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SlimLizzy said:
06.12
6.45am FBG 5.4 amazingly good after midnight snack of chocolate biscuits.
Kiki got her first look at neighbours cat Oreo yesterday.
Having seen the kitten inside Oreo approached the house slowly with her tail up. Kiki sat bolt upright by the patio doors watching her come, then bolted for her bed when Oreo was about three feet away. Oreo is a sizeable cat and was a bully to Errant for many months, but they came to an agreement and she obvoiusly grieved for him. I was surprised by her apparently friendly approach to Kiki.
We are up early today because I turned the oven off after dinner. Big OOPS as there was a casserole still cooking. Discovering this at bedtime after some rather cross words, MrSlim put it on a low temp to cook overnight.
We had bought two farm reared free range birds. I wasn't keen on them coming with heads still attached. Does that make me squeamish? The hen for roasting turned out to be a bit tough. Putting the remains in a pie. If we have another will casserole it. The cockeral was in the oven as Coc au vin. I do hope my forgetfulness hasn't ruined it. The meat is very different from shop chickens Probably needs different cooking techniques to get the best from it.
Have finally completed and hung the door/window curtains and now have to tackle lengthening the "pair" hanging in the arched window. Playschool anyone? MrSlim is already talking about the bedhangings he wants me to make next...
Had a phone call from my sister who does not approve of our decision to stay in France for Christmas and probably thought she was being subtle but phrases such as "I would walk through fire to see my Mum" are not at all helpful and definitely do not improve in any way the sisterly relationship.
Flurries of snow have propelled me out into the garden for some more winter preparations. Few jobs to do out there still. Have been thinking to make mint jelly but a flock of starlings descended on the late fruiting apple tree and there might not be any fit to use now. Market day as well. Lots to do today so the early start should have been useful - but I have been indulging an unusually cuddly Kiki with some rare lap time instead.
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Not nice having dead chickens with heads still attached if you are not used to it. Probably affected your perception of taste of them...

Glad your curtains are now finished...
Not another pair to do?

Bedhangings? You have a four poster?
Probably a good idea for cold weather!

Not very tactful your sister...

I am glad you and Kiki are developing a relationship...
 
jwd1 said:
On holday some years ago, I won a cockerel in a raffle at a Fest Noz, we were camping, snag was the bird was alive!! I manage to swap it with a guy from Rennes who had won three bottles of wine, He invited our family back to his place the next evening when we enjoyed coq au vin with lots of red wine. A great memory.
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That ended well for all concerned. We were offered a brace of pheasants yesterday by No 1 son, wife's boss shot them, but neither he nor we could face drawing and plucking them by late evening. We do like pheasant but prefer them oven ready. Ideally, yellow stickered from a well known aspirational superdoopermarket.
 
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Because the weather app said no rain, I was out very early in the garage to unearth something I badly needed , needed me to empty half the garage to get at it.
I was due parcels on Friday, I only ordered them last night, so I knew I was safe emptying the top half of the garage, and would have time to at least throw it all back in before it got dark. But I got about half the stuff out when some wheels jammed. I heard a cat caterwauling outside, so went to look for it. Couldn't find it. Came back to Midnight mountaineering in the garage. He was causing avalanche after avalanche after avalanche, and I couldn't get anywhere near him. Each time he came tumbling down, the intrepid climber was climbing again. There was an alert on my phone, and it was Amazon, telling me my two parcels were coming today via Royal Mail. Really? It was 8 am and I had to abandon what I was doing. They weren't due until Friday.

They were two desiccant dehumidifiers, because now my central heating has packed in for good, my ordinary dehumidifiers won't work to dry my washing in this cold.

What I was in the garage for were some small portable heaters from when I first moved here and there was no central heating then.

It is now 12:40 pm, and I am still waiting for the postie in his van, I need to be by the window so I don't miss the postie. No time frame, just that they are coming today. I sincerely hope they do arrive soon, because the sun is on its downward path in the sky...and I still have to find those heaters.

