What are you all up to
Comments
-
I'm not going to do anything today, an easy meal planned and the decorations can stay up for another day. OH did the early dog walk and said the black ice was lethal under foot. So take out there today if you're frozen up like us.
1 -
My meal is easy as well, need to cater differently for Mum, but doing her favourite. Lethal here as well, will collect Mum and Sis in Jeep today, suspect their conditions will be worse than ours at top of a very big hill!😱
0 -
Take care TDA!
I've just heard that my nephew did nearly 250 take out meals in his Italian restuarant last night, brought some staff back in to help. Ran out of food for himself and had to get an Indian take away on the way home.
We'll also get a take away from our pub this weekend, they are doing Sunday roasts alongside their usual menu. Hope they can all keep going.
1 -
We had some fireworks near here last night, maybe with two occasions? to celebrate it was bigger displays
when out with Rosa this morning it did not seem as cold but ir was trying to snow,stopped now did not settle, and is now very misty
Hope it is a better year for us all
0 -
Lovely sunny day here, but still very cold. We have a ham to cook for later, OH says she may do some roast potatoes, and a parsley sauce, and we have plenty of fresh veg. Cheesecake for afters.
We stayed up till just after 00.30, a few fireworks were going off locally, no display in town or in Edinburgh, but an excellent display from the Wallace Monument near Stirling.......better than the usual Edinburgh one we thought.
We had some great news from our friends in North Wales this morning.......they have just become grandparents on the 30th. Totally unexpected, and kept secret by their daughter and SIL in Cardiff till after the event.
0 -
If anyone is stuck as to what to watch, we saw a very funny and extremely clever film last night called Inside out on Disney+.
It's all about how our brains are controlled by little people up there. Like I said some clever idea about memories, imagination...
0 -
No fireworks. No bells. Last of the turkey in wraps for supper and bed at the usual time (9:30 ish).
And a quiet day today (in between milking etc). Steak and chips tonight (our own beef), and home made orange ice cream.
But - tomorrow we get a sleep in! Husband’s monthly weekend off.
First calf of the year. A heifer born just before sunrise.
8 -
I can't remember whether it is Brue of TG who has visiting cats but nice little story on the subject here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54710400
David
0 -
That's lovely news for your friends and you. Did they keep the whole pregnancy quiet or just the imminent birth? If the former I'm impressed at that secret keeping 😯.
Fireworks all evening and then even bigger, if that was possible, bangs at midnight. I also see lots of fines have been issued and gatherings broken up in Essex - I cannot understand some peoples mentality. We have overflowing hospitals, staggering transmission rates in the area and still they aren't being socially distant 😤🤬😡
Very cold, still not exceeded 3c no frost to see but grey again. Heavy shower of rain about 1pm. Uninspiring again or what?
Dog in disgrace, again!, OH had unplugged my late mum's fibre optic Christmas tree, and stood up, but wasn't quick enough to stop dog chewing off the plug 😤🤬😡. Can't take the plug apart, not got a spare plug - don't tell himself but I chucked his stock of used plugs which he insists on removing from defunct items when i tidied the shed 😱. Not even sure if I can put an ordinary plug on the set up? The ?transformer? isn't part of the plug, which was 3 pin with plastic top pin, and isn't affected. Ho hum.
Beautiful calf Goldie. Do you rear your male calves? Not that this is. Enjoy your lie in 😉
0 -
We have a visiting cat. A large black and white neutered tom, who the grandsons called Sylvester. I don't mind him, but our two (neutered queens) don't like him. He pinches their food and sleeps in their favourite place ( towel shelf in the Back Kitchen). He also goes to the neighbouring farm - their young children called him Buttons. Via Facebook we found his owner (another farm and he was collected (they called him Albert). He was collected and taken home and our cats settled down. But today, two weeks on, he's back. The article says "don't feed wandering cats" - but ours are fed outside and he hangs about at feeding time and is first at the dishes - and gives ours a nasty stare.
0 -
Beautiful calf Goldie. Do you rear your male calves? Not that this is. Enjoy your lie in 😉
We keep them to about 4 - 6 weeks old then they are sold for rearing at the local auction. Or direct to farm by word of mouth. We haven't the room. We keep all the heifers (Pedigree Dairy Shorthorns) and they go into the milking herd when they calve at bout 2 years.
