Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

I can imagine that new mums need some spare hands. Last week at the Resource Centre I found a bin full of spare arms, complete with hands. Would your sister like some?

They also have some springs described as very small springs for very small Zebedees who have lost their boinginess.

I do not think that being a Potty Old Hoop[sup]tm Chuffy[/sup] is obligatory at WRE, but it helps.

 

[TheDoctor]

Ningles!!!

Today I have mostly been riding my 531ST touring bike, resplendent with new transmission (but still with the 20 year old paint).
I used it on the WNRttP too, and didn't find it too much harder than the Carbon Uberbike.
It's a bit slower up hills, though. Lower gears, so I can sit down and twiddle my way up at a glacial pace.

Strange thing to find at the WRE, Speicher. I thought such places were 'armless...
[looks in vain for IGMC smiley]

 

[HelenD123]

Afternoon! (Sorry, on Canadian time) Can I get anyone a brew? No? My tea drinking had fallen away rather on the trip but I've been making up for it big time in the last couple of weeks. I was offered a free bed at a hostel in exchange for some painting and the Aussie manager there had developed rather a tea drinking habit when working on building sites in the UK.

So what have I missed?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Hi helen. Glad the trip is going OK. You'll be able to catch up on T when you get back. As for what have you missed, well Waffles has a Monty, Arch has been overdoing it on the trike, TD has been riding slowly to the pub and I've been putting on weight to list just a few things. The former 3 activities are all good but the final one is . Just not fair say I.

No thanks - no (more) biskits for me thanks

 

[TheDoctor]

I've been riding slowly to other places too!!
I rode to a wine tasting last night. Well, there's more to life than beer...

 

[Speicher]

* wanders in to slurp tea and dunk biskits unnoticed *

Oh dear I have been followed in here by the stray cat again. I think he is after the cat biscuits, so I had better hide them from him in


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slurp ... dunk.. slurp

 

[TheDoctor]

*sneaks in*
Speicher appears to have nodded off. I'll just snare a few of these...
*steals biskits*

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah yes Helen - I forgot Speicher's biskit adventures. And TD's taste for all sorts of fluids (especially those with ethanol in).

Been doing lots of stuff, helping M-i-L, doing laundry and dishes and harvesting and cooking. I have some elderberries waiting to be made into lovely juice. But I'm knackered. They will have to keep for the moment. Otherwise it's been beetroot, tomatoes and apples. I've got the beet in the pressure cooker, the apples have now been stewed and the burst toms have been cooked down to make yummy sauce. Nothing quite like homegrown IMHO.

Ooh - Arch - I did mean to say well done on your trike ride of 127 miles. That's a very impressive ride and no mistake. What is even more impressive is that the cake shops must have been shut for a goodly proportion of your ride.

 

[Arch]

Ooh - Arch - I did mean to say well done on your trike ride of 127 miles. That's a very impressive ride and no mistake. What is even more impressive is that the cake shops must have been shut for a goodly proportion of your ride.

Indeed - all the way there, for instance. Although we had User10119 on hand, and she'd arranged a tea and cake stop for us at a house in Pocklington. Very welcome at 2am, when we were at our coldest. Coming back there wasn't much option on tea stops on the route, it was all small villages. By the time I got to Pock, the cafes were closing anyway...

Thank god for chocolate raisins and jaffa cakes...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Well done nevertheless. Was it an Audax as 200km == 125 miles.

Been out collecting elderberries today. Got a good size shopping bag full. Will be Googling the recipe for sambucol (Sp). I made some last year and it was gorgeous. So superb in fact that the family were necking it like it was going out of fashion and #1 daughter insisted on taking some to uni. So this year I'm hoping I'll make enough to last a bit longer.

 

[Speicher]

I have been out looking at ducks and swans and dragonflies.

Do you need some help finding the biskit tin, 26 by 25?

 

[Arch]

Well done nevertheless. Was it an Audax as 200km == 125 miles.

Not official, no. A YACF organised night ride to Scarborough, and me being daft enough to try for the ride back too. I was keen to get the 200 km though - I'd sort of set myself some targets for this summer - a night right, a 100 miler on the trike and a 200 km. Got them all in one, and just about in time....

Next obvious target would be 150 miles, and then 300 km, I think. Probably have to be next year now, with the daylight vanishing fast.

 

[Arch]

Well, I'm back anyway. Journey home seemed endless - 5 1/4 hours as opposed to 4 3/4 going down, including 15 minutes sitting at New Street while they changed crews.

Oli, Max et al went off to Devon for a week this morning. Last night, Oli helped with the packing process by contributing his wellies and three apples to the pile.

Oli is chattering away now, will try any word you suggest to him, although 'prescription' took a couple of goes (he was playing with his doctor set). A few tantrums, but then he is three. On Thursday, I showed him a conker in its green casing, and told him it was a seed, and then he found the pips in his apple, and I told him they were seeds too. And later he was looking at the contents of a kitchen drawer and I said 'look at the picture of the tomatoes on the tin, they have seeds in, and those dried beans are seeds too". He pointed at a jar and said "And flour?" I explained that flour was made of wheat, and that was a seed. "And", he said "Wheat is made of seeds... and cabbage".

And then today, apropos of nothing while we sat with a cup of tea, he suddenly said "Auntie Sue told me all about seeds!". It all goes in, which is lovely to see, and scary how much he remembers and puts things together in his mind.

Max is just a joy. The smiliest baby I've ever seen, with a dimpled gummy grin guaranteed to melt hearts. One day, I know, he'll be three too, but for now, he's just wonderfully placid! I could have dandled him all week. Oh, I did!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

By crikey - it's so quiet in here and there is mould growing in the T pot

I'll scald it out and make a brew. Should be OK.

I'm graoning with a sore throat and headache - daughter #2 brought it in to the household and I've missed out on pedalling

 

[Arch]

It must be bad if you're graoning. That's even worse than groaning....

Yeah, did no-one drink any tea yesterday? I'm having a cup now, before I reheat some leftover stuffed marrow for dinner - marrow provided by my sister, a courgette that got away....