(hugs) for Mr Muse.
Yia I have searched for the post relating to your grandson. I haven't yet found it. Can you please enlighten me? 
Happy Anniversary to the Soops, lovely photo! I have been busy, but no lifting or climbing involved. I may be headstrong but I’m not daft and I know I’ve been overdoing it recently. I shredded another heap of paperwork this morning and have made slow cooker ‘mince and stovies’ for tonight. Not proper stovies, but a decent enough equivalent! There’s never any leftovers so it must be good. My first attempt at using the silicon muffin pan seems to have been a success, they’re now cooling on the worktop. Taste test later, I hope you’ll all partake! I did something today that I haven’t done for many years, scraping up the scraps of cake mix from the bowl and licking the spoon! After I’d put the muffins in the oven, obviously, I’m not completely uncouth 
. And best of all I didn’t have to fight my big brothers for it! Have a lovely evening all.
I need to do something to tame my hair. Should have visited the hair salon for a proper job. Hey ho!
I feel happier now that I am beginning to catch up with my favourite peeps. Some way to go. But it's a start.
Until tomorrow, 
Lovely photograph of the two of you on your wedding day soop and I love the hat too! What a good way to start your celebrations with the lighting of the Aga, not that I know anything about Agas, I hope they are not temperamental. Anyway you will have a cosy and warm house to celebrate in.
Grandmafrench that is exactly my sort of meal, I don’t eat meat ( I’m not a veggie, it dates back to digestive issues) and I would love that lunch, as long as it was long and leisurely. It’s exactly my sort of sky too and all accompanied by a bit of natural history as well. Perfick.
Good evening Kitchen ladies
Back from a lovely walk on the beach. Nothing like strolling with the warm evening sun on our shoulders and watching the dogs scooting along trying not to get their paws wet.
The house roofs were glowing terracotta and golden in the setting sun as we walked back to the car and we were treated to our usual Flamingos posing on the edge of the water as we drove home. It's really hard to hear about central heating and heavier duvets and rain. Hope for all that the mellow fruitfulness returns before Autumn departs. Far too soon for winter, anywhere.
I'm always pleased to hear about the ceremonial lighting of the Aga, though. Makes such a difference to the atmosphere in the Kitchen - any kitchen.
I quite like meat, dusty, but really don't eat it very often. I suppose I feel that it takes such a long time to digest and, however delicious the taste, it certainly lets most of us know if we've over-indulged. Other foods, not so much!
This morning we drove one hour to our new and marvellous lady dentist. Unfortunately she has been taken ill and must be off work for a 'good while'. Oh dear. So, because DH has a small hole in a filling (he says), we had an appointment with her replacement. I totally understand that our dentist would be very unlikely to find someone just like her and a totally competent crowd-pleaser in an emergency situation, but really. Peeps, you should have been there!
We arrived, surgery is empty. Walk in, sit down masked and sanitised. Some noises off, we wait. Almost 15 minutes later a small and harassed-looking dental assistant walks out of another dentist's treatment room (nobody these days seems to work a full week!). Door is left open, she mutters something from behind a mask to the effect sorry for the delay. We see what she has left behind in treatment room which appears to be the unpacking of some equipment. There is paper and bubble wrap and plastic all over the floor and rather looks as if a fight has just taken place. We continue to wait. Eventually every door in the place is left open. She then calls us - or rather DH - into our own dentist's room. Ye Gods, she's the dentist!
She asks me if I have the next appointment. Seriously? She should know if and when there are further appointments. There is no sign of anyone else in the surgery, no staff, nobody.
I say that we are together (thinking does she think that I am a stranger who has decided to follow some man into the treatment room?). I explain (in case she is making some sort of point) that I always sit in when my DH is having treatment because I don't want to take up valuable space in the waiting room, our dentist always asks me in so that I don't have to die in the heat of the car! Oh, she says.
There is - in a beautiful room normally occupied by our gentle, calm, dentist who plays music and moves so quietly that even I don't get stressed - an empty coffee cup on the desk, an overflowing waste bin, a general air of untidiness and she obviously has not learned where everything is since she is moving around the room like a grasshopper.
