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It's not raining here either but that's because the sleet and snow have bullied it. Drove through the snow this morning to get my flu jab. Not that much snow but it is cold. Then off to get Mrs WN a new pair of trainers. Is there another female on here that hates shoe shopping? Boy am I lucky.
This afternoon spent cooking, both tonights effort and a casserole for tomorrow as I want to get out on a walk and it's supposed to be dry.
Tammy - It is November!!! Mind you October wasn't any better.
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Good afternoon, Everybody
.Out for a short drive this morning with the aim of getting a little bit of heat thro' the more remote parts of the 'Duccy'. Stopped off at Sainsburys for some chocolates for aged sister's 89th on Tuesday and got a little ( tight fisted A B M ) box of soft liquorice for the same
.In and out like a fiddlers elbow so went for a longer route home. Shakerley Mere 'tween Holmes Chapel & Knutsford is well full and the drainage area is getting it's annual flush thro'. Loads of folks out dog walking round the Mere { 3 / 4 mile at most } but most of the pups out there were small ones for some reason with nothing larger than one of those pretty poodle / cross mongrels. Have to admit there were several pug sized pups out there, nice friendly social creatures and Brian has muddy paw prints on his trousers to prove it !!Now its time to start manufacturing the Aged Ones card - they don't seem to sell " Aged 89 " cards for some reason.
Hope you all are dry / drying and enjoying a well deserved Saturday !!
P.S. / Edit " Come on the Alex "
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My weather research tells me the Express says it's going to be dire everywhere...
(I wonder if Express readers ever dare to venture out?)We've had a nice warm bit of sunshine sandwiched in between dark skies and heavy rain today. I'm not doing anything, I made three Christmas cakes last week (due to popular demand ha ha) and because the recipients keep "losing" the cake decorations each year I've just been looking on ebay for replacement fir trees, jolly Father Christmases and robins...
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That's a good suggestion for Christmas Prezzies, Brue !!
Niece bought her fave uncle a " MAN TIN " from Waterstone's ( of all places !! ) a few years ago - now I get some funny, useless items from the same young Lady annually- just to fill it up of course
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Mrs Wherenext sounds like a woman after my own heart, shoes and clothes shopping only when it can't be avoided any more! Generally only manage to find the hump even then. Not keen on revamping indoors either. Like it to look nice but so many choices I remember the bathroom, equipment, taps, tiles, fittings flooring, blinds etc. Nightmare 😱😱. One guy at work was constantly decorating and shopping as wife always shopping for change, he thought I was the oddball 😂😂. Now realise I've been doing my bit for the environment years before it was fashionable........
Very chilly here but bright morning, a nice walk to drop bits in charity shop and onto the post office to post NZ Christmas things, haven't paid for the bits purchased over there yet!. Only three presents left to purchase 😀, but they're the ones I have no ideas for 😱.
Went out for few bits of food and new table lamp, found one very swiftly, we're both in shock. Had turned grey and begun to rain, felt much cooler than the 7c the car said. Please keep the sleet/snow in the west.
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Shoe shopping.....😢 I used to love it, but sadly I have to wear prescription insoles and stick to nearly flatties nowadays. I do sometimes gaze lovingly at my shoe collection, dreaming of what used to be😢 Special events and knowing I shall be sat down are the only time I can wear heels nowadays, and I usually pay for it later. Growing up in the 70’s, I could run in a pair of 6 inch platforms. Those were the days......😁
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Yay, stopped raining here
Went to Morrisons mid afternoon in light rain, came out of shop to torrential rain
Up side of staying in is that I have picked up my knitting after its sat for over 8 years, its an arran cardigan. Fronts and sleeves finished almost up to the armhole shaping on the back. Took quite awhile to work out where I'd got in the pattern, its a 16 row pattern so needed to get it right. All sorted now and a note made of what row is next
We are stopping here another day as want to see a bit more of the area. Still looking at going to the south maybe Chichester, Brighton or Littlehampton. Then up to Commons Wood to see my brother who lives nearby. Would like to see Essex but as you say not much in the way of sites.
WN, I love shoes but hate shopping for them as I have awkward feet I tend to live in sandels, trainers and boots, my days of stylist heels now long gone I know its November but I kind of hoped that it would be lovely and sunny like we keep getting told it is down south to be honest I'd have been happy with cold frosty clear days, anything but rain really feel for those that have been flooded.
Bakers2 I used to love shopping and revamping, nowadays I'm quite happy as long as its comfy and clean
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Had our first canvassers of the Election today from the B party. Intriguingly they rocked up in a Bentley!!!
