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Boogie
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We still have quite thick snow on the grass but the roads are clear.
I took the dogs on the moors today as the sheep are all tucked up inside - they loved it, so did I.
Gypsy found an unfrozen bog, of course and needed hosing down when we got home as she's off to Church with me soon
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Sadly, Piglet's Umbrella Principle let us down badly for The Wedding - we bought three white umbrellas in the sure and certain hope that they would keep the rain away. However we emerged from church to find it drizzling, and by the time we got to the reception it was frankly p*ssing down
Never mind, if they didn't stop it raining at least they kept the rain off in the other sense
Thought of you this morning, Piglet, while walking near the Solent - it was a toss-up whether my ears were colder than my toes, or vice-versa! Hope all goes well for your trip, too
Mrs. S, quietly tiddly-pomming to herself
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Sioni Sais
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The Good News about rain is that it usually comes with an overcast sky, which is better for outdoor photography than bright sunshine which gives awkward, if not devastating shadow. [ 01. February 2015, 16:09: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
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Ariel
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(Sigh) I was given a sample of Shropshire Blue Cheese last week, something I haven't tried before. Suffice it to say I bought a large chunk of it and have now gone through an entire packet of crackers as a delicious accompaniment in the past three days. There ought to be a Cheese Addicts Hotline I can ring. What is it about blue cheese?
In other news, a bitterly cold day. Went to Stratford on Avon this morning as it was supposed to be a bit warmer than where I was, but it wasn't so I gave up and went home again.
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Sandemaniac
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It has indeed been savagely cold this weekend (by Southern UK standards, at least, the Newfoundlanders and Faroese are allowed to laugh). We went to Wantage on Saturday, and popped out to Kingston Lisle and the Blowing Stone. Popped out of the car - quick look - blew into the likeliest hole - popped in the car again!
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It's due to be very cold over night for the next 2 nights. I do value my windscreen cover to reduce the time needed to scrape the car in the morning. It also means less stretching over the car to reach as I'm not very tall.
I saw some very small flakes of snow earlier which is the first I've seem so far this winter
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Welease Woderwick
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Mmmmmmm! Shropshire Blue! Mmmmmmm!
Do the Cheese Addicts people organise tastings?
How do I join?
The other morning for breakfast Herself presented me with croissants stuffed with different cheeses and then warmed so the cheese was just at the point of melting into the bread but without being runny - Pete seemed to think he was entitled to some as well, which was annoying, so I allowed him a tiny morsel. One of the cheeses was some Gorgonzola that had been hanging around for a while and was seriously ripe.
Bliss!
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Nicodemia
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We get a nice bit of Shropshire Blue nearly every week, from our local Cheese-and-lots-of-lovely-other-things Shop, which is, appropriately enough, called The Cheshire Cat.
Tried some Cheshire Blue last week, but found it just too strong. If you like a very strong, salty blue, then hunt for it!
Tasty Lancashire is good too.
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kingsfold
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Stop it. You're making me hungry. And I don't even like blue cheese (a tasty Lancashire on the other hand...)
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: The other morning for breakfast Herself presented me with croissants stuffed with different cheeses and then warmed so the cheese was just at the point of melting into the bread but without being runny...
That sounds like heaven on a plate.
Bitterly cold just now and a landslip on the railway line means that stretch of the line is closed for at least a week, while they shift 350 tons of earth. It also means that my train home is cancelled and I have an hour's wait for the next, on the Platform of Winter, with its frosted metal seats. Ah well.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I'm on my 5:2 fast today and very jealous of the blue cheese! But I will be content with my bowl of lentil and veg laksa. I buy Jus-rol croissants sometimes and roll up the pastry with diagonal half slice of cheddar for a lovely oozy cheese croissant. Though sometimes I put in jam, chocolate or marzipan instead. Obviously on non-fast days
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Nenya
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I'm not good with dogs. We're looking after Nenlet1's in-laws' dog while they're out for a long day. She had a long walk this morning before they went, so I've taken her for a couple of short ones. She's had her tea. She has a bowl of water. She's had lots of fuss. Now she's just sitting about sighing heavily every so often and getting tremendously excited when I get up to do something mundane like go to the loo. I feel I'm an immense disappointment to her.
Mr Nen and I occasionally toy with the idea of having a dog; indeed he was so keen to see her when he got in from work that he marched straight through without giving me a kiss. He then sounded very surprised that she had not yet been for her second walk and when I offered him the lead and the poo bags he immediately announced that he had work to do this evening.
