Evening/Morning all: This week should bring more interesting news about Mallachie. Check the last few entries of the previous Weekly Chat for another photo of Queenie and other input from bloggers!
Hope you all got your clocks, microwaves, coffee pots, TVs, etc., organized for the next six months. And when did BST replace GMT, at least in the summer. In the US, standard and daylight savings time have had a long and fascinating (and apparently often confusing) history, given that we have three times zones for the contiguous states. DST is another matter, with most states changing but some not, but at least we don't have 30 minute increments like they do in Australia!
TerryM: The GE Help window is pretty clear re tours. I do recall that it took several "clicks" to get the thing started. Other folks commented on that and I had the same experience in the beginning but then it was okay. I tried to copy and paste some of the info onto your page, but it included boxes with images and they didn't copy. I'm sure other folks will have more helpful info. Good luck. Too bad lovely Queenie isn't around any more. When my daughter and I were away the other week, we stayed at a place which is a favorite "drop off" spot for folks wanting to "lose" cats. They had three cats when we were there, which hung around the garden entrance to the dining room waiting to be fed (by the staff). One night, the cats were served prime rib, all nicely chopped up for easy digestion!!!!
Alan: So. Are you treating us all to a trip to Loch Garten next year with your lottery winnings or will we be depending on the webcam again? :-)
Gary: Dying to hear about your English food outing (what was it really like?)
OG: We grow tomatoes outside here but my friends who do often fence them and other veggies in to keep various critters, including deer, from snacking on them; not to mention snails. My sister has expressed some frustration with EU rules - specifically not being able to buy French cheese off a market stall (I think that was it). Is following EU rules a bore or do you think it's generally for the good?
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Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
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Sorry Alan - posted in haste before seeing yours!
He beat me to it as well OG. LOL
Gary: Oh dear, so I may get the appliances figured out by Christmas '10?
Gary - what a lovely looking cat Pud is, if he's 12 he's wearing very well. Must be the outdoor life, catching his own food, not lounging behind a sunny window like all the house cats I know! Yeah, I know what cats do.
BTW there are lots of penguins on the cam just now.
Terry in Cumbria
Thanks Terry. He is looking good but I can take no credit really. We have only had him 2.5 years. As you say, it is the outdoor living. Never been to the vets/had injections etc. We give him a small tin of cat food a day and some treats and he looks after himself (his choice). He is going a bit blind and, I think, deaf as well as you can "sneak up" on him and suprise him!~!!
Annette, that sounds about right. I have a microwave that says it will do lots of things but I only punch in a time, press start and that's it!
gary a said: Annette, that sounds about right. I have a microwave that says it will do lots of things but I only punch in a time, press start and that's it!
I think all the extra functions are built into our appliances just so they can charge more for them! Its a conspiracy!!! Apart from micro function, which we use a lot, our combination m/wave has only ever been used to toast tea-cakes!
Gary what a lovely cat. Doing what cats do best and that is just relaxing.
Margobird
- and to think we used to make toast by holding the bread to the open fire.... AND we got it equally brown on both sides, which modern toasters can't seem to manage. To harken back to previous remarks by Alan: If machines can't even toast bread, what hope is there for them....
Unknown said: - and to think we used to make toast by holding the bread to the open fire.... AND we got it equally brown on both sides, which modern toasters can't seem to manage. To harken back to previous remarks by Alan: If machines can't even toast bread, what hope is there for them....
I don't think my kids would recognise a toasting fork if it jumped out and bit them - and as for the grandkids, they would think we grew up in the dark ages!!