General Chat

That is fine Tec, we don't have our main meal until the evening. I will look out for you, I expect you will be using a little moped, just like the local pizza place, not that i ever order pizzas

Oh yes - I can just see me flying over the Pennines on a moped, anything for a laugh!

One of my daughter's first boyfriends had a moped. Being exceptionally tall, he looked screamingly funny sitting on that little thing. You could hear him coming for miles up from town to our house. He invariably left our house after I'd gone to bed, and I would lay there listening to him buzzing his way along the lanes. Sounded like a demented hornet on speed.

Last time I saw that lad he was driving a very large BMW, was a solicitor in Cheshire, married with four little children.

Tec.

He sounds well off, maybe she should have stuck with him.
I am just back from the allotment. I have been tying in the Raspberry canes. It is a sunny day, but the wind is strong,so it feels cold. A huge black cloud was coming over just as I came back, a few large drops of rain fell, but it is holding off so far.

While I was out, interflora had been, but luckily they left it around the back of the house. It is a lovely basket arrangement of plants from my daughter.

I am supposed to be finishing off the forms from yesterday,so enough procrastination.

Hello everyone:-)) Are you all well?

What a lovely weekend. Spent all day Saturday playing with the grandchildren then sent them off to bed tired but happy. All asleep by 8pm. Next morning they were all up by 7.30, breakfasted, dressed and ready to go out with their father. We then came home and did some gardening as it was a lovely day. A few shrubs needed pruning and the garden needed a general tidy up.

My daughter and her partner then called in on their way home with a big bunch of flowers. An early dinner then a quiet evening on the computer, reading and sort of watching Top Gear. Sound good? It was:-))

Sue xx

I am glad that you have had a nice time Sue.

I wonder where Tec is, he hasn't turned up with my dinner yet. Alan will be out on the tiles as his OH is away

Good morning, evening to all.

Janet, what rain???? We didn't even have a few spots here. Heavy cloud in the morning, humid and then sunny!

Tec, in Terry Pratchett's book "Good Omens" there is a passage dealing with two people on a scooter. Your description of your daughter's boyfriend's moped just brought that to life.

I had a moped when I was 16, it was my dad's old one. Every time I went anywhere involving a long distance the flaming thing would break down and I would end up pedalling it back home. It was the forerunner of the exercise bike.

Allan

Hello Linda and Sue

Linda I'm not on the tiles: they were a bit slippy and I fell off.

All I have to do now is chase the last wheelie bin out of the house and then tidy up!

Allan

Good evening Allan. have you planned your wild free time while you are on your own?

Sounds like you've have had a lovely weekend Sue.

Linda, Sorry but I fell off the moped, your dinner landed in a hedge, which is a shame, because it was so well cooked, and delicious.

Tec

Oh dear Tec, jam and bread for me then

Linda, my wild free time is nearly over, only about 7 hrs left :o((

I had a riotous time.....just me and the three cats!

As the cats are all toms we had an all male Sunday!

Allan

So you ate junk food, watched TV and drank beer then Allan?

Good Morning Allan,

I keep meaning to read Terry Pratchett's book "Good Omens"

I once had a Lambretta scooter, but could never stay on the damned thing, it had a nasty habit of throwing me off on left hand turns - it would go in one direction, I in the other - stupid thing.

Tec

Good evening/morning everyone.
Tec - that roast dinner sounds nice - any left over?
You didn't include pumpkin though. When I was in the UK, I was told that pumpkins are grown 'for the pigs'. Here in Oz, many people would not think a roast dinner was complete without the roasted pumpkin!

Allan - what are the wheelie bins doing in your house? Are you raging????

Good Evening Tec,

"Good Omens" is a fantastic read, in more ways than one!

Linda, the TV was boring so I did a couple of crosswords, that cats are not much company (although one was kind enough to bring me a present which I have only just found: a rather scrawny, and very dead, mouse)

My junk food consisted of Roman Chicken which I had made a while ago and froze, which I had with plain boiled rice.

Allan

Allan

Good morning Berona

The wheelie bins weren't much company: they were rubbish dancers

Allan

Good Morning Berona,

Sorry, we ate it all. I've never had roast pumpkin - heard of pumpkin soup, but never had that either.
It is usual here to have Yorkshire pudding with roast beef, but I can't make that. OH attempted it years ago, least said the better.

Tec.

Tec, you have missed out on two of the world's best dishes.

While I can take or leave roast pumpkin, pumpkin soup is delicous!

OH makes Yorkshire puddings in a cake tray (the type with 12 individual indentations.

I also use the same type of batter for 'Toad-in-the-Hole'

Allan

Ahem Tec, that is when frozen Yorkshire's come in useful.

I grew some pumpkins on the allotment and used them in soup, but I have never thought of roasting them. I m not keen on the taste, even in soup, I like it flavoured by other things.

I am disappointed with you Allan ,I thought that you would have been having a wild time. Your OH obviously has you in check, even when she is not there

Linda, I'll be glad when OH is back home.

She took the key to my shackles with her!

Frozen yorkshire Puds: and you living in Yorkshire.

Disgraceful!!!!

Allan