General Chat

Hello Pat,
Hope you are well - I think we all feel a bit let down and disappointed being kicked out of the World Cup so soon.
To be honest, I didn't really think we would win, but I did think we might have got a bit further. That German team were good, while England seemed to be tired from the start.........Oh well!

Tec.

It's absolutely pelting with rain - can't remember when we last had a decent rainfall.
Might prevent the hosepipe ban we were threatened with earlier this week.

Tec.

We have just had a small amount of rain,but it has already evaporated, there is supposed to be lots overnight,so I hope so

I think this rain is travelling over to you Linda, so you should get a good soaking in the early hours. It's Welsh rain, so will be of excellent quality.
No sign of it letting up, and it's quite dark, we have the lights on.
The garden is so dry, we really need the rain, as I expect your allotment does too.

My daughter brought me a bag of Wessex Six Seed bread flour from Lakeland, so I will be playing with that if it's wet tomorrow.

You of course will not be baking bread tomorrow.

Tec

The allotment does need lots of rain, we had a trial dig up of a potato plant, but they were very small. Having a water meter CC, we never water the garden, other than the pot plants and that is with water collected in the rain butts from the house roof.
We will welcome your Welsh rain with open butts Tec

Welsh water on its way to you CC.
I'm really enjoying not having to water this evening, especially the pots in the front garden, as I have to trail through the house with a watering can, takes ages because I've got three tubs of asiatic lillies, two agapanthus, three roses, aloe vera, two box bushes, two miniture prunus trees, and three pots of geraniums.
It was the North West that wanted to raid a lake, they supply Greater Manchester and Merseyside.Unbelievable when you think of the terrible flooding at Cockermouth and areas of the Lake District not so long ago.

Tec.

the thing about champagne is that it's dry and I like sweet wine!

CC..........You can't have Australian Champagne - you just can't, though I know they do produce some excellent wines.

I enjoy good food, but don't like to see it "over presented" as some chefs try to do, as if to create a work of art on a plate.
I prefer good plain food, presentation is important of course, but I don't like my food "messed with". Plain and simple - just like me.

Tec.

Pat, You would enjoy a nice French Sauterne then. I have always thought that Champagne is rather over rated, and there are other good wines that I much prefer.

Tec.

Oh, I always think of you as a dandy Tec..... Well not really

I used to read that, and the Beano, but you're much too young to remember them Linda - I expect you read "Bunty"

Tec.

CC. You were obviously far too nosy for your own good when you were young - there are things in Sunday papers that innocent young girls shouldn't know about.........

I remember my Gt. Grandmother who was born in 1857. She died in 1947 aged 90 when I was six.

I estimate that you will appear on the 2140 Census CC.

tEC.

I am having an early night, so will update in the morning. The good news is that my daughters partner is not at home, so he must still be at the hospital with her.

Try to relax Linda and get some sleep, big day tomorrow.
Good that your daughters partner is able to be with her at this time.
Goodnight - sleep well.
Tec.

Hello everyone - I'm all a-flutter now after reading that we have our first baby born on the thread is on her way. To think - before long we will be aunties and uncles:-))

We can't call our champagne by that name anymore. We have to call it sparkling wine because only champagne from Champagne can carry the name. This was changed in Aus. a few years ago. We have some lovely wines here. I love Wolf Blass Yellow Label moscato and have just discovered Brown Bros. cienna. Both very sweet and not to everyone's taste but I love a sweet wine.

Very cold overnight here. Frost on the windscreen again as I've just watched my son carefully pouring water over his car windows. We don't often get frost in this area but that's 2 nights in a row.

Sue xx

Good evening/morning all.

Linda, fingers still crossed!

Persephone!! that was a vile attempt at character assasination a few posts back. Don't think that I didn't recognise myself.

After Taking Legal advice a summons is on the way to you. I managed to find another stamp. this one had Queen Victoria's head on it (it is a very large stamp and a bit bloodstained)

Absolutely nothing wrong with Aussie Champers, or with any Aussie wines.

CC I used to buy wine by the half dozen. Not for the discount but for the effect :0)) Hic.!

I never met either of my grandfathers as they had both died before I was born but I remember both my Gran who was born about 1877 and my Nanna, born about 1882.

Gran died in the early 1950's and my Nan in 1964.

Hello to Sue and Tec and welcome to Dorothy

Allan

Heavens Sue!!

Couldn't you have wished a better start for the poor child.

Most families have one eccentric Aunt and/or Uncle, but to wish half a dozen of us onto the unsuspecting babe is a bit cruel! :0))

Allan (Chief Eccentric)

Lol, Allan:-)) You could be right.

Sue xx

Good Morning Sue,
Good Morning Allan,

Seems very strange to see you talk of frost Sue - but I can remember being very cold in Sydney, but never as cold as I once was waiting for a train on St. Kilda railway station in Melbourne. Many Poms don't seem to realise that you have cold conditions in OZ.

Allan the Chief Eccentric - We could be cyber aunts and uncles to the new babe - I'm sure some of my aunts and uncles were from outer space, never mind cyber space.

Tec.

Good evening Tec.

We even have snow on the Stirling Ranges in winter in WA. It doesn't last long but it is the only place to experience snow in the State.

I had one Aunt (Called Bobby, even though her real name was Kathleen) She was a Registered Nurse and a Health Visitor/School Health Nurse. She was a real character and married to my rather straight-laced Uncle who was a very devout Catholic. She must have driven him crazy!

Allan