Soop's lovely warm and friendly kitchen

A Happy and healthy New Year to soop and MacSporran and everyone in the kitchen.
So good to see you back soop, lovely poem from Matt.

Sorry grey but MrLins and I love bread pudding, we are sitting with spoons at the ready.
We FaceTimed our little four year old, she had a shop for Christmas, I 'bought' a cup of tea-- for £41.50 ?

I do hope that your boiler behaves ann as corner says not the day for a cold home.
So good to hear that Mr Doodle is making progress.
Have a good evening everyone, stay safe and warm.

PS Woohoo for lovely neighbours and neighbours' gizmos!

jaxjacky, she is a goddess but not mythical.

Yes. Just so, kittylester.

All is right with the world - soop is back in the kitchen!!

jaxjacky, she is a goddess but not mythical.

Lovely poem from young Matt MacSporran.

Galen, how are things with you now?

Save some bread pudding for me - I'm assuming its gf! Cream with mine please.

TOYA!

Hope you can join us properly soon Soop, and what a lovely poem. Happy new year to one and all.

A Happy New Year to you all and hopefully a healthier year for you and yours.
soop thank you for this lovely, comforting kitchen and also the clever poem from your son.

An ear to ear grin. here to see you back, thank goodness for gizmos soop. Stay warm and relaxed while composing the strongest letter possible to the Chair of BT. Look after yourselves.

Is it time to keep a note of your issues with those neighbours charley? Sounds as if some intervention may be needed pretty soon to keep you out of prison . Hope there’s a peaceful night for you and Tara.

Thank goodness the boiler responded ann, not the day for a cold home. I’ve just had a wonderfully cheery message from a friend who is always positive. She’s brightened my day with her positivity, hope some spills out for you. As she says it will all be better, we just need to believe and be patient.

mr C has joined the bread pudding queue greyd, hope there’s enough to go round .

Take care everyone. TOYA.

Hurrah! I’ve sort of met Soop at last. I’d begun to wonder if she was a mythical goddess, conjured up in times of need for warmth and comfort. Happy New Year Soop pleased your enforced break from the ether was/is enjoyable.
Doodle also good news to read your DH is slowly recovering, literally step by step, onwards....

Huzzah! Soop is back!! (Even if it’s temporary)
So glad that all is well with you and Fern. A Happy New Year.

Darling Granspal Kitcheners...this is just a quick catch-up thanks to a gizmo that the neighbour has loaned me for this afternoon.

First of all...thank you dear Baggs for being kind enough to relay all my messages in my absence. She is a star.

We are far from back to normal. In fact, it's likely to be the 8th (one month after first reporting the fault to BT) before another engineer calls. I cannot put our frustration into words that can be printed on Gransnet. Such a nice place. Such refined members. Unlike me.

It has cheered me greatly to see that you are all keeping each other amused and well supported. I have approx 23 pages of news to read. I may print the pages and read them at my leisure.

Welcome to some new Kitcheners...LauraNorder brook2704 Jaxjacky BladeAnnie grandmattie Suzette Flora and many more newcomers who I may have missed as I scrolled through the mountain of messages.

It's been a very strange Christmas. Especially without the use of the internet. We've enjoyed family phone calls. The cat has spent time in her apartment and then buzzes off for several hours on end before returning and making up for missed meals big time.

We shall have a new great grandchild born into the family in July. It will be a brother or sister for Ted. Happy news indeed.

Son Matt wrote a lovely poem for the new year. I shall share it with you. After which, I shall log off and do my best to read through all the happenings in our kitchen since I was last here with you. Maybe, if we can hang on to our neighbour's gizmo a wee while longer, I shall be able to wander back into the kitchen to spend some quality time with you lovely lot.

I wish you ALL a healthy and happy 2021.

Year's End...by son Matt.

We meet tonight in the white wind,
to sink this year like a ship,
wrecked in gales of laughter.
Time is a flat circle they say,
but our coil's end never meets the circle's start
but spirals ever outwards:
a slipped orbit, or a toppled reel,
spilling new beginnings into hungry space.
Space that we shall fill, I promise now, with love
and journeys made on better ships with taller sails blown free by warmer winds.
One day soon, in some bright port of our own
we shall look back on this tight course,
this Mercury of years, and wonder -
how small the sphere we filled
and how broad and bold the world we built from it became.

and virtual hugs aplenty.

Not a good start.
My GD and I didn’t bother getting out of bed this morning until 10:30am (oh the horror)
She was watching tv in her room and I was txting , messaging and then on GN.
When I did eventually get up I was freezing, came down to cold radiators and F for fault flashing on the boiler.
I switched it off, switched it back on again to no result.
Got ready to do battle with BG and although I am on their priority list quite frankly it doesn’t mean much and expected to be told, we can come in five days.
However I switched it off again then on and tried switching the programmer to another setting and it roared into action.
There is no logic to what I did, it just worked.
The house hasn’t warmed up at all yet so my GD is getting heaters out to tide us over and I am in jumper, fleece and socks, very elegant indeed.
Sent me right back to the days of coal fires which one hoped would stay in overnight, freezing bedrooms and ice on the windows.
We are very blessed to have moved on from that.

Happy new year to you all.

soop sends "special greetings to that lovely lot " in The Kitchen.

She and MacS await a call from BT but are not holding their breaths ??

Oh Charley!??

Please may I join your DH? I love it. No custard for me thanks, just cold milk.

Happy New Year folks, and what Puzzler said! No brownie points to BT, either, for continuing to keep our good lady away from her kitchen.
I am going to start the new year off with a selfless act - probably my first and last! We have a lot of bread hanging about and I am going to steel myself and make DH - I can hardly bring myself to say it - a bread pudding. I have a horror of soaking bread in anything. It turns my tum. But he adores it and his usual source, aka my best friend, is cut off from us as she isn’t seeing anyone at the moment. He’s such a long suffering old lad, I feel he deserves a treat. I, of course, may never recover - not just from the soggy bread, but from the selfless act! But first, another cup of coffee and the New Years Day concert from Vienna. Very strange this year with no audience.

Happy New Year all kitchen friends, far and wide (and ??) especially soop. It doesn’t seem right to be enjoying her kitchen when she can’t join us.
Wishing for a year of better health, more blessings, less sorrow, for freedom to go about our lives with positivity and enjoyment and not least to be able to see and hug our friends and loved ones. TOYA .

How good it will be to have soop back where she belongs, at the heart of her kitchen.

Greetings to all for a better Year, I personally have no optimism but for the rest of you I send my sincere good wishes and masses of cheery

Just popping on to say Happy New Year everyone and here's hoping 2021 is a better one for us all. Stay safe x

I cannot see an engineer for want of a better word going to sort soop's problem before Monday the 4th. On that date, I am sure they will have staff sickness and annual leave to consider. I personally think this has now reached the stage of a carefully constructed letter sent to a named head honcho.

Happy New year everyone , let’s hope Soop is back with us before we start marching on BT !

Just popped in to wish everyone a Happy New Year especially soop!

A guid new year tae yin an a! I hope you have a good day x

Tara has been indoors for days, her choice.

My horrible neighbours set off fireworks at midnight last night but Tara was not too bothered although they were very loud. We were both comfortable in bed but I certainly could not sleep with that cacophony going on.

One of them has blocked my car in- I could possibly get out but it will almost be blood, sweat and tears. I would not be able to park because unfortunately, my car does not bend. There are times when I wish I drove a Sherman tank.

Doodle pleased to hear he is more comfortable now. It will take 6 weeks before he is almost pain free.

Happy New Year soop and all the kitcheners . May 2021 be a good one and bring peace to you all ?️