Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

I haven't withdrawn any cash since February and I've still got £35 in my wallet. I reckon I'm still on track to make it through to the new year without a refill. (The Bank of England can eliminate me from their cash-hoarding suspects.)

 

[Reynard]

Cold, blustery and snowy here chez Casa Reynard.

I'm somewhat further inland than @Jenkins and the stuff is sticking around. Preciptitate is constantly switching between rain, sleet and snow, but what snow has fallen has stuck. Albeit it's rather slushy. And if the cats refuse to go outside, I'm taking their advice. Though apparently it's my fault the weather is not to Madam Lexi's liking. She keeps on going to one of the windows, looking out, then walking up to me and yowling her displeasure. Madam Poppy is more circumspect. She's napping next to a radiator.

I've just puttered around doing random things this morning as I had a somewhat interrupted night. But I plan on having a baking afternoon, as I need to make another bread, and I also have a hankering for Belgian peperkoek.

 

[fossyant]

Not handled cash for a long time. Even our chippy has an electronic cash machine thingy you use if you need to pay by cash.

 

[rockyroller]

Saturday is going to be a wash-out. Good day to stay in with Wifey & lite a fire. But she's trying to time her daily walk & I'm trying to time a bike ride in the snow if we get any. My chain is too clean ...

 

[rockyroller]

It's full-blown grizzle with borderline drizzle here. About 4 degrees C.
I'm thinking about buying a new car. I've never bought a new car before.

don't do it! only kidding good luck w/ your decision & shopping! wutz on the list?

 

[Illaveago]

Oh no not again !
I just looked up as I put a dish in the sink and spotted a leaf which looked just like a small Hedgehog by our bird feeder.
It wasn't a leaf . It was a tiny Hedgehog looking for food . This one was much smaller than last week's one. I scooped it up and put it in a box and we took it to the rescue place where we took the other one .
The other one is doing fine .
We are going to have to learn how to look after them if this keeps happening .

 

[rockyroller]

[QUOTE="Illaveago, post: 6220143

I've got a couple of fivers and some tenners in my wallet .

Right if I have a couple of fivers and some tenners in my wallet.What have I got,answer someone else's wallet.
[/QUOTE]
reminds me of an Abbott & Costello bit: "got 2 tens for a five?"


View: https://youtu.be/la2BVTLFQ94

 

[biggs682]

Still damp and dismal here on the Savannah plains

Got a few of the missing notes here but not quite that much

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

wutz on the list?

This one, which makes it a short list!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

In other news, I walked to the supermarket today for the first time in ages. What a ridiculously slow way to get somewhere! Bike is best. While I was shopping, I passed the kitchenware aisle. I learned that what I call a fish/egg slice is now called a "turner' and what I know as a bell whisk is usually called a balloon whisk. Anyhow, I bought one of each. I also bought a garlic press because I broke the old one yesterday.

 

[rockyroller]

This one, which makes it a short list!

haha cool! what color?

 

[rockyroller]

garlic press

last night, before dinner, for my immune system, I diced 1 clove of garlic & sauteed it in olive oil. just when the bits were golden brown I dried them on paper towel, then chewed them. very tasty! washed them down w/ a large glass of lemon water. the last time I ate a clove of garlic I did it raw. one doesn't want to do that!

 

[rockyroller]

Hedgehog by our bird feeder

that sounds adorable. what is the bother with leaving them where they are? are they a nuisance like chipmunks?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

haha cool! what color?

White probably but I'll let my daughter pass judgement on that.

 

[Reynard]

Mmmmm, the house smells of peperkoek i.e. Belgian honey and spice cake.