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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sandy on February 27, 2009, 07:55:00 pm
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When I read what people do in the day I feel exhausted, people are SO busy. I love to be busy too and never seem to have enough time to do everything, then as I sat down to watch TV I felt it was all a bit of a bore, we like to watch the BBC I player but our connection has gone bad, will be hopefully be sorted soon...how many other people have gone off television, anyway, for some strange reason I have been ill this week and so has my partner, so tonight I could do with a good programme, got the fire, the wine and the company but what else? What are other people up to (nothing too rude, I don't mind but others may find it offensive)
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Forums, then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, "QI" and "Not going out" then sleep.
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Whats the Deathly Hollows? I loved the film sleepy Hollow as I love Johnny Depp, he is the ONLY person I would leave Steve for...I think he is happy with Vanessa Parady!!!! well, never mind....I'm not keen reading at night anyway, I like an easy option.
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After a tiring day doing 7 hours lawn edging for a customer I'm now off to rest my weary bones on the sofa in front of the telly! Have been web surfing for the past hour - planning our journey to Wales next week to look at a camper van to buy. After putting all the alternative routes in the journey planner, looks like we will have to drive as the train is too expensive as we will have to leave home at peak time. Enjoy your evening. The wine sounds like a good idea.
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The Deathly Hallows is the last of the seven Harry Potter books. I've just read all seven again - I love them. Never seen the films though.
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Have just watched Emmy and Corrie - can't be bothered watching second episode so just having a quick read on here before I get Allez trimmed up for a show tomorrow at Lanark. Girls have been done. I've made the front cover and I'm then going to do the first page of a photo scrap book I'm making for my Aunt's birthday in March. Then a cup of hot chocolate and a reasonably early night as I've to be up at 7.30.
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- planning our journey to Wales next week to look at a camper van to buy.
Where are you - I'm selling one. But it's maybe too old for you - 1991 I think- it's on preloved.
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Front cover of what? Hope you all do well tomorrow, Bruce has been sick today, it's funny, he is alwyas ill when we are...Steve was off for 1 day with the shivers, a cough that was bad and aches....
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Durrrrr!!! course it's the new Harry Potter Book, I love the films but my fave films are the Lord of the Rings, I love everything about them!!!
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I love the Lord of the Rings films too. Especially the second one. I think it's Aragorn that's the real attraction! We bought the extended version and it's much better than the cinema one. We saw the Fellowship of the Rings when it was released, on our honeymoon.
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Front cover of what? Hope you all do well tomorrow, Bruce has been sick today, it's funny, he is alwyas ill when we are...Steve was off for 1 day with the shivers, a cough that was bad and aches....
a photo scrap book I'm making for my Aunt's birthday
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Well!! I've just had a big slice of chocolate cake and am in front of the fire going to watch Kiss the girls 9think I've seen it) and will open another bottle of wine, a bit of gardening tomorrow so not too much wine or tooo late to bed..GVood nite all ;)
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i''ve sown some more chillis
made a curry
picked up a dog bed from the gumtree freebies
sorted out my new mortgage - got a bit of a deal, so i'm delighted!
downloaded the last 3 episodes of ER and i'm about to watch them
will be n early night, 150ft of fence and rased bed to build tomorrow!!
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I wanted a new dog basket but now have a very cheap, less than £7, single quilt with an old cover, folded and my dogs love it! they spend the night moving from the quilt to the basket as if they are hatching an egg. Tomorrow we have to cut some branches out of a tree as our phone line goes through the middle and BT are comming on Monday!!! Tehy will balme the tree for our lost connection.....good nite :)
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Mel is staying over in Cambridge tonight, then back to London tomorrow.
Tabby is being suitably lazy on Mels side of the bed, in his mind keeping me company - in mine, keeping me awake!
I'm surfing for a new shotgun and putting away a bottle of Jura single malt.
Pretty sure there is a headache in the post for me as I am off shooting at 630am.......
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
(puts down glass and focuses on the two of everything that has now appeared!!!!)
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I am afraid its a glass of wine in the Bath (every night I am always very smelly and muddy from the animals etc) then its pjs on with another glass of wine in front of the telly. Emmerdale, corrie and eastenders.......Sorry boring isnt it!
But not tonight, tonight I am out with girlfriends to very stylish londonesque restaurant , a real treat and excuse to dress up and put the world to rights with my best and closest friends. Ahhh :) :) :) :)
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Hi,
Re-what are you doing tonight, I am looking forward to attending "A wild night out", an RSPB event in Birmingham City centre,
and my daughter is presenting part of the evening. Here's to a fun and informative evening!!
