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Post by Karoline on Jun 13, 2024 23:00:44 GMT
Friday - trip to Poole in the train š & lunch with a friend Friday evening - drive up to Watford because TTās kids canāt be bothered to visit him for Fatherās Day, yes this makes me very cross Saturday- drop, TTās daughter in Leighton Buzzard, hang around for a while &!then join both my boys & grand babies for a meal & film Sunday morning - breakfast with TTās children as theyāre all busy for lunch. Afternoon - drive home for the England game, we were going to stay but we wouldnāt get home til about 1am & both have work on Monday.
Have a good Fatherās Day to all you Daddies xx
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Post by Karoline on Jun 13, 2024 23:02:25 GMT
Why on earth does it say God under my name
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Post by anglais on Jun 14, 2024 3:26:06 GMT
Friday...Have a potter. I need to clean the cellar after the 2nd batch of firewood was delivered this week and stacked down there. Dig a bit more garden. Put some more Haricots and Rocket seeds in. Rake up the weeds that I brushcut last week and have been drying. Brushcut the weeds again. They have grown in a week.
Prawn and Chorizo Rice for tea.
Saturday...A couple of runs to the tip first thing. More brushcutting on the embankments if its dry. More digging if its not. Hopefully watch the Football via our giant satellite dish. Madame Roques next door has some cherry trees in direct line of our Dish and they have just gone wild. Also a fig tree has self seeded and it has leaves like dinner plates which in summer blocks our signal. Allied to that the signal strength has been turned right down so the only channel we can get with any regularity is Sky News and occasionally ITV Midlands. An "arborist" came in yesterday with his wife and 3 year old child. He snipped away filling a bucket with prunings, then sat in the sun playing with his mobile phone for the next 8 hours when the whole garden needs a chainsaw to it. Poor Madame Roques is well into her 90's and deserves better than that. And I wanna watch the telly!!! I'll get the Satellite Finder out and see if I can tune it in a bit better.
Chicken Curry with Fried Basmati for tea.
Sunday...More digging and brushcutting and planting.
Snake and Pygmy Pie for tea with Roasters and vegetables of some sort.
Have a great Weekend everyone.
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Post by will on Jun 14, 2024 7:07:12 GMT
Today: The usual trip out this morning, then moussaka for tea. Tomorrow: Fingers crossed, we're going out in the evening. It's the Rugby Club Awards night, and I've been nominated for the big non-playing award. There are three nominees, and one of them is the bloke who runs the women's side of the club, so I imagine he'll get the female vote and probably win. I won't be disappointed as I've won it before, but it would be a nice way to bow out of volunteering. Anyway, it's an open vote for the club members so we'll see. I managed to book a taxi a week ago, so in a way I'm already a winner! Sunday: The kids got the date of Fathers' Day wrong, so I've had a small pile of packages waiting to be opened since last week! I'll be taking Sarah down town to meet up with her friends with whom she used to travel to work on the train - her "train buddies". I've managed to get her to meet up with four lots of friends this week, which I'm very pleased about - I just hope they all keep in touch now they know her situation. Anyway, they'll only be having coffee and a walk along the seafront so I'll pick her up just after noon, and then get on with cooking steak bƩarnaise, chips, mushrooms, fried tomatoes and peas with a nice cheese platter for afters, all the time having a couple of pints and then a nice Beaujolais. Happy Fathers' Day Mulv, anglais, TOM, John and Tony!
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Post by Su on Jun 14, 2024 12:44:39 GMT
Tonight. Watch the sweaties kick off the Euros. Tomorrow. Fingers crossed for dry weather as we have our spring plant swap at our allotment in the morning. Football for the rest of theday after we have dried out. Sunday. Allotment again. No doubt sorting out what plants have been left and if we can use them in the community. Visit to our eldest son in early evening as they are off to Grand Can on Wednesday and we have a couple of gifts for our granddaughter for her first foreign holiday. Need to make sure we get home for the footy.
No grandkids though as, even though weād arranged to have our granddaughter over, her dad pulled rank as its Fatherās Day. Iām not complaining as thatās how it should be but just sad that Moo was looking forward to the plant swap.
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Post by mulv on Jun 14, 2024 16:24:03 GMT
Tonight - collecting T&E from the station, telly and beer
Saturday - paddleboarding with Tom
Sunday - no plans
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Post by will on Jun 14, 2024 21:06:27 GMT
Slight change to our itinerary: on the way back from Widecombe the oil pressure light started flashing red. This happened on another car of mine a few years ago, with catastrophic results. So I had to pull over and ring Green Flag. Got carted off to the garage who might be able to have a look next week, so then booked a rental for a week at the cost of just under Ā£400. If it's going to cost more than that to fix it, it's going to the tip.
So no lie in in the morning - off to Newton Abbot (one bus and one train) to pick up the cheapest thing they had, a small two seater van. Hope my legs fit in.
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Post by mulv on Jun 15, 2024 19:20:26 GMT
š¼ Stick a pony in me pocket I'll fetch the suitcase from the van...
Hope all is well with your own car.
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Post by anglais on Jun 16, 2024 4:32:34 GMT
Slight change to our itinerary: on the way back from Widecombe the oil pressure light started flashing red. This happened on another car of mine a few years ago, with catastrophic results. So I had to pull over and ring Green Flag. Got carted off to the garage who might be able to have a look next week, so then booked a rental for a week at the cost of just under Ā£400. If it's going to cost more than that to fix it, it's going to the tip. So no lie in in the morning - off to Newton Abbot (one bus and one train) to pick up the cheapest thing they had, a small two seater van. Hope my legs fit in. Sorry to hear that Will. Presuming that you have got oil in it and the car was running okay at the time, hopefully its just a failed oil pressure switch. They either work or they don't so you get no prior warning. They just fail. If thats all it is its a few quid and an hours labour for diagnostics and changing the switch.
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Post by Su on Jun 16, 2024 9:14:27 GMT
When I first passed my driving I remember my dadās words of wisdom
Petrol is the food of the car but oil is the blood! Check it regularly
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Post by Karoline on Jun 16, 2024 10:32:48 GMT
So sorry Will, hope it doesnāt cost much. I had my Dads lovely Rover 820e. He always had trouble with the oil light coming on, the garage said it was a fault with the light. Anyway, I was driving down the M1 & the light came on, then the car stopped - the head gasket had gone. Off to car heaven it went š¢
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