What have you been doing today?

Making some soup for our lunch. From the plot of Mott I used one of my butternut squashes, a potato and a leek. Roasted the squash, boiled the potato and softened up the leek in the frying pan. Chucked them in the blender, added some vegetable stock, chilli flakes, dried coriander, salt, pepper and a knob of butter and blitzed it all until it was smooth. Just got to go out and get some fresh crusty bread to go with it. Mind you, I’m a bit full already as I necked what was left in the blender. :mrgreen:

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Yes, a wetsuit in winter. And a neoprene hat. I swim front crawl, with head in the water, so would get terrible headache without the hat.

Right now, in a "kneeskin", which is very thin, but warmer than budgie smugglers (y)

Some hardy sods wear normal swimwear all through winter...... but they rarely do anything more than head-up breaststroke.
Something I've not understood though, is such swimmers almost without fail wear a woolly hat.
"You lose most heart through your head" isn't likely to be the case, when you're near - naked and up to your chin in 4 degree C water.

If I make the effort to get in, I'll make the effort to swim properly.
 
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Nursing Mrs Mottie today. She's usually up at 6.30. This morning I’ve been running tea and biscuits and tea and toast up to her in bed.

She went to visit her mum in the care home this week. Her mum had the most terrible cough. She asked her how long she'd had it and she said "We've all had it". Her mum used to have good cough/sneeze etiquette but since dementia has come in, she's forgotten all of it and was coughing right in Mrs Motties face. Mrs Mottie said "I’ll be lucky if I don't catch what she's got" when she came home that night.

This morning: Did a test and…Covid! First time either of us have had it but I’m still clear. For the moment….
 
Mottie said:
Nursing Mrs Mottie today. She's usually up at 6.30. This morning I’ve been running tea and biscuits and tea and toast up to her in bed.

She went to visit her mum in the care home this week. Her mum had the most terrible cough. She asked her how long she'd had it and she said "We've all had it". Her mum used to have good cough/sneeze etiquette but since dementia has come in, she's forgotten all of it and was coughing right in Mrs Motties face. Mrs Mottie said "I’ll be lucky if I don't catch what she's got" when she came home that night.

This morning: Did a test and…Covid! First time either of us have had it but I’m still clear. For the moment….
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Sorry to hear that Mottie. Tell her the DIYnot forum send their best wishes, she'll be made up.
 
Took our A3 up to the workshop yesterday to give it its annual service. Found that the front brakes were getting low - they've not done bad, still on the originals at 66k. I could have got away with chucking a set of cheap pads on it but I treated it to a new set of Brembo discs and pads. Fitted them on outside my house - couldn’t be bothered running it back up the workshop to change them. Turning the steering left and right to do them resulted in just about every warning light coming up on the dash when I started up. Typical - my code reader was up the workshop too. I drove it round the block and they went out but I still had warnings that the cruise control and start/stop wasn’t working. I pulled over, switched off, started up again and they cleared too. Finished up by washing my hands in the sink with a handful of sugar and some washing up liquid. Old school. ;)
 
Had to pop over the Olympic village this morning for a spot of quality control on a centre and right in the middle of the village was a weed covered pond…with a heron sitting on it! I don’t think it would have much luck there - it couldn’t see the fish for a start.


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Had a bit of trouble getting home at 11.30 as West Ham were playing Chelsea at the London stadium with a 12.30 kick-off. Totally unorganised - it was bloody hard work getting onto Stratford station with thousands of supporters pouring out. I felt like a salmon trying to swim up a waterfall!
 
Mottie said:
First time either of us have had it but I’m still clear. For the moment….
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My test was clear this morning and I felt fine so I went to work. Feeling a bit rough now thoigh, head hot, body cold and shivering. I’ll test again tomorrow. More worrying, I’m off my food! I had a crisp sandwich for lunch and I’ve raided our grandsons stock of crinkly chips and chicken nuggets from the freezer and chucked them in the air fryer. I'm aching like a bastard.

If I don’t make it through the night, it’s been nice knowing you. All of you.
 
Mottie said:
My test was clear this morning and I felt fine so I went to work. Feeling a bit rough now thoigh, head hot, body cold and shivering. I’ll test again tomorrow. More worrying, I’m off my food! I had a crisp sandwich for lunch and I’ve raided our grandsons stock of crinkly chips and chicken nuggets from the freezer and chucked them in the air fryer. I'm aching like a bastard.

If I don’t make it through the night, it’s been nice knowing you. All of you.
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If you haven't posted by 0900, I'll slip something tasteful into the notable obit thread.
 
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