A new what-I-did-today thread

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kitty oh what a lovely day.

OGM You certainly are not a wimp. I'm "going under" next month. Having done so on eleven occasions, I always wonder what you are wondering. Modern anaesthetics are very sophisticated. You will be VERY well cared for. Warm wishes.

OGM; I, too, dread the thought of a general anaesthetic but I think it goes with the slight fear of flying in a 'lack of being in control' thing rather than not having faith in the hospital. I also only realised relativeley recently how qualified an anaesthatist was [I used to think they were just some sort of menial member of the operating staff just there to read a few dials]. Nellie; I was fascinated when we took the kids to Lyme Regis to look for fossils to find that the same rock strata [if that's the right word] came out on the other side of the country by Robin Hoods Bay. I'm ashamed to say that I have a big basket full of rocks from the beach that we brought back [dread to think what it did to the car]. Looking forward to the day when my grandson is old enough to share with me the experience of breaking open one of the rocks to discover what's inside.

The interpreters for the tribunals seem to be on strike. No interpreter for this afternoon. Therefore I'm unexpectedly home!
What the h***l do I do with myself now?
Weather is horrible.
Any bright ideas?

Curl up and make sure you're warm! Is the boiler working now? Have a little snooze / pop in and out of GN / read a book / have a little snooze and it will soon be time for a nice . Simple!

Play Angry Birds on the i-pad? Have a or two, toasted teacakes?

Seize the opportunity to do whatever you feel like jeni

I have always loved unexpected freedom from work and commitments. Fritter it away by enjoying it

Today I have set the dining-room table for the hungry hordes coming on Friday.

That is about all, unless you count sitting reading posts on Gransnet.

Elegran I would give anything to be joining you. I shall be with you lot in spirit. I'm sure that it will be a very happy occasion. Have fun!

Today I managed to get Scottish Hydro to reduce my monthly direct debit by £140 for gas and by £10 for electricity. Now on a roll and attacking the car insurance - found one with the RAC for over £100 less. What on earth have I been thinking of for the past year (apart from the obvious). It's about time I got myself sorted out now the year is nearly up - onwards and upwards I suppose

Elegran I will be thinking of you all on Friday!

Today I had a cup of coffee and a totally calorie free Danish pastry with Ariadne!

And I had a totally calorie free cheese scone with butter with Phoenix!

Boiler working, most of the time. Broadband went down but fixed now!
Just prepared a tagine and put it on to cook. Sat down withe

When I came to put the meat in 100g of stewing lamb. It was over half a big piece of bone Phoned waitrose to complain and was told I'd have to ring a number I haven't got and which they wouldn't give me

Rayburn man came yesterday. Rayburn working again, except it conked out just as I was cooking dinner. Fortunately there was enough residual heat to finish the cooking. He came again today. Fiddled about with this and that. Rayburn cut out again. I went and read some blurb in the users' manual and, very tentatively, asked: "It couldn't be an interruption in the fuel supply, could it?"
No, no, says he, and some more talk.

I went away and knitted a snow dog leg.

He continued to fiddle about.

Pops his head round the door half an hour or so later having fixed it.

Ahem. It was something to do with the fuel supply being cut off by some gadget that was overheating. He replaced said gadget.

Me? what would I know?

Keep you fingers crossed!

Had lunch with my friend at one of our local Italian restaurants - £6.95 for three courses. We always expect good things there and were not disappointed. I have to admit to a helping of very nice tiramisu but the salad starter made up for those calories.

Oh dear, jeni! Grrr! Asda do an immediate refund if you're not happy with something.

Managed to find a number and am getting a refund!
Very small portion of lamb in my tagine for tonight though 50g or less. 3small chunks of meat!
Oh well, I'm hardly likely to fade away!
Am I?
Plenty of couscous to go with the gravy sauce though!

Bags , your Rayburn man reminds me of the time I took back an early model of scanner to PC World. It would not speak to the PC, nor vice versa, and I had sussed out the reason, - sorry - technical diversion here (-thanks to DH talking so much about his current telemetry work on the pipeline bringing oil to Grangemouth from the offshore drills, which involved a lot of oil-pipe substations talking to the main control panel and the other way round. Each piece of equipment had an interrupt request number (IRQ) and the central processor went round all of them in turn, checking on whether they had any data to transfer. The results went into a continually updated monitor screen, where the viscosity, flow speed, temperature and so on of the oil at all points could be checked at a glance - so all the equipment had to work together )

To cut that long story short - the scanner manual said that it had a choice of IRQs x y and z, and the PC said that IRQ numbers x y and z were already in use by other equipment.

At the customer desk I said simply that it would not work with my PC, and was fobbed off with some story which meant that it was my fault I could not get it to work and to go home and try again, so I told them it was a question of incompatible IRQs. His eyes went blank at this unfamiliar term, and he took it into a back room to a supervisor.

I got my money back.

What I did today? Not a lot. I turned on the computer and it suddenly put up a window to say I needed to make a recovery disk ( having had it a week I think)...and of course I had nothing to put it on. so I dashed out leaving it on, and got a flash drive, and came back and set it up to of course copy the whole computer. (10.45am)

After half an hour it still seemed to be formatting (?) and after a bit longer I phoned my friendly computer man where I bought it.
He said well it's doing what it needs to do, just wait a bit.
At 1pm I rang again, and he's out.
At three, I got him. so he said, ok, hit cancel. He will try and find out why I got that window then - I didn't call it up, it just appeared...........so nothing so far........................................

Do these things happen to anyone else?
Am I compatible with this computer?

Tell you what though, I did get some housework done!

Had a long conversation this afternoon with the knife-sharpening man who calls far too often for my needs. I've sent him away numerous times over the past couple of months, but today decided to show him my cheap and motley range of knives and asked his opinion.

There ensued the inquisition. Which knife did I use the most? Meat or vegetables? Household stuff? Scissors for the kitchen or garden? Did I have garden shears that needed sharpening - perhaps a pair of secateurs I'd be using soon? Loppers?

The price became cheaper the more I decided to have sharpened. Off to the van parked outside with a whizzing stone positioned at the back in the boot, to do the business.

I now have some dangerously sharp knives and garden equipment. All for Euros 30.00.

Bargain!

Can you send him on a tour of the UK please butty. I enquired once in the ironmonger and they quoted about that much per knife.
I have DS2 (the NZ single one) staying
We went to Ashridge and went for a snowy walk. Very quiet, very monochrome. Took a few pics. Even the deer lying low, chewing the cud under the trees. Yummy lunch in the wonderful cafe. Beef stew and herb dumplings. Fantastic. Outdoor seating ok in shelter of building. And noticeable warm glow in midsection ensued.
Came home and now he is cooking tea.

That sounds like the most perfect day, Jess.

Pretty good butty even if there was no actual

Re knives. You can buy electric knife sharpeners - my DS got one for Christmas and really enjoyed himself sharpening all their knives, rather like men who don't really garden being happy to cut and chop things.
this sort of thing

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