HAPPY NEW WEEK!
Last week's chat thread is here.
Hi, everyone.
Cold, grey, and rainy here, with gusty winds coming from the east coast.
Autumn has begun in Indiana, and I thought I'd post these fall foliage maps for the U.K. and the U.S.
Here's the Autumn Colours 2015 U.K.
Here's the Fall Foliage Prediction Map 2015 for the U.S.
I don't have a nice photo to start this week. I'm off to wrap up in my electric blanket and eat some hot northern bean soup.
Everyone have a wonderful week!!!
Talk tomorrow - take care, all.
I thought Walker's Shortbread factory (and shop)was at Aberlour-on-Spey - but maybe they have another in Elgin! They also sell mail order/online. And I also love Marmite! So, you can see the posts I have picked up are food related!!!
Yes we are home! Had an exhausting day trying to make arrangements to get to funeral (23rd October) of my lovely Uncle who died last week - and have had to re-arrange the bathroom job!
Also arrived home to a letter with an appointment to attend screening clinic for a recall visit this morning - no way could I get there today, so that is re-arranged for next week Thursday with a B&B (same as when I went a few weeks ago) stay the night before to get there on time. I got recalled three years ago and had a biopsy then, showing nothing sinister, so I reckon someone has probably failed to recognise scar tissue from that one!
Good wishes to all - too tired to say more now.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Evening all,
Have been busy today. Food shopping this morning and then played my first session of indoor bowls of this season. I believe I have something in common with Brenda here. I prefer playing outdoors but try to play once a week in winter to 'keep my hand in'
I have been to Culloden dibnlib. It was during the same holiday that I visited to loch Garten.
There was a battle re enactment by a visiting American group of enthusiasts, while we were there.
Annette, my son has been living in Cincy for four years, so I have visited him.
We fly to either New York or Chicago, where ever we get the best deal. I prefer Chicago because the internal flight is shorter. It takes two and a half hours from NY
The train journey sounds interesting. I read Jenny Disci's 'Stranger on a Train' a while back, about travelling across America by train. A good read. I gather internal flights are very expensive
I am very slow at this. To say I am not a techie is the understatement of the year.
Harelady. Yes, Richmond Park is a great place. My favourite spot is the Isabella plantation, but all is good.
OG head office main factory and shop are in the Chareltown of Aberlour so named as his brother had Archiestown( that's families for you).
They also have a factory in Elgin. Family friendly company with coaches and crèches .
The family bought a big house which housed the junior part of Gordonstone school which located to new premises at Prince Charles old school in Duffus.
Forget the marmite, eat vegemite. Many years ago we had both in the cupboard as my flatmate only liked marmite which I thought awful. I believe both are an acquired taste – I don’t remember, my mother fed me from an early age! A good source of B vitamins. I haven’t heard of it being an insect repellent. Miss4 often asks for her lunch – “a samwich with margarine, vegemite and ham.” I then say “do you want bread with that?” I think her combination is peculiar but I spread the black stuff very sparingly. My thoughts are jumping – a friend’s mother used cocacola to clean burnt saucepans.
Daughter, granddaughter and Ms. D have just departed for daughter's house after nice lunch. and some naughty little yummies for dessert. OH has gone off for nap; I'm flopped in chair with feet up.
Diane: Some areas have Kroger, not here at this point. Funny you should mention supermarkets, Haggen (Washington state store) took over some Vons/Albertsons here and just declared bankruptcy a very long story). We have no idea who will replace them - or if they will carry Marmite.. :-) Re bug repellent, I can't stand the smell of Deet and bought something with Picaridin (?), but haven't tried that yet.
Wendyb: Do not want to walk around smelling like Marmite (or garlic for that matter). Hadn't heard (though maybe my daughter has) of giving garlic to horses to ward of midges. How much does Helen give her horse? Wow - human hair to deter deers? That's another new one.
Heather: Walker's shortbread is wonderful; Costco sells tins of it at C*****mas. I daren't buy it. Ah, now horse flies I know.
OG: Welcome home. Oh gosh, that's two funerals you're planning for now?
Rosy: Americans are very big on re-enacting historical battles, funny to thing of them all dressed up in period costume and rushing about Scotland shouting in American accents. Sounds like you've got the USA flight options nailed down. You can get some really good deals flying from one large city to another - it's when you want a smaller airport that it gets expensive. A good deal from Phoenix (big) to Santa Barbara (small) is $175 RT; I get fare alerts from AirfareWatchdog for that route, though we typically end up driving. I'm going to have to look up that Jenny Diski book. I see the subtitle is "Daydreaming and Smoking Around America" - Amtrak is all non-smoking these days. I really love train travel in the U.S. It has all the convenience and predictability of a wagon train in pioneer days, but the marvelous vistas more than make up for that. And you do meet all kinds of people from different backgrounds. Last time I took the train from Chicago, we had a couple of young Brits on board who, it came to be known, were planning to get off in Las Vegas to get married. Trouble is, they were on the wrong train - they'd seen Las Vegas on the schedule, but that stop was in Las Vegas, New Mexico, not Nevada. They were the talk of the train, but Amtrak managed to set them down somewhere where they could get a connecting bus to the real LV! Re techie skills, Diane is the techy person on this thread.
AQ: Coca cola will strip the barnacles off a battleship if given half a chance.
Made the mistake of having 1 and 1/2 glasses of wine a lunch with kids, which has completely obliterated the chance of doing anything constructive (well, apart from nattering on here) this afternoon. Wonder if OH will mind if I serve up lunch leftovers for dinner......
Mid morn I found a notification in our letterbox that asbestos cement is to be removed from next door’s garage ceiling at 1 pm today. And we should close doors, windows & remove washing from outside. However, at 12.30 pm the workmen appear to have finished and left!!! A good thing I shut up early. We have noticed renovations happening recently but are wondering what is being done. Nosy neighbours, are we!
Not as nosy as my OH, AQ!! I found him the other week with one foot on the loo seat and one in the bidet, looking out of the bathroom window He was desperately trying to see what next door were building in their garden...
OG welcome home. Sorry that you have another funeral to think about. Also sorry that you have to make another journey up the road for your repeat scan. Does your Uncle's funeral involve a long journey for you? I do hope not.
It is a beautiful sunny day, here. I've just been in town getting food shopping from Marks and Spencer. We will finish the shopping this afternoon at another supermarket Not sure yet which one.