The philosophy group went really well. We were discussing the charitable status of the U3A and whether it deserves it. The chair and treasurer of our group came along and their insight into the practicalities was very helpful. We also managed two hours where no politician of any stripe was mentioned. In the evening we went to a local pub to meet Andrew Dames, and my husband has gone off this morning to walk a bit of his next leg with him.
I instead dashed out the house when I saw my next door neighbours going into town, as I wanted to ask them something. Fortunately the level crossing gates were closed so I manged to catch up with them and have a chat. They mentioned the new neighbours who have moved in a couple of days ago so I popped round to say hello and got invited in for a coffee.
The philosophy group went really well. We were discussing the charitable status of the U3A and whether it deserves it. The chair and treasurer of our group came along and their insight into the practicalities was very helpful. We also managed two hours where no politician of any stripe was mentioned. In the evening we went to a local pub to meet Andrew Dames, and my husband has gone off this morning to walk a bit of his next leg with him.
I need new glasses or something. I read your last as "my husband has gone off this morning to take a bite of his next leg with him."
We have had a splendid day. It's Doors Open Day in Aberdeen. We started off at the Croquet Club and played a full game of croquet. Then we went to the hyperbaric centre - lots to see and very interesting. Finally we visited a mosque. I was able to see round more of it than my husband as I was allowed into the women's section. I got a booklet The Celtic Crescent about historic links between Scotland and the Muslim world, and we were given a tray of dates when we left.
We had planned to visit more than three places, but each visit took longer than we'd anticipated.
We have had a splendid day. It's Doors Open Day in Aberdeen. We started off at the Croquet Club and played a full game of croquet. Then we went to the hyperbaric centre - lots to see and very interesting. Finally we visited a mosque. I was able to see round more of it than my husband as I was allowed into the women's section. I got a booklet The Celtic Crescent about historic links between Scotland and the Muslim world, and we were given a tray of dates when we left.
We had planned to visit more than three places, but each visit took longer than we'd anticipated.
An obstacle race sort of a day. Leaving Leeds, the first hurdle was hotel to station, this despite them actually being adjacent. But Leeds city centre reminds me of China - lots of new high rise buildings going up among Victorian infrastructure and a maze of older street, many of which are being dug up. So it was a matter of street, tunnel, ramp and lifts to eventually get the train. Change at York. Get into Waverley and a lot more lifts (stairs and escalators are out for Mr F) with queues. Trudge to taxi, crawl through heavy traffic, have it drop me off at Tesco to get provisions for the evening/tomorrow. Get back to house to find MrF and the suitcase still on the doorstep as newly-cut house key inoperative- just lucky he was able to unjam it from the lock.
I'm hoping for a nice level evening of dinner, wine and bed.
You definitely need a gentle evening and WINE, Firenze!
I've had a nice day of singing followed by a bit of drinking (GIN, for a change).
Rather mixed emotions though; we knew that our accompanist is leaving - he's got a new job abroad - but today the choir administrator and our conductor both announced that this is going to be their last season in their posts.
I hope it doesn't mean that the choir will fold; I'd really miss it, as it's the only chance I have to sing proper church music, which I've missed dreadfully since David died. I know they're going to look for someone to take over (I think they've already got a new accompanist), but conductors with the right sort of experience and skills are a bit thin on the ground!
Having had a Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich in the morning and a Cornish pasty at lunchtime, I'm not sure that I'm hungry enough to justify faffing about cooking something. Maybe just pate and crackers ...
In the evening we went to a local pub to meet Andrew Dames, and my husband has gone off this morning to walk a bit of his next leg with him.
When worlds collide. Mr Heavenly worked with Andrew for about 15 years at a Cambridge tech firm, before Mr Heavenly started his own company. I’ve met Andrew and his wife on several occasions.
We’ve been to York and back today, to move Master Heavenly the Elder to his new student accommodation. He now has a little studio and is very pleased with the upgrade from a tiny room.
