Welcome to the official opening of Granddads' shed

Yikes!

Perhaps it's as well ! He'd find out what you're really like!

jack is it jill ?

No soop. He's a man. And jeni, if he doesn't know what I'm like after 44 years then I'm a Dutchman!

I was going to return to the shed, I was starting to get things in perspective again.
BUT.
Is Jack an man or woman ? is Jack's DH Jill ? To top that, it appears that Jack, who I had decided was probably a woman, could be a Dutchman. .

Think I'll crawl back in my hole and try again later, perhaps this was all a bad dream.

I think everyone's talking at cross-purposes here! I think jeni was referring to your male friend, jack. And I was wondering how it would take us ages to work out who your DH is unless he was using a female pseudonym!

PS It's not pompa, is it?

I've lost all track of who I am !!

Well that would be lovely ...

pompa are you me? As I don't know who I am some days, perhaps that's my problem?

Pompa sits in the corner gently rocking with his underpants on his head and two pencils stuck up his nostrils.

No not me then, I've got 3 pencils, one in each nostril!

Are you bald Pompa? Or just cold? Could I suggest that you keep your pants on and invest in a tea cosy for your head. As for the pencils, do be careful you don't end up with lead poisoning in your vital orifices. Besides, you should be using them for the crossword. Oh dear. You have so much to learn.

As for you jeni, I'm sorry the nose job went so badly wrong!

jack!

As we near the close of yet another perfect day spent wasting enjoying time talking twaddle as some GNs do...I have to admit that I'm beyond And if ignorance is whatever...I'm in a state of unadulterated bliss. Off to attend to matters domestic. Bye for now.

Anyone got a knitting pattern for a tea cosy, using a pair of size HB pencils ?

Circular hitting I've got three and they're BB.

Should be knitting! Hard day at the tribunal face!

Every year, we say we mustn't do it, but here we go again - heading away for 2/3 weeks during the busiest period in the garden. Greenhouse is full to bursting with bedding and baskets, but it is still too risky to put them out this week. By the time we get back most plants will have grown larger than I would like. I have risked sowing beans under fleece, they should be ok as long as the mice don't get them before they germinate. Next year we will NOT go away during May.

just asking pompa re the pencil ..does he have any lead in it

You can take a horse to the water, but a pencil must be led Nellie

Thanks Elegran hope you enjoyed your meal with your DD's and family last night..

Sure there must be some lead left somewhere, just needs sharpening.

A lovely evening despit missing DH. It went on until 11.15, so got home and to bed after midnight. Son and brother spent a lot of the meal discussing "strange guitars I have known" Brother has just been drawn (at 62) into buying his first electric guitar, a reconditioned Ibanez which was half the price of a new one from the same shop (cue for much rejoicing)

I now know more about electric guitars than I ever did before. Apparently you can get them with two or three or even more necks, and any number of strings. Some even have one set of strings set at an angle across the first, to save space. Jimi Hendrix was left-handed but could not afford a special left-handed guitar so taught himself to play a standard one held the other way round. By the time he could afford a special he was too accustomed to the altered one to change it. And so on.

It was a very good meal. Main course a mushroom lasagne from a recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi, but with a mixture of dried mushrooms, including chanterelles, and fresh ones, with rocket salad and French bread. Dessert was a trifle made by DD2 (not her usual boozy sherry one, as DIL cannot drink non-kosher alcohol - for this reason I had already stocked up on Baron Hertzog which is suitably kosher and incidentally very nice, so I took one of those in to drink with the meal)

Mushroom lasagne recipe is here if you are tempted -

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/mushroom-lasagne-yotam-

Be warned, it took longer to make than expected, but was delicious.

What a lovely evening, Elegran! And what a fascinating conversation about electric guitars - I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix performing in Manchester in the 60s, playing his guitar with his teeth and generally throwing it around. And what an inspiration your brother is, buying his first one at the age of 62!

It sounds as though it was just the sort of family celebration you needed, of course you missed your DH, but you had good food and conversation which will have made the occasion a happy one.