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Boogie
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Twiglet is much better thank you all.
Now what to do while I am waiting for her to come home?
It's a nice sunny day and the grass needs attention for sure, my garden is all container based. I enjoy this as I can keep them colourful without too much effort ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Glad to hear Twiglet's on the mend. Poor wee dog. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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There are times when I despair of myself!
My UK bank has recently introduced a system whereby I can make foreign transfers online so I no longer need to phone them once a month when my old work pension gets paid. Today, being pay day, I decided to give it a whirl but the ****** system wouldn't work - and I tried several times both before and after breakfast. Eventually I decided I would have to go downtown when my bank here opened to check the code I had used. Happily before I actually left I checked my notes and found I had transposed the 5th & 6th letters of the code with the 7th and 8th. I tried again and it worked!
DUH!!
Typical me, typically male - I'm very much an if in doubt read the instructions, eventually sort of person.
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LeRoc
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What is this think called 'instructions' you're talking about?
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Nicodemia
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Boogie, how is Twiglet?? I do hope she is getting on better now.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
Boogie, how is Twiglet?? I do hope she is getting on better now.
She's home and all is back to normal - phew! Just like babies, they can go downhill very quickly when poorly but bounce back just as quickly.
Now she has discovered shoelaces ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
What is this think [sic] called 'instructions' you're talking about?
Just think of it as a confession of failure.
It's on a par with having to ask a shop assistant for help with something or phoning the plumber.
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Great news about Twiglet - glad to hear she's OK. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Nicodemia
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Really pleased about Twiglet! She must be real fun to have around!
Hot and muggy today, air full of pollen. Good reason to stay indoors and get creative!
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Sorry to hear about Twiglet and glad she's on the mend.
Thursday, with the tube strike, had its moments. The most entertaining was walking down a deserted road at 6:30am on the way to the tube station to find out the only other person in sight was a Reuters reporter seeking vox pop quotes. I didn't play as I was rushing to catch hourly-ish* and only bus that gets me to the London Transport bus network. It's a scenic route that takes 40 minutes run. As does the next bus, although that one eventually reaches TfL rail and then on to the DLR, neither of which were on strike. I caught my normal DLR train and never before have seen it so packed. I guess it was being used as a route to Bank or Tower Gateway from Stratford.
The RMT had a picket line outside the second tube station and an unprepossessing lot they looked. Thanks guys for the 5 hours out of my life I won't get back spent on packed and rattly buses, with no option of reading or working.
*hourly-ish as it sometimes runs hourly and sometimes runs 70 or 75 minutes apart. The next one at 7:40am takes an hour and would make me late, this one means I arrive an hour early. That service is run by Trusty Buses using elderly vehicles, resulting in truncation of the first "T".
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M.
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Table top sale and cream tea at church this afternoon. We've had a glut of gooseberries, so I've made lots of little gooseberry fools as my contribution and now need to transport them safely somehow.
They're all packed up in cold boxes, stuffed out with tea towels in the hope that stops them moving around too much. We'll see!
So, virtual gooseberry fool, anyone? Possibly with extra added virtual tea towel?
M.
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M.
Ship's Spare Part
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Home now and can report that all got there safely and all 28 were sold.
M.
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Piglet
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Well done M!
Having had my hair cut yesterday, I coloured it this morning, in between watching the tennis, which maybe wasn't quite such a walkover as the score-line suggested - Miss Muguruza put up a bit of a fight in the second set.
Shame for Jamie Murray though - he and his doubles partner were really rather out-classed (possibly with a side-order of bad luck). Oh well, there's always next year.
Am I the only person who gets really quite excited about Wimbledon, but couldn't give a stuff about other tournaments? Is it just that Wimbledon looks so much nicer than the others, with the players still wearing white and the court still being green?
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I suspect not Piglet. Though the last time I sat down to watch Wimbledon on a sustained basis, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase were playing. Borg put me off watching. I sort of dipped into it years later, saw Tim Henman and got put off again - could never take to him.
