Well, one would hope so, really.
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That could be answering any of the three preceding posts.
Or indeed all of them.
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I will wait for the Yardarm until I get back from the hairdresser this afternoon
The Virtuous Font has been deployed here today , along with the vacuum cleaner .
Downstairs is being thoroughly aired, & I have even opened out the folding bed in the leather sofa, to air that
No doubt I’ll pay for this madness tomorrow…
Carinthia.xx
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That Bird had to go out to the post just now.
It has immediately started to rain, with added thunder just for a bit of light entertainment.
Looking at Blitzortung, I see that London is supposed to be catching it, but it doesn’t think we ought to be.
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Meanwhile, we have:
Cloudless blue sky populated by a veritable swarm of swallows. I am not going to waste this! Trying to contrive a way of getting the essential parts of my desk out onto the patio.
Working with the “assistance” of the chooks could be interesting…
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For values of “post” that equal “pub”.
Now back in the gazebo, which since we put the new roof on doesn’t drum with the rain any more. Very strange.
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A kite has just flapped low over our roof and perched on a tree two doors down.
(Yeah, not the best camera, but it’s the one I have with me.)
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we had several hours of low-grade rumbly thunder. There was evidently quite a bit of rain too, which managed to happen while I was asleep.
In other news - and please touch wood or perform ofther rituals of choice, so long as they do not involve cruelty to chickens (or cats, Fanta!) - the oven appears to be functioning again. Steam cleaned the bugger and later, after blowing the cold fan through it for a while, very cautiously heated it to the (very moderate really, 180) temperature at which it decided to have a bit of a fire last night.
Bit of a relief. Tonight’s supper does not depend on a functioning oven. I expect I shall set the frying pan alight.
Steam cleaning when feeling wobbly is Unfun.
There is a lot to be said for cooking over an open fire, imo.
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That’s a relief, Gus.
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I cook on a BBQ just now
Too hot to put a range oven on
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They do have their drawbacks in warm weather, though I have always slightly hankered after one.
You reminded me of a friend whose frequent lament was “It’s too cold to go out without a car on!”. He was not, as you have probably deduced, from Newcastle or thereabouts.
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I always used to feel that one of the reasons people are out of touch with the climate is that they are out of touch with the weather: it doesn’t really happen to you in the same way when you are in a car.
The thunderstorms in the last week of May aren’t that unusual, I don’t think: Sudden Daughter was born on a night with a really fine thunderstorm going on, so I have tended to notice them around her birthday. But people are saying that they didn’t expect the thunderstorms we’ve been having over the past few days.
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But you, dear Fish, do sometimes get surprised by unseasonable weather, whereas my experience has been that it’s just what happens. I wear a hat, in part, because it’s umbrella and sunglasses in one.
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I was pointing out that the thunderstorms are not unseasonal, Bird.
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I tend to be aware of weather
We are the lucky recipients of so much of it here…
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Trying to make the most of the last hour before sunset. All I want is a small g&t, so what moddable bar steward has moved the sodding meat tenderiser?
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'Twasn’t me, joe.
Have this:
Soo xx
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Would that be a goat & tonic? Otherwise I don’t see the meat tenderiser’s temporary absence as any class of problem wrt the availability of G&T.
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Couldn’t find a pic of that, Gus.
Ne’er mind a recipe.
Soo xx
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Oof
Twirl
Flumps & Liberates Pitcher
Thought I’d broken the Internetty again , but it’s working now
Did a bit of shopping after having my hair done
Came back with 54 toilet rolls from FarmFoods
I lead such an exciting life…
Carinthia.xx
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