David
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My Mum has a tin of cake decorations brue. Little Sis is brilliant at Sugarcraft, so she makes new every year. They get eaten in our house😊
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A drier day all round here. Drove to Devil's Bridge and did a couple of walks, one around High and Low Casterton and then another along to the Radical Steps and Ruskin View, before exploring some of the Ginnels and side streets of Kirby Lonsdale that we've not walked before. Our last night here before our last CL of this trip. 😢
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Dry all day here, and some sun, but remained very cold, heating on all day, not good for the finances! Fortunately we seem to have a large amount of credit on our energy account.
DD is the one into making cakes, her favourite hobby, makes her mad when people she has agreed to make cakes for, usually for little more than the cost of the ingredients, do not return cake boxes, trays, boards and inedible decorations. These are really expensive.
She loves making and decorating cakes, but should really charge more for her efforts, however it seems her friends, work colleagues and extended family all expect a bargain.
The worst offenders are her in-laws and their friends, we keep telling her she should work out a sensible price, might discourage them!
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What a beautiful day today
Can't go out yet as we are watching the remembrance day service at the Cenotaph, our eldest son is there on parade, so hoping to catch a glimpse
Can't remember a year that we've not gone to a service or watched it on tv.
The 2 grandchildren we have at boarding school in Scotland will be on parade to today, big parade for the school with their pipes and drums playing. Children not alone as their other grandparents in attendance this year.
We will remember them.
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Indeed. I think given the fragile state of the World we live in at the moment, it becomes more important, not less, as we get further away from 1914-18, and 1939-45. All about not repeating the same mistakes. But of course the World does, and many more have paid the price, right up to the present day.
It is a lovely morning here, bright blue skies setting off the wonderful Autumn colours. A day in the garden for me.
I drove through some of the areas badly flooded on Friday last night. Abandoned cars and debris, horrible black sludge, still lots of impassable routes here. Some folks are going to have a dreadful time in the next few weeks. Our town spent £15m on flood defences after 2007, and they have helped, but the sheer scale of what happened Friday was hard to predict. A third of that £15m came from European funding. 🤔
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Our daughter's partner played the Last Post In a Dorset church this morning, so although at home ourselves we were thinking about everyone.
It is a lovely day here too but very cold.
Very sad for those with flooded homes, it takes such a long time to recover from these events.
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We saw the flooding in Yorkshire and especially Meadowhall and Doncaster on the news. It is looked horrendous. I do feel for all those affected. They must be having such a difficult time. Is your neighbours' car a right-off TDA? Although we have had a lot of rain in the past weeks and there is a lot of standing water about and the fields are waterlogged we have had no flooding to speak of thankfully. It is mainly dry and brightish here today but very cold. I am glad I am not taking part in a Remembrance Parade. I remember the days when I was a Girl Guide and we had to stand for ages and were frozen. Guide Captain did not allow us to wear coats.
. We went to the early Eucharist service this morning and remembered the war dead and those injured in mind and body.We went to see The Mousetrap at our newly re-opened theatre yesterday. Susan Penhaligon was in it. It was an excellent production and we were kept gripped and in suspense until the very end. I can not of course tell you who did it!
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I have not thought.
I was born at close of warWas spared the sights that others saw
I was spared the whistling boom
of bombs that turned homes into tombs
I have not faced machine guns clatterNor artillery’s endless batter
Driving poor men to the brink
Of madness or escape in drink
I have not kept lookout in frightupon a dark and moonless night
Fearful for comrades to warn
Praying that I’ll live till dawn
I have not sailed upon the seaWondering if this time it’s me
to sink below the ocean’s face
Where only flotsam marks my place
I have not scoured the azure domeWhich only really birds call home
To search for foes up in the sky
Harbingers of time to die
I have not thought of what it costFor things I have that others lost
If I look back and think, I see
A sacrifice and love for me.
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Beautiful morning here when the sun comes out, but quite cloudy. Chilly too. We watched the Rememberance from Royal Albert Hall last evening but took a slow walk in our local estate this morning observing the 2 minutes silence when we heard the gun go. I still go cold when I remember. We always went to our local service, my dad played last post and reveille, extra poingiencey these days. I also recall the years we went when our children paraded. Oneputt I wondered when you said you were away, glad to read you went to the memorial you kept tidy. And I can only echo Takethedogalong's sentiments re the current state of our world. I watched our prime minister's face at the Albert Hall last night at various points 🤔.
Very moving words CY. I copied it to my phone last year because it was so poignant
Glad you enjoyed the theatre milliehull, never seen The Mousetrap. We went to see 42nd Street last week in our local theatre put on by Young Generation, 8-18 years. Very good and some wonderful talent.
