Early Risers.

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, BoD said:

Yesterday I woke with no sense of taste or smell.  I booked a test for later yesterday afternoon and a couple of hours ago the result came back positive.   
 

Que sera, sera.

 

We wish you and yours well.  Please keep us up to date.  I have always adopted the "Que sera sera" attitude throughout this crisis and others.  Having survived the other Big C and by all accounts "breezed through" treatment and recovery (it wasn't a breeze, I can assure you) it certainly helped then.  The Hill of Strawberries sends positive vibes.  

[Gwiwer]

17 hours ago, figworthy said:

 

I used to have a lady friend who lived nearby.  It was usually referred  to as "Kingston Bagpipes"

 

Adrian

Kingston Bag-pews, apparently

10 hours ago, chrisf said:

The folk process has taken its toll on the song: the bit in the chorus which goes “We’ll knock the milk churns over and roll ‘em in the clover” now refers to milk maids.

Haven't heard that version but it figures.  What's a milk churn?  

The lines "We'm off to Barrow Gurney for to see my Cousin Ernie" also mean nothing to anyone unfamiliar with a hospital for the insane something like 60 years ago.  

10 hours ago, chrisf said:

As for “Thee’s got’un …”, I’m sure I recall Fred Wedlock doing it

Fred was a regular performer at our Student Union and I can therefore confirm that, yes, he did sometimes include this song in his set.  

 

Seasonal illuminations are up.  A tad early but this is 2020 so what?  We are by no means the first Upon the Hill of Strawberries to do such a thing this year.  It seems our local council is not providing a decorated tree for our community this year, nor are we expecting the Salvation Army band.  Carol Singers will also be staying at home as she hasn't managed to socially isolate correctly.  

[Barry O]

Leeds have the street "Christmas) lights in place .. a Virtual Switch on is due on.. 2nd December..

 

our rates are still going down.. first review should (fingers crossed) see Leeds back into Tier 2..

 

 

Stew and dumplings for tea!  Yippppeeeedddddooo!

 

baz

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Sorry to hear of your test results BoD and I do hope it progresses no further. Done nothing but potter around all day when not on eye-lid inspection. Hot pot for dinner tonight, its all ready to go into the microwave. Looking forward to the F1 highlights tonight, better make sure I'm switched on as all the excitement seems to be in the first lap this season.

[Sir TophamHatt]

Yeah, adding my thoughts to your positive test, @BoD

 

Although out of 2 parents, 4 kids, 8 grandkids on my side, it's amazing none of us has tested positive (or haven't told the family!).

 

Had a lovely beef casserole last night.  Got that down to a T now.  I do cheat and use a pre-mix for the sauce but everything else (roasts, dumplings ) all home made.

 

 

Someone has put a Christmas tree up in our office.

My household one will be staying downstairs until next weekend but then have to get a shift on as we want to take a family photo in front of it to send out as cards to people.

While some people rate them as a waste of time/money, I really rate receiving cards from people who I wouldn't send a gift to but nice to see they are still thinking of us.

Edited November 29, 2020 by Sir TophamHatt

[iL Dottore]

3 hours ago, BoD said:

Yesterday I woke with no sense of taste or smell.  I booked a test for later yesterday afternoon and a couple of hours ago the result came back positive.   
 

Que sera, sera.

 

Oh dear, not good news. I hope that you will be amongst those with minimal symptoms and an event free recovery

Gute Besserung, as they say ‘round here.

iD

[Tony_S]

My cousins had the no sense of taste/smell symptom before it was an accepted symptom. Subsequent antibody tests were positive. 
MiL forgot we had discussed Christmas yesterday (we will be at home). In any Christmas bubbles we would be fourth family so we will be quite content to be at home. Over the last couple of Christmas holidays it has been a quiet time for us to recall previous ones, “do you remember when....”. So Aditi had to explain again why we wouldn’t be visiting at Christmas. MiL was concerned I hadn’t been consulted, Aditi assured her that I had.

 

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.  Lazy day turned busy day....

 

A little shopping and a walk around a local classic car show eventually rained off, then a call with a request to help a friend's (in UK) mother (here, and 92) with a problem with her bath lifting aid.  Fixed a handle on that, plus three other little jobs she asked me to look at while I was there!  She's a lovely lady, highly intelligent and a pleasure to help.  