That is a co-incidence @Heavenlyannie . I didn't get to actually talk to him as we were quite a big group in the pub. My husband and another F/friend walked with Andrew and his wife to a nearby village and then caught the bus home. @Firenze, glad you and Mr F are safe home. I hope you get the key problem sorted.
{{{@MrsBeaky}}}
Today is the first anniversary of my brother's death.
A bit harder than I was expecting it to be!
Anniversaries are hard. {{{hugs}}} to you.
We've been to church, had lunch, and are looking forward to roast chicken this evening. Yesterday was a long day and I've had a couple of bad nights' sleep; with a couple of busy days ahead as well I am not quite sure whether I'm coming or going...
I am still being plagued by a bad hip but I managed the car trip to York and back yesterday and the pain is improving.
A lazy day for me as I need to limit my activity and not do any lifting. I went for a walk (short walks are fine and more comfortable than sitting) and then did the weekly food order, and got Mr Heavenly to fix an IT problem I was having. Mr Heavenly is doing some sorting on the landing ready for decorating. We are skipping church as I can’t sit still.
Lunch was sausage and eggs. Mr Heavenly will probably be cooking tea.
I've been to the town to the south for a civic event at their very beautiful church. There was a cracker of a sermon on the importance of social cohesion, with some very withering comments about unnamed politicians who go abroad to put down our country.
This evening we're off to our local Keralan restaurant to celebrate Onam with a vegetarian feast.
Hope your hip improves soon @Heavenlyannie and fun is being had/was had with your family @piglet.
We thought it would be interesting to be in a busy cafe when the 3pm alarm went off. I thought it would be louder. I had my phone on the table next to me; I'm not sure I would have heard it if it had been in my handbag. The tables around us were likewise remarking that, as alarms go, it was subdued.
Was the idea to have a quiet alarm so that those interested could confirm that it did work on their phone, but the alarm in the event of an actual emergency would be louder?
Plan was to bus into city centre, get shingles vaccination, swing by M&S foodhall and get something for dinner. Bijou snagette was that I'd forgotten to retrieve money and plastic from the bag I took to Leeds. So bus home, corner sharply, go to local shop.
Alarm? What alarm? Are we at War?
They said it would be Sun-Shiny and Hot (80F) today, but They fibbed. Cloud and Blustery Wind has been the menu in Arkland the Dusty, though it is at least Warmish, and I've been able to paint that side of the Wheelhouse which takes the brunt of the weather in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The other side could do with a coat, but it will wait until next week. Or the week after.
My phone was switched on but on silent as I forgot to turn it back on after church- and I heard no alert. I thought it was meant to be heard, even on silent. If it vibrated, I was not aware. My phone was on a side table about 12 inches away from me.
Was having nap at 3pm, but I had left my mobile in the sitting room so I was not disturbed.
Mr RoS was in there with his mobile, which has a very loud ringtone - so loud that it drowned out mine which was only a couple of metres from where he was sitting.
Luckily there were two closed doors between us, or I would have been woken.
I have been looking out for the "Blood Moon" with no luck so far. The sky was clouded over earlier, but is fairly clear now. Unfortunately the moon hasn't risen above the tree and high shrubberies in the gardens to the east.
Sometimes I regret living in a bungalow
I was having a nap with my hearing aids out so didn't hear the alarm, but my husband did. He'd put his phone onto aircraft mode as he'd read it would sound anyway. It didn't.
The Onam feast was fun, if not up to their usual best. It was very filling though and I staggered home feeling about 8 months pregnant,
No blood moon, as it is rather cloudy here, though I saw a bit of a pink glow where it might be
I was at the parental Knotweeds at 15.00, chatting to Mum when both our phones squawked (Dad's is a dumbphone and was probably off anyway!). Think it was quieter than the last test run. Good thing I worked out last time how to retrieve the message, since my reaction to loud noises is to make them stop, but hitting OK stops the siren and makes the message vanish...
