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Greyduster What is Minecraft? Is it the latest craze? Would Torben be able to teach me?

Hello everyone - too many posts to catch up on but I hope everyone is well.
Hattie looks extremely relaxed in that cartoon MawBroon and the second one reminds me of DD's dog's anxious look if any food is around (she's not a greyhound, just a hound of indeterminate parentage).

I may have to show an interest in Minecraft over Easter Greyduster - especially as DGS asked me to teach him how to knit when he was about 8! He did get bored with the knitting after a few rows.

I've been spring-cleaning - does that count as exercise? as I was stepping on and off a stool all morning.

Charleygirl I do hope you're behaving yourself and not giving everyone a bad name with any shenanigans - loud music, or too much laughter!
Seriously, it will be an interesting experience and I'll look forward to hearing about it.

Minecraft is a video game soop - this is one explanation (which could need explaining itself):
The video game puts players in a randomly-generated world where they can create their own structures and contraptions out of textured cubes.
Or another:
The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build with a variety of different cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world.

Your guess is as good as mine!

Evening All. Bit of a headless chicken day after little sleep, somehow I’m home in one piece, not sure how that happened. .

The orangery looks great n&g, fabulous place to sit and well, just sit. Good news about your forthcoming family member. Do Great Aunt’s have to be sensible?

I’ve decided I’m allergic to Fitbits and their cousins, if one is within 6 feet I come over all peculiar.

Minecraft is uncharted territory to me and after reading the explanation jalima posted for us I have no plans to ask our younger ones if they play it. Better safe than sorry. .

I’ve been wondering how charley is getting on. I’m sure she has been impeccably behaved. Looking forward to her assessment of her stay, anticipating she won’t mince her words.

Sorry everyone, can’t quite catch up properly. Will sit on the naughty step and try to do better tomorrow.

I went to the undertakers’ today. We cannot get a date at the crematorium until April 18th! Not holding my breath

Is Charley having a housewarming?

Oh dear Jane that is hard on you. I actually found a 3 1/2 week gap before Paw’s funeral perfectly acceptable, even useful as it gave me time to get used to the idea, plan the order of service, contact family and friends and just “get my breath back”, but I can well imagine that for a parent you were mentally better prepared.

And I thought that 13 days was a long wait!

Goodness. That’s a long while jane. Look after yourself.

I think all my GC have got over the Minecraft phase. The two youngest boys - now 10 and 12 - were fixated on a feature on YouTube in which a very irritating young man played it and explained his tactics. There is also an architectural aspect which can be separate from the pursuit aspect. The children can design their own houses or even villages. soop, it's a fair bet that Torben already knows all about it - or soon will. There are Minecraft motifs on all sorts of products - teeshirts, duvet covers, wallets, you name it. So that's C****** sorted for some of you.

Minecraft has both my GDs engrossed as they concentrate on making choices and measurements to build complete towns and individual houses. I’m impressed with what they can do with this game. Don’t anyone worry about getting involved as my GDs, anyway, are far too busy constructing to stop and explain how it works. I found appreciative ooohs and aaahs were sufficient interaction although I hadn’t a clue what was going on.

Oh N&G becoming a Great Aunt is really something. Congratulations.

Yikes kitty a Great, Great Aunt!! You are far too young for that title

Oh that is a long time to wait Jane

jane that is a long wait - I always feel in limbo until after a funeral, as though it's not right for things to carry on as normal.

The undertaker blamed the delay on a very busy winter and breakdowns at two other crematoria in the area last month but this is nothing new. I remember a long wait for a funeral in Wolverhampton about 20 years ago. Maw you were right about us being more prepared - my brothers were quite wobbly yesterday. I am usually the one in a puddle but I have been doing my grieving over the last year and find I am relieved now that she is at peace.

Morning all,

Just made it before the morning was over !!

