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Good morning all :-D


What a wonderful array of goodies Persie......thank you so much. I'm really stuck for choice but would love to have the Northumberland breakfast.....after my porridge of course. :-D


As for that dark chocolate truffle tart with popcorn ice cream............. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)


I will hoover up for you again 'cos I know the mess that Dea can make when she gets her hands on bacon butties!!!



As for the teeth thing!!! :-S Baby teeth into their teens........?? :-S That's a new one on me too.....mind you, at least it stopped the Tooth Fairy popping in.



I remember being at the local chip shop one evening with one of my grandchildren and, whilst we were in the queue, she wiggled a tooth right out - there and then. One of the customers gave her 50p!!! :-D


Today I am ironing the himalayas.....so may be delayed somewhat!!!

Good morning all :-)

I had a lovely long lie-in this morning so I am certainly ready for that lovely Northumberland Plate Breakfast !!!

Thank you Persie <3 <3 <3

Dea Xxx

I think I may have got the teeth thing a bit wrong! What I meant was, my kids still had lots of baby teeth until their teens but they had lost a few teeth as children

The only reason I remember is because of the braces, and the dentist said they couldn't fit them until all their first teeth were out

Well, what a buddy day at work, it was 'one of those'!

Anyhow, Im chillin, came back and watched Kojak

:-D

Hello everyone!

Had a busy weekend and didn't realise I hadn't been on here since Friday :-(

Dea Yes you are correct it was so lovely to meet up and its nice to match faces to names also great that everyone wants to do it again :-D

I agree we had a great time and a lot of laughs :-D

The weather here has been nice for the past couple of days even got washing
out :-D

I have to go and look out my FT paperwork as one of my cousins sons is phoning me tonight he is doing the tree for his Mum's 50th birthday in November.

I told him he has left it a bit late but he only plans to go back to the GG then add to it later.

Linds, you were supposed to speaking to your cousin last night at 6pm

The Himalayas are now flattened and in nice neat piles!! Got through about three discs of my thriller....... :-D



Had a quick tea and then off to a meeting with some lovely folk....... :-)



Now watching Doc Martin.....he is so funny!!

Gins

Yes I was but he sent me a text to say he would call me tonight as he was still at his Nans (my Dads sis) and didn't know when he would get home.

He was meant to call at 7.30pm tonight and sent me another text to say he was still at work and would call me when he got home :-(

He did eventually call just after 8.30pm and we were on the phone for an hour.

Now my table is covered in paperwork!
On the plus side I have discovered that I am 2 generations further back than I thought I was :-D

Now I gave him names and dates but haven't given him copies of the certificates as I don't have time to scan them all>

I will do later if he wants but he has been handed both lines of his Nans parents .

Am I being mean?

Cynthia I have no ironing to do got it done at the weekend :-D :-D

Our Hot water cylinder leaked last week.. carpet was wet in lounge and we couldn't work out where water had come from..

Put some towels on the floor.. picked them up later and they were sopping and the water had spread... himself wasn't interested in me making a fuss about water as he was too busy with outside work on back porch.

I went into hallway and opened HWC door and floor under the toy box was wet as.. hauled out toy box and the water was racing out in fast drips near the bottom of cylinder.. suddenly himself became interested. He failed at turning everything off ..

Plumber called and he came and turned everything off and said will be back tomorrow lunch time with new cylinder. In meantime cleared out forever all our blankets, duvet inners, sheets etc..

Next day very wet, man in truck arrives with cylinder he wheels it to front deck and proceeds to roll it on to deck.. tells himself to get out of way re his feet.. uh oh he should have stayed put, I could see what was going to happen went to stop it but too late the angle that he rolled it meant that the top edge of cylinder rolled onto French doors and broke a pane of glass.

Plumber's assistant arrives to remove old cylinder.. what a struggle getting it down the newly painted back hallway with me giving strict instructions to mind the paint. He said to me do you have a trolley.. yes but sorry can't use it, it is under a coffin. This is what comes of having a SIL that is an undertaker. It got rolled onto the trailer which we conveniently had the tow bar of, on the high back step of the porch.

Himself has been busy .. he had to remove all the slats which were nailed in before cylinder arrived and since then he has had to shape some of the slats to go around new cylinder.

I have wiped shelves down last night and today I am going to put everything back and sort and discard some of the toys as well.

We will be able to say house has new cylinder when we put it on the market.. can't complain it had lasted seven years beyond its used by date.

Next time himself will pay attention when I point out that there has to be a reason for something and we better find it ... right now!!!


