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  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3362

    Doing a Macdonalds order at the moment. Still got another hour and forty-five minutes to go before we finish. I reckon by the time we get to bed, it will be time for the clocks to go forward one hour. So instead of getting to bed by 1 a.m., it will be 2 a.m. tonight!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2017 #3363

    Alternatively, you could clock off now. Nothing to stop you.

  • HelenandTrevor
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    edited March 2017 #3364

    Have been catching up with everyone's activities, good to read that everyone's been enjoying themselves. smile

    Have been away in the van for a few days, fantastic warm sunny weather.  Been out and and out enjoying walks in the peak district and visiting our son and girlfriend in Sale. Last day today so making the most of it ! cool

     

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #3365

    Of out to visit our daughter and son in law (Ruth & Wayne) in Leek.  They only live about a quarter of a mile from Blackshaw Moor CAMC site at Upper Hulme.  I think they want to show off their new conservatory floor they have just finished. laughing

    David 

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2017 #3366

    Another glorious day here. It's so nice we put all the stored garden furniture back out after Winter. Daffodils, anemones, tulips, primroses, even hellebores are still going strong! Lots of lovely strong growth from other plants as well, even the lilies are coming up! Frost nipped our Pieris though! My waste pile of clippings and tidied up old foliage is as tall as me now, but hopefully if it dries out quickly enough I can burn it in garden brazier. Compost heaps are full to bursting!

  • brue
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    edited March 2017 #3367

    Nearly got blown away at Plymouth Sound club site last night, lost more than an hour wondering if the van would hold together! Lovely day time weather. Now on a more sheltered CL in Cornwall, having a rest today. smile

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3368

    We did get home an hour earlier because there were no more deliveries to do, so we didn't bother waiting in town.

    This morning we went to WWT Arundel and had the soup of the day there. We had a walk around spending some time in the various hides including the Sandmartin hide.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3369

    We managed to find parking in the Worthing town centre, so we bought a Cornish Pasty and Cappucino from Greggs before taking a walk down to the sea front and on to the pier.

    Crowds of people on the pier, promenade and the beach. Plenty of blue sky and sunshine. It was rather warm on the parts of the pier that were sheltered from the wind.

  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2017 #3370

    3 sunny days in a row .......just as well as I am about to submit our reading for the last 3 months of  PV generation  and it has been a pretty miserable quarter overall.

    Very warm in the sun here today, unfortunately I am stuck inside finishing those plinth pods as we are delivering them to DD today since we are invited to dinner.

    Yesterday we visited our son and family, lovely there too so we were outside playing with the grandchildren and helping in the garden.  Out of the sun though, it was still chilly.

    Once I get all my tools tidied away tomorrow, it will be time to start sorting the caravan stuff.

  • Goldie146
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    edited March 2017 #3371

    Another glorious sunny day, so we are taking full advantage of it.

    My son has been spreading slurry (most fields are hilly and it has been too wet to travel on them), and my husband has been rolling (there's a short window between the field being too wet and the grass being too long). 

    I thought it would be a good day to sit and read in the caravan, but it's at the back of the machinery shed, blocked in by several large agricultural implements).

  • ABM
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    edited March 2017 #3372

    So  THAT'S  where you  go  to  hide  surprised !!

  • Goldie146
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    edited March 2017 #3373

    Only when it's back out in the field behind the house, with a decent view!

  • Goldie146
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    edited March 2017 #3374

    View from the tractor 

  • trellis
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    edited March 2017 #3375

    Just returned home from jolly to Cornwall, wall to wall sunshine across the whole country . Made the journey so much more relaxinglaughing..

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #3376

    Hope there will be some sunshine left for us Easter week.  Hope you had a good time trellis.

    David 

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #3377

    Hope there will be some sunshine left for us Easter week.  Hope you had a good time trellis.

    David 

  • trellis
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    edited March 2017 #3378

    Excellent time thank you David.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3379

    I'm hoping that there'll be some sunshine left over for the National at Sandringham and our holiday in Scotland.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3380

    After a quiet afternoon, it's starting to look like a busy evening. It seems like our customers are tired after their day out in the sun, too tired to cook themselves! It's all Macdonalds orders at the moment!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3381

    Yet another Macdonalds order. Macdonalds seem well in favour with our customers tonight! I'm not sure what's so great about Macdonalds. I prefer fish and chips, myself, with salt and vinegar. With fish and chips you get much chunkier chips than the thin French fries that they do at Macdonalds! Having said that, we did get one fish and chip order yesterday from Tasty Plaice in Rowlands Road for delivery to our regular customer who usually orders cigarettes.

  • milliehull
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    edited March 2017 #3382

    It sounds wonderful Helen. Glad you have had the opportunity to enjoy the lovely weather and to see your son and his girlfriend in their new home.smile

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3383

    Nice to see someone posting on here. I was feeling a bit lonely, everyone else seemed to have disappeared!

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2017 #3384

    Sorry Malcolm. Didn't mean to neglect you. Are you still working tonight or have you finished

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3385

    Still working, EasyT. There's an Efes delivery to do for the next door neighbour of someone we delivered to earlier this evening. We're waiting for Efes to finish cooking it. Another 10 minutes it seems before we can collect! 11 p.m. finish tonight but we might get away by 10 p.m. if there are no more orders then.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3386

    KFC this time. That makes a change!  A wicked zinger meal with gravy and coleslaw but no ice in the drink as a special request.  We're at the town centre kfc. They sometimes run out of food at this time on a Sunday evening and so have to cook from fresh which takes longer.

  • IanH
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    edited March 2017 #3387

    Why not just refuse to wait fo the extra time they take to cook, Malcolm?

    Time is money. If you are self employed, surely you can pick and chose which deliveies you chose to take......and what time you knock off each night?

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited March 2017 #3388

    They all keep us waiting! At Macdonalds and Kfc there is often a long queue on a Saturday night.

  • IanH
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    edited March 2017 #3389

    But aren't the orders rung through to the shop ahead of you getting there? So that the order is ready for you to collect when you arrive?

    Surely you don't have to queue up and then give the order to them?

  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2017 #3390

    Back home after an evening at DDs house and an excellent dinner, bacon with sliced mushrooms in a cream sauce on toasted ciabatta, followed by lasagne and salad.

    Later we had tea and home made cup cakes.

    Then, once the clearing up in the kitchen was done, we brought in the plinth pods and put them in place.  They all fitted perfectly, fortunately!

    The plinth has to be cut and edged to make the drawer fronts, and unobtrusive handles fitted, but meantime the plinths are back in place.

    If the organising of the caravan stuff goes well, we will go back next weekend and make the fronts, if not, then they will not get made till we return in July.

    Total cost of parts to manufacture them was about £140 for 8 drawers, with full extension soft close runners, so DD is well pleased.  Just as well my time is "free"!

  • triky auto
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    edited March 2017 #3391

    Bright but cloudy here in East Kent and still windy.Off to the B/yd now ,attack the never ending grass growth !!undecided.