Good Morning Monday

I second the vote for the sleep spray, Susan - although I was just addicted to the smell. Used it years ago in an hotel. Given it as a gift but when I tried to track it down and buy it a year later, no trace. Last year settled for Feather & Down from Boots when in the UK. It’s almost as good but not quite. So I am thrilled to see it’s available again and here in France too. You’ll love it, I’m sure.

Forgot to say, hope it’s good news for the dragonflies today. You and Dexter deserve it - all that stress and distress.

Hi Grandmafrench ?
Good news, Mr ? was 'rescued by my vet friend with a very thick blanket (in case he got stroppy) and found to have a broken leg, an old wound.
He's coming along nicely thank you, leg splinted, fed, watered and looking rather better.
As soon as leg is fully healed he'll be released into woodland on the South Downs.
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Good morning all from the sunshiny Scottish Borders. We have our own micro climate here and it's never the same as the forecast which has it raining.

Not looking forward to being told by Boris &co that we over 70s are not included in the lessening of restrictions in the near future. When I told DD of my fears she reminded me that she was holed up and hadn't seen a soul outside her family for a month .

I hope the results are OK Gingster Such a worry.
I am very pleased about the Spanish children's release and hope it works well. Urmston you make me laugh with your walking the corridor to the Beach Boys.

I am baking bread today. We have a wonderful traditional flour mill quite near so, although it sells out fast, I can usually get enough for our needs and yeast each week.

Sorry so many seem to have longstanding pain and illnesses not being seen to. I hope that situation improves.

I use porridge oats to make crumble,
A tumble of oats mixed with enough melted butter to coat (not margerine) plus Demerara sugar.
The result is, IMO much nicer and tastier than the flour method.

Good Morning Mick and all from a cloudy and very still S Welsh coast. Grammaretto please send some of the fresh yeast my way, I am craving an yeast cake. It is my MiL's recipe and I usually make them at Christmas.
Am still in bed but will shower, send some emails and potter.
take care everyone.

Anne sixty, like you I don’t post much just lurk! sorry to hear you are in so much pain, you have my sympathy. Let’s hope our problems get sorted eventually, it’s just ‘when this is all over’ keeps me going?.
I am so lucky that my husband is sort of recovered from his hospital stay last month with pneumonia and not the other Thing, but every sniff or sneeze gets my worry guts going, as I guess others are the same. Keep well, keephome.
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Morning from grey Lincolnshire. I was going to tackle my tax return but might just hoover the lampshades instead (thanks for the tip!). My crumble tip in return is a third porridge oats, a third chopped mixed nuts and a third ready made crumble mix (some have less sugar content than others).
TV recommendation - After Life on Netflix. Not a fan of Gervais when he’s being himself but have to commend him on this. Bit sweary but if you can get over that...
Have just seen on Victoria Derbyshire an excellent segment on Coronavirus on autism. We worry daily about our adult son (severe autism , learning disability and challenging behaviour) who lives in a care home. This sort of care home hasn’t had much attention. We can’t visit and they’re not being very proactive so a huge worry especially if he and/or staff fall ill.
Sorry, that wasn’t a very cheerful end to what’s designed to be a daily uplifting thread!
Have a great lampshade-hoovering day folks!
P.s not being snide about the lampshades by the way - full of admiration and embarrassment about being too lazy myself!

I just have to get this off my chest, oh, Good Morning, everyone. My grandsons come to visit us as their father lives here with us. It is acceptable under the guidelines for separated parents. It has not been a problem until yesterday when the oldest GS announced that on his return to Suffolk he was intending to go out to work on a farm picking asparagus. I was horrified! I burst into tears! After all the trouble we have taken to stay safe, to keep them safe, he decided this was what he wanted to do because he wants to buy a desk!! He has gone back to Suffolk. The younger GS is staying with us while we get this sorted out. His father is very annoyed with the older boy (he’s 16) as he is still working and being very careful to ensure our safety. We are not sure how his mother will react. She has two very vulnerable parents as well. Any ideas, anyone?

Good morning all from overcast Devon sun is trying to break through ,rain forecast this week.Looks like my plan to carry on painting my bedroom is a good one. I had a very late night early morning so got up late.

I need to go shopping for a few bits later, quick trip into Town rather than Supermarkets.