2 -
Thinking of you and sort of, very sort of, understand. It ain't easy with one that's not too bad so really feel for you. Let's hope 2021 is better for us all. And that those who are so far not doing as they're asked finally get the message, so we who are constrained get some freedom. Not holding my breath though!
Just read post on FB asking that message is communicated by whatever method that 2nd doses of the vax will be being administered here.
1 -
great picture, do you give out names for calfs Goldie?
0 -
but it's good to share and hopefully our thoughts help in some way?
3 -
We used to have a grey cat, he followed in after OH one very cold night in Scotland -15c. He curled up and slept for a few days and we discoverd he had several abcesses. It turned out he was part of a feral colony being fed locally by Cats Protection, however he had other ideas, so we got him neutered and he stayed with us for fifteen years, a lovely gentle cat. He was the second feral cat who had decided enough was enough and found a proper home with us. 🐈
I read Goldie's reply with amusement as one of our past vets said that cats attract each other...they must have a signaling system!
0 -
This is awful and disgusting on so many levels. I hope it works, my BBC links often don't. BBC News - Covid: Illegal New Year party at Essex church broken up https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55506681
0 -
We stayed up until around 2ish this morning having a few drinks and watching the TV we watched a very good documentary about Billy Connolly which was great one of my faves although a bit of a sad show as it was about him retiring from performing. Quite sunny here today so I went out and gave the Volvo a wash although may not have been the best idea as I seem to have created a bit of an ice rink outside now. Nothing planned tonight the steak pie is almost ready and then a night watching the football SWMBO has a new book to read so she is quite happy.
1 -
I feel for you robsail, and hope that things will be better in 2021
If those who can will take the vaccine, it can only be a good thing
We should all consider our responsibility to others and the wider community, and do the right thing .......get vaccinated!!
2 -
We had a lovely meal at a friends house 5 of us all spaced around the table savoury nibbles for starters steak and ale pie and fresh veg and I did a fresh fruit salad and a low sugar jelly and enough left for the same for us tomorrow, our friends had bought a bottle of red Cahors Malbec wine which they love drinking OH had diet coke and our other friend had sparkly wine as she does not do red wine and I have been given the rest of the bottle to finish so that will take a few days.
Met the new dog Mina and she is very friendly and placid and she enjoyed our company so a peoples dog.
Our vaccine for our age group is at the beginning of March so hope all goes to plan.
Take care and stay safe folks.
1 -
Quite agree, Bakers2, It seems that at least three ( 3 ) different large scale Covidiot Gatherings took place down Essex way not the least of which was the, apparently, very professional episode in that 500 year old grade 2 church.
Incidentally we are told that fines, varying from £100 up to £10,000 are often imposed / issued but nobody says just how many of them are actually paid or bilked on ! IMHO a fine unpaid within 14 days should incur an immediate custodial sentence of 2 weeks per £100 without any remission
2 -
The whole thing apparently!
They have not met up since March and lockdown, so not so difficult to keep secret.
I remember that my friends wife said that they would never be grandparents, and that that did not bother them, but I think they may well be really pleased now!
The baby is lovely, as are all babies. I have been in my workshop (garage) and now made a wooden rattle for her. And we will get a gift from our daughter, who also knows them.
Our friends were late starters themselves on the baby front, and their daughter is following in their footprints as she is now 38.
Maybe they got bored in lockdown!!!
1 -
David we do have 2 cats that like to visit, one belongs to our next door neighbour who abandoned her after she had kittens, when she was only a year old herself.
Its the neighbour on our other side she now 'lives' with, in as much as on cold nights she sleeps in her utility room. The cat is a bit of a socialite she has a fair few of us she visits.
The other cat that has taken a fancy to us lives over the back from us. This one is an intact tom, so doesn't get to come in the house. He likes to spend the day time just now on our covered decking. We still have chairs out there and I put a warm old blanket on one of the chairs for the little female cat, however she doesn't use it he does.
Neither of the cats spend the night with us, though the female did when she was poorly.
Both their owners know they visit us, next door couldn't care less as they now have a dog and recently got another kitten.
The male cat we think goes home at night.
We've never had cats before as its always been dogs. When we lost 'Tammy' a number of years ago we decided no more dogs until we stopped travelling so much. We came close to giving in a few times but have managed each time to agree its not fair on the animal. One day maybe.
0 -
I am hoping that our hospital will carry on administering the 2nd dose of the vax as well so OH can have his next thursday as planned. Not heard anything yet.
0
