Soop's pleasant (if boring) kitchen for friendly folk and precious pets.

The gransnet gremlin ate a post I did earlier. Have a restful evening everyone.
I had lemons and limes to spare and was sending a virtual bowl full to annsixty. Love the idea from Maw about freezing lemon quarters.

We do usually have it in slices so I will do some of each and see.
It is such a good idea as I prefer lime but himself likes lemon so that it what we have for a quiet life.?

Ann as already said, he will have forgotten about it tomorrow and it will be something else worrying him. As I have said before, I would be doing time if I were in your position.

Maw that is really good if Paw was able to use his mobile, the first time for ages. Do not allow him to be thrown out after his first faltering footsteps around the bed.

I loved that poem and it is really good that Hattie has settled in so well- she will be enjoying her present lazy life- a tad different from the previous one.

I freeze mine in slices but it works a treat.

Oh Ann!!
When you get your lemons/limes, cut some up into quarters/sixths whatever and freeze in a bag. You can then drop them straight into a G&T and don't even necessarily need ice!

I would have asked for my money back, Jalima! I loathe seeing anyone drinking anything alcoholic straight out of a bottle.
Ann I offer a virtual gentle arm around your shoulder. I would walk over broken glass for a gin and tonic right now with or without lemon, but it is one of my dry days☹️.
Our neighbour, who is fitting our bathroom in his spare time, has suddenly run out of spare time. He came round today to start the tiling and then got a telephone call to say that the people who are buying his house want to exchange by next weekend. He is working away next week and his wife is working too, and though they are more or less packed, they are now going to have to put their shoulders to the wheel this weekend and organise their move - which means after he has put in the wiring for the ceiling lighting tommorrow morning, I am not likely to see him again for a while. To be fair, we did say that if he got a moving date, we would cut him some slack. I will be so sorry to see them go, they have been wonderful people to live next door to.

Hold on Ann , with any luck he will have forgotten by tomorrow and you will have replenished the lemons !

I ordered a lager and lime the other day in a restaurant and was astonished when it arrived in a bottle with a piece of lime stuck in the top.
They did provide a glass and I went and asked for a shot of lime cordial but apparently that is very infra dig and I was supposed to drink the lager from the bottle through the piece of lime.

Whatever happened to ladylike manners?

Oh dear annsixty

A couple of lemons and a very frozen large leg of lamb on its way to you now! Plus some gin if you like as I rarely drink it. But I do drink the tonic (supposed to stop night-time cramps) so you will have to provide your own.

ann A gentle hug is winging it's way to you. I've two limes. Pity I cannot post one to you. Anything for a quiet life. If I were you I'd make haste to the supermarket as soon as.

If anyone has a frozen leg of lamb please send it through the ether pronto.
I did not get a lemon today , the world has come to an end because we have none for tomorrow's G&T which is 24 hours away. The recrimination have gone on now for an hour. He walked round to the corner shop and came back with a Jif lemon, I told him that was useless, he did a trial run with a measure of gin and a squeeze of jif lemon, no ice no tonic, it was truly horrible. I have had to promise to go to a supermarket one and a half miles tomorrow morning.
It is the only way to get some peace.

Thank you dear harrigran.

Maw and kitty and grannie and all our very special kitcheners...far too many to mention if I'm ever to finish before bedtime a second hello.

Just a very silly conversation between MacS and me as we sipped our morning tea. You need to understand that we converse in a form of shorthand. Especially first thing in the morning.

Me...sleep well?

MacS yeah!

Me...Rory?

MacS yeah!

Me...weather?

MacS... changeable.

Me...windy?

MacS ...not since I cut down on the fruit...

Just popped in to wish soop a speedy recovery and best wishes to maw and paw.

All so true, they are wonderful dogs, I`d have another in a heartbeat, if I could still get around properly.
So pleased to hear good news of Paw, let`s hope it`s onward and upward from now on.
Soop, I do hope the new A/Bs work for you. I`m on permanent Nitrofurentoin, which worked brilliantly at the start, but I feel I might be getting immune to them now, maybe need something different.
I`ve just taken delivery of a George Foreman grill, has anyone else got one, if so, are they good?
My daughter who took me to the Albert Hall in March has just offered to take me again in November or December, I just have to decide which concert, but I`m awfully tempted by the Classical Spectacular that we went to in March, it was BRILLIANT!