Nice day today with a pub lunch in the tranquil back garden of a country pub, and a visit to a church, beautifully decorated with flowers, where the local vicar was going into overdrive with four weddings and a christening; on to a village fete and then a plant nursery. Sometimes you need to switch off the phones, get away from the computer and the pace of modern life and get out into the sunshine. It's also the season for village fetes so I'm hoping to clock up some more before the autumn, they're often quite small but usually friendly.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by M.:
So, virtual gooseberry fool, anyone? Possibly with extra added virtual tea towel?
Yum, I love gooseberries and fools (the dessert, not the people), so that sound lovely.
I spent this afternoon manning a historical society stall at a small fete on the Chantry Bridge in town, most of my time being spent retrieving bits of paper blown from the stall. It was so windy, one stallholder lost a tie-dye T-shirt in the River Calder.
Am now sat watching the women's doubles final at Wimbledon. Doubles always seems like the better spectator sport to me.
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They were showing a clip of the Ashe-Connors match the other evening and I was thinking Heavens, those chaps are weedy - legs like spaghetti . Compare them to the muscled hunks playing the game now.
I hope Federer wins (though I am not too confident he will).
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L'organist
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They re-showed the Virginia Wade-Betty Stove final: Betty S, who I remembered as being rather lumpish, in fact relatively trim. Virgina W positively weedy.
Not all the chaps were weedy - remember John Newcombe and Tony Roche? Roche in particular looked as if he could hold in own in a bar-room brawl, as did Stan Smith.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... Borg put me off watching ...
Heretick! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
He was the reason I started. I still get a serious dose of the fizz if the cameramen capture him in the stands; like a good wine, he seems to have improved with age ...
**sigh**
It's never been the same without Dan Maskell though. Oh, I say!
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My great tennis love was Ille Nastase. I was working the day of his final with Stan Smith so was really plesed when rain meant it was on on the Sunday. Not so pleased he lost though. I remember Betty Stove as being chunky compared tot he rest of the women at the time too.
I'm having a seriously lazy weekend, I think it's because it is so nearly the end of term but not quite. I ought to get a move on and go and do some ironing.....
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LeRoc
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ArachnidinElmet: I love gooseberries and fools (the dessert, not the people)
Well, you're on a Ship full of them
Yesterday, there was some kind of big house party going on in Milton Keynes, I had to navigate around drunk people a bit on my bike (I'm not complaining, they can have their fun too).
I made a white bean baby spinach soup, I'm rather proud of the result.
I never liked watching tennis.
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Got into the car about half an hour ago, started off and within seconds the heavens split open. The windscreen wipers were going full whack but it was still almost impossible to make out anything as a wave of water deluged the screen, tidal waves filled up the sides of the roads, small rivers ran downhill, and a fusillade of rain banged on the roof. Luckily it's a familiar route but there were still some genuinely tense moments. I travelled back at about 30 mph the whole way. Where the hell did that come from?
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Boogie
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I took Twiglet to Church today, just for the last 15 minutes.
There was plenty of puppy worship!
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
...I made a white bean baby spinach soup, I'm rather proud of the result...
For lunch today one of the dishes was spinach puree and chick pea curry with garlic - no real heat but oodles of flavour! Sumptuous!
If I can prise the recipe from either Herself or Himself I'll put it in the other place.
eta: for weeks I have been meaning to say that I have found a very [very, very] acceptable brand of UK style baked beans in our local hypermarket - very tasty sauce which still benefits, of course, from chopped garlic, some dried herbs and either a little dab of butter or a splash of HP Sauce. They only come in one size tin but the rest I refrigerate in a plastic box and it seems to keep fine. The beans are also good with a little chopped gorgonzola melted into them.
Expensive, I know, but SO tasty!
