Chitchat thread #24

[Nicos]

Yey!…great to see you back bramble!

(you can ignore my email now)

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all

Given up on trying to sleep…already been awake for hours

I hadn’t realised today is both Chinese New Year and pancake day….hmmm…I mentioned this to OH and he’s decided to make American pancakes with Nutella and bananas for breakfast
We’ve just got time to enjoy them before heading out for the day. Just as well I didn’t have an oversleeping morning or we’d have missed out!
Won’t help my diet mind

Rary- forgive me…I’ve been meaning to mention that it’s great to hear both you and your OH are improving x

Have a great day everyone

[greenishfing]

Good morning all.

The sky is clear and already starting to brighten. When I slipped out of bed to turn the thermostat up, it didn't feel particularly cold, but it's supposedly only 1°C outdoors.

Now that I've realised this, I feel quite cold and have just grabbed my big fleece hoodie.

I've already had an email from the supermarket to tell me that they have all my items available. I know that last night I had a last virtual roam around the aisles and added several "goodies" to my order.

Mr GF didn't have a good day yesterday and I ended ringing for the district nurse to call round. She's also alerted the doctor's surgery to this so they will probably either ring or call today, maybe with a new prescription. We're hoping that yesterday was just a one off and that he's more himself today.

I hope that you've enjoyed your pancakes, Nicos. It always amazes me that such basic ingredients can make such delicious instant food. I must say that I'm not a fan of American pancakes although I have never attempted to make them myself, I have only tried them in the USA. British pancakes with sugar and orange juice for me, occasionally raspberry vinegar. One of my sisters makes a batch of raspberry vinegar every few years and sends me a bottle.

Right, time to make some coffee.

Bye for now. Keep warm!

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

Chinese new year and pancake day... I reckon I can rustle up some mushrooms and courgettes in hoisin sauce with those dinky little pancakes you have with Peking duck (do we still call it that?). Thanks for the inspiration, guys.

Sorry to hear about Mr GF. Hope the healthcare folk do their stuff.

Cloudy and windy today. Plenty to keep me busy indoors, but I must get out and do something. The wild rocket is flowering...

Have a great day, everyone.

[Bren In Pots]

Morning

I'd forgotten about pancake day but we did have bagels in the freezer so had those for breakfast for a change.

Hope MrGF has a better day today and yesterday was just a blip.

Snoop my wild rocket seems to have vanished from my garden it didn't appear last year at all.

Sunny and icy out today.

wrap up warm and enjoy your day.

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All The Broadband here disappeared yesterday from late morning until just now. I didn't realise how much I use it - I was lost! Couldn't surf. I'd just finished a book so couldn't look for another. Couldn't do my word puzzles. I was so glad to find my little battery operated radio so I could listen to my beloved Radio 4! Himself missed the smart speaker. He has more conversations with Alexa than with me
Freezing here but sunny. I hope Mr GF is better. Haircut for me later. Have a good day

[Bren In Pots]

Your hair looks nice Flo

[bramble]

Good morning all and thanks for the welcome back.
A hard white frost this morning and ids minus one,
Visiting the eye specialist this morning for a check up as I had lazer surgery on my eye last week.
Thank you for the email Nicos.
Have a good day all.

[greenishfing]

It wasn't until I put my glasses on and ventured into the kitchen that I realised just how cold it is. Jack Frost had coated all the roofs and cars with a white frosting during the night.

Mr GF has woken up now, early for him, and has had ½ a cup of tea and a tramadol before dropping off again.

The doctor has now rung and we've decided that he'll call round in a couple of days unless things change.

I've just a replacement jumper delivered for another of the articles that I sent back last week. It's a size smaller than the one I originally ordered and still a little bit big but I think that yet another size smaller might just show every lump, bump and bulge.

My grory hop is due to arrive between 11am and noon. I know that I added some different cheeses, crackers, and olives to my list last night

I've an idea that I've got another delivery due today too, but I can't think what it is. Maybe Amazon?

I hope that your eye surgery was a success, Bramble.

Flo, you have my sympathy. Losing broadband these days is awful. The mobile signal where I live is often almost non-existent, the trees I think, and more often than not I find my phone has connected to the wi-fi as well as everything else. It's doesn't seem that long ago when you could only connect one, hard wired, computer to the Internet and couldn't use your phone to make or receive calls at the same time. My mother used to get so annoyed that our phone was more or less permanently engaged.

[burnie]

Another day of glorious sunshine, if this keeps up I will be mowing grass soon......................................

[Containergardener]

Morning
Just been catching up on all your chatter.

[Bren In Pots]

morning

A dry day here, I'd best make the most of it all day sleet for tomorrow.

Enjoy your day.

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

Looks like it could be a nice-ish day out there today. No wind and high hazy cloud. A day for making bread perhaps, though the forecast suggests that tomorrow would be better. Not sure we can hold out that long though.

Busyish today, but first, coffee and a sudoku puzzle. Just started doing these and crosswords. Either yesterday's crossword was easier or I'm getting the hang of working out the clues. I only had to cheat twice yesterday!

Right, coffee calls. Anyone else fancy one?

Have a great day, everyone.

[Containergardener]

Tea for me please snoop. It's cold out there today, have just dog walked. You know, there really isn't much between her ears most days
I don't think we have sleet tomorrow Bren, at least I hope not.
Bread day sounds good Snoop.
I was intending to get outside but it's still frozen solid. Perhaps I will do some sweet peas .

[Containergardener]

Another day of glorious sunshine, if this keeps up I will be mowing grass soon......................................

Yesterday I was thinking ours had grown. The mowing crossed my mind.