Nen - cat person.
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Piglet
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I've arrived safely in Edinburgh, no major hiccups despite the flight from St. John's being a bit late in leaving, making me panicky that I wouldn't have enough time to change terminals, but everything went just fine.
Had v. nice supper - veggie chilli cooked by my niece, who's a vegetablist - who knew that quorn could be that good? Also got lovely cuddles from my great-niece, who is the cutest two-year-old on the planet.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Currently the world is prettily iced with snow. I suspect that means a slushy walk to the tube later and sadly I've got too much to do to bundle up and take the camera out.
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Ariel
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A light covering of snow where I live turned gradually into a good 2-3" by the time I reached the office. Hadn't expected that, but got some pictures anyway. Railway stations always look better in the snow, especially country stations and old-fashioned trains.
I just hope it all melts by tonight because the pavements will be lethal otherwise.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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An inch or two here but no road problems. I chose today to start wearing a pedometer so I suppose I'm going to have to go and take a walk in it before I start work.
-------------------- 'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams Dog Activity Monitor My shop
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Boogie
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quote: Originally posted by Piglet: I've arrived safely in Edinburgh, no major hiccups despite the flight from St. John's being a bit late in leaving, making me panicky that I wouldn't have enough time to change terminals, but everything went just fine.
Welcome to the UK Piglet - enjoy your stay!
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Beethoven
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A couple of inches of snow here, and you'd think the world was ending! School buses an hour late, cars sliding off the road, kids having a day off school because their parents didn't want to trust the bus driver, or take the car out themselves... Me, I'm relieved both DDs made it to school eventually, and enjoying the pretty
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: A light covering of snow where I live turned gradually into a good 2-3" ...
Where I come from 2-3 inches is a light covering ...
When I was flying up to Edinburgh yesterday, once we came down below the clouds I looked out of the window and thought, "ooh, snow!", not really having much idea of where we were. Then, all of a sudden, the snow just stopped. It was as if a borderline had been drawn (it may indeed have been the Scottish border, or a bit north of it), and south of the line the fields were white, and north of it they were green.
Once I was back at ground-level I realised that there were still patches of snow on the ground, but they're just that - patchy.
Having been very good and not slept until normal bed-time (early for me, but more-or-less normal), I slept like a log until about 7 a.m., woke briefly and slept like another log* until about noon. I suspect that's the right way to sort one's jet-lag.
well-rested piglet
* actually it may have been the same log - I didn't notice, as I was asleep. [ 03. February 2015, 13:42: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Nenya
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Pilates night again.
But only one more after this one.
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Piglet
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Pilates not floating your boat, Nenya? I wouldn't know - I'm not even sure what a pilate is.
I'm just back from my very first Ship-meet, and a very nice one it was - thank you Cottontail, North East Quine and Wet Kipper.
Then a nice mosey along Princes Street (well, a wee bit of it) and back out to my sister's place.
No real plans for the rest of the day, although I may do a bit of dozing off - I could feel my eyes closing on the bus, but had to stay awake in case I missed my stop and ended up in Kilmarnock or somewhere ...
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Wet Kipper
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Were you able to procure and safely deliver the cake, Piglet?
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St. Gwladys
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There are primroses out in our church grounds and a daffodil in bu and other daffodil shoots in the flower beds. OK, the church grounds are quite sheltered, but I can see daffodil shoots starting to appear on the bank below our house. Spring might just be on it's way! Meanwhile, it's so cold, I've been really glad of the knitted shawl a friend gave me wich I can wrap around my neck like a cowl.
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Nenya
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quote: Originally posted by Piglet: Pilates not floating your boat, Nenya? I wouldn't know - I'm not even sure what a pilate is.
Something best kept between the covers of a Bible, Piglet, and occasionally preceded by the word "Pontius."
Sounds as though you're having a great time in Scotland.
Nen - worn out and off to bed.
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daisydaisy
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quote: Originally posted by Nenya: quote: Originally posted by Piglet: Pilates not floating your boat, Nenya? I wouldn't know - I'm not even sure what a pilate is.
Something best kept between the covers of a Bible, Piglet, and occasionally preceded by the word "Pontius."
I tried it on Monday morning and I must be even unfitter than I thought because I felt really unwell afterwards and have spent the rest of the week recovering. Maybe I'll stick to walking & allotmenteering. After tomorrow I'll have plenty of time to experiment - I hand in the tools of my trade and walk free.
