Chitchat thread #24

[Bren In Pots]

Morning

I'm sharing your weather Flo, hopefully I'll be spending the day indoors.

No sausage rolls here Snoop maybe some by Wednesday though.

enjoy your day

[Florence Fennel]

I can't have the heating on until the radiators have been painted, so it's a bit chilly in here. To make matters worse, the cat has just been for his treats and I have to keep the door open so he has an escape route. Himself has got the best idea - he's still in bed!
Despite the temperature, the water in the bird bath is not frozen.

[greenishfing]

Good morning all.

Absolutely Baltic weather here. The parked cars that I can see are all frozen solid. I think the temprature is supposed to climb to above zero in the next hour or two. I had yet another rubbish night's sleep and went and turned our thermostat well up at about 6am. We're supposed to get snow this evening and tomorrow. When I looked at the forecast last night it was predicting 10 to 12cm, but that has changed to 5 to 7cm. .......... not that I believe the forecasters.

I will go out later and grab some odds and ends, and more milk, just in case we wake up to a blizzard in the morning.

I need to make us another Christmas cake in the next few days and my youngest sister also sent me a Mary Berry tea bread recipe yesterday to try, which she recommends. We spent nearly two hours on the phone yesterday.

I've just found out her daughter has moved out and bought a house with a garden covered in fake grass and a wooden patio she plans to get rid of. I asked my sister if something for the house would be a good idea for her at Christmas. My sister suggested something for the garden, bearing in mind she's an absolute beginner who has little spare time but likes to cook vegetarian food from scratch. It doesn't seem long ago when, as a 7 or 8 year old, she shyly asked me if she could have a few vegetables from my allotment for her harvest festival at school. She insisted on digging up her own potatoes, and having a photo taken of her doing it, to go with the (banana) box full of my veg and fruit, and my sister's jams and chutneys. Evidently when she and her mother turned up at school with it and her headmaster put it separate as a "Special" she was overjoyed. As she grew older she would always come to the allotment to pick cherries, usually with a couple of friends. I don't think she's ever had a spade in her hand since digging up those potatoes though.

Time for more coffee I think.

[bramble]

Good morning all. A dull and wet start to the week here.
Nothing exciting today domestics. I was due to go out for lunch but it's been cancelled.
Plenty to keep me busy.
Have a good day all.

[Snoop Puss]

I need to make us another Christmas cake in the next few days.

Might you fancy sharing the recipe on the new thread, GF?

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...stive-specials

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all
Blustery and raining here. Definitely an indoor day. Our snow is forecast for Wednesday evening. I’ll get my grory hop done before then if it’s still forecast.
Our small lanes become ice rinks,as they only salt the major roads , so I want to be stocked up for when our friends come to stay on Friday.
I had intended going Thursday as it’s market day and there’s a massive hypermarket nearby, but it’s minor roads all the way there…

More sewing for me…the Fair is this coming Sunday, so it’s fast approaching.

Enjoy your day peeps…and remember to pass on a smile.
Speaking of which…..I’ve not seen the Smiles this morning…are they sorting out their winter wardrobes?…S’ousters and thermals maybe?