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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Working day completed
Just the lawns to do next
Oh and do some brake cables
Just the lawns to do next
Oh and do some brake cables
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a sunny and blustery day here chez Casa Reynard. Warm where it is sheltered, but chilly where it was not.
Slept OK-ish. Spent the morning with a friend and her dogs, having a nice walk around the community orchard and local nature reserve and generally setting the world to rights. Stopped off at the book exchange - it's a new shelf in there as opposed to a second addition. The old cabinet type thing has been removed and disposed of. Picked up a book on WW1 for the parental (an autobiography of a soldier-poet, but not Sigfried Sassoon), and two brand new Puffin kiddies paperbacks for a friend's ankle-biters.
A lovely luncheon of the last of the cheese bread, smoked mackerel, the last of the cream cheese, plus fruit and a
Sat down in the garden and read a bit (basically to avoid school chucking out time), and then took the parental to Littleport to do a spot of erranding. Two out of the three were a bust - mum couldn't book her med review at the quack, she has to wait another fortnight in order to book that (no idea why), and the Post Office, which has a decent selection of Indian groceries, didn't have / were out of stock on the spices that I wanted i.e. ground ginger, ground coriander seed and garam masala.
But the trip to the garden centre yielded two nice strawberry plants to replace the two that I lost over the winter, plus four salad tomato plants. I went for four different ones this time, two early (Tigerella and Shirley) and two mid-season (Alicante & Moneymaker). Just need to find two beef / slicing varieties, and then that's me sorted.
Also got lucky in their reductions bin (yeah, yeah, you all know me...) and picked up three 12-inch diameter metal hanging baskets for £2.50 each. Those will do very nicely to hang from my old bird feeder pole in order to keep my herb pots away from the slugs.
Just sat down now relaxing with a after a bit of panic when my laptop decided it wasn't going to boot up properly.
Slept OK-ish. Spent the morning with a friend and her dogs, having a nice walk around the community orchard and local nature reserve and generally setting the world to rights. Stopped off at the book exchange - it's a new shelf in there as opposed to a second addition. The old cabinet type thing has been removed and disposed of. Picked up a book on WW1 for the parental (an autobiography of a soldier-poet, but not Sigfried Sassoon), and two brand new Puffin kiddies paperbacks for a friend's ankle-biters.
A lovely luncheon of the last of the cheese bread, smoked mackerel, the last of the cream cheese, plus fruit and a
Sat down in the garden and read a bit (basically to avoid school chucking out time), and then took the parental to Littleport to do a spot of erranding. Two out of the three were a bust - mum couldn't book her med review at the quack, she has to wait another fortnight in order to book that (no idea why), and the Post Office, which has a decent selection of Indian groceries, didn't have / were out of stock on the spices that I wanted i.e. ground ginger, ground coriander seed and garam masala.
But the trip to the garden centre yielded two nice strawberry plants to replace the two that I lost over the winter, plus four salad tomato plants. I went for four different ones this time, two early (Tigerella and Shirley) and two mid-season (Alicante & Moneymaker). Just need to find two beef / slicing varieties, and then that's me sorted.
Also got lucky in their reductions bin (yeah, yeah, you all know me...) and picked up three 12-inch diameter metal hanging baskets for £2.50 each. Those will do very nicely to hang from my old bird feeder pole in order to keep my herb pots away from the slugs.
Just sat down now relaxing with a
after a bit of panic when my laptop decided it wasn't going to boot up properly.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Evening walk completed
Rear lawn cut and edge trimmed
Evening cuppa going down well
Rear lawn cut and edge trimmed
Evening cuppa going down well
Another very hot day. The latest office move-around has left me with a window seat. It was so sunny this morning that the sun was reflecting from the windscreens of the cars parked outside and shining in my face! I had to pull the blind.
I had a hectic day. I had been waiting for months for my solicitor to arrange an appointment for a consultation with a private psychologist to get a report on the mental impact of my accident. He phoned me at about ten to twelve and asked me if I could make an appointment at two! It was in town for a change so I could, after clearing it with my supervisor. I had to walk from the office to there in the really hot mid-day whilst carrying my rucksack with work stuff so arrived soaked in sweat. I had to wait for nearly an hour before he could see me anyway. Then a fire drill in the building happened during my consultation so we had to go out! After it was finished, I had hardly walked a hundred yards before I saw he had emailed me a rather hefty bill!
I logged in to work from home for a bit but I wanted to go to my salsa class, so no half day this Friday as I will have too much time to work up.
My ankle really hurts this evening too and is swollen a bit. Background pain is normal if I walk a lot but this worse. Just gives me something else to worry about.
I had a hectic day. I had been waiting for months for my solicitor to arrange an appointment for a consultation with a private psychologist to get a report on the mental impact of my accident. He phoned me at about ten to twelve and asked me if I could make an appointment at two! It was in town for a change so I could, after clearing it with my supervisor. I had to walk from the office to there in the really hot mid-day whilst carrying my rucksack with work stuff so arrived soaked in sweat. I had to wait for nearly an hour before he could see me anyway. Then a fire drill in the building happened during my consultation so we had to go out! After it was finished, I had hardly walked a hundred yards before I saw he had emailed me a rather hefty bill!
I logged in to work from home for a bit but I wanted to go to my salsa class, so no half day this Friday as I will have too much time to work up.
My ankle really hurts this evening too and is swollen a bit. Background pain is normal if I walk a lot but this worse. Just gives me something else to worry about.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
My lawns are currently in the same condition that I'd normally expect from late summer - dried out, starting to go brown and very little growth. I only needed to empty the mower's grass box twice and the black sack of clippings is less than half full when I'd expect to do twice that on a normal cut after less time since the previous cut.
I did treat myself to a Lidl 'Magnum' look alike ice cream as a reward for the hard work (yeah right) done and followed it up with a pint of squash, the radio and some reading while sat in the deck chair in the sunshine.
I did treat myself to a Lidl 'Magnum' look alike ice cream as a reward for the hard work (yeah right) done and followed it up with a pint of squash, the radio and some reading while sat in the deck chair in the sunshine.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
One piece of good news from yesterday's 'fun' is that Greater Anglia have already given a full refund of my return ticket cost under their Delay Repay scheme. That will pay for Sunday's entry ticket for either Silverstone or (more likely) Mallory Park when I decide which one to go to.
The first of 2026's away days has already been booked with a trip to see Big Special in Manchester in late February.
The first of 2026's away days has already been booked with a trip to see Big Special in Manchester in late February.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Somewhat indulgent supper of a home made baked rice pudding made with Jersey (gold top) milk, jazzed up with a nice dollop of marmalade. 
Speaking of which, that little batch of marmalade is now done, and I got two jars out of it. It's rather punchy on account of the ginger and chilli that went into it.
Speaking of which, that little batch of marmalade is now done, and I got two jars out of it. It's rather punchy on account of the ginger and chilli that went into it.
classic33
Leg End Member
Blame the manufacturer for not listing all ingredients, and amounts, per 100g.Somewhat indulgent supper of a home made baked rice pudding made with Jersey (gold top) milk, jazzed up with a nice dollop of marmalade.
Speaking of which, that little batch of marmalade is now done, and I got two jars out of it. It's rather punchy on account of the ginger and chilli that went into it.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have busted all of my distance records to repatriate a piece of Paul Warwick memorabilia from... Australia.
And after Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia and of course the UK, it's the ninth country in total.
And after Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia and of course the UK, it's the ninth country in total.
