Hello Sunday Kitcheners
Bet you do miss that little dog, dragonfly and after all this time and such loving care, he would find it a bit strange to be going back home, I should think. Give it a few days and he'll settle - you can't expect him to forget how you loved him ...just yet. Look on the bright side, clean floors and less work, maybe.
Lovely happy babbas, Susan - so pleased you had a good get together - after all the recent problems. Bet it did you all the world of good.
Cherry just stop it. You are incorrigible - and you clearly don't bounce. You must have bruises on your bruises by now - but suppose lovely flowers have to be gathered just right !
An Orange Downpour cake - how fabulous Anno - and you don't touch it yourself? Wow, what restraint ! I have made some wonderful (well, the best I've tasted) chocolate cookies today. I have already tried some (in the interests of research, you understand). Nigella Lawson's recipe - not keen on her, too much simpering, I feel. However, I do have two very good cookery books of hers.
Poor Sir D, Doodle. Hope he has designs on a completely different dance partner once his bruises have gone. The last one sounds very high maintenance. Hope he's feeling better and that you both have had a good day today.
Hope the Fire Engine incident was resolved without any bad feeling, Dreamkeeper ? I am joking, of course. I expect that if there was a genuine error on someone's part, they would prefer that to the real false alarms and aggravation that all the emergency services fall prey to from time to time these days. Shocking, but it happens. Mr D probably felt quite battered after his tooth extraction, poor man. And Chemo on Thursday. He's very brave and uncomplaining you say, but it's just as well that his tooth pain has been almost resolved, otherwise that would be quite a lot to cope with in a couple of weeks, wouldn't it. Hope he feels a lot stronger and ready to cope again, very soon.
Izabella fabulous clematis. Well, you certainly don't let the grass grow under your feet, do you? I am for the first time looking up and looking into the advantages of having an Alexa, Google, Siri or similar. You are clearly starting a new trend on this thread. All you have to do now is try train your lovely new "assistant" when it arrives, to work on keeping the crumbs down ! 
How lovely to have a long natter with your Son, Smileless. I love it when I have that chance. Sometimes, though, it makes me feel slightly sad after the call is over. Maybe, because we're on rations, we Mums just always want a bit more.........
Soop dear. What is happening? Even though you have good reasons for yet another UTI, I expect, it must be time that the delays/excuses/waiting lists etc., were all set aside and your turn for surgery be coming soon. Do they need a bit of a nudge, do you think? You really don't need stuff like that to spoil your days. Hope you feel better v. soon and as Susan (?) said, hope you have a little store of antibiotics to kick start it towards recovery.
Warm hugs (it's really warm here) to you all. Cookies on the worktop to go with Toddies or hot drinks (should Purplepixie turn up with her drinks trolley!!
Sleep well, stay safe and love from France x
Cheers!
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. Dogs without a doubt impact on doing other things. If we want to go out for a day, we're fortunate that our lovely girls next door pop round, take them for a walk and give them cuddles. Holidays are never booked until arrangements for them have been made.
, did you have to evacuate or was it all sorted before such measures were taken? I hope your DH is recovering from his tooth extraction especially as he has his chemo on Thursday.