellous WW - I shall try it next time it rains [Biased]

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Are you sure that's wise, Boogie? After all, Boogieland is near one of the rainiest places on earth ... you might be up there for quite some time ... [Big Grin]

I'm a bit confused (nothing new there) - I thought they were having flooding in Wodders' part of the world (although as it's a very large country the flooding could have been miles and miles away.

No rain here today - the sun was splitting the rocks, even if the temperature was only -7°.

I'm going to be in for a busy few days - I just had an e-mail from On High to say that I'm moving to my new office next week, so the files in nine cabinets will have to be boxed up, carted across and put back.

Hello back-ache ... [Help]

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Yes, Piglet - Srinagar is about 2650 kms north of here with lots of jungle and desert and other stuff in between - never been there though I have been invited but it is also a fairly volatile region politically so...

The rain has stopped but, as usual after early rains, the power keeps going off for short periods as they sort out the various transformers - dust gathers on and in them over the dry months then the rain wets the dust and trouble ensues but the linemen are amazing and do a fab job.

Pete heads off into the wide blue yonder of Leafy Surrey tomorrow so today his main bag got packed so we're ready for the off late afternoon.


eta: I moved office a couple of months before The Breakdown and it wasn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be - and unpacking my new office was fun as I hadn't inherited it but could do it from scratch and it was so easy to work in because of that.

[ 07. April 2015, 14:18: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]

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Mine's brand-new as well - new building (although attached to and accessible from the one I'm in), so yes - really quite exciting. [Smile]

So far I've emptied two drawers from one of the big cabinets, and discovered that I'm going to need a heck of a lot more bankers' boxes than I actually have.

Possibly more than the entire university has.

Please tell me that the office move didn't actually lead to the breakdown ... [Eek!]

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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
...Please tell me that the office move didn't actually lead to the breakdown ... [Eek!]

Have no fear the trigger for the breakdown was management who couldn't! An all too common situation in my then line of work.

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I've had a lovely day out today visiting a garden trying out a new camera which works via a smart phone [Cool]
I tried a few picture with the camera lens and the iphone to compare and the camera is much better.
I'm a hopeless photographer so need some thing very automatic.

WW, let Pete know that Surrey is not only leafy at the moment but also very sunny and green with lots of gorgeous blossom [Smile]

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I'm having a lovely day too - a productive morning at work, lunch with a friend, a walk in the sun, an impromptu cup of tea with a neighbour and some much-needed time to myself with my journal. And on the Ship, of course. [Big Grin]

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Having been suffering from depression for a couple of days, I think I'm beginning to pick up. Luckily I have this week off to rest and recuperate. Today I am tracing out an Elizabethan pattern on some linen to make an embroidered coif (Tudor head covering) as practice sewing for the Tudor re-creation in the summer. The pattern is a mix of winding stems and flowers and will be done in black work embroidery.

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Pete's gone! He should be taking off on the first leg of his journey about now - over to you Smudgiekins!

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Safe travels, Uncle Pete! [Smile]

I've discovered that my smaller filing-cabinets can be moved with the files in them, so the move shouldn't be quite as traumatic as I'd imagined. Also, I'd left the files in the lower drawers of the two that I emptied, and they can apparently be moved like that, so I got it right.

I've still got the tallest one to worry about though - it's a good bit taller than I am (not that that's saying very much [Big Grin] ).

I may have to enlist the help of someone less vertically-challenged ...

[ 09. April 2015, 03:15: Message edited by: Piglet ]

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I've broken a bone for the first time in my life! I had a fall in the early hours of Monday morning and hurt my big toe. We went to the hospital in Merthyr last night and were told it would be 6 hours before we could see a doctor, and the triage nurse told us that if it was broken, it would probably just be strapped up and advised going to our local emergency centre today. Lord P took me, and within 90 minutes we had been seen by a nuirsing sister, X rayed, diagnosed and strapped up. The only problem is that I have to go to the fracture clinic next week - at least they organised it for me to go to Merthyr (Good parking, 10 miles) as opposed to Newport (Horrendous parking, 20+ miles)!

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Sorry to hear that St Gwladys - broken feet are no fun! My only break was also my foot - two metatarsals, so I called it my Beckham injury as it was the same bones that he broke. Unfortunately I didn't do it in a blaze of glory whilst playing for my country and earning shedloads of money, but by going **** over *** on Lewisham High Street.

I'm meant to be meeting a friend in Edinburgh tomorrow, she is my childhood penpal and is up for a holiday, we've not seen each other for several years. Unfortunately I had to collect the Elf Lass early from nursery today as she had a temperature (this is the girl that is almost never ill - when I got home I had to wrack my brains to remember where I'd put the Calpol, as we almost never have to use it), and after perking up a bit when she got home she's flagging again sadly. I'm still hopeful I can make it to Edinburgh, but will have to see how she is overnight and in the morning. Poor wee thing [Frown]

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Poor Elf Lass and poor St. G. - hope you both get better soon.

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Echoing what Piglet said.

[Votive]

Pete left yesterday and then this morning I got an e-mail from some people I know vaguely but are friends of the friends that came last November asking if they can come and visit next January! As we have no bookings for 2016 yet [and haven't even thought of it] the answer will be a definite yes. Good folks, worked in West Africa for a while years ago so won't be fazed by developing world stuff - and I haven't even started getting the website up yet, that's next week's job.

I allowed myself a lie in until 07.30 this morning but back to the routine tomorrow - yesterday I stepped on the scales and was not amused!

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Having been busy with some rather strenous gardening over the past two days, my back is complaining loudly today! Getting out of bed was entertaning, never mind putting socks on. Still, on the plus side I'm off to meed a friend's new puppy later on. [Smile]

St. Gwladys, I hope your foot is feeling better soon.

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[Votive] for all the unwell peeps.

I'm feeling much better today. I plan to spend a couple of hours learning a new embroidery stitch (plaited braid) and then catch up on my neglected studies. I might do a spot of baking too.

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