After you with the medicinals bai
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Right. I want you all to remember. Just for alibi purposes.
āTwobers was here, but now heās goneā
Goodnight people.
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If it was annoying it cannot possibly have been Our Soo. Nor, I rather doubt, a bumblebee: they are enchanting, not annoying.
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At this time of year, Queen Bumble- Bees are looking for good hibernation spots, Useders. We donāt alarm birdies, as a rule.
Soo xx
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I have achieved: all the day-before-the-barbecue things.
Gānight.
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Thatās Very Good,Dunnock
I donāt half fancy a Barbecue ATMā¦
Carinthia.xx
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Werl, you know where we are.
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Look
I canāt ATM
I expect the Trebuchet to be active tomorrow
Please
Carinthia.xx
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Iām sure youāre right about it looking for somewhere to hibernate. I read earlier this year, that people were reporting that B-Bees seemed rather scarce. Not around here they werenāt. Theyāre far more friendly to people (who leave them alone) than wasps or hornets are, too.
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I think it was staying around me, because I was wearing a red rugby shirt - probably attracted by the colour.
I wouldnāt have worn it had I knownā¦ Mind you, I did look goodā¦ As always. 
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We forgive you. Just.
Meanwhile I too have Achieved everything on my list, plus a forty-mile round trip to fetch last nightās guest, and then the one who was coming tonight canāt make it (damaged his arm, which is in a sling and āNot to be movedā, poor man) so I neednāt have been clever and got his pillows and duvet prepared, drat it. Oh well. Iāll be sorry he isnāt here, I like him.
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Carinthia, Iād better send you some goatburgers now rather than try to remember later.
[ker-TWOING]
Also:
yardarm!
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Thank-you, Dunnock
I does like a good Goatburger
Actually, I like most homemade Burgers
Carinthia.xx
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At last, after a week of increasingly fraught phone calls and emails between composers, performers and airlines, I have managed to arrange a trip to Stuttgart in November. Trouble is, of necessity, itās a sodding day trip; fly out from Dublin 10.15, back in Dublin at 22.25. I have done too much of this sort of thing over the years.
I really hope they serve decent beer on the train, because thatās where weāre going to be spending a fair chunk of the eveningā¦
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[quote=ājoe, post:456, topic:50ā]
itās a sodding day trip; ā¦ I have done too much of this sort of thing over the years.[/quote]Ditto. Far better to be able to take in the city even if only for a night.
That said I flew in & out of Dublin on a monthly basis for 15 years and tried to stay over at least one night. I think I ate in every city restaurant South of the river at least twice.
Iām now far too portly !!
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House refurbishment update.
Well ā¦ Phase one is all but finished. In the past month weāve seen the Decorating done, Carpets laid, New lights fitted, Internal doors 4 or 9 done, but the difficult 4, 5 bedrooms & bathroom ones in a couple of weeks. That will then be that until itās kitchen time.
A lot of āputting backā to do ā¦ added to a goodly amount of stuff NOT being put back ā¦ hence about half a dozen trips to the tip already, More to come. Plus re-fitting various pictures ā¦ Iām nervous of that as itās not easy to pierce the walls here, as all are made off Ruabon Brick, which are engineered bricks and very, very hard and so donāt easily receive thin pointy things. The walls are currently pristine & I am nervous about breaking into them.
But one done & things which are staying put away I can sit back and breath a little easier.
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to fly?
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[quote=āGus, post:459, topic:50ā] to fly? [/quote]On Ryan Air, for sure.
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Today I have thrown away two sets of electric scales which did not work (one gave random weights, the other ate batteries at the rate of two a week, which is absurd) and put in train the purchase of a new set for use when I make flapjacks; I have old-fashioned ones available in the kitchen
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Antique-Black-Brass-Scoop-Kitchen/dp/B000HT1WH4
but for adding ingredients to a saucepan the electric ones are more convenient.
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I have a set of ancient (1970s) brass shop weights quarter ounce, to 7lb and the balance scales they went with
I suppose the brass is worth a lot more as scrap these days.
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