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ArachnidinElmet
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quote: Originally posted by St. Gwladys: There are primroses out in our church grounds and a daffodil in bu and other daffodil shoots in the flower beds...
Me too. We have flowering primrose next to some snowdrops!
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Nenya
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quote: Originally posted by daisydaisy: After tomorrow I'll have plenty of time to experiment - I hand in the tools of my trade and walk free.
Retirement?
My day off today - grocery shopping, lunch with Mr Nen who is working from home, coffee with a friend this afternoon. Also hoping to shake off the Post Pilates Backache. It took my zumba class on Tuesday to sort out last week's. Fear not, my friends - this time next week I'll have done my last Pilates class and the moaning will stop.
Nen - loves part time working.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Alas, today is a heap of marking and studying, with an online tutorial to teach this evening too. I'm just off for a walk in the snow first.
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Firenze
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Over there - beyond the plate glass - the sleet is falling as steadily on the Viale Vittorio Emanuele as it has been for some hours. I've been to the Duomo, and the church where St Augustine is buried and the market and the shops selling posh handbags and expensive perfumes. This bench seat is not that comfortable, but the one in the room is no better. Ah well, this time tomorrow, in transit...
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Nicodemia
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Cold, miserable and grey here, and walking the dog across the park is like trudging across the Russian tundra!
Definitely not a 'me' day
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Beethoven
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For the second time this week, I went for a run in the evening, and less than twelve hours later white stuff was falling from the sky. I don't think there's a connection, but... So far today though it's gone away as quickly as it's arrived, so it's just grey and damp. But the snowdrops and aconites are looking lovely, and hinting that the cold grey damp may at some distant future point give way to mild grey and damp.
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toujours gai!
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Welease Woderwick
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Trip to the Hypermarket in the Mall today where, after a mega shop, Pete consumed a meal big enough for a family - but he's not a quitter and soldiered on until it was almost all gone - then he manned up and forced down an ice cream sundae as well!
What a Star that man is!!
We spent about 90 something quid and I have to remind myself that in UK that amount of money on a supermarket trip is not at all unusual.
Yes, we did buy some cheese but not a huge amount - some Gouda with Wild Garlic - I think it is really chopped Ransom but it still tastes just fine.
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daisydaisy
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quote: Originally posted by Nenya: quote: Originally posted by daisydaisy: After tomorrow I'll have plenty of time to experiment - I hand in the tools of my trade and walk free.
Retirement? ........
Nen - loves part time working.
Not yet - voluntary redundancy. So at some point I'll be looking for something light-weight and enjoyable, but not until I've had some fun first
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Wet Kipper: Were you able to procure and safely deliver the cake, Piglet?
I was able to procure a cake, although it wasn't the exact one that had been asked for, as the shelf marked "extremely chocolatey birthday cake" was notable for its emptiness. Getting it home was a breeze, as it was a long, loaf-shape and easy to carry in one of their carrier-bags; my brother's taking it up to Orkney, as he's going by car and the rest of us are flying.
It's a beautiful, sunny day here in Edinburgh, although I've missed most of it so far - whenever I woke up I kept dozing off again ...
I'm almost packed and organised, and just messing about here waiting for my sister and niece to get back from w*rk, at which point we'll get a taxi to the airport.
I just took a phone call from the girl in the car-hire office in Orkney, who turned out to be someone who was in my class at school.
Orkney is such a delightfully small place.
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Piglet: Getting it home was a breeze, as it was a long, loaf-shape and easy to carry in one of their carrier-bags; my brother's taking it up to Orkney, as he's going by car and the rest of us are flying.
This reminds me of the evening when I was going up the stairs at the station when someone in front of me tripped and dropped the box she was carrying, which fell on the stairs and split open. A huge cookie the size of a large pizza, with the personalized message "Happy Birthday [name]", shot out and shattered on impact with the steps.
A real cake is altogether easier to transport, and fingers crossed it arrives just as intended.
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St. Gwladys
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Confessions time - I got really stroppy today. I was driving my pavement scooter through town and found that a delivery van had patked on the pavement in such a way that I couldn't get through. I ended up calling the company's number, which was on the back of the van - they rang the driver's mobile and a young man dashed up to the van a couple of minuites later, said sorry, and drove off.