We had a look at the eclipse - in my case standing on a set of folding steps to see it over the hedge on our eastern boundary! @Sandemaniac may even have managed some decent pictures with a bit of luck. 🤞
By the time the moon was high enough for it to be seen from our back window it no longer had any tinge of red, but it did have a bite taken out of it as remnant of the total eclipse we missed.
I was hoping to see the eclipse (you usually get a good view from the 25th floor), but it was too cloudy.
After a very hot day yesterday we are back to sensible temperatures. I have finally got the house back in order after the holidays. The balconies are no longer a health hazard and you can actually see out of the windows.
I have just applied goop to my hair and am waiting for it to turn the roots the same colour as the rest of it.
Why did They not warn me of (a) the Alarm, and (b) the Eclipse? I pay my taxes...
Another windy but intermittently Sun-Shiny day in Arkland the Beflagged. Neighbour S has hoisted a St George's flag, so I have temporarily (pending the acquisition of a proper flagstaff) hoisted the national flag of The Netherlands.
Long live Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHIwYhwx-Y&list=RDsNHIwYhwx-Y&start_radio=1
SCAMPI for Lunch, because use-by date. Tess Coe has been braved - it's usually busy on a Monday morning - but a very Nice Young Lady saw me through the evil self-service Engines of Satan, so all was well.
Most of our mobiles squawked at around 3:00 yesterday afternoon, but as others have noted, not really as bowel-chillingly loudly as we might have expected.
It was a very enjoyable day; the food was excellent and abundant, the company excellent, and the littlies all seemed to be in very good form.
Today has been a mixture of lazy and productive: I slept for a good bit of the morning, but then pootled down the street for a bite of lunch (which I had sitting outside a cafe and watching the world go by - it was a beautiful day). I then proceeded to Tessie's to get in some groceries (Villa Maria with £1.50 off - yes please!) and then did the laundry.
As lunch was very late, I'm going to graze on bread, charcuterie and olives for supper.
A lazy day here too. I wandered into town to do some errands and did manage a bit of gardening this afternoon. Other than that I was mostly knitting while listening to podcasts.
The weather has been very pleasant, though it did rain for about ten minutes while we were having tea.
Our water butt is empty. I think its because the repair we did in the summer has failed, my husband thinks it is because he forgot to turn it off. It'll be interesting to see who is correct.
My hip was a bit better today and I have managed to organise an appointment with a GP to discuss it.
I logged into work to check my email and then spent the rest of the day searching databases for 18th century books written by doctors about madness.
Tea was a cross between chick frick and goulash. And very nice it was too.
Most of today was spent waiting for a technician to come and replace the airbags in our Citroen, which has been under a Do Not Drive order since the middle of June. We expected him at 9am, he turned up at 3:30pm.
Ours was his eighth airbag job today, and he had informed the dealership that he wouldn't get to those in our town until the afternoon. We had phoned them at least 4 times during the morning, leaving an answerphone message each time. They finally got back to us five minutes after the job was completed and the technician had left!
We are very excited, tomorrow I get to go to Lidl for the first time in 3 months, and Mr RoS can go to the recycling with 6 big sacks of garden refuse
It was too cloudy here to see the lunar eclipse on Sunday as well. We ate roast chicken and drank wine instead.
My mobile also sounded the alarm on Sunday, which was reassuring. I've had an upgrade since the last test: my previous phone's software wasn't up to it and had the last test been for real I would no doubt have been Left To Perish.
I'm heading to town to the west to try out some expensive hearing aids and other kit. Not sure if I'll come home with said kit for a trial or if that will be the next visit. I'm taken my husband with me as I know his voice well and it'll help me judge how the aids are working. He'll also find the tech interesting. We may or may not go out for lunch.
This evening if I have the energy I'm off to a talk about the mis-adventures of an auctioneer. As this is a change from the advertised talk he was going to give that vanished in an IT disaster I guess he's had a fair few.
