Illaveago
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- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
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Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
If it is 4 sleeps to Christmas how many is it for a cat? 
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Christmas lights outing with CTC
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Soon be time for my evening hot drink , choices are tea or hot chocolate ??
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Marchrider
Active Member
glad you're OK - pretty dam serious thing a front blow out in a wagon
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
I went for hot chocolate having had at least 4 cuppas already.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Raining well here
Thanks. Yes, it can be very serious but, happily, not today!
I was in quite a dangerous position, too. Stopped in the nearside Live lane of the A47 Norwich by-pass, a 70mph++ dual carriageway.
My first phone call was to the office for a call-out. Second call was 999 who were really helpful & dispatched a couple of cars with blue flashing lights on the top. The fact that the first to arrive was an Armed Response team made me feel quite safe 😁
CTC, Christmas to Christmas ,well i never knew.Cycling to Christmas.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Today was the village Christmas festival, which happens in the marketplace which is right next to my flat. It started with a brass band and then at about half past eight the band went home and the remaining revellers played the usual Christmas hits. This is fine... I suppose, but it's a bit loud... Then as someone was singing about how last Christmas they gave someone their heart, they'd just begun to explain that this year, they were going to present it to someone special... silence.
I checked the time: 9:30pm. I love this country sometimes...
I checked the time: 9:30pm. I love this country sometimes...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a grey, blustery and slightly damp day here chez Casa Reynard.
Slept ok-ish. This morning's tasks included re-jigging the fridges in the kitchen and utility room, doing another load of laundry, splitting logs and topping up the firewood bins in the house.
Luncheon was a chicken sandwich, a pear and a
Then made a big batch of cranberry sauce this afternoon: two punnets of cranberries, a cup of water (to stop your fruit from burning), a chunk of fresh ginger - finely chopped, cinnamon, allspice, chinese 5-spice and some lebkuchen spice mix, the zest, juice and pulp of an orange, and two murfitt's seedling - cooking apples similar to a bramley, but less acidic. Then sugar to taste, once everything is thoroughly cooked. I like it so that it is still quite zingy, but *just* sweet enough.
At teatime, it was off to Tesco for the Saturday evening lurk. Stocked up on 15p veggies (carrots, parsnip, broccoli, swede, sprouts and red cabbage), and had some good buys on yellow sticker that included hot-smoked salmon, king prawns, sausage rolls, festive cheese pastries and sausage meat stuffing with chestnuts.
I might also have acquired some stilton and some wensleydale with cranberries.
Cauliflower soup, then toast with brie and cranberry sauce for supper. There is still a pain au raisin with my name on it in the kitchen, and I shall be having that shortly with a
Slept ok-ish. This morning's tasks included re-jigging the fridges in the kitchen and utility room, doing another load of laundry, splitting logs and topping up the firewood bins in the house.
Luncheon was a chicken sandwich, a pear and a
Then made a big batch of cranberry sauce this afternoon: two punnets of cranberries, a cup of water (to stop your fruit from burning), a chunk of fresh ginger - finely chopped, cinnamon, allspice, chinese 5-spice and some lebkuchen spice mix, the zest, juice and pulp of an orange, and two murfitt's seedling - cooking apples similar to a bramley, but less acidic. Then sugar to taste, once everything is thoroughly cooked. I like it so that it is still quite zingy, but *just* sweet enough.
At teatime, it was off to Tesco for the Saturday evening lurk. Stocked up on 15p veggies (carrots, parsnip, broccoli, swede, sprouts and red cabbage), and had some good buys on yellow sticker that included hot-smoked salmon, king prawns, sausage rolls, festive cheese pastries and sausage meat stuffing with chestnuts.
I might also have acquired some stilton and some wensleydale with cranberries.
Cauliflower soup, then toast with brie and cranberry sauce for supper. There is still a pain au raisin with my name on it in the kitchen, and I shall be having that shortly with a
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Glad you're OK. That looks like a hairy moment xxx
Reynard
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
You weren't, hun xxx
Not sure I could tackle a cheeseboard after a fancy three course dinner. I'd rather have a cheeseboard when I'm hungry enough to appreciate a well-curated selection of really good cheeses. (and no, that's not the variety boxes you see at this time of year LOL)
Mice pies? Madam Lexi is requesting of the recipe.
