Good afternoon to all kitchen pals, lots to catch up on today
Sorry to hear you’ve had some more bad news, soop take care and thinking of you 💐
Hoping your little lady kitten finds her appetite soon Sue and hope the little boy is ok tomorrow , best not tell him beforehand 🤣
Please keep us updated with the filming Yia - sounds really interesting
Thank you for your kind wishes after my visit to the eye clinic, I’ve had problems for quite a while but I’m trying not to worry too much unless I have to!
I was at the gym first thing today, unfortunately it’s closing on the 7th April so there lots of talk and discussion about what to do next. There are other gyms, but most of them don’t have a nice warm pool which I really enjoy. Rumour has it that it’s closing because Hollywood bowl are moving in. So unless I take up temping bowling it’s unlikely I’ll be going there much more
Hope the swimming is going ok GG13 I agree about the stress especially with 2 to manage ..
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WELCOME! The buffet is ready and there is coffee, tea and wine for the sharing of. Make yourselves comfortable. I shall now have my lunch and join you later. 
Good to see you Soop!
Just to brighten up a damp and grey day, here is my over the top downstairs loo adorned with my stained glass lantern!
The family reunion is not for a few weeks. Sorry for not coming into our kitchen for a few days. More distressing news has dampened my spirits. The last thing that I wish to do is depress my favourite Granspals.
dusty I have fallen in love with your canine lodger. If I had unlimited funds and plenty of space I would enjoy taking care of stray animals.
Scapal You must have had a wee lump in your throat as you watched your dear granddaughter's performance.
Thank you for the treats, Nannytopsy
Urms and Blossoming Gentle hugs for both of you.
Brook I am sorry that you didn't receive more positive news.
Grandnabatty Wishing you wellness. You deserve it.
Yia Remember to take the best possible care of yourself. I am pleased to hear that Mr Yia is improving.
SueD Thank you for your most interesting post.
Indeed, thank you all for continuing to bring friendship and support into our kitchen.
I’m just popping into the Kitchen before you all forget I ever existed, it’s been so long! 
I’ll just catch up as best I can.
Dusty that wee pup is adorable. I’d be wanting to keep her. 🐶 I laughed at the recycled pot of pansies! 😂
I’m so sorry about your DD’s cat, Brook. It’s very hard for children. I’m also sorry your eye op didn’t work out as intended.
Urms and Blossoming I hope the health worries prove to be unfounded. Look after yourselves, too. Xx
I think I’ve missed something, Yia, what’s the filming that’s going on?
MD passed pleasantly, with cards and wishes from the DC. The card from dd1 made me chuckle. Her friend’s 4yo dd insisted on signing it too, so it also had a wax crayon message inside. Dd1 came over with the GC in the afternoon and we had coffee and cakes together.
We celebrated ds2’s birthday last Friday, long distance. She had a good day, it seems. She’s 28, it only seems yesterday that she arrived! She still likes to be the baby of the family when it suits her.
Yesterday was a bit of a washout as I had a migraine. I did manage to get out for some bits of shopping and to drop off my car for its first MOT today. Yet another insurance person came to survey the house prior to the flood repairs it needs. I received a phone call shortly after to say a joiner was today to also have a look. There’s been a lot of looking but not much action.
The aforementioned joiner arrived at 8am today and, much to our surprise, said he was here to drill holes in the walls to check for any residual damp! That was a scutter as we were unprepared and we have the kittens to manage. We managed by moving them from room to room as he did his work but now they have all these exciting ‘wormholes’ to investigate plus the kick boards from the kitchen units have been taken away so they’ve been exploring under there, emerging all covered in plaster dust. The girl kitten is going to the vet this afternoon for a check up, as she’s still not eating much. I’ll need to brush her first.
I hope I’ll be able to collect my car later on and go to buy some more cat food, the one item she does eat. Tomorrow the boy cat has his ‘operation’ so that means no food after 8pm for him.
The weather here has been so dull, damp and cold, we really need some cheerfulness right now. Hope everyone else hears better weather! TOYA. Xxx
Popping in late and I’m still feeling rather full after an unexpectedly busy day with lunch out.March tends to be full on for us with both our birthdays in the next couple of weeks, our wedding anniversary today and of course Mothering Sunday yesterday. Also DD1’s wedding anniversary, although unless that is a significant one we leave the two of them to celebrate on their own.
First of all my friend called in after she’d been to church, bringing some flowers for Mother’s Day and cards for both birthdays. After our weekly session with the physiotherapist we decided to go out to lunch at our usual local cheap and cheerful restaurant/bar. Shock horror, having been dropped off by the Uber we discovered that the restaurant was closed. Walked a few yards and decide to try a new very Italian pizza restaurant before we looked for a car home.
It was completely empty which should have warned us, but we both needed to sit down. We got very inexperienced service until the manager got involved and then it was brilliant although expensive by our standards. We shared a tasting plate of starters then DH had pasta and I had pizza before both having tiny but very delicious desserts and wonderful coffee. Oh and a bottle of wine as well. At €70 it cost about €50 more than we usually pay but it was thoroughly enjoyable. Phoned for an Uber and the manager came outside and round the corner to make sure that the car found us on the main road.
We found little dog waiting for us on the doorstep!
For Ladyleftfieldlover I think he sleeps on the table because a) he can look through the kitchen window and b) where else would you sleep when you want to be sheltered from the weather and not have to worry about other dogs seeing him on the ground. The table although old is still very strong compared to more recent ones and always gets scrubbed and bleached in the spring.
This afternoon I put the pot of pansies that my friend brought round on the table and found a label on it from her church. She’d obviously been given it at the service she’d been to earlier. 
soop I’m so sorry to hear that both you and Mr soop have heath problems, poor Mr soop’s* head looks very sore. I do hope that your health worries prove unfounded.
We had been told that mr dusty was due for a check up next week but having struggled to get through to Faro hospital yesterday to find out exactly when it is, were lucky to find a young woman in the appointments office who could only find one in May. It’s quite possible that we will eventually be told we missed one in March but at least I tried.
We seem to have acquired a doggy version of Sweetie Pie. I’m resisting giving him a name, although he does get called various things including Sweetie sometimes. He’s a very pretty little thing who has obviously lived in a house before. Although he has also got a taste now for being out all night doing whatever stray dogs do, bark mostly here. I’ve written a bit more about him on today’s Good Morning thread.
DH would like to keep him but has nearly fallen over him a couple of times. I’m a bit more realistic I think, I really don’t want to be chasing a young pup to force him to give up the stolen socks, soggy tissue, or even half empty dinner dish that he’s trying to take outside. Let alone have to hide because I want to eat something with a nice crinkly wrapper. 
He’s obviously come from somewhere he was fed titbits and also where he was allowed to sleep on the sofa, not that he is here. He creeps up if he thinks we’re not looking and becomes very difficult to haul off.
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