Another beautiful late summer day in Arkland the Elysian, but We Will Pay For It Later You Mark My Words (Rain is forecast for tomorrow ).
Still, Pilates has been accomplished (another good session ), and Lunch is in the Remoska - COD MORNAY with Mash n'Peas. A small area at the front of the Wheelhouse is scheduled to receive a coat of Paint after lunch - the Paint is quick-drying, and will be OK if it rains tomorrow.
Temperatures later this week are supposed to be in the high 60s (Fahrenheit!), which is pleasant, although the nights are beginning to get a bit chilly. No need to rouse the Dragon just yet, as I have a couple of small electric heaters (and a nice woolly pullover).
Just over a week until we set off to visit our eldest Beaky daughter in New Zealand. Suitcases are out and decisions are being made about what to pack. Suffice to say one of us travels light, the other definitely does not 😆
I never bother to pack until the night before, but admittedly I haven't been away for the length of time you are going for @MrsBeaky. I always taken my pillow, I find it difficult to sleep without it.
Just back from the audiologist with a pair of aids to try out. So far they are definetely better than my old ones, but so far not amazingly different. As the audiologist said this is the start and I'll be back in a couple of weeks to try them out with moulds and maybe try a different pair. What I do have is a portable mic that seems amazing. I'll try it out tonight if I feel up to going to the talk, after two hours of having my ears mucked about with I'm feeling a trifle weary. If not, we're off to a quiz on Thursday and a concert on Friday which will both be opportunities for seeing how the mic and the aids cope.
We staggered out of the clinic and into the bagel cafe next door where we had vegan pastrami bagels and coffee and very nice they were too.
Mmm...vegan pastrami bagels sound delicious - is vegan pastrami available in Tess Coe, do you think? Our local Store isn't a large one BTW, so won't stock some of the Stuff the bigger stores do.
An exciting few minutes this afternoon in Arkland the Usually Calm, as the Ark astern of mine caught fire...
The Owner and his Son were doing some grinding and/or welding, when sparks ignited something below decks, and soon Flames and Smoke were seen to be rising into the air. I was on my own deck at the time (Paint Ing), and, eventually noticing the said Flames and Smoke, saw that they calmly had the situation under control, and were extinguishing the fire with CO2 and water. No real damage appears to have been done, and the two of them were completely unfazed...
Fires on Arks are not unknown, whether through electrical faults, or chip pans left on the gas, and suchlike, but problems can occur if gas bottles (propane or butane) are nearby. There were none present in this case.
My eldest son’s high school library caught fire on his third day at school and he was in the hall next door. A young apprentice was using a blow torch on the roof of the walnut panelled room and the rafters caught fire. The school not only lost their library but the village lost some of the historic records stored there.
Still in pain but I now have some exercises to do and a referral for an x-ray.
Tea will be baked cod fillets with a Mexican salad (black beans, avocado and feta, with chilli and lime).
I can't even imagine what "vegan pastrami" might be!
Glad to hear your neighbours' fire wasn't too scary, BF - a fire aboard an Ark does sound rather alarming!
Back to work with a bump today; before going on holiday for a week, J had left a very substantial tape, and (predictably) L kept materialising with smaller (but sadly numerous) ones ...
No matter; J's tape is out of the way, and as he's in Majorca, and assured me at the end of the voice file that that was his lot, I can get stuck in with everybody else's. It does make me wonder if it's worth taking a day off though, if there's that much left to do when I get back! As I've said before (and keep trying to tell myself), nobody's going to die because I've left a few unfinished files.
The weather's still very nice; socks have yet to be applied, although I think there may be some rain in the offing.
Supper was pasta with prawns, tomatoes and mushrooms, because use-by date.
I was given some BIRTHDAY CAKE* to take home after the get-together on Sunday, and the second piece will be had with a cup of tea forthwith.