-------------------- "I say - are you a matelot?" "Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here" From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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moonlitdoor
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For anyone looking for an alternative to Pilates, I recommend not trying spinning. I attempted a spinning class a couple of weeks ago, thinking that as I cycle every day and run three times a week, I would be able to manage it.
The next day I could only walk down stairs with the greatest difficulty as my thigh muscles had stiffened up so much. Took a few days to get back to normal.
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Ariel
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Yes, from what I've heard spinning isn't something most people can just come into, you have to work up to this.
On a completely different and unrelated note, Marine Le Pen is speaking at the Oxford Union this evening. I wish she wasn't, but suppose in the interests of free speech she has the right to be heard. Demo with drums outside: hopefully it'll remain peaceful.
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la vie en rouge
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Booo booooo boo Marine le Pen is a very bad person. Booooo.
To me one of the encouraging things following the recent terrorist attacks is that the FN doesn't seem to have done all that well out of it. OTOH, she's still ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy in the opinion polls, assuming he runs.
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Wet Kipper
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: Demo with drums outside: hopefully it'll remain peaceful.
Drums.......Peaceful ??
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kingsfold
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Better than some of my local ones with drums and fifes..... . . . . .... and marchers in orange collars..... [ 06. February 2015, 13:18: Message edited by: kingsfold ]
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by la vie en rouge: Booo booooo boo Marine le Pen is a very bad person. Booooo.
She was on local radio this morning explaining indignantly that she was a true patriot who loved democracy and had been misunderstood.
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Boogie
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Looking forward to a nice peaceful day relaxing with a little light housework and baking ... hmmm ... maybe not ... The twins, Jack and Mary, are coming at 3pm - they are 18 months old!
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We had planned to venture to some mid-sized shops today. The weather is, however, alternating between horizontal drizzle and cold grey overcast, so we've been as far as the local corner shop, then retreated home! Sorting random paperwork and listening to Fairport CDs.
On the much better side, the tub of snowdrops are flowering. I was given a clump of bulbs by Mother Knotweed last spring, and they have managed to survive benign neglect and a north-facing, tree-shadowed driveway. Spring may yet arrive.
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St. Gwladys
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We went over to Abergavenny this afternoon after our monthly tune club, and were amazed how much snow there is alongside the Heads of the Valleys road and also on the Blorenge. Mind, it's a good few hundred feet higher than us.
-------------------- "I say - are you a matelot?" "Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here" From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Ariel
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Spending most of the weekend in bed fending off a cold and chest infection. Catching up on some reading: Anya Seton, William Fiennes and Ian Mortimer's "Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England". I should be digging the allotment but that's going to have to wait until next weekend.
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Firenze
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Sunny but cold. A pleasing contrast to yesterday, which began with us dragging wheelie cases through rutted slush - and snow still falling - to the bus stop at a quarter to 7. The view from the coach was of a surreal landscape of grey-white fog punctuated by geometric plantation of spindly poplars. The airport was wet and snowy and our gate changed three times. Eventually a plane showed up and flew us over the Alps to a sunnier Netherlands. And then on, with the Forth Bridges floating in a shimmering mist. Home to a freezing house and the immediate need to go trudge round Morrison's for an hour. A very early night.
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Nicodemia
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Fog here today. More grey
Went to see if the snowdrops in the park were out, last year they were spectacular. But this year there are hardly any, and they are still in bud. What has happened to them??
Definitely Grim up North!
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Ariel
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Beautiful sunny day - cold but bright.
I'm trying to arrange a Tesco's delivery of food for my elderly mother, who doesn't like answering the phone or the door. It's due this morning and I haven't been able to get through to her to let her know it's on its way, so I'm hoping this will go all right, as she doesn't have much in. I did warn her on Friday that she would have to answer the door and she'd have to sign for it and she seemed happy with that, but - oh, dear, some elderly folk
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Welease Woderwick
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Yesterday morning a housewarming then yesterday evening the first part of a marriage of a neighbour's daughter [mainly a big nosh up at both events] and today the marriage proper, followed by another nosh up - and it would be impolite to refuse to eat - seriously people would be most offended and they would certainly notice.
Himself and Herself have gone on to the next feast at the groom's place but Pete and I ducked out of that so I've had a little sleep and then got the interweb thing working again - Pete is still sound asleep. Yesterday afternoon he slept for 5 solid hours - he denied this and said it was nearer four and a half!
Ah well, if self-delusion makes him happy...
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