Weekly Chat, Sunday August 29, 2010

Alicat, what a sweetie your Casper is, lying in his basket, poor old boy having things done at the vet’s.  Hope blister heals ok.

Annette – finished Hornet’s Nest last night, very satisfying ending!  Brenda means her biscuits are “more-ish”!

Alan – I was woken up the other night by some very loud grunting and snuffling (it wasn’t OH, he only stops me going back to sleep LOL), and I am hoping it was a hedgehog, I know we ‘ve got one around just now.

Diane – it looks very windy on that beach-cam, but must be quite warm.  I wouldn’t be walking about in so few clothes here, even if it is warmer than recently for August.  I’m sure August used to be hot and sunny when I was a child.  Aha, another dust bunny conversation, mine are growing every day : ((

Gary, AQ has two dazzling outfits, we’re hoping for pics (hint, hint).  We all enjoyed searching for them with her!

Auntie – I read the Moomin books when I was little.  I was going to say I’d seen it on television, but the website I was reading said it was on BBC in 1990, so I must be thinking of Clangers or something else.  Love Stinky!

Joan – it’s definitely NOT sad to enjoy watching waves, I love it too.  Glad you’re feeling better. Can’t you keep up with the 80 year old at the party?

AQ, I bet you don’t get many “filets de kangaroo” in France!

I just noticed all those names up there beginning with A.  Are you all trying to get on the first page of names in the list??

Truck Dude is heading through Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming at the moment.  If you travel west, does that mean you could arrive before you leave, timewise? How fast would you have to travel?

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Truck Dude is heading through Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming at the moment.  If you travel west, does that mean you could arrive before you leave, timewise? How fast would you have to travel?

Very deep Terry! LOL. I'm sure it's possible but whenever I've flown, I've never managed it. However if you drove from one State to the next, where the time difference started, you could do it in a jiff! 

I wonder if there is some mathematical equation that would "explain" it..

Thanks TerryM, for wishing blisters heal not sure but to me feels like it is filling up again but it maybe just me will have to see what its like next week

Alan, glad Scotland "won" i think you're forgetting another result last night, starting with 4.... 

Terry, thanks for the info re AQ:) Is it too much of a "man question" to ask why 2 outfits?? Day and evening wear perhaps? I'm out of my depth! lol

Sorry Gary. I forgot Leichstenstein 0 Spain 4.

Another lovely warm day.  Part of drive was same route as last Saturday, then when we decided to go via  minor road, it became more minor than we expected!  Crossed three deep river valleys, and as we came up out of one of them and the road zig-zagged for some distance, we came face to face with a big 4WD coming down  - not just doing a straight line across the bends as locals do in many places, but totally on the wrong (blind) side of the bend!  We managed to stop 2 feet from him (without stalling!) and thankfully he managed to stop despite coming downwards.  He sat there waiting to see if we would scream and shout, but we just waited while he sorted himself out and continued on our way. 

The event was a producers’ market with a few extras, and was in a very pleasant airy room in the sports centre.  We bought lamb from our favourite sheep farmer, cheese which we haven’t tried before, jam and chutney from a regular producer, bread and venison from new producers, sticky toffee puddings and chocolate!  We had a light lunch and then a wander around Langholm (small town – population 2,500).  We thought about going somewhere else for coffee, but ended up at our local coffee shop in Annan.

During dinner, it went darker and it has rained!  Don’t know how long it might last, but OH is not watering the garden.  Because cleaner missed last week, he has just vacuumed the floors – his idea.

Alicat – thanks for the photos of your cute little Doggy Casper – I hope he is well today … just read later post where you feel it is filling up again, poor wee fellow.

Heather – what a lot of work tidying your garden yesterday – you deserved an easy meal.  I use salad cream rather than mayo in sauce for prawns as I think it has more flavour (probably more e-numbers!) but no tips for substitute for the Worcester sauce – except maybe soy sauce, but I think that would taste quite different – or what about a small pinch of cayenne pepper?

Annette – sorry to hear about your doctor (ankle and fire) – glad you passed your annual check.  Son and the two of us have our own name for really elderly drivers – “Old ladies in Lycra” – it started when I misheard Son describing the parking antics of one elderly person driving a “Micra” – a common model among older folk here.

Lynette – yes, Black Isle is beautiful, some lovely little bays and villages, excellent farming country and Red Kites nesting.

AQ –your current book – the diary – sounds an interesting read.  I finished the book about the slate quarries yesterday, so have promised myself to finish a magazine (they breed in our house!) before I find where I am up to in the Fife farming book!

Diane – I am sure Bunnie forgave your carelessness – and enjoyed the carrots.  Scottish Food Fortnight has been promoting local produce for some years, but after the success of 2009 as “The Year of Homecoming”, the Scottish government are now promoting various designated years, through existing and new events, to culminate in another big one in 2014 so we have “2010 the year of food, a year-long celebration of Scotland's delicious, authentic and high quality produce, and continue with a focus on Active Scotland in 2011; our nation's creativity and innovation in 2012; and Natural Scotland in 2013.”  I’m glad you asked, so I looked it up, because I didn’t know all that, myself!  Tony Blair’s book is now being criticised for some of his comments about the royal family and breaking with protocols about what prime ministers divulge about meetings with the queen!

Brenda – I hope your neighbour’s daughter and grandchild do well staying there – I hope the new father is not excluded from the arrangement.

Terry – I know I saw Moomins on TV – Son was still quite young, and when he came in from school he used to relax by watching programmes for younger children – maybe because he’d missed out on programmes the year before when he was ill.

Gary – AQ needs two outfits for two weddings – both her daughters are getting married this spring in Australia (our autumn).

Margo - if you are looking in - I hope you get away to Cornwall tomorrow and have a good rest and a great time!

Gary Very belatedly, I don't show my dogs - I believe Border Collies are working dogs.  Mine don't herd sheep but do competitive obedience and agility.  Things quieten down from the end of September, although my training group runs a monthly winter league ( boss is a soccer buff)

 Alicat Your little man is gorgeous - is he quite young?  Sorry about his bad ear, I always worry when mine have to have ear treatment. Sorry - have just looked again and see that he is 15, same age as my Nell.  She has a recurring cyst which has to be emptied so I know how you feel!