* my niece, who is Very Clever, made a cake decorated with icing figurines of my sister, her late husband and the four offspring in fancy dress costumes that had been inspired by an old photograph in the family album, which absolutely thrilled my sister.
Made an effort (and it was) to walk up to the new wool shop. Though the proprietress was inside, sorting stock, she wasn't opening the shop. So I came home and ordered yarn online. In other disappointing news, Tesco had no anchovies - unfortunately a key ingredient in what I'm making for friend coming to dinner on Friday.
Tonight will be low-effort wings and corn with beer.
I sympathise @Firenze re lack of anchovies- I love them (cook with them most weeks) and hate it when they're out of stock!
Have to say wings, corn and beer sounds good too 😋
I went and ordered a carpet for the what will be the spare bedroom, which incentivised me to do a bit more clearing out of same.
Whilst I was out in this fine weather I thought I’d go for a walk in the woodland grounds where Mr P is buried. However as soon as I saw the sunken state of the grave, no doubt due to the dry weather, I went to find the groundsman to report it. So that shortened my walk.
I was in Lidl this morning when the school phoned to say Captain Pyjamas had gone down with vomititis. Fortunately I'd pretty much finished and only had to head to the till and then go and pick him up. I did feel a bit ridiculous turning up at the school with my wheely trolley full of shopping though. The Captain seems to be fine now, so I don't know what ailed him.
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I instead dashed out the house when I saw my next door neighbours going into town, as I wanted to ask them something. Fortunately the level crossing gates were closed so I manged to catch up with them and have a chat. They mentioned the new neighbours who have moved in a couple of days ago so I popped round to say hello and got invited in for a coffee.
A bit harder than I was expecting it to be!
I need new glasses or something. I read your last as "my husband has gone off this morning to take a bite of his next leg with him."
We have had a splendid day. It's Doors Open Day in Aberdeen. We started off at the Croquet Club and played a full game of croquet. Then we went to the hyperbaric centre - lots to see and very interesting. Finally we visited a mosque. I was able to see round more of it than my husband as I was allowed into the women's section. I got a booklet The Celtic Crescent about historic links between Scotland and the Muslim world, and we were given a tray of dates when we left.
We had planned to visit more than three places, but each visit took longer than we'd anticipated.
This looks like the same The Celtic Crescent https://alfurqanmosque.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Celtic-Crescent-Booklet-UKIM.pdf. It's good reading.
I'm hoping for a nice level evening of dinner, wine and bed.
You definitely need a gentle evening and WINE, Firenze!
I've had a nice day of singing followed by a bit of drinking (GIN, for a change).
Rather mixed emotions though; we knew that our accompanist is leaving - he's got a new job abroad - but today the choir administrator and our conductor both announced that this is going to be their last season in their posts.
I hope it doesn't mean that the choir will fold; I'd really miss it, as it's the only chance I have to sing proper church music, which I've missed dreadfully since David died. I know they're going to look for someone to take over (I think they've already got a new accompanist), but conductors with the right sort of experience and skills are a bit thin on the ground!
Having had a Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich in the morning and a Cornish pasty at lunchtime, I'm not sure that I'm hungry enough to justify faffing about cooking something. Maybe just pate and crackers ...
When worlds collide. Mr Heavenly worked with Andrew for about 15 years at a Cambridge tech firm, before Mr Heavenly started his own company. I’ve met Andrew and his wife on several occasions.
We’ve been to York and back today, to move Master Heavenly the Elder to his new student accommodation. He now has a little studio and is very pleased with the upgrade from a tiny room.
@Firenze, glad you and Mr F are safe home. I hope you get the key problem sorted.
{{{@MrsBeaky}}}
Anniversaries are hard. {{{hugs}}} to you.
We've been to church, had lunch, and are looking forward to roast chicken this evening. Yesterday was a long day and I've had a couple of bad nights' sleep; with a couple of busy days ahead as well I am not quite sure whether I'm coming or going...
