What I did today! The next chapter!

soop it good to see you back and in good spirits, someone heard you mention Kintyre had no snow so far didnt they and sent it with a vengance pleased to hear mrS and rory are fine.

Ta Dah! ...I'm back. I hope that you lot have been your usual unladylike selves. I've MISSED you. And yes, jings I'm shouting!

number...Nope! Didn't go anywhere on Friday. The Kintyre Peninsula experienced "payback time": a blizzard of monumental ferocity. Power went off at breakfast time [pylons collapsed under the weight of ice and snow] Trees and telegraph poles down, roads with up to 11' drifts on the verges. The generators couldn't get away from the ferry terminal, police closed the road through the village and we were cut from for four days. The power was restored late last night. We've had no hot water, so today's shower was sheer bliss. We toasted bread using the fire, warmed up soup on a one-ring butane camping thingy. Slept in our clothes, as the house was bitterly cold. Sorry to say, that the local village is still without power. To travel the 14 miles to Tarbert means joining a convoy, led by a snow plough...one way traffic until it turns around and travels back. Neighbours have been so thoughtful. We were given a sack of coal and a sack of logs. A lady dropped by with some condensed soups, biscuits and Mars bars. We shall repay them in kind, now that we can get out of the drive.

An item of really GOOD news...Rory can now [gingerly] place his poorly foot on the ground. He has spent lots of quality cat-time sleeping and purring on my lap. Our friends in the village have lost five ducks to a mink. The creature tunneled its way under the enclosure and bit off their heads...one each night, for the past five nights. They have laid a trap. Wondering, was is it a mink that injured our Rory?

I'm catching up with laundry. When I've finished, I shall return to catch up with the happenings on GN.

I hope that Soop managed to get to her lunch at The Royal, I`ve just looked at a webcam for Kintyre and the weather looks dreadful, they`ve had their first snow of the winter.
I`ve just had to Swarfega my poor cat again, she`d become a white cat with a black stripe down her back. She wasn`t very happy with me, but she`s settled down a bit now. Poor Pepper was a pale ginger, but he never came in covered in oil!

That's very thoughtful of you soop having had sons I love choosing gifts for both my DILs.

Well Italian food is delicious, it really is, I love the Italian language too,such a beautiful language. I can speak some. I traveled through Italy many times and love it very much, The Chef at this Restaurant is amazing, I told my DH if I ever won the lottery I would hire him to live in our house

I have to say I am rather partial to parmesan , I love it on pizza"s

I never accept their offers of parmesan as I think it makes everything taste the same (of parmesan!) But if that is what the customer wants, that is what the customer gets.

We (my DH , DS and I) went to have a meal last night in an Italian restaurant and my son ordered pasta and muscles, he asked the waiter for parmesan and he(the waiter) threw a hissy fit, saying it would be terrible to put parmesan on that particular meal!! literarly I thought the guy was a nutso and told my son that if he wanted parmesan it, but he wouldnt, I think he was a bit unsure how the waiter would react, maybe start crying or something!! It really was that intense.

I think that was very bad for the waiter to make my son feel bad just because he wanted parmesan on his meal, hilarious .

It was very nice food though, so will be back, nutcase waiter or not ha ha

Welcome back anno

It's happened to us several times. It's always a woman waitress that says it. Never a man.

Nah!

I think that's quite rude, actually. What the waitress said, I mean.

I went to the pub for lunch and, as always, the waitress commented, "Wow! You were hungry!" Err yes! It's what we go for. To eat the food.

Are grey haired people supposed to leave half of the meal on the plate? And have no pudding?

Anno welcome back! I love Mozart's Requiem, I am very

Washed all 11 glass lamp fittings, sewed two sides of a quilt binding and braved the wind to look at light fitting and wallpaper at B&Q

Hello, I'm back. Today I have been on trains coming back from snowy Dundee. Just my luck that the snow arrived at the weekend and restricted our movements. However we did make it to a performance by the Dundee Choral Union of Mozart's Requiem plus two other works. It was brilliant. I just love choral music.

I've been trawling the net for my daughter-in-law's birthday gift. So many hours of deliberating. At last, I've found just the thing: a wee red leather shoulder bag by Osprey. I'm thrilled.

JessM there is NO WAY I would ask dd to do jobs! She and I do things completely differently and it would lead to arguement s which I don't want.
Other than that it will be nice. To have them staying.

@Frank
It's very easy to have a favourite baby, as she is the only baby!
My other dgcs are not babies!

I love not like my dgc equally, and I don't need you to tell me how I should feel about them, thank you!

I hope when your latest grandchild is born that no one feels the need to complain about anything.

Hi Ella46

How can you have a favourite baby.
I have 2 daughters and 3 granddaughters with another grandchild on the way soon and you are supposed to like them equally.
Mind you if it is a boy he might get a bit more attention for a while as there have been no boys born in the closer family for over 50 years but I am sure if it is another girl nobody will complain.

Frank

Well it was going ding, ding, ding in my head!

Dinging?
Singing!

Stupid blackbird at 5.33 am this morning. Dinging his black little heart out!

Galen - every cloud has a sliver lining. GD Time!!! And if you have a little list of jobs you could do with a little bit of help with... now's your big chance.
BBC are doing an insect season. Interesting programmes. I enjoyed the one about insects etc as a food source and was amazed to see the cheerful Cambodian boys hunting (and eating) tarantulas. It seemed to be one of their key sources of protein and enjoyed in the manner of a grilled crab with plain rice. They looked about 10 but said they were 14 and 15 - very malnourished I guess and no wonder keen to put in time hunting spiders. But they seemed very cheerful.

I visited my son and made us both a nice lunch. his flat was spotless,made me feel quite consious of my cleaning efforts, he has lots of things on his mind and feels a little un settled but he likes being in his new home

Hope you all had a nice day