They can't comprehend huge numbers like our ages, can they?
Paw has just rung me to see if I am going over to see him tonight.
First time he has used his mobile in 2 weeks!
I thought you might like to read this, posted on FB by a friend who is also on GN so I apologise for my lack of originality, but won't blow her cover by giving her GN name.
POEM for a Greyhound

I didn't really want you, I wasn't really sure, And I'll admit I had my doubts when you first came through that door
Not small, or cute, or fluffy, with big soft puppy eyes, But tall and thin and bony, with bald pink bulging thighs

You weren't the kind I had in mind, not in any way,
Perhaps it would be better, if I took you back today, before we know each other, it really won't be kind,
To keep you here for one more day and then to change my mind

But against my better judgement, I decided you could stay and quickly I discovered, you were kind in every way.
Your gentleness and patience really stole the show
"Why! These dogs are wonderful, I must let others know"

You're my gentle giant, who just needed a chance, To show us all what you could be, to wipe away that history.
Dispel our preconceptions, that put us all to shame and so we come to know and love, what lies beneath that frame.

And now I've come to understand, what I missed right at the start, That Greyhounds need that great deep chest...
To house their great big hearts.

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Good news about Paw, Maw and that Hattie is settling in so well.

I would add to Charley's post, that as well as assessing him, you should assess how much you can cope with and whether you are happy with the arrangements. Neither of you want the stress of another hospital stay.

Sorry for renaming you Devongirl flipping phone is too big for its boots!

Something to make you smile.

Walking home from the park with Persie who had fallen and grazed her arm.

Persie: I thought we should have come in the car in case we had a accident but I only thinked it in my head.

Me: Well, you should have told me because you know that I am old and not very clever.

Persie: Some old people are clever like Pa.

Me: How old is Pa, do you know?

Persie: I think he is 38, 39, thirty ten?

Me: Well, actually, he is 72!

Persie (in shocked tones): Oh, my God!!

So glad you have Hattie to give you a bit of company Maw, and hope Paw continues to improve. Hope Soops ABs help with the uti, they're horrid and leave you feeling washed out. Been busy bottling the plum glut and DH made lots of jam
It will have to be given away as he starts the 8 week blood sugar diet next week!

Just wanted to add that Hattie gets sweeter by the day.
She loves pinching slippers/shoes/clothes and taking them out to the garden and now she has found her way upstairs she will sleep on the half landing if I don't let her go any further. Just wants to be near!
I can't get over how quick she is to learn her way around and the "routines" of her new home.
What a lovely temperament she has too. ???

Maw when the ward staff think that Paw is ready for discharge, you must assess him yourself and use your gut instinct. You do not want a repeat performance which could have turned out very differently, adding to his problems by breaking a limb or two.

soop it sounds as though Rory is back to his normal self and insisting on some decent food NOW. I am so pleased to hear that.

It would appear that the vast majority of us have changed profiles from blue to black and I will be very circumspect re which posts to which I reply apart from this one of course.

You really don't need to explain Maw we could tell from your posts just how awful it was for you. Do not let it happen again.
It is so good of you to wish us all a pleasant weekend when yours will be hospital visits over and over again,

I think he was looking a fraction better today after a good night's sleep. What a difference sleep makes doesn't it?
No real change in any other respect. We are still waiting and seeing and he has another 3 days of his present a/b so I am really hoping this will have done the business.
What I dread (and it wakes me up at night) is the prospect of another discharge home before he is well enough. Hard to explain what a nightmare that was!
Sorry to hear about your UTI Soop how totally frustrating and annoying for you. So debilitating.
Wishing you all a pleasant weekend.

Trimethoprim it is. Feeling very fortunate that all the medication weighing down the shelf for such stuff is free. Simply couldn't afford to go on living otherwise.

Greyduster Plum cake! Now you're talking. My number one favourite fruit is a ripe Victoria plum. Dare I say that I went scrumpin' said fruit when a naughty rascal of a child.

Baggs Thank you for the . They must be sweet peas. I can as good as smell the perfume.

I'm thinking of Maw...again. Wishing for some less troubling news.

Just finished unpacking the Tesco shop. I like to live dangerously. Rory was under my feet and yowling for attention the moment I set foot in the kitchen. As per usual, his needs came first.

Back a little later.

Greyduster that does sound yummy- I suppose it will have been scoffed if I pop in tomorrow?!

A beautiful morning- I have just rescued my dry washing before the heavens opened. I can hear a rumble of thunder but it appears to be a distance away.

I am supposedly in the middle of a huge tidy up but this is of much more importance!

soop I hope that the antibiotics have kicked in. and you are feeling better.

How is Rory?

Soop I hope you're feeling better today - UTIs are awful; I have had a few. My DiL had one last week - her first. It frightened the life out of her! As Galen says, trimethoprim usually sorts mine out, but last time I had it they only prescribed three days instead of the usual week. Cleared it up though.
I will look in later - I am off to make a cake with the rest of the plums my neighbour gave me.