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Post by Su on Sept 30, 2022 8:51:01 GMT
Tonight: Zoom with you guys. Can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to it xx Tomorrow: Drive to Daventry to pick up daughter and lots of children (in both cars!) then off to a ‘adoption baby shower’. No I don’t know if it’s a thing either but they’re having a baby so why not? Drive back to Daventry with daughter and lots of children, probably minus 1 or 2 Saturday night. Recover from all that driving and kids Sunday. Volunteering over at the allotment Sunday afternoon. Probably taking the aforementioned kids back to Daventry
See you later and have a good one
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Post by anglais on Sept 30, 2022 9:03:06 GMT
I have been working in the cellar all week as its been non stop drizzle, except for last evening. The Mairie has not cleaned the drains so during a deluge for a couple of hours the slalom canoe course was flowing on the road outside the house and through the Church arch across the road. The cellar floor is about 6" below street level so we will see how damp it is down there this morning.
Talking of the Church, the chimes are switched off to save electricity. Its horribly quiet. EDF are having a series of power cuts starting tomorrow to conserve electricity. Thankfully we can cook by bottled gas and we have torches and candles.
I am hanging the cellar internal door and see how it fits now I have re-glued it all back together after I fell carrying it and cracked the main panel. I am a clumsy so and so these days. Measure up for two new windows in the cellar, and timber I need to make a frame to box in the stairs and a false ceiling in the stairwell. Paperwork to do. I have received loads of stuff on line concerning the closure of my business and retirement to sort. Book our flu jabs on line. The only available appointments a few days ago were in Castres which is about 90 minutes from here by car. Hopefully we can find something closer.
Simple salad for tea as we have had a lot of very rich food over the last week or so.
Zooming in the evening.
Saturday.....
Sweep the chimneys. Its a filthy job and I hate doing it. It hardly seems worth it as we only have enough wood to last a month or so. We are hanging on to that until it gets really cold in January/February as we need the log fire and the central heating to stay warm in the depths of Winter. It takes all day to dismantle the wood burner internals, clean it all out, sweep the flues and clear up the mess. Flush and bleed the Central Heating radiators.
Pork Echine, Ratatouille and Baked Potato's for tea. Our own Aubergines, Peppers, Onions, Courgettes and Tomato's from the garden but the growing season is now at an end.
Sunday...
The weather should be fine so its a few hours in the garden. Bring in the Butternut Squash. Its the first time we have grown them and we have 14 monsters off two plants. Bring in the last of the tomato's and dismantle the growing frames. Look for sloes and chestnuts in the afternoon. We did not go last week as I was a bit under the weather.
Curried Omelette for tea. Its a new one for us, from the Independent I think, and looks delicious.
Have a good one everybody
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Post by mulv on Sept 30, 2022 9:05:51 GMT
Tonight - zooming with you lot. Lily may join in 😁
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Post by mulv on Sept 30, 2022 9:06:51 GMT
Oops. Return has "Return" on it, not "Create Post"
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Post by mulv on Sept 30, 2022 9:09:36 GMT
Saturday - shopping, walk in the Oswestry area (probably the hill fort) then to Booka Bookshop to collect a book I've been waiting for for ages and get the new Terry Pratchett biography. Can't wait for Christmas for that one. I need it now.
Sunday - not sure. Grass needs cutting though.
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Post by will on Sept 30, 2022 13:17:12 GMT
Tonight: Zoom, obvs. Steak Puttanesca and chips.
Tomorrow: After a social whirl week I'm having a rest from rugby, partly because it's in Truro, and partly because half the First team are injured/otherwise unavailable, but mainly because I'm absolutely knackered. Monkfish Paella.
Sunday: Chasing up people who did go to Truro to try to find out why we lost so heavily and who, if anyone, managed to score. Roast Chicken
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