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Re: What are you all up to
Finally finished the advent calendar. Stitched it together yesterday only to find I'd made a school girl error attaching the lining and backing! Filling on the outside 😡🤔🫣🤐. 3 hours to unpick! Managed the last bits after this morning's dog walk and before DIL and grandson's came for lunch. A couple of hours together before heading out to nearby village school, a contender for next year, Christmas bazaar. Very nice.
NNothing On the calendar for the next 2 days 🤞 so aiming to chill 🤣
It's been a beautiful if cold day but now we have mist and low temperature. I suspect freezing fog coming
Bakers2
Re: What are you all up to
Early morning walk, well about 7.30, to Nichol end marina. Such a lovely morning.
Re: Your most breathtaking routes
I have not been to the Highlands of Scotland for at least 20 years but agree the scenery can be spectacular. I have drivien round the coast with a caravan before the NC500 was even thought of, these days one is put off from doing any of it because it popularity is its downfall. A particular route I have enjoyed in the Highlands has been the drive from Fort William to Malaig. I feel there is everything the Higlands has to offer in this 40 mile drive, mountains, lochs and wonderful beaches and seascape views across to the islands, but do use the old road from Arisaig to Malaig and try the cullen skink at the pub in Arisaig.
Loch Ailort
Skye View
A beach near Arisaig
While the Highlands are beautiful when the weather is fine, for me the north coast road, the A39 from Porlock to Lands End via St Ives and then into Penzance via Porthcurno Lamorna and Mousehole has much more interest and variety. I will try and post more on this route another time.
Sunset over the islands
As an aside if you did not know already, if you just click on a photo it opens full size in a new tab.
peedee
peedee
Re: What are you all up to
It's cold and dry at the moment - perfect weather for hedging. Three generations working togther (aged from 20 to 76), though this photo just shows the eldest.
Re: Air fryers - are they too high powered?
The Ninja Foodi Dual Zone Air Fryer, which is probably one of the larger air fryers is 2400 watts, or just over 10 amps just as a reference point.
David
Re: What are you all up to
Just popped into a cafe in Matlock... for a hot chocolate.... never seen one quite like this.... goodness knows what the 'festive pannini' might be like...
David
DSB
Re: What are you all up to
Well storm Bert was a damp (literally) squib here. Certainly the was snow on the top of the local fells but no wind and just rain down here. Heavy in the morning but just drizzle later on. I have to say I was somewhat disappointed. I was expecting to watch the snow fall while eating mince pies and mulled wine with perhaps a walk out battling the elements to the local tea room. Meet a couple who said Barnard Castle got it quite badly and snowed in?
But all was not lost and we had a splendid afternoon in Keswick where it reached a warm 11C.
Re: What are you all up to
It's grey, barely light and snowing again this morning…………unlike 25 years ago when Ros and I walked to the Registry Office in Beverley in lovely sunshine - didn't even need a coat - together with our friends Philomena and Tony as witnesses. Then to the Forest and Vale in Pickering for the smallest Wedding Reception they have ever known - just the four of us! Even had photographs in the garden😀
Cheaper Camping &Touring.
Avoid the Club Sites, stick to the CL Sites, even though some of them are getting expensive. Every time I want to stop at a Club Site I get palpitations at the prices they want. This is definitely my last year with them. It may be a Club for the members, but it does not reflect it in the prices they charge.
flour55
Re: Welcome to the New Club Together Forum!
@eurortraveller I don’t think it’s over complicated, in fact I am actually finding it a lot easier to do certain things that were a PITB on the old forum. Photo posting is a lot easier, you can bookmark the threads you are really interested in without having to trawl through a list of threads, and if you are in conversation with someone, you can get almost straight back to them. The hour long edit feature, without being timed out is much better. Not a fan of the badges thing, but then again I’m capable of simply ignoring them, so it’s not an issue for me personally. Choosing to join certain groups is another easy to do option, and hopefully keeps those that are interested coming back, but doesn’t impinge on those who aren’t interested in things like wildlife, cooking, cycling, walking, dogs, etc…..
I’m also sure that there might be others like me who simply enjoy having a chat with folks during the day, maybe catching up quickly on any news until you can find time to send a longer proper email message. Some of us are friends, not just on here, but in real life, but I don’t think anyone is excluded from saying hello, what are you up to, even if we don’t have each other’s email addresses. We help each other out, cheer each other up in the more social threads, some of us have a lot more going on in our lives than might be immediately obvious to others, so a little bit of kindness goes a long way. Likewise with the more touring based topics, there’s a wealth of knowledge on here, and sharing a problem can often solve it, give someone a nice place to visit, and just help others out.
As I write this, there are in fact something like 700 people actually online, so some things might be catching the attention of someone new, some one curious, no matter if many don’t choose to actually post on the forum, it’s actually possible now to see the interest (even if only fleeting) the new forum has generated. Some will go, some will stay, everyone has that choice.😁👍