Just booked Goldilicks at the London Palladium for January, we celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary then. Coach locally, shops plus matinee, transport home for less than the cost of the seat price! We'll have a dinner for family that are local on the day and hopefully a holiday when the weather is better. Why did we marry in January?? I had hoped on a hot holiday as celebration, but that seems unlikely at the mo 😉. Just be delighted to get to the day!
I too feel for those affected by the flooding - awful, could so easily be any of us if the circumstances were different! Not necessarily floods but natural disasters.
Brue I have 2 containers of cake decorations, one for Christmas the other for birthdays. Waste not want not 😉
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The MAGPAS air ambulance has just landed on the playing field opposite our house. One of our neighbours walking by said that there are 2 ambulances outside a house in a nearby street. The paramedics walked off in that direction with all their equipment. What a wonderful service. I hope it turns out well for whoever is involved.
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OP, I wrote it a couple of years back and, it would seem from B2's comment that I posted it last year. Senior moment as I couldn't recall having done so.
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As usual we walked into the village this morning for the remembrance parade and service at the war memorial. There has been much improved observance in recent years, particularly since 2014. These days the road (an A road) is closed for about 40 minutes, and several hundred attend. 30 odd years ago when our kids were parading as beavers or cubs, the numbers were a lot less and the road was not fully closed, which was somewhat hazardous. One year we got fed up of folk not slowing down enough, and on mass blocked the road. Since then the road has been closed, which means everyone can hear what is being said and fully take part.
Afterwards a walk around the lake at Clumber. They are gearing up to start repairing the bridge. Which is going to be a Visitor attraction in its own right, watching the stone masons at work. Apparently it is not going to be opened for traffic again, which I think a sensible decision. I believe they quite like the way the south side of the lake is re-wilding, now it is not so easily accessible.
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Well, somewhat unbelievably, it’s an old MG ZS (Old Rover 45 shape) 2.5V6, they have had it years, and it was up and down the street coughing and spluttering a bit, but sounding rather good! We have christened it Beric Dondarrion after the character in GOT who sort of refused to die! So, it is doing fine, needs a good valet of course. Lots of newer cars looking terminal though, still just left at side of roads.
Had a great full day in garden, lots of tidying and leaf removal done, looking so much better now. OH has dug trench for new hedge as well, so as soon as saplings arrive, they can go in now. Always deeply satisfying having a day in garden. Fingers crossed for tomorrow, but mor rain forecast for overnight.
That's a lovely poem CY.
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We stayed at The Petwood Hotel in Woodhall Spa last night to celebrate a family birthday. Famously known for being the officers mess for 617 Sqn (The Dambusters). A wonderful night with good food and company. As we booked out this morning, there were a lot of RAF personnel in No1 uniform ready to attend the local memorial. Very poignant and proud.
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Had a walk in the beautiful sunshine but stopped for a while at 11.00. Thought a lot about my father who served for 22 years and carried some shrapnel from a hand grenade around within him after an incident in Aden. He was always proud to say he served and that from a man not even born as a British citizen. He wasn't perfect, even he knew that, but he was a damned good dad.
Yesterday I had occasion to call in to a new food establishment in town that opened up whilst we were away recently."The Food Warehouse.". Owned and operated by Iceland Foods. Can see it being useful to MiL when we are away. Looking around it something strange struck myself and Mrs WN. We saw some frozen Mackerel, fair size. We thought they may come in handy for us due to a lack of a local Fishmonger. Then we noticed that they were caught in the North Atlantic but then shipped all the way to China to be prepared and packaged and then sent back here. The economics of it baffle me. Are we incapable of doing the job? This is without taking into account the damage to the climate etc. Couldn't quite get over it. We left them there.
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After lunch we went out in the car to do the suggested route that moulesy posted
everywhere busy today after days of rain.Once back we decided we had time left to get the bikes out and cycle the canal to Devises.
DK I can now confirm that it is possible
bit puffed when we got to the top and both us and the bikes covered in mud.Great fun though and grand to be out on the bikes.
Bikes washed and back in the car just as the light was fading. Clothes in the wash machine, us in the showers, what a good day. Off to Brighton tomorrow
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Phew! What a few days. So busy and so tired.
Friday was one of those days where I worked solidly. Didn't get chance to eat food of any description until 11pm.... and it was one of those days where in spite of it all, I didn't feel as if I'd achieved to much.
Saturday we had a poorly dog and eventually a visit to the vet confirmed pyometra - very serious for dogs. This morning - whilst I was aying for our Remembrance service and then Parish Communion, Carol took her for the op. We went to fetch her this afternoon - and have just had my first meal today!
Lizzie has recovered well but, time will tell. Back to vets tomorrow morning.
Sorry I've not been around much on CT. Hope all are well.
David
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