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You know, I couldn't even afford to look into such a store in Canada. But when I am in India, I don't even blink hard at the prices. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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ArachnidinElmet: I love gooseberries and fools (the dessert, not the people)
Well, you're on a Ship full of them
True. Maybe some of the people aren't too bad either
Well, if we're still talking food (for a change) I'll provide dessert. We're having peach and apricot crumble with rum and raisin ice cream and there are my Mum's ninjabread biscuits (gingerbread men in karate poses) ready for tomorrow's school summer fayre: please help yourselves.
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M.
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Ooh, I love a good crumble, thanks.
M.
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LeRoc
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ArachnidinElmet: True. Maybe some of the people aren't too bad either
Hehe, the Ship of Gooseberries
I just discovered a bruise on my left rib and I don't know where it's from. I hope that someone didn't take out a rib and made a woman.
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I think you might have noticed ...
The chickpea curry sounds lovely, Wod. Not so sure about the spinach - I love it raw in salads, but I'm really not wild about it cooked - it always seems slimy to me.
I've done my first batch of doodle-bug production for the Crypt tea-room, which opens tomorrow; the Dean and his wife are organising the first week, and it's the Choir's turn next week, so I suspect that more baking will ensue.
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I find that a bit scary, Piglet - I trust you're not planning to bomb anyone?
Meanwhile, I experimented with blackcurrant fool yesterday and the results persuaded me to make that for the choir barbecue next week (as a pudding, not to be barbecued!) Yum!
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LeRoc
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They often make chick pea curry in Mozambique, no doubt this is an Indian influence. I never had the combination with spinach, but I definitely can see that working.
I bought quite a large amount of baby spinach on Saturday, so after the white bean baby spinach soup, it was pasta with a sauce of spinach, mushrooms and gorgonzola yesterday, and today it will be boiled potatoes, Brussels sprouts and a spinach mushroom omelette. I hope I've been able to put enough variation in my spinach; at least I made sure that I'm getting my iron content
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
my Mum's ninjabread biscuits (gingerbread men in karate poses) ready for tomorrow's school summer fayre: please help yourselves.
Ok, this is AWESOME. Do you have special cutters or do you cut out normal gingerbread men and then move their limbs about?
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I baked 40 scones yesterday, ready for my Brownie Guides to have a Traditional Afternoon Tea with their families this evening. I'm not quite sure how it has only just occurred to me now that tea bags, sugar and milk will be rather essential components... ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) I have cake stands, jam, bread and sandwich fillings all ready - I wonder how many other things I'll think of through the day, and how many I won't remember until a bit too late! ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by M.:
I find that a bit scary, Piglet - I trust you're not planning to bomb anyone?
Not at all.
Today's supposed to be a holiday (throwback from Orangemen's Day, I believe), and D. had suggested taking a trip out to Bell Island. However, as it's p*ssing with rain, and I need to bank lots of hours for taking holidays later in the year, I'm at w*rk (and obviously w*rking really hard ... ).
PS Beethoven, did you remember the sugar-tongs?
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
my Mum's ninjabread biscuits (gingerbread men in karate poses) ready for tomorrow's school summer fayre: please help yourselves.
Ok, this is AWESOME. Do you have special cutters or do you cut out normal gingerbread men and then move their limbs about?
Miss S and I used to make Spice Scout biscuits for sale when she was fund-raising to go to a World Jamboree, but they were really only gingerbread boys and girls with icing decoration - I'm full of admiration for ninjabread men!
Mrs. S, wishing she'd thought of that
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Originally posted by Piglet:
... it's p*ssing with rain ...
Really chucking it down now ...
I was just wondering what the vague drumming noise I was hearing was, and when I went out to the window, the rain was coming down in the sort of stair-rods that would send Wodders scuttling on to his roof-terrace without any clothes ...
Ah well, what would you expect on a day that's meant to be a holiday?
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I want to make ninjabread too!
I cook with spinach all the time, it's one of the few green veggies my youngest likes. We had spinach and paneer curry last night but I often make spinach and chick pea curry.
