Mundane News

[hopless500]

It's snowing here too. Even Lexi doesn't want to go out.

Am tucked up by the fire in my onesie listening to Southampton v Arsenal on the radio and writing my xmas cards.

It has snowed but now stopped. I have steamed myself with Vicks, showered, dug my inhaler out, sort of unloaded the car and am now waiting for my Sunday lunch courtesy of Mr Hop. A 'rocky' will be in order later

 

[hopless500]

All morning my phone has been telling me what the weather is doing in Bruges

 

[Illaveago]

It's still coming down but it is wet and has washed off what was around earlier this morning.

 

[Illaveago]

I think I may have foot and mouth. The soles of my feet are sore and I have blister on my tongue.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Still raining, the wind has died down on land at least and I forgot to turn the tap off on the bokashi bin

 

[Gravity Aided]

Bloomin' cold here in this deepest darkest corner of East Anglia.

Went to the agricultural tool place up the road this morning to get a new chain for my saw. The old chain had got to the point where sharpening it was a wasted exercise. Then I moved a stack of wood from right out the back of the garden to the saw horse under the porch, and after that, I split what I sawed yesterday. There was a very fine-looking petrol-powered log splitter at the tool place, but at £600 it's a bit rich for me. Instead, I'll stick to being a dab hand with an axe and a chopping block.

Sat and watched the racing and the snooker this afternoon.

Then this evening I baked a lithuanian gingerbread cake and cooked a wonderful supper of medium-rare beef fillet, roast tatties and cauliflower & broccoli cheese with gorgonzola.

Now about to sit down with a and watch MOTD.

Try this, for splitting logs, I was amazed when I saw this. How come I had to split wood with just a plain ax, and kids nowadays get to use fancy ax from Amazon? Society's getting soft.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wct4D-iYFeo

 

[Salty seadog]

Oh.

No in Deal it's not. It's just rather windy.

You're round the corner cowering in the shelter of the South Foreland.

2 ports closed and we're out in the middle bobbing.

There is one ferry grounded in Calais port....that's a spanner in the works.

 

[Salty seadog]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/8...rt-crash-Storm-Ana-weather-alert-winds-France

Sorry for the link source.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Colder here, but sunny. We had some snow pellets the other morning, but little accumulation. Lucky, but only so far.

 

[Lullabelle]

Last night was the company Christmas do so no doubt tomorrow we will hear about how drunk certain people were, falling over, vomiting etc.. Is it any wonder we don't go

 

[Speicher]

Last night was the company Christmas do so no doubt tomorrow we will hear about how drunk certain people were, falling over, vomiting etc.. Is it any wonder we don't go

Yes, the last ever Christmas "party" that I went to, someone spiked my orange juice with Vodka. They knew I would be driving a long distance later that day, but gave no thought to the consequences. Fortunately, they must have put a large amount of Vodka in the orange juice, and I was able to detect it. So I poured it down the sink and said nothing.

People say you cannot detect Vodka in a drink, but if you reglarry dink Vokda ten des yu cn dtect it nd nott drimkit.

 

[potsy]

Later than planned but Mancland finally has some snow

 

[Hill Wimp]

From The Juniper Club.

"
Did you know?
Juniper has been used for more than 1,000 years as a medicine to treat rheumatism, arthritis, loss of appetite (as well as overactive appetite) and gout"

 

[Lullabelle]

Yes, the last ever Christmas "party" that I went to, someone spiked my orange juice with Vodka. They knew I would be driving a long distance later that day, but gave no thought to the consequences. Fortunately, they must have put a large amount of Vodka in the orange juice, and I was able to detect it. So I poured it down the sink and said nothing.

People say you cannot detect Vodka in a drink, but if you reglarry dink Vokda ten des yu cn dtect it nd nott drimkit.

Spiking someones drink is appalling behaviour but worryingly some think it is funny.

Thing is, they try to out brag each other as to how ill they were the next day and it must have been a great night because they can't remember much about it. These are all grown-ups in their 40's! They don't go out much so really go for it when they do. Never been interested in being that drunk

 

[screenman]

Last night was the company Christmas do so no doubt tomorrow we will hear about how drunk certain people were, falling over, vomiting etc.. Is it any wonder we don't go

Sounds like you missed a good night.