What are you all up to

Always good to have a good plumbers number, Kj. We have good electrician , general jobbing builder and roofer but no plumber but we do have BG's insurance in case we are away so MiL can play the aged pensioner card.😀

Taliking of aged pensioner we went for a lovely walk today and MiL went off in opposite direction. On the way home we met a near neighbour. He was some distance behind MiL on a walk down a local Manor House Drive, used by the local populace for walks when he heard her singing at the top of her voice.

🎵🎵Volare,Volare🎵🎵 made famous by Dean Martin. We bought her a CD recently featuring said song by Jonas Kaufmann. It's driving us mad.😱😂😂. He very kindly made himself scarce so as to not embarrass her. I've got no such qualms.😁

As an aside I saw an article last night about the virus being found in ice-cream in China!😱 Whatever next?

Evenin stannard...as per Eric Morecambe WN? I was going to ask what flavour until I read the article... looks like it's a one off.

The web is a wonderful thing, don't have nightmares. 

I'd love to have dreams Brue before progressing to nightmares! 

Strange times we live in.

I love your MIL's style WN Good for her. I bet she felt better for belting that out.

I do hope you get your heating sorted out soon Bakers2. Why do these things always go wrong when the weather is really cold. We had a new boiler fitted last spring and have never really got to grips with the thermostat and controls. It took OH about 3 days to change the timer so it was on for longer during this cold weather. After much stress and 'stong language' he seems to have eventually managed it but has no idea how! Oh for the simple life.

The snow did not materialise here today so no sledging for us sadly 😂. Just sleet first thing and then heavy rain so no walk either as everywhere we would normally walk is flooded. So watching the snooker for OH and carrying on with embroidery for me. I think I am beginning to remember all the stitches 🤔. It is oddly addictive.

Dammit, Brue now you HAVE got me turning over the old grey cells  !!  Seem to recall a Scottish Westside site  with no TV from normal sources BUT it had a " Repeatered " signal from Sky that came from an aerial we used to drive past on the access road, and that signal was analogue - possibly gone now, but I will have to check before bed -- won't sleep  

Was it Kinlochewe ?

I seem to recognise that what you've written Brian is standard English but it might as well have been Swahili.

What a shame about the snow Millie. I bet you had your winter sledging gear ready for action.

Sorry to confuse you WN !!  The site had no TV signal of it's own ( & a blooming appalling fone signal too  !! )

There was an arrangement whereby SKY picked up the normal channels and re-transmitted them ( For a fee , no doubt ) and there was a dish to accept this { repeated } signal & retransmit at analogue frequencies to the local inhabitants, including the Club Site !!

Hope thats clearer  Mate  

Now I know where I'm talking about  ~~ it was / is(?) MORVICH Club Site

I'll sleep easy now  

I got caught out by the analogue issue at Morvich some years back. Wondered why the TV was dead.

Another day of decorating here walls all painted and just a bit of wallpapering to do. I was going to go out a cycle but it’s quite breezy here on the coast so going to give it a miss today. Finished decorating for the day and the plan is to watch the snooker this afternoon hoping for a John Higgins win.

Warmer today and much brighter. I didn't wake until after 9am 😯glorious blue sky and sun. Typical..... been playing catch up since, not that anything is important!

There was a good stiff breeze so put some washing on. Breakfasted washing hung out and off for the dog walk. Not as enjoyable, despite sun and no sleet,  not slippery underfoot and much warmer. Loads of folk out, I was later too, had to keep criss crossing the roads 😡😤, would have chosen different route if I could but I owed money to my cleaner and wanted to sort it. She'd done some shopping for me whilst doing hers, bits I like from other than Tesco. I wasn't in when she dropped it off and OH didn't pay her for some reason 😱. Dog did have great run off lead as we were so late to an open space, missed the earlybirds, slightly later starters and too soon for the after lunch brigade 😀

Sadly washing blowing but not really drying, but will smell fresh. Sun disappeared now 😢. In and stripped bed right down to the mattress, only washing the under layers at the moment, will have to tumble those, bedding can wait and hopefully be pegged out tomorrow. Used to be able to get up and strip bed, wash it and hang out before work - difficult to shift OH by mid-late morning these days so no good in the shorter days........

Well heating ok today, but then its warmer so it doesn't need to work as hard. TV behaving for now..... However, I cleaned the toilet and noticed a crack on the outside front, possibly just in the glaze, and as I wasn't wearing my contact lens I finally discovered that the vertical mark I've been trying to shift, didn't understand why I couldnt get rid as we don't have continual trickle, to stain, into the bowl, is another crack and it goes horizontal at the waterline. I do hope that a replacement toilet will have the same exit point in the wall??? I really cannot be doing with replacing the bathroom and tiling etc, not that it will be DIY this time, but it still has to be chosen etc and nowhere's open. At the moment it's not urgent but a stitch in time is my motto........... Hopefully that's our 3rd thing!

Right must go vac the floors, bird seed packet caught as I removed it from the stockpile this morning 😤 so even more mess than everyday bits which I've avoided for as long as possible!

A friend posted on fb this morning a photo of a cat, wearing glasses and sitting comfortably with the caption -  I feel like I should clean the house, so I'm going to sit down and do some reading until it passes. I feel I have been living like that for far too long lately!!! It will be messy again before anyone can visit - such a waste of my time and resources. Sadly I won't have used the hours wisely either 😉

I hope everyone is having as exciting a time as me???