Your post made me fancy chip shop chips Jollyg ... the reality didn't live up to the expectation however. We do have a chippie in the village but its more a pizza and kebab shop that does chips .... as it turns out it does all that and none of it well !! Ah well , good for the diet I suppose !

Damn it ! I do love a good custard tart Grey or two....they are soooo moreish!!!

wow Kitty I am in awe of your greatness ;-)

We think Minecraft is a bit like online lego and its one of those video games that actually has more value than a shootem up . Our little boys all love it . Oh Anno I think I know the channel you refer to. We blocked it in the end when young Stevie began speaking in the same way all the time !

I don't think Great Aunts have to be sensible Corner in fact I think our job is to lead small people astray in the best possible way ;-) I'm up for the job!

That's a long wait to finish saying your goodbyes Jane . Never thought of their being a queue to go . I hope your family are all getting by .

Thought Id finish with a photo from yesterday - it really was a blue sky day !!

Beautiful photo Nana.

Just saying hi after getting internet back

Welcome back, aggie. Lovely to hear that you are reconnected to us lot.

N&G Thank you for sharing your spirit-lifting photograph.

JaneD3 It was a long goodbye in many respects. Knowing that your mother is at peace is a blessing.

Jalima Thank you for explaining the business of Minecraft. It does appear to be an intelligent pastime. Torben will be all worldly wise when I mention it to him. He'll put me right in next to no time. After an eye-roll, no doubt.

Just read about the custard tarts. Yum. If they are what our local baker call Portuguese Tarts Grey I could eat dozens of them. Must let DD1 know her local Morrison’s sell them as it’s one of her favourites too.

DGs also listen to the ITunes Minecraft feature anno and that voice drives me up the wall. DD1 has to listen to it daily but I think of it as payback when I had to listen to the theme tune for Neighbours which both DDs were glued to daily after school.

soop. I don’t wear the style of twin set my late Mother wore along with her pearls and a tweed skirt affair, I wear a fitted style with skinny jeans. Vive la différence

What a very uplifting photo [N&G] beautiful colours and a promise of things to come.

Agus Bet you look scrumptious!

soop, as long as DH continues to think I am scrumptious as I know MacSporran thinks the same of you, that’s all we need to know

Agus I have never had one, but I think Portuguese custard tarts are the posh cousins of our bog standard but very delicious ones. I would like to try one but have never seen anywhere that sells them. They use puff pastry instead of shortcrust, but the filling sounds the same. And I am with you on the very annoying commentary behind the You Tube video. Last time GS had it on at our house, I made him turn it off - it can’t be good for them to listen to that!

N&G is that lovely photo of a marsh somewhere? Love the Norfolk marshes.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a fleece throw to augment our ten tog duvet when the nights were colder, because the thirteen tog one was just too warm. It was lovely and fluffy and worked like a dream except it shed bits of fleece all over the place and being dark red, everything from the oatmeal coloured carpet to the clothes we brushed against it in looked as if they had measles. I thought I would wash it today to see if it improved it but it ended up looking like a wet dog (not that I have anything against wet dogs, you understand!). I should have read the revues on line before I bought it because lots of people had similar problems. When it is dry, I shall go over it with a small stiff brush to see if it makes any difference. It is very large and I could be at it until next Easter! Or I could just chuck it away...... A salutary lesson.
We are just waiting for the master of mayhem to come home from school. I will look in later.

Sorry, the comment about the video should have gone to Anno!!

Agus True!

Greyduster You could write a polite letter to the supplier of the fleece. You never know. Someone may be happy to have it returned and give you a refund. Worth a try!

Kitty having returned a few hours ago from spending 24 hours at the local McCarthy Stone there is no way that I am lowering myself to go to the Argy yet again, especially having spent a bit of time and been introduced to a few very refained people having bought a flat there, I must be here for Tara if she bothers coming home.

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Charleyg

I've completed the 10th watercolour. It's still to be backed and mounted. Two photos in different light. I shall share all the rest with you lovely lot over the weekend.

Bye for now. Back again after care home visit in the morning.