ETA: I hope your choir keeps going @Piglet .
A lazy day for me as I need to limit my activity and not do any lifting. I went for a walk (short walks are fine and more comfortable than sitting) and then did the weekly food order, and got Mr Heavenly to fix an IT problem I was having. Mr Heavenly is doing some sorting on the landing ready for decorating. We are skipping church as I can’t sit still.
Lunch was sausage and eggs. Mr Heavenly will probably be cooking tea.
This evening we're off to our local Keralan restaurant to celebrate Onam with a vegetarian feast.
Hope your hip improves soon @Heavenlyannie and fun is being had/was had with your family @piglet.
Was the idea to have a quiet alarm so that those interested could confirm that it did work on their phone, but the alarm in the event of an actual emergency would be louder?
Otoh, town very crowded, so glad to escape.
They said it would be Sun-Shiny and Hot (80F) today, but They fibbed. Cloud and Blustery Wind has been the menu in Arkland the Dusty, though it is at least Warmish, and I've been able to paint that side of the Wheelhouse which takes the brunt of the weather in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The other side could do with a coat, but it will wait until next week. Or the week after.
Mr RoS was in there with his mobile, which has a very loud ringtone - so loud that it drowned out mine which was only a couple of metres from where he was sitting.
Luckily there were two closed doors between us, or I would have been woken.
I have been looking out for the "Blood Moon" with no luck so far. The sky was clouded over earlier, but is fairly clear now. Unfortunately the moon hasn't risen above the tree and high shrubberies in the gardens to the east.
Sometimes I regret living in a bungalow
The Onam feast was fun, if not up to their usual best. It was very filling though and I staggered home feeling about 8 months pregnant,
No blood moon, as it is rather cloudy here, though I saw a bit of a pink glow where it might be
We had a look at the eclipse - in my case standing on a set of folding steps to see it over the hedge on our eastern boundary! @Sandemaniac may even have managed some decent pictures with a bit of luck. 🤞
After a very hot day yesterday we are back to sensible temperatures. I have finally got the house back in order after the holidays. The balconies are no longer a health hazard and you can actually see out of the windows.
I have just applied goop to my hair and am waiting for it to turn the roots the same colour as the rest of it.
Another windy but intermittently Sun-Shiny day in Arkland the Beflagged. Neighbour S has hoisted a St George's flag, so I have temporarily (pending the acquisition of a proper flagstaff) hoisted the national flag of The Netherlands.
Long live Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHIwYhwx-Y&list=RDsNHIwYhwx-Y&start_radio=1
SCAMPI for Lunch, because use-by date. Tess Coe has been braved - it's usually busy on a Monday morning - but a very Nice Young Lady saw me through the evil self-service Engines of Satan, so all was well.
It was a very enjoyable day; the food was excellent and abundant, the company excellent, and the littlies all seemed to be in very good form.
Today has been a mixture of lazy and productive: I slept for a good bit of the morning, but then pootled down the street for a bite of lunch (which I had sitting outside a cafe and watching the world go by - it was a beautiful day). I then proceeded to Tessie's to get in some groceries (Villa Maria with £1.50 off - yes please!) and then did the laundry.
As lunch was very late, I'm going to graze on bread, charcuterie and olives for supper.
Back to the grind tomorrow ...
The weather has been very pleasant, though it did rain for about ten minutes while we were having tea.
Our water butt is empty. I think its because the repair we did in the summer has failed, my husband thinks it is because he forgot to turn it off. It'll be interesting to see who is correct.
I logged into work to check my email and then spent the rest of the day searching databases for 18th century books written by doctors about madness.
Tea was a cross between chick frick and goulash. And very nice it was too.
Ours was his eighth airbag job today, and he had informed the dealership that he wouldn't get to those in our town until the afternoon. We had phoned them at least 4 times during the morning, leaving an answerphone message each time. They finally got back to us five minutes after the job was completed and the technician had left!