I was worried Midnight had come to a cropper in his mountaineering, he wouldn't come when I called, but the need to not miss those two desiccant dehumidifiers was my greater need. Just 5 minutes ago he came charging in, looking like he'd had the adventure of his life...he is now asleep on the edge of my electric blanket...

I am toasty warm under my leccie blanket.
Please please come soon postie....

By the way I unearthed my slow cooker. I left it in the garage, but I was wondering, is it cost effective with electricity in these exorbitant electricity times?

If someone tells me it is, I'll bring it in...
 
gennepher said:
Because the weather app said no rain, I was out very early in the garage to unearth something I badly needed , needed me to empty half the garage to get at it.
I was due parcels on Friday, I only ordered them last night, so I knew I was safe emptying the top half of the garage, and would have time to at least throw it all back in before it got dark. But I got about half the stuff out when some wheels jammed. I heard a cat caterwauling outside, so went to look for it. Couldn't find it. Came back to Midnight mountaineering in the garage. He was causing avalanche after avalanche after avalanche, and I couldn't get anywhere near him. Each time he came tumbling down, the intrepid climber was climbing again. There was an alert on my phone, and it was Amazon, telling me my two parcels were coming today via Royal Mail. Really? It was 8 am and I had to abandon what I was doing. They weren't due until Friday.

They were two desiccant dehumidifiers, because now my central heating has packed in for good, my ordinary dehumidifiers won't work to dry my washing in this cold.

What I was in the garage for were some small portable heaters from when I first moved here and there was no central heating then.

It is now 12:40 pm, and I am still waiting for the postie in his van, I need to be by the window so I don't miss the postie. No time frame, just that they are coming today. I sincerely hope they do arrive soon, because the sun is on its downward path in the sky...and I still have to find those heaters.

I was worried Midnight had come to a cropper in his mountaineering, he wouldn't come when I called, but the need to not miss those two desiccant dehumidifiers was my greater need. Just 5 minutes ago he came charging in, looking like he'd had the adventure of his life...he is now asleep on the edge of my electric blanket...

I am toasty warm under my leccie blanket.
Please please come soon postie....

By the way I unearthed my slow cooker. I left it in the garage, but I was wondering, is it cost effective with electricity in these exorbitant electricity times?

If someone tells me it is, I'll bring it in...
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Hug for no central heating. This https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles... highly on energy,money-saver in your kitchen. implies slow cookers are cost effective. Oh, my bad it's from that there meedja and even more egregious the fake news BBC. Still. even a stopped clock is right twice a day so go with the flow. Since the central heating is not working and the weather is turning colder that seems a fortuitous find. Stay warm.
 
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Lainie71 said:
5.9 this morning nearly the same temperature outside which was 5.3. Surprised at the 5.9 this morning, I had a terrible night of more times awake than asleep and now I feel shattered. Day off so not sure if I am going for a work out, finding it really difficult to get motivated so might leave it till tomorrow.
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Correction - I did go for a work out as I was fed procrastinating on to work out or not! Another of my anxieties and worrying too much! Its done and now I am truly shattered. Going to burry my head in my book now for the rest of the afternoon :bookworm:
 
Annb said:
Wonderful work of art. Somehow, I hadn't seen it going that way and today's episode was a surprise. So moody, but not anything creepy about it. Just a calm and quiet place to enjoy.
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gennepher your art work always drifts me off to other places, I find it really lovely and calming too.
 
ianpspurs said:
Hug for no central heating. This https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/slow_cooker_hacks#:~:text=They score highly on energy,money-saver in your kitchen. implies slow cookers are cost effective. Oh, my bad it's from that there meedja and even more egregious the fake news BBC. Still. even a stopped clock is right twice a day so go with the flow. Since the central heating is not working and the weather is turning colder that seems a fortuitous find. Stay warm.
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Thanks @ianpspurs
Online says...October 2022 prices...
Sun...8 hours is 92p
Metro...16p a day
Wales online...5p an hour
Good to Know...4.08p to 10.02 p an hour to run


Well my slow cooker is a very tiny basic one, for one person, got it free aeons ago for joining a catalogue. So, 4.08 p an hour for me?

