soops kindly kitcheners and perfect pampered pets.

grannylyn65 I am sure that you are mistaken, it was not one or both of those beautiful cats who stole the sausages. Butter would not melt in their moths. Perhaps the sausages fell off the plate and they were demolished in case somebody had a very nasty accident slipping on them!!!!!

soop, I shouldn't worry about me, though it's very kind of you! I've had polymyalgia rheumatica for 5 1/2 years and the steroids should have been keeping the inflammation at bay. I am sure that the PMR is on the way out, and the sinus infection that could have explained the high CRP has been cleared out. I'm seeing the ENT consultant on Thursday for a check up, so will perhaps find out if there is any residual infection. So, as I say, don't worry on my behalf. I don't!

grannylyn65, I admire the ingenuity of your cats. You may have to keep all temptation under lock and key from now on. They are also very handsome cats indeed.

Boiled eggs for tea if anyone wants to join me. All laid this morning. We have two white one, a blue one, three Browns and one greenish one from the Cheshire Blue girl. Must remember to take butter out of the fridge for the soldiers.

And whoever mentioned lemon drizzle cake - I have now been facing that ever since. Too many carbs and sugar alas, but one can dream!!

Yes, love em to bits !!?

Charleyg The so-called excuse that you are making on behalf of the sausage-scoffing cats, is the very one that my children made (me too) when confronted with an angry parent and good old fashioned telling off. "It wasn't me. It was an accident..." said in a pathetic/whiney voice.

Talking of raw sausages. When I was a child, my pal, Jackie, and I were occasionally left in charge of a string of Saxby's sausages together with other groceries. We would eat a raw sausage each on the way home from town. My father would have been driving the car at the time. We were back seat passengers. I cannot recall suffering from a jippy tummy.

anno You have my respect. Like many other *Granspals, you somehow manage to cope with your buggerations and remain up-beat.

Izabella Freshly laid eggs are a real treat. Especially with hot buttered toast (cut into soldiers). Our friend who lives nearby, has lost all her hens and ducks to a fox. Same thing happened to our next door neighbour's hens.
My late Nana kept hens. They scratched and rootled freely around her garden and were housed in a low-lying, den-shaped thingy. She would send me into the den, (I had to crawl) in order to collect eggs and leave a pot egg as a thank you, or so I thought.

grannylyn Of course you do.

Time for me to log off. Thank you for your company. When we return home after MacS's scan, I shall pop in for catch-up.

It was me izabella and sadly I seem to have made serious inroads into it without any help from anyone

Oh I do love you lot! I was feeling very jittery after hearing that a young boy I know had gone missing after school (he has been found thankfully) and needed something to distract me. My DIL had rung to ask me to look after DGS while she helped search but then ended the conversation quickly. She rang back to say he was ok and at a friend's house, but it left me all of a flutter. Talk of fresh-laid eggs, lemon drizzle cake and cats calmed me immensely. Thank you x

The very best of luck for MacSporran tomorrow. He never makes a fuss.

Swanny us lot have been accused in the recent past of being in La la land but I do not think so, we happen to care, not everybody on GN does.

My lodger should be coming home soon looking for her supper and then straight to bed. That really is the life. I must make sure that her litter tray is up to standard.

Galen, 2 babybelle and some fruit juice are not enough for you to get your strength back. Can't you get someone from Cunard to pop round with a bit of lunch and the odd or two? Thank goodness your neighbour made you something yesterday. Hope you feel better tomorrow (can't see you being well enough to go out on Wednesday though ).

Yes I will!

I was amused this afternoon when I picked up GS from school. They are doing the Egyptians this terms and were making mummies today. "Some people brought a figure or a doll to make a mummy out of", he said. "What happened if you didn't have a figure", I asked. ”We used a tomato", he said . I asked how you mummify a tomato "Well, you take out all the middle, fill it with salt and then you empty out the salt, make amulets out of plasticine to put in the middle, and then you wrap it in bandages.” I will never look at a tomato in the same way again! Perhaps there will be a new variety of tomato - the Tutankhamen! I have rather foolishly volunteered to make him a Minecraft cake for his birthday next month and the more I think about it, I may just have bitten off more than I can chew, but, nothing ventured.....

Get well soon wishes to all who are sick and I hope MacSporran's aneurism is behaving itself.

I've decided I'm going to try and make some croissants. It'll take two days according to a recipe I've found! If the Bagses don't scoff them all I'll bring some in for Soop Kitchen sampling and testing.

Croissants. Another forbidden treat.

On a positive note I have booked a backpacking jaunt through Central America. My feet do not stay itch free for long.

I hope all who are under the weather as they say, have had a better day and soop, thanks for the message!!

That sounds very adventurous, izabella!! Not for me (wimp that I am, ) but exciting!

Izabella. That's certainly something different. How long for? Where ? Will you go alone or is this a group venture? When you get back do tell us about it. Unless you are able to get wifi along the way.

My son and family have asked me to join them on a camping trip to France in the summer, partly to Provence to a site we like very much and partly to Savoie where French friends are running a camp site. Can't wait!

Izabella, what an exciting prospect. Central America is opening up more nowadays.My adult GD is recently back from a holiday in Costa Rica - half rainforest and half coast - which sounds fabulous.

I do wish my husband understood that motion sickness was not all in the mind.

We were a bit later leaving DDs than we should have been and OH was driving back. I asked him to take it smoothly.
As a driver he is not given to really speeding but today's journey was just that bit too fast to for me to cope wth all the very bendy and hilly roads.

It's how fast he goes around corners that causes the problems for me. I succumbed about a mile from home. "Very discretly I will add, as I shouted at at OH to stop in time.)
I felt Green like this When I got home. I cannot remember when I last did that.

Felt better straight away TMI I know.

That was quick Soop, I didn`t expect the parcel to arrive until at least Tuesday, I only posted it Saturday lunchtime. Tel Rory and Bracken that they are very welcome, and I hope they enjoy them. I hope all went well for MacSporran?

I slept! How absolutely wonderful is that? So to all other kitcheners who don't, there is always the odd night when it works out.
So, hens cleaned out and first lot of eggs collected, first cuppa enjoyed, and still giggling about NanaandGrampys watered down Americans.

Belladonna and annodomini - a long wait as it is in November. Yes I usually arrange things myself but if there are any interesting little day tours I may join in them. Sometimes it is easier to do that than struggle with transport links on your own. There are a lot of Eco and conservation projects out there I am interested in and yes Wifi is available. One 'posh ' hotel mid way for laundry as travelling light.

I've made far too much porriage to-day and have left a nice pan full on to keep warm please help yourself ladies and keep yourselves topped up and warm until lunch time,there is a punnet of strawberries to add if your like them I bought far too much fruit this weekend so enjoy.

I'm feeling a bit out of touch, minding Littlest yesterday and little reading time Sunday so apologies for doubtlessly missing loads. Caught up with things that have made me smile but it seems I've missed out on some virtual treats, oh well, hopefully croissants to come. I can eat wheat without worry in this virtual world .

Fingers are crossed for macsporran and anyone else with medical stuff going on. I'm in awe of your travels izabella, not brave enough for that sort of travelling although we did have a very sheltered and supported cruise through the Panama Canal which included a day in Costa Rica. What we were able to see was beautiful. Thinking of cruises has made me think of galen, I so hope you have managed to eat more than you described, any chance of you allowing yourself to recover? I know I'm nagging but I am now in week seven of post bug issues and don't recommend it at all.

Best get on, lots of boring stuff to get through before school pickup later. Making the most of this as senior school beckons for one and contact will then be very different.