Persie

Hi all
xx


another wet and stormy day, with sunny periods!



s
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Hi Persie


what a mess for you!!


back about 1998, we were away somewhere. Daughter's then boyfriend (now husband) defended his thesis, they had dinner, then she came home while he continued celebrating.

She went down into the basement to get something ................... and walked into water.

Hurried call for boyfriend to get here quickly.

They tried to mop up the mess .......... then she had a bright idea ........... they went to the local store at about 10 pm and rented a carpet cleaner

They met us at the airport the next day with the news.

The bottom had literally dropped out of the hot water cylinder.

Mind you ............ it was in the house when we bought it in 1972!! So we had no idea of how old it actually was!

The next one we got ......... the bottom dropped out after 5 years. It was guaranteed for 5 years ............. but the company (Sears) had become complacent about service, and said we'd have to wait a week, and they "certainly don't do weekend calls" ............. this at 10 am on a Saturday morning.

So, we called a local company, he was round in less than an hour, with a new, much better cylinder.


Still keeping my fingers crossed about that one!!

Ours was made Dec 91, and we probably had it installed early 92 I guess.

The old one that was in the house looked like an antique and it was in a stupid place in corner cupboard of a bedroom and the plumbing underneath travelled down to the back bathroom then to the kitchen on other side and then back across to the ensuite.

So we had it installed in the existing linen cupboard and had three pipes coming from it on their separate routes. And eventually walled up that area in the bedroom and opened it on the other side to make a bigger wardrobe in a small bedroom.

Persie

'He said to me do you have a trolley.. yes but sorry can't use it, it is under a coffin'

Pers, I better he never heard that one before :-0

No indeed.. he did look at me and say what? It is what is called a temporary one.. not sure what SIL is going to do with it.. He came and got a lot of his stuff from our shed on Sunday but he couldn't take the coffin.

Anyway ....

Not sure whether Sylvs will be back with food..

so have made some mousetraps with the breadcrusts.. marmite and cheese or vegemite and cheese.
and a pile of toasted sandwiches choice of

Creamed corn, Bacon, Bacon and avocado, tomato and cheese, ham and pineapple, Pineapple and cheese, spinach and feta, mushrooms and cream cheese.

There is porridge in the pot.

And the electric frypan has stashes of bubble and squeak.

In the cauldron is not Fan's witches brew but Potato and Leek soup.

Also some lemon drizzle cake for afters.. my Sri Lankan neighbour came over with a big bag of lemons.. yippee.. Every year I watch them out my kitchen window dropping off the tree to mulch on the ground... they don't eat them. I did nick over one night last season and pinch two or three.

Good morning all :-)

Oh dear Persie - you have had a rough time of it with all that water flowing everywhere !

Did your french door get fixed too ?

Thank you for making breakfast <3 <3 - I will have two bacon and cheese toasted sandwiches please :-D

See you all later,

Dea Xxx

Good morning all... :-D


Ooooh. toasted sandwiches! I lurve toasted sandwiches. Thank you Persie. Please could I have a bacon and tomato double!!! :-D


I'm so glad that we got rid of our hot water cylinder a few years ago. It's so much easier with a combi boiler and, no worry about bottoms dropping out!!

Are we allowed to say 'that' word on here???? ;-)


Persie, your tale reminded me of a Whitehall farce.........all it needed was your OH running around wearing rather loose trousers!! :-D :-D


Gotta guy coming shortly to sort out my little sanctuary. Back later ~~~

Combi boilers can be purchased here but they run on natural gas... and ahem ahem we don't have natural gas.

A lot of people do opt for the HWC being put on the outside of the building to give them more space inside.. we have lots of space (not all between our ears either).. and we have Mains pressure and that is not the one you have outside... I think.

OH was in his jamas...he was not feeling well and it was me that had to put on boots and go outside to help young chap get the old cylinder on the trailer.. was glad when his boss arrived and the pair of them brought it in and installed. With having all good pipes, fairly new valves etc it was cheaper than we thought it would be.

So yes it was farcical..

Glad you have your waterworks sorted ;-)

So relieved your your bottom does not fall out Cynthia.

We most certainly could not have that on here. :-D

Cyns' bottom falling out........that's a scary thought :-0

I've had my daily does of Kojak!

No2 son came over last night and by the time he left, I was £700 lighter.........don't ask!

Seven hundred pounds lighter Gins??? My word, you must have been a big girl!!


My little sanctuary is taking shape nicely....... :-D


Just going to run my nice workman home - his wife has the car!

What is the secret of your 'little sanctuary' Cynths ??

Is he building you a little chapel in the garden ?? ;-) :-D :-D <3

Dea Xxx