I'll get it indoors....
 
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gennepher said:
Because the weather app said no rain, I was out very early in the garage to unearth something I badly needed , needed me to empty half the garage to get at it.
I was due parcels on Friday, I only ordered them last night, so I knew I was safe emptying the top half of the garage, and would have time to at least throw it all back in before it got dark. But I got about half the stuff out when some wheels jammed. I heard a cat caterwauling outside, so went to look for it. Couldn't find it. Came back to Midnight mountaineering in the garage. He was causing avalanche after avalanche after avalanche, and I couldn't get anywhere near him. Each time he came tumbling down, the intrepid climber was climbing again. There was an alert on my phone, and it was Amazon, telling me my two parcels were coming today via Royal Mail. Really? It was 8 am and I had to abandon what I was doing. They weren't due until Friday.

They were two desiccant dehumidifiers, because now my central heating has packed in for good, my ordinary dehumidifiers won't work to dry my washing in this cold.

What I was in the garage for were some small portable heaters from when I first moved here and there was no central heating then.

It is now 12:40 pm, and I am still waiting for the postie in his van, I need to be by the window so I don't miss the postie. No time frame, just that they are coming today. I sincerely hope they do arrive soon, because the sun is on its downward path in the sky...and I still have to find those heaters.

I was worried Midnight had come to a cropper in his mountaineering, he wouldn't come when I called, but the need to not miss those two desiccant dehumidifiers was my greater need. Just 5 minutes ago he came charging in, looking like he'd had the adventure of his life...he is now asleep on the edge of my electric blanket...

I am toasty warm under my leccie blanket.
Please please come soon postie....

By the way I unearthed my slow cooker. I left it in the garage, but I was wondering, is it cost effective with electricity in these exorbitant electricity times?

If someone tells me it is, I'll bring it in...
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Okay, postie came. But he only had one desiccant dehumidifier. I said, where is the other one, an identical package to that one. Postie said after looking at his keypad thingy you've got some more parcels coming. It'll be on my next lot the depot bring the parcels out to me on my round so I can't tell you when I will deliver it, but it will be me, and it will be today.
 
gennepher said:
Because the weather app said no rain, I was out very early in the garage to unearth something I badly needed , needed me to empty half the garage to get at it.
I was due parcels on Friday, I only ordered them last night, so I knew I was safe emptying the top half of the garage, and would have time to at least throw it all back in before it got dark. But I got about half the stuff out when some wheels jammed. I heard a cat caterwauling outside, so went to look for it. Couldn't find it. Came back to Midnight mountaineering in the garage. He was causing avalanche after avalanche after avalanche, and I couldn't get anywhere near him. Each time he came tumbling down, the intrepid climber was climbing again. There was an alert on my phone, and it was Amazon, telling me my two parcels were coming today via Royal Mail. Really? It was 8 am and I had to abandon what I was doing. They weren't due until Friday.

They were two desiccant dehumidifiers, because now my central heating has packed in for good, my ordinary dehumidifiers won't work to dry my washing in this cold.

What I was in the garage for were some small portable heaters from when I first moved here and there was no central heating then.

It is now 12:40 pm, and I am still waiting for the postie in his van, I need to be by the window so I don't miss the postie. No time frame, just that they are coming today. I sincerely hope they do arrive soon, because the sun is on its downward path in the sky...and I still have to find those heaters.

I was worried Midnight had come to a cropper in his mountaineering, he wouldn't come when I called, but the need to not miss those two desiccant dehumidifiers was my greater need. Just 5 minutes ago he came charging in, looking like he'd had the adventure of his life...he is now asleep on the edge of my electric blanket...

I am toasty warm under my leccie blanket.
Please please come soon postie....

