What have you been doing today?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Putting more useful to someone else bits, up for sale on FB, that I am unlikely to need again. Her ladyship has been laying a sort of Frence drain, along the side fence of the garden, to hopefully make the area less prone to flooding in the winter, so she can plant (even) more flowers.

 

[crystal ball]

Listening to TMS Stuart Broad takes final wicket, England win

 

[Brigadier]

Just watching it.

Broady's spell was superb

 

[Mottie]

Just made myself a bubble 'n' squeak pattie for tomorrows breakfast out of leftover spuds and cavolo nero from tonight’s dinner. My own spuds and my own cavolo.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

..and today's dinner, cooked by me, was scraper potatoes, flavoured pork chop, and salad. The chops were absolutely massive, each 35mm thick and the size of a plate each. Sold as 5 for £10 so we got 5x garlic, 5x Chinese. She doesn't like garlic, so 1 garlic and 1 Chinese to be cooked, and I'm the original clueless cook....

I grilled them each side until they began to brown, then switched to oven G 5 for 30 minutes, and just hoped for the best. Once cooked they were still far too big, so half on each plate, the other cooked halves in the freezer, for sometime in the future. They were the nicest, most succulent pork chops either of us have ever had, and a cheap meal.

 

[Mottie]

Over the allotment quickly between showers. The bloody tree rats had got under my netting and finished off the remainder of my sweetcorn that they were too full to eat last week.

The bastards - I’ll spend more time building a better protective net for them next year. I managed to find one they had missed. I ate it raw while I was over there!

Borlotti beans are starting to get some colour.

Butternut squash coming along.

I picked a truss of Shirley F1 and a few loose Costoluto Fiorentino tomatoes - I’ll ripen them up on my windowsill. Found a giant cucumber lurking unseen and I picked a handful of ripe strawberries.

 

[conny]

Starting to clear the loft in anticipation of our moving in Jan/Feb next year.
How/why do we collect so much shy*e, only to throw it away years later?

 

[Brigadier]

Starting to clear the loft in anticipation of our moving in Jan/Feb next year.
How/why do we collect so much shy*e, only to throw it away years later?

You're moving into the loft?

Are you a squirrel?

 

[conny]

In a manner, yes! We are, hopefully, moving to my late FIL's bungalow but need to get the loft converted beforehand.
Before we leave this accommodation, (rented), we have to clear our crap out the loft and sheds first.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Starting to clear the loft in anticipation of our moving in Jan/Feb next year.
How/why do we collect so much shy*e, only to throw it away years later?

Or the kids just chuck it all away when we pop it.

 

[Mottie]

The bastards - I’ll spend more time building a better protective net for them next year. I managed to find one they had missed. I ate it raw while I was over there!

Note to self: After eating slightly unripe sweetcorn cobs, don’t stray too far from a toilet!

 

[HERTS P&D]

Mottie's sitting on the pottie!



Andy

 

[Brigadier]

Note to self: After eating slightly unripe sweetcorn cobs, don’t stray too far from a toilet!

Repost this in the Weight Loss thread

 

[Mottie]

Repost this in the Weight Loss thread

Seriously, I’m the lightest I’ve been for ages!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I decide to water my flower tubs in the front garden.

As I go to turn on the hose I look over at my car and
decide it needs washing.

I go to get the car keys from the porch and then notice
the post on the porch table.

I decide to go through the post before I wash the car.

I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the
bin under the table, and notice that the bin is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take
out the rubbish first.

But then I think, I can run down to the post-box when I
take out the rubbish, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there
is only 1 cheque left.

My other cheque book is in the computer desk, so I go
inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been
drinking.

More seriously - I've been adding to the pile of stuff to give away and sell, from my garage and workshop, plus doing a bit of tidying, and a bit of fault-finding....

I run my compressor via a timer, to avoid it being left on after use and annoying the neighbours. Switch it on, it was supposed to be able to run for 20 minutes, then switches off, until you repeat the off/on. Its contacts have welded up, and so back to having to remember to switch it off after tyre checks. Shame, it played nicely for several years..

Her ladyship made a cottage pie, ready for later today, plus a couple more for the freezer, as well as shuffling a few more plants around and lots of soil. She's trying to replace the clay soil close to the house, with the really good soil I dug out 40 years ago, when I originally laid the base for the garage.