We are very excited, tomorrow I get to go to Lidl for the first time in 3 months, and Mr RoS can go to the recycling with 6 big sacks of garden refuse
Had the dentist this morning and then had to unblock a drain - not the most fun I've ever had.
My mobile also sounded the alarm on Sunday, which was reassuring. I've had an upgrade since the last test: my previous phone's software wasn't up to it and had the last test been for real I would no doubt have been Left To Perish.
This evening if I have the energy I'm off to a talk about the mis-adventures of an auctioneer. As this is a change from the advertised talk he was going to give that vanished in an IT disaster I guess he's had a fair few.
(As an aside, I always find it funny when a piece of china or glassware "goes under the hammer" - I'd prefer my purchase to be intact!)
Paddington certainly found that out.
Still, Pilates has been accomplished (another good session
Temperatures later this week are supposed to be in the high 60s (Fahrenheit!), which is pleasant, although the nights are beginning to get a bit chilly. No need to rouse the Dragon just yet, as I have a couple of small electric heaters (and a nice woolly pullover).
Just back from the audiologist with a pair of aids to try out. So far they are definetely better than my old ones, but so far not amazingly different. As the audiologist said this is the start and I'll be back in a couple of weeks to try them out with moulds and maybe try a different pair. What I do have is a portable mic that seems amazing. I'll try it out tonight if I feel up to going to the talk, after two hours of having my ears mucked about with I'm feeling a trifle weary. If not, we're off to a quiz on Thursday and a concert on Friday which will both be opportunities for seeing how the mic and the aids cope.
We staggered out of the clinic and into the bagel cafe next door where we had vegan pastrami bagels and coffee and very nice they were too.
An exciting few minutes this afternoon in Arkland the Usually Calm, as the Ark astern of mine caught fire...
The Owner and his Son were doing some grinding and/or welding, when sparks ignited something below decks, and soon Flames and Smoke were seen to be rising into the air. I was on my own deck at the time (Paint Ing), and, eventually noticing the said Flames and Smoke, saw that they calmly had the situation under control, and were extinguishing the fire with CO2 and water. No real damage appears to have been done, and the two of them were completely unfazed...
Fires on Arks are not unknown, whether through electrical faults, or chip pans left on the gas, and suchlike, but problems can occur if gas bottles (propane or butane) are nearby. There were none present in this case.
Still in pain but I now have some exercises to do and a referral for an x-ray.
Tea will be baked cod fillets with a Mexican salad (black beans, avocado and feta, with chilli and lime).
Glad to hear your neighbours' fire wasn't too scary, BF - a fire aboard an Ark does sound rather alarming!
Back to work with a bump today; before going on holiday for a week, J had left a very substantial tape, and (predictably) L kept materialising with smaller (but sadly numerous) ones ...
No matter; J's tape is out of the way, and as he's in Majorca, and assured me at the end of the voice file that that was his lot, I can get stuck in with everybody else's. It does make me wonder if it's worth taking a day off though, if there's that much left to do when I get back!
The weather's still very nice; socks have yet to be applied, although I think there may be some rain in the offing.
Supper was pasta with prawns, tomatoes and mushrooms, because use-by date.
I was given some BIRTHDAY CAKE* to take home after the get-together on Sunday, and the second piece will be had with a cup of tea forthwith.
* my niece, who is Very Clever, made a cake decorated with icing figurines of my sister, her late husband and the four offspring in fancy dress costumes that had been inspired by an old photograph in the family album, which absolutely thrilled my sister.
Tonight will be low-effort wings and corn with beer.
Have to say wings, corn and beer sounds good too 😋
Whilst I was out in this fine weather I thought I’d go for a walk in the woodland grounds where Mr P is buried. However as soon as I saw the sunken state of the grave, no doubt due to the dry weather, I went to find the groundsman to report it. So that shortened my walk.