It's my birthday today and my family have bought me some beautiful fabric (several metres from my husband for dressmaking and fat quarters from my sons for patchwork) as well as an antique silver hair comb (early 19thc), two summer dresses and random small items I have ideas for the fabric already, a 1950s tea dress with peter pan collar and a tunic shirt dress, but I need to make a Tudor kirtle this week so these plans will have to wait.
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When I clicked on that link, it said "one sold in last hour" - that'll be you, eh?
Many happy returns, and enjoy your fabric!
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Happy birthday HA!
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LeRoc
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Congratulations HA! No spinach for me tonight. I suddenly had to be in London for radio recording with the BBC. I just had some falafel
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We have been in Liverpool over the last few days and are now in a soggy Manchester.
Just had a fabulous pizza in an Italian restaurant which contained spinach, asparagus , peppers, mushrooms as well as tomatoes and cheese. V yummy!
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ArachnidinElmet
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I've found Ninja Cookie Cutters! I am so going to surprise my boys
You bet me to it, HA (and Many Happy Returns). I had cutters given for Christmas; I think they came from 'I Want One Of Those.com', but they don't seem to sell them anymore.
Mum, who was helping at the school fayre won the raffle. She took ninjabread men and came back with chocolate cake. A fair exchange I think!
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Welease Woderwick
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Belated Happy Birthday HA!
Chatting with a friend from Birkenhead last night he said that his treatment for Baked Beans is to add a teaspoon of Sambar Powder and stir it in as the beans are heating - it seems a pretty good plan to me. He also said the weather there was wet and miserable - and we are miserable because we've had no rain for a few days!
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Happy Birthday HA - that sounds like a good trawl of presents.Liking all the spinach recipes LeRoc. Maybe do a recipe swap when we meet up up the week after next.
I'm crawling towards the end of term, only two more days of real work as Thursday we have an end of year church service and Friday is my day off.
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Nicodemia
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Happy Birthday, HA! I used to wear a 50's dress with peter pan collar and gathered skirt! And I must admit I hated it! I wanted to look sophisticated in a little black dress. No way! said my mother and got me said pp collar dress. In those days we did what our mothers said!
Oh well, times change - but not the dresses!!
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
Happy Birthday, HA! I used to wear a 50's dress with peter pan collar and gathered skirt! And I must admit I hated it! I wanted to look sophisticated in a little black dress. No way! said my mother and got me said pp collar dress. In those days we did what our mothers said!
Oh well, times change - but not the dresses!!
The first thing I knit when I went to uni was a black jumper. I wore it with a straight skirt I made myself. My mother always said that nice girls did not wear black jumpers or straight skirts. I did not know what she meant..
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Hope you had a great birthday HA
It's fine here today after drizzle drizzle rain rain yesterday.
In other news, I really dislike the 'job' I have at church which is an admin type job called Worship Co-Ordinator. It boils down to keeping track of everyone and everything for Sunday services. The good news is that our publicity person who does the web site/posters etc has given in his notice and I have been asked to change jobs - hurrah, this will suit my skills much much better.
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Beethoven
Ship's deaf genius
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Originally posted by Piglet:
PS Beethoven, did you remember the sugar-tongs?
No! But since we had granulated sugar that was fine. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) What had never occurred to me to check was the number of table knives in the fully-equipped hall kitchen. Three. THREE?!? How does that help me with 39 people??? Fortunately they were all very lovely about sharing and managing! All the Brownies left for the summer proudly clutching their new Hostess badges, so definitely a good evening all in all.
It's definitely looking as though the liquid sunshine is here to stay for the week... None of the bright stuff at all, just the wet one. Ah well, the garden needs it I suppose (and it saves me having to mow the lawn ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) ).
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Who wants to be a rock anyway?
toujours gai!
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Nicodemia
WYSIWYG
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My mother always said that nice girls did not wear black jumpers or straight skirts. I did not know what she meant..
Did you find out, Lothlorian?
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