Chitchat thread #24

[lottie dolly]

bloomin nora,i hope not,your cake looks good,the last couple of ordinary cake mixes were nice,but slightly sticky,i put it down to using a different mar,sooooooo,i must try again with my usual one,but the crimbo cake i used butter for the first time,so when i do the next one,i will use marg,maybe 2 tubs of cherries and less fruit,but my ones are richer in fruit than your one,and usualy turn out dark,but any cake is yum yum, unless you get flipin dough like mine,i would not offer anyone a bit,hence the freezer,maybe tomorrow will try another plain one,i think i got the day free,and take it from there,the oven is only just over 3 years old and not got a lot milage on it, some weeks i not use it,as only me so simle things,now winter here a vegetable roast on a bed of onions sounds great

[Nicos]

What a pretty napkin- very thoughtful- ta muchly lottie x

[lottie dolly]

foot lady just gone,got the trotters in top condition again,now what to eat,i will put the oven on and do a none fruit cake ,just to test the oven you understand,maybe throw some vegies in to roast whilst am at it,that is a plan,Nicos i antisipated your juices flowing

[Snoop Puss]

Beautiful cake, GF. I'm sold. I'll definitely give it a go.

[Bren In Pots]

That’s a cake to be proud of GF

[Nicos]

You know…I keep looking at your cake gf….I can actually smell it! Yum.

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

There is actually a touch of sunshine this morning. That will keep the solar batteries well fed today, with any luck. And the weeds growing! Frost next week, possibly.

On the cards for today, a lot of work. No idea why but I didn't get much done yesterday. Too much thinking about cake, I'll be bound.

Have a great day, everyone.

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all

Darn…I keep thinking about making a fruit cake….
I’m on my own at the moment, so I guess I know who would end up eating most of it though
I could put it in the freezer…but what a waste. ( I have been known to chop off frozen chunks of cake previously so that would only slow down my consumption a tad…)

Tis mild here too. No wind.
Got to take Hibou to the vets again today. She’s so much improved , so I hope they get to the bottom of this. Maybe the heart thing was a red herring and it was a UTI or something. I already was aware of a mild heart murmur anyway, so this may be the point it needs more attention too.

I need to clean out the chooks - so may as well collect more leaves whilst I’m togged up in my ‘ dirty work’ gear.

Then of course more sewing.

Bonfire Night today - have people noticed less fireworks around this year? The cost last time I checked was horrendous-hopefully that puts a few people off. I always worry about pets , but wildlife must be affected by the bangs.
We used to have a horse and he was petrified. We used to play a radio for him, but it seemed to go on for at least a week either side, even then.

Well, munch on some treacle toffee for me if anyone has any. I’ve got my parkin at least. I think I’ll make a hotpot for myself…it’s our family tradition…can’t miss out on that even if I am on my own!

Whatever you get up to…do enjoy your day peeps

[Bren In Pots]

Morning

Not many fireworks here this year Nicos unless they're saving them for the weekend. Hope it goes well at the vets today for Hibou xx

Enjoy your day

[lottie dolly]

Morning all,proper autumnal here,good luck with Hibou today,as for heart murmur,my late partner had a dog with one,he was on tablets,and is still around strong as ever he must be about 13 ish now,you would never know from the way he is,loves his long walkes and food,when i have tried a fruit cake with less fruit,i can guarantee it goes to the bottom,but not if i overload it,even just cherries on there own,i did my roast vegies and realy ejoyed them,i suppose i have got exrtreemly lazy at cooking for just me,did a coconut cake with my usual marg, and it turned out fine,i will give another go also with the new one,and see if it sticky again,so oven must be ok,flu jam later on this afernoon,the choir are doing a verse of silent night just humming with sign language,so we have home work,right breakfast calls,then it's finish of in the laundry dept,have a lovely day

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All Very dull here. Hope all goes well for Hibou. Have a good day

[bramble]

Good morning all.
It's a beautiful sunny morning here and its 21 degs already.
Yesterday was just as good.
We are going to make the best of these last few days before we go home to face the winter.

So glad to know Hibou is doing well.
Have a good day all.

[greenishfing]

Good afternoon.

I'll be going out shortly. I'll drop off some of the cake for my brother in law and an old friend. A quarter each.

I'm glad Hibou is feeling better, Nicos. I hope all goes well at the vets today.

I've just realised that, after two weeks, all my cold type symptoms have disappeared.😀 Mr GF still keeps having bouts of coughing when he lays down in bed but the tissue mountain is a thing of the past.

Bramble, enjoy your sunshine. I hope your system doesn't get to much of a shock when you get home.

We don't seem to have had as many fireworks as usual here yet, but then again it is only the 5th today. Maybe we'll get lots tonight. I quite like watching them but they are far too loud nowadays ..... or maybe I'm just getting old and miserable. Mr GF says that when he was a child, he and his little buddies used to buy gunpowder at the local ironmongers and make their own.🙄🤯 How he ever survived to adulthood is a mystery to me at times.Evidently he also made a mini cannon in metalwork to fire ball bearings.

[Nicos]

Ah those were the days gf…making lead soldiers and painting them, and handling mercury in class and passing it around to the next pupil…..it’s a wonder we are still here…what with everything cooked in aluminium pans etc etc.

[greenishfing]

Nicos, when I remember all the reckless things "our gang" used to do while running wild around the local countryside from about age seven it amazes me that the worst injury any of us had was when one boy broke his leg while sledging down the "Rolley, Polley field". He hit the solitary telephone/electric pole, not sure which it was. We simply put him back on his sledge and dragged him back to the nearest house with an adult and a phone. Most of our other injuries were bruises, from falling out of trees or barns, or cuts and scratches, from brambles and barbed wire.

Benign neglect? Possibly. We certainly learned to be independent and help each other.