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A few of us are 'playing' at Come Dine with Me and it is dinner party number 2 tonight with a Mardi Gras theme. I am really looking forward to it. She has put a huge amount of effort in, the invitation and menu were delivered last Monday night: the doorbell went and when we went to answer it there was a box in the porch, when we opened it a pink foil balloon floated out of a confetti filled box with the invite and menu attached! The deliverer was gone!!! Have a nice night whatever you are doing ... ;)
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One just never has enough time to get it all done! A Buddhist friend once said to us "It's never going to stop unless you do". What words of wisdom, one of the hardest things, I find.
I'm usually zonked out every night, but my OH is cooking tonight (!) - the bartered ducks into a casserole - , I might watch the Tales from Green Valley dvd I borrowed weeks ago...:&>
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Reading this ....
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Wish I was getting hammered, but gotta work tommorow. :-\
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On SUnday? Are you a man of the cloth? We are limiting ourselves to wine as we drink far too much whiskey and it seems to be having little effect, so after another strange day we have lit a fire and opened the red wine....again. not much on TV
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I love the sound of the come dine with me night! It sounds great fun! going to suggest it when i meet up with friends tonight, can you imagine trying to outdo each other. I know a man who can play the guitar, he can serenade us whilst we eat!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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My partners cousin came over to visit us from London (he works in Banking in the city) and had a meal with us and said he never gets "normal food" anymore as all his friends have to outdoo each other with things like...Russion flowering pasion peas or sprouting anchovy hearts or maybe wombat stuffed with lychee's and pecan nuts.....see, I can't even think of strange food, my meals are plain and tasty and VERY fattening, that's why?
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Watching last week's episode of Lark Rise to Candleford.
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Just found loads of Grand Designs and then on Dave, Billy COnnely going all arond Scotland!! I love Billy.
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Something else we have in common, then Sandy! Billy worked in the shipyards with my cousin Jack who is now in Canada. He kept being reprimanded as he had the workforce is stitches all the time and they were missing their targets!
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He is very funny!!! My brother lived in Corby and many settled there from Glasgow in the 70's and so it has a heavy Scottish influence, anyway, my brother was very ill, he went into a coma for a while and I had to travel to help him as he collapsed while on the phone to me 12 miles away and my car had just been taken into the garage for some work, I had a taxi and stayed for a while until he was taken into hospital, I thought I would borrow his car and took it from the drive, I got about a mile up the road and it brokd down, I called breakdown recovery and ended up with the double of Billy COnnaly in a lorry, he even sounded like him!!! My brother is fine now!!! Anyway, see you tomorrow, hope Bruce is better as he is quite poorly!!
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While on a hunt for the Mama Mia DVD for the kids to watch after tea I decided to sort out the entire CD & DVD collection in our cupboard ! (Saddo with no social life alert ;D) So now having about 100 wrecked discs (father in law collects coupons and brings me EVERY free disc with EVERY newspaper - why? well cos they're free and being a canny Aberdonian he's got to have it if it's free! ::)) I'm spending my evening coming up with recycling ideas. Got the basics covered, bird scarers, clocks, wall hangings etc but I'll still have a few spare - if anyone has any suggestions (polite ones lol!) feel free.........................................
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Christmas cards! I made some last year and they were enthused over!
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HappyH., you might find a taker if you offer them on freecycle if they still play. I sometimes don't buy the paper although I want the cd or dvd and hope I see it in a charity shop lol. Do you have Nr 1 of Best of the Policeman's Ball, which was in the Guardian the other week? I'll send you postage for it if you want to get rid of it! there seems to be no real solution for broken ones. I tried to make a bird scarer to protect our berries, but they couldn't be bothered at all. They might work if there is sunshine but we didn't have much of that last year...
Annie, how do you make Christmas cards from broken cds??? Give us a wee lesson! :&>
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You can use CD pens to decorate them then use padded sticky pads to attach them to a basic folded card, decorated as well. Or just decorate the DC and send it as a card itself - you can put sparkly thread or wool through the hole in the middle and tie it at the top leaving a loop for it to be hung on the Christmas Tree.
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Hmmm,
The card idea sounds good - might keep a few for that ;D
I've not had a visit from the in-laws since xmas, so don't have any recent ones Northfifeduckling, but I'll check back to this post when my next batch arrive and see if he's got it - not sure if he reads the guardian ?
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I'm just getting togged up to go to Sandy's for dinner, See you all later - Bye for now
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Well, after an evening of Steve looking for his wallet he found it tucked under his dirty socks!!!! Thanks Anne for comming, enjoyed your company, I could win awards for talking!!!! Hope Bruce gets better soon, he just refused a very small bit of lamb.....vet's tomorrow so I'm glad steve found his wallet!!!!!Heres to another exciting week ahead!!! :)
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Where were his dirty socks though - I didn't smell them................................