I wait to watch her put on some gloves. She has no conversation, and although my DH explains twice that he has concerns about an old filling (which has happened since he completed his recent course of treatment) she prefers to examine another tooth on the other side of his mouth. He says, wrong side and there is a hole. She says not a hole - or, well, a very small one! The telephone is ringing and she is distracted. I make a very big thumbs down sign to my DH. She takes an x-ray, with some difficulty and his assistance and he says that he is feeling dizzy and needs to sit up. She makes no comment but he says he'll make another appointment when he is feeling better.
She shows no concern at all - whether he needs some water, needs to sit upright for a while, or whatever. We pay for the X ray, she says she'll send him another appointment and we leave.
Wonderful acting, I say. His response, well it had no effect on her at all, but I'm definitely not being treated by someone who has no interpersonal skills whatsoever and who doesn't speak or discuss or inform. We'll go somewhere else if necessary.
So that's what we will do - until our wonderful dentist is back to good health.
It was quite surreal, but we sat in the shade with some restorative coffee, listened to the birds and put it all down to life experience! Onwards and upwards we go.
Hugs and every good wish to you all. Have a peaceful evening all you kindly souls, and a good rest because I'm sure you've all earned it.
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Wow! Grandmafrench when I saw that beautiful photo I thought your day had been peaceful and serene!
You really captured the atmosphere in the dentist's surgery. I felt as though I was there. I would probably have been scurrying around straightening the place up ! That is often my role in life
Think there will be many posters after me tonight.
Have a lovely anniversary tomorrow Soops
Going to watch All Creatures at nine. Cosy viewing for a chilly night !
‘Evening All’.
A relaxed day. Reading, pottering as you do. Then at 6pm Himself stretched, yawned and said ‘one in the Barrels?’. We were sat down, drinks to hand within 10 minutes.
We enjoyed the ‘soft’ 60’s music playing in the background. We hummed along and looked out at the (by now) absolutely torrential rain!
Once home, it was steak & ale pie, lovingly made by Sainsbury’s, with mash and peas. Food of the gods.
Happy anniversary, Soop! You look so chic in the photo, it’s gorgeous.
GrandmaFrench I am 
at your dental experience! Are you sure it wasn’t a sixth form child on work experience? ?. Our wonderful lady dentist retired about five years ago. I was horror-struck at the thought of having to change but she managed to recruit someone who is out of exactly the same mould and we are very comfortable with our new dentist.
Today we’ve come down to our 39wks 6days pregnant daughter to stay for a few days. We took her out for coffee this afternoon and then dropped her off home before collecting GD from nursery and taking her out for ‘coffee’ - in reality a Percy Pig juice in M&S.
Home to DD’s for cottage pie which my Dh had made last night and we’d brought with us. A bit of tv with GD then into bed with her (did it always take so long with my own DC? Maybe I’ve just forgotten!) while mum and dad went to the cinema to see the new James Bond. It’s such a long movie that they’re not home yet but I’m about to have a nice bath before bedtime.
See you tomorrow, everyone! X
Fantastic first day with DD. She shot off after breakfast and filled up her car ready for Sunday. We had our fingers crossed that the old services garage, I used earlier this week, still had some fuel ⛽️ It did and there were only a few waiting.
Nearly everywhere we want to visit has to be booked and a time slot paid for. No refunds or transfers. Drizzle forecast all day but on Wednesday night I booked for a visit to a garden on the south Cornish coast. This morning the weather changed to downpour on the south coast and less drizzle on north. All change. Still in waterproof jackets we set off for a beach walk and lunch overlooking same beach. The drizzle even stopped for a couple of hours. I would have much preferred your beach walk Grandmafrench. DD had brought her wetsuit just in case and there were a few surfers ?♂️ today.
Sun expected tomorrow and it’s crab sandwiches for a picnic lunch and a coastal walk along our favourite part. Tide will be out ?. Visit to a Japanese garden where I hope to buy DD a Buddha for her garden. Mya is staying with MrM.
Hello LauraNorder. I love that sketch especially the cat. When the clocks go back can we have gin time at six o’clock please.
Mr.GF was very brave to be in the chair for as long as he was.
I’d appreciate all that. Please, Brook. ?
? Lovely to see Grandmajean too. ?
Congratilations, wishing soop & your DH a very happy anniversary, I hope you enjoy your special day together.
Warm, caring thoughts for all of you in this cosy kitchen. 
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