By the way I unearthed my slow cooker. I left it in the garage, but I was wondering, is it cost effective with electricity in these exorbitant electricity times?

If someone tells me it is, I'll bring it in...
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The postie came. But he only had one parcel.
Where is the other parcel I said, exactly the same to that one.
He looked at his phone thingy and he said you've got more parcels.

He said it will be on the next lot. He said, the depot bring me out parcels during my rounds and I don't actually have to go all the way back to the Depot to get the next lot of parcels. He said it will be me and it will be today but I can't tell you when.

So I thought well I've got at least a few minutes to get in the garage and try and get those heaters out. Which is what I did, and I found I had two fan heaters, one which looks like it is a fan heater, and two ceramic heaters. I know the two fan heaters are 20 years old and possibly the black one is 20 years old. The two ceramic heaters are from about 1985, possibly because my middle daughter was in the attic bedroom and there was no heating in there so she needed the ceramic heaters. Calculator out...37 years old???

I'll leave the fan heaters a few more hours before I turn them on, but seeing as the temperature in the bungalow and the temperature in the garage is pretty much the same, I think it should be fairly safe for me to turn them on fairly soon. I'll gingerly try one first.

I have just had an email off Amazon saying now that my second desiccant dehumidifier is now not coming by Royal mail but it's coming by Amazon logistics on Thursday. I am now thoroughly confused. I presume this postie is not coming back now today with anything???

The light is fading, so I need to get out there at that quickly and get all the stuff back in the garage but first I've got to get that tiny slow cooker out and it's in a cupboard behind something behind a box. Aaaagggghhhh...
 
dunelm said:
To be greeted with the smells from that fry up - magical.
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Reminds me of me camping in the black mountains Wales with hubby, tent full of ex army lads opposite, hardened - succumbing to the smell of bacon, eggs, bangers and beans. It was hilarious and I just had to throw a few their way, they were so pleased but seemed to be so unprepared :hilarious:
 
ianpspurs said:
Why don't we have this (attached) cost or arrogance i.e. English (not British) exceptionalism?
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I don't understand why they cannot do "at home kits" like the covid test. When I worked at a public health lab if you had a sore throat you did a strep test there and then and it was sorted I was given antibiotics by the hospital pharmacy. Don't think I saw a GP about it :nailbiting: all probably a bit not correct now but back in the late 80s it seemed okay, well most things seemed okay :hilarious:
 
Lainie71 said:
I don't understand why they cannot do "at home kits" like the covid test. When I worked at a public health lab if you had a sore throat you did a strep test there and then and it was sorted I was given antibiotics by the hospital pharmacy. Don't think I saw a GP about it :nailbiting: all probably a bit not correct now but back in the late 80s it seemed okay, well most things seemed okay :hilarious:
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Many things from the 80s weren't right especially TBW and some seriously wrong TV but compared to today? As a former Downing Street adviser puts it: “There might not be much in it between Rishi and Starmer, but then voters look over their shoulders at who heads a rabble of mad b'stards.” (I cleaned it up.) One of whom is his deputy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/06/dominic-raab-government-brexit-foreign-office. Preach sister, preach.
 
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ianpspurs said:
That ended well for all concerned. We were offered a brace of pheasants yesterday by No 1 son, wife's boss shot them, but neither he nor we could face drawing and plucking them by late evening. We do like pheasant but prefer them oven ready. Ideally, yellow stickered from a well known aspirational superdoopopermarket.
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I would think a Fen man in the tradition of Hereward the Wake would have took drawing a pheasant in his stride! :);)
 
ianpspurs said:
Noooooo - unless baked. Those soggy ones are an outrage. Please don't tell me you like those suet/steamed pudding crimes against good taste. (I really need my emojis back. Another victim of Brexit)
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In army rations (during my time at least) we had small tins of steak and kidney pudding and apple pudding - both with suet - otherwise known as ‘babies heads’ and ‘sweet babies heads”. Both delicious in their own way.
 
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