Let me know how Bruce gets on tomorrow
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He has perked up a bit more and had a little more lamb and food, we woun't give him anymore but he is improving. Steve socks were in our clockroom ready for the wash, I think he had taken them off to put them in the wash...now he can relax and is back to the land of the living!!!! I need to sort out shifts as the B&B usualy keeps me very busy and my day's are very broken up although I do like the job and it is handy!!! CU
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just thought I'd share a "makes it all worthwhile" evening. had a very busy day, doing normal tasks round the place, shovelling smelly stuff, planting, sweeping up, and chopping down a row of leylandii which were in danger of bocking all the light in our kitchen. I was assisted by the lady next door, who despite being very busy herself, stood in for her husband who decided to go on a pub crawl rather than help as he had promised. well any way, I am getting ready to send three pigs to the abattoir in ten days, so i am making room in the freezer. i found a UFO ( unidentified frozen object) which on closer inspection was a shoulder from last years pork. so this was defrosted for 36 hours and was weighed in at 3.5kg. it had it's tattoo clearly visible along with a scar. This meant it was gremlin my gos boar, bless him. i scored the skin with a Stanley knife and rubbed in a mix of olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and gave it half an hour on full heat while i ate my lunch and caught up with one or two things. then i turned the heat down to 170 and basted it. i left it in the oven for four hours while i got on with the tree felling, which was tough as my chain saw refused to start and i had to use my bow saw. after 1 1/2 hours Sarah from next door turned up, fresh from winning a Rosette at horse show, and turning her steeds out into the paddock. she provided the backup to drag the trees away and pull on the rope to make sure they fell away from our houses and cars. i was in the position to be able to say" don't worry about making any dinner tonight as I've got too much". so we all had the tastiest, softest pork ever, with fresh veg, mostly from our garden. i even let Gareth have some, even though he had let us down. i had two glasses of red wine and have just woken up from an indulgent snooze`on the sofa.Bliss.
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Sounds wonderful! Now you can go to bed and dream of that lovely boar and your tasty veg! Hope they don't keep you awake! ;)
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actually, having had a snooze i struggled to get to sleep. i was then woken by son in the early hours, who wanted a drink of water. getting up set off heart burn, ( too much of a good thing). still the best dinner I'd had in ages. Slow grown, slow cooked bliss.well worth the discomfort.
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i'm off to collect a tepidarium (never heard of one before!) apparently you keep lizards/reptiles in them
a guy is giving one away for free on Gumtree, so i'm off to collect it, it has a built in heater and lamp so it'll be perfect for germinating my chillies/peppers
delighted!!
then i'm off to see the neighbouring farmers, i've ordered 8 tonne of compost for the new raised beds, i know they won't get it down my drive and anywhere near the beds, so i'm hoping the farmer will take his tractor down and move it right to the spot i need it in. it'll save me a lot of wheelbarrow miles (even if they are enviromentally friendly, they ain't SB friendly!!)
then i'm having a good soak in the bath - i've had a hard few days
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i had planned lots of little jobs this evening. such as cleaning and testing my cheapo incubator to use as a hatcher brooder for my first eggs.( marans and ixworths).
however the electric fence had been knocked off and the pigs were out ( neighbours son is always wandering round after school to look at the pigs and is scared of the fence so he treads on the lead out wire, puling it off the connection). pigs sense this straight away and buldoze`through fence and trot round. took bloody ages to get them back in, I'm shattered now. They only have 8 days left so i had let the fences sag a bit.
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Well after another strange day it was what the Dr Ordered to go out with Islay and Anne and her girls around Gartmore Dam, great place. I got Bruce back even though he is ill it is nice to feel a family again and while having a wee dram and talking about the Tea room (thanks Anne again) we had a huge booking for 10 people, that will pay for Bruce's vet bill......Thanks for all the genuine support, I had a good day at work as well, very rewarding!!!! I shall finish my we dram now...
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I've just come back from The MacRobert in Stirling - I was at my grandkids Ballet show - and it was fantastic! what a lot of work has gone into it, and the fundraising to pay for the beautiful costumes. The kids obviously thoroughly enjoyed it and we did too - and right at the end they all shouted Up Up Up Up - and the audience all had to stand and dance to Waterloo! Great night - till I was nearly home :o ................................. suddenly I noticed the car behind me flashing it's headlights - then the blue lamp came on :'(
My first thought was "I haven't done anything"; my second after looking in the mirror was "there's only one so they can't charge me with anything", and the third thought - as I wound the window down ready to defend myself - was "I know who that is, cheeky beggar" - it's fun having a young bobby as a next door neighbour! He was on his way to MacDonalds with the shift's midnight snack order and he spotted my car as he drove out of the yard and followed me. I'll have to think of a retaliation !! Any ideas, folks!
Glad we could take your mind off Bruce's illness for a while Sandy even if we did have to wait a while for Freckles to come back