Hope Garden Centres are allowed to open soon, so wrong that they are closed, social distancing would be less of a problem than in most Supermarkets although having seen the queues at B&Q

Best wishes to all

Gabriella sorry to be picky about your last post. Did you mean a tumbler of oats and would the sugar proportion be to own taste. My SiL friend made a crumble with oats and it was delicious.

Kate54
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It's amazing what daft things you can find to do when you're trying to fill your day.

I use the soft brush attachment with handheld vac.
Cotton shades get a gentle wash in the bath with a drop of shower gel or similar and a soft brush, rinsed with the shower head, patted dry with J cloth and left to complete drying in utility room or outside in good weather.

Hi Beechnut
You're not being lucky at all. I realised that might be misconstrued as 'a tumbler'.
No, I meant to be ridiculous. A tumble (in my world) is simply what falls out when you shake the box.
As much as you need for the size of dish you plan to fill, in other words and the melted butter will need to be enough to coat them but not leave a pool in the bowl.
Most of us don't work to exact measurements do we, unless it's a specific recipe or baking?
I never add anything else bar sugar and not much of that if the fruit underneath is sweet.
Enjoy...??

lucky picky

They are sedating Dexter again as he would not let them look in his eyes. It is such a worry.

Cheers Gabriella. I’ll be making that crumble after my next shopping experience. ?

Gabriella, I too use oats, but a mixture of oats and flour.
However, I tried a recipe the other day, where you use crushed Amaretti biscuits.
I didn't get it quite right. It wasn't so much rhubarb crumble, as rhubarb powder! [blush}

Yes ..I too like Amaretti but not tried in a crumble and I totally agree with you. Italian dust is the result when you crush them.
I did try that when topping a fruit fool.
Dis-arrr-ster ??

Good morning from a sunny/not sunny day in Glasgow but still pleasant enough to do bits and pieces outside.

Such a long wait for your ops. annsixtyYou are such a strong woman having coped so well taking of your DH. Waking in pain everyday must be awful bearing this too. I hope it won’t be much longer before your ops. ?

Hoping to hear good news for your DH Gingster?
Any update on Mr ? Gabriella? Still no sign of Stumpy here.
Bundles of hope this is the start of a good week for you too gilly?

Washing machine is on the blink so as a last resort I am hoping a few sweet nothings talk does the trick. Who says I have lost the plot??

Another faffing day ahead for me and hope that everyone has the best day possible.

Hello everybody from a cool, cloudy raining (!) Angus coast. Actually, I tell a lie. That's hail!! Not hail to thee, but hail as in stones. Goodness me. Actually my FB memories yesterday were of photos of the snow on that day in 2016 so nothing surprises me. To think that this time yesterday I was reclining elegantly (or not) on my sun lounger beside the pond. Nobody can say our climate is boring! Talking of which. I have a TV on the back wall of the garden room which is like a beautiful picture of our view when it's switched off. It was so attractive that I took a photo of it and put it on our family WhatsApp. DS2 immediately came back with "Mum. You're bored!". So little appreciation, these young things (he's 51, but all things are comparative). Loved your gentle 'chastisement' Marydoll - my thoughts persactly. And I do hope your DH's test results were encouraging Gingster. I hope that's the correct post - my memory is dreadful! I do love reading about who's doing what in which kind of weather all around the country, but when I've finished reading I'm left with a sort of fuzzy, cosy blur! But I do love the picture of you marching backwards and forwards on your balcony to "Barbara Ann" Urmstongran. The perfect song for it! I remember once we were doing a tai chi demo at a country fair when a nearby band struck up with "Moon River". For a couple of minutes or so we moved gently and gracefully in time. And then they moved on to something rather different - it could well have been "Barbara Ann"!!! It was quite challenging to maintain our own rhythm ?. Now I must put on my wooly jumper and winter coat and go and feed the fish. There's blue sky shining above ..... And I might pick some rhubarb and break out the oats! I'm so sorry for those of you with pain and worries. Have the best and warmest and sunniest day you can ???

Love rhubarb crumble but no flour to be had so as I always have a plenty supply of Porage Oats will give your recipe a try Gabriella. I am wondering, as I love amaretti, would the soft type biscuit work broken into bits?

Mr ? doing very well Kalu thank you. Will try to get pic when he's fit to go wild again.

Nope...no biscuits.
BTW... porridge, porage? ... Correct spelling anyone, or is it down to area preferences?

It is spelled Porage on the packet!

Discuss...??

Depends what pack you buy. It was a marketing ploy in 1914, a cross between the French and summat else