Small mercies, dere: a yellow handbag is never a good thing…
Facetiousness aside, that sounds bluddy 'orrible, and I hope that you will find yourself improved A Lot and the next flare-up very slow in coming. Bah! to it, dere Chatelaine.
G xxx
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Absolutely Bah!
I’m glad that today has presented better health, if poor health provisioning, Carinthia.
That Knee seems to be mending, Gus - I hope.
We had an interesting walk, today, in that we got a bit lost and ended up on a very long forestry track eventually leading onto the main and rather fast road, uphill, downhill and around the many bends. I had left my walking pole in the boot of the car (as per) so Mr Soo fashioned me one from a pine branch. Bless him, as I could not have coped without this. Further to his credit, he acknowledged that I have far greater stamina than he does as he was peggin’ it by the end (it has been Very Warm here) and I wasn’t. We had a very enjoyable meal at the Tayside Marina - scrummy seafood - and listened to *Steve Reich on the lovely drive home. No deer were harmed.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c
Soo xx
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And with that to look forward to tomorrow, I am for my bed.
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A custom-made stick: what a spoilt and cherished Bee you are. No, well done that Drone for pole-whittling. Glad you weren’t irretrievably lost
Knee is functioning, thank you. Not as per spec, but it will do. Got me out to get a prescription (for the cat, I hasten to add). Massive diversions because road closure. Dunno what all that was about - I had better do some reeee-search. No one made me a stick ;- (
All sounds very splendid, dere Bee: I am glad you are enjoying yourselves and leaving the deer unharmed
Gxxxx
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I have a hand carved blackthorn stick with a dog as the handle
I bought it myself from a nice craft fair
The carver cut it to my length before I was allowed to take it
I am glad that our bee is having fun
As for our chatelaine do I need to rev up my broomstick?
Now who has the cure for overeating?
I did huevos rancheros for dinner and I ate too much
I think it was the fourth poached egg that did for me
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Bluddy hell, Twellsy, you’re made of stern stuff.
Pitchers over here please, PDQ, to revive a fainting-yet-slightly-admiring Gus.
Gxxxx
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That would be Heave-Hos Rancheros then…
Hang on to yer guts, Gus
Administers Medicinals
Carinthia.xx
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Immoderate snorking has ensued.
As to hanging onto me guts, something needs to. You might be just the right person to direct me to a good whalebone warehouse and discreet Foundry, dahlink, wot wiv yer professional connections and all.
Failing which, it will be ‘Pass the harpoon’, I fear.
G xxx
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When I was a child, my Grandmother used to go to the Spirella Corsets Lady…
I called them Corsicks, & wasn’t wrong…
Carinthia.xx
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Wot yer want* is spun diamond filaments.
* in an engineering sense rather than a practical one
Looks like a slightly warmer day here. And a promise of a thunderstorm on Monday! I bet it doesn’t happen, though. They always cancel at the last moment.
yardarm
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I promised myself a trip to the zoo when tbe weather was nice & I’d done my chores.
We, it is & I have, so I am.
It’s only 20 minutes away. I can almost smell the elephant dung.
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I have a leopard sweetly purring while dozing on my lap…
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No leopards. The lions wete thete but sleeping but there were cheetsks & jaguars …
…and a baby flump born less than 24hrs ago.
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Today is the Great Pecorino Hunt; I am cautiously optimistic. If successful, carbonara will happen.
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oh dear, a surplus of eggs again, joe?
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As ever! Not the reason, though - just love carbonara, and it’s very quick to throw together. Only problem is sourcing the pecorino; people keep suggesting substituting parmigiana, but the recipe I use calls for both. (An’ it’s from a proper Italian cookbook an’ all)
Meanwhile, there are toasties on the go using my last batch of rolls - any takers?
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We have received a demand for money before a (completely unspecified as to content) parcel from Sweden will be delivered. £13.02 (I think it is) plus a £11 charge for administration.
The reason given for this is “VAT dues”.
Last time I looked, Sweden and the UK were still in a customs union: how can they be charging us VAT on something from a country with which we share this?
I mean, yes, obviously they can, because they are; but what is their justification?
I shall be actually angry if it turns out not to be something we’ve ordered.
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Parcelforce. The worst parcel courier in the UK, except for all the others.
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As someone who worked on contract for Drop-it, Hide-it, Lose-it … (DHL) & also in Cargo Handling at Heathrow, Gatwick & Manchester for 12 months I can, without fail, tell you that UP-Shit-creek (UPS) are, hands down, the owners of this award.
Not even including your very wise words ‘except for all the others’.
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Not in my experience. I found them pretty reliable and, relatively speaking, a pleasure to deal with, as recently as about five years ago. By which I don’t mean that they suddenly became awful, but that it stopped being something I needed to worry about.
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