 

Here's hoping those with 'the covid' do OK, worrying times still.  

[tigerburnie]

A nice walk round the stubble field in the afternoon foggy sun, we get some lovely weather at times.

 

[BoD]

4 hours ago, Two_sugars said:

I am available for delivery of . . . .Wine, Whiskey, and modelling supplies . . . . . 

 

only 6 miles down t' A19 and very competitive rates . . . . . 

 

John

 

Thanks John , but of wine and whisky I have plenty.  Not being able to taste them rather spoils it though.  This will be the first weekend in a while that I haven't bothered with a glass or two at some point. 

 

However, as the song goes .... if you happen to know any wild, wild women....

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

Leeds have the street "Christmas) lights in place .. a Virtual Switch on is due on.. 2nd December..

 

our rates are still going down.. first review should (fingers crossed) see Leeds back into Tier 2..

 

 

Stew and dumplings for tea!  Yippppeeeedddddooo!

 

baz

When you mentioned rates were going down, I immediately thought of the council tax.

[PeterBB]

John, sorry to hear that you are now both isolating and trust that you will both overcome without any of the longer-term effects.

[pH]

Yesterday I found one of my Flickr pictures on someone else’s SmugMug site. Not only that, he’d put it in two separate albums, increasing exposure. The advice on SmugMug for that situation is to first contact the person who has posted the picture and ask them to take it down. One problem - this person has not entered any contact information. So I contacted SmugMug. They said they would contact the person for me, but asked me to provide them with the message I wanted to send. I’ve done that and await developments.

 

I would have thought that once SmugMug have been provided with proof that they are hosting a item which is breaking copyright, and is available for sale, they would be under some obligation to take it down themselves.

[Barry O]

 

 

50 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

However, as the song goes .... if you happen to know any wild, wild women....

 

 

.. in Easington?  Must be a few there...

 

Baz

[Coombe Barton]

... and unhelpfully mixing the messages ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/sounds-of-the-season-1-advent-sunday/

[iL Dottore]

Evening All,

Not a terribly good day, but it’s ending fairly well. Dinner was a roast leg of lamb, mashed buttered swede, green beans and a red wine and mushroom sauce (not sure what I’ll do with the leftover meat, either a proper traditional Shepherds Pie [i.e. made with roughly chopped, leftover cooked lamb, not mince] or perhaps a rissole). This was followed by a catch-up of Masterchef Professional - I really enjoy watching the skills test: I learn a lot and get inspired as well.

 

Now about to turn the light out, Lucy is stretched out next to me, snoozing and I’m listening to Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra on Radio 4’s Through The Night (it’s the first time listening to the whole thing, not just the famous beginning). Unfortunately the downside of listening to last night’s BBC broadcast is that you have to listen to it on the execrable BBC Sounds which has replaced the far superior BBC iPlayer (does anyone else feel the same way?)

 

Well, tomorrow is the start of another revenue generating week, so mustn’t grumble too much.

 

G’night All

 

iD

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Tesco give figures for all their breads and the sugar content (except for things like fruit loaf) varies between 2.5 and 3.0% by weight of ingredients which gives around 1g of sugar per slice.  In Heinz tomato ketchup the sugar content equals more than 20% of a 15g serving 

Mike, the bread I occasionally eat (marketed as "whole grain") has 19g of total carbs (3g of sugar) per 38g slice.

 

The Heinz ketchup in my 'fridge has 5g of total carbs (4g of sugar) per 17g tablespoon. You'd need about 4 tablespoons of ketchup to match the total carbs of one slice of this bread.

 

9 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I thought the diabetic offender in bread was probably a reference to the carbs in the flour rather than the sugar. 

Tony, yes, that was the intent of my comment.

[J. S. Bach]

Bear missed a great opportunity this afternoon, myself and two others devoured a great section of a chocolate Bullwinkle CAKE!!!! Even with the assistance of DH's F-4, he would have been too late!

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Not a terribly good day, but it’s ending fairly well. Dinner was a roast leg of lamb, mashed buttered swede, green beans and a red wine and mushroom sauce (not sure what I’ll do with the leftover meat

Pretty much sums up today here as well.  With one exception.  The left-over meat is destined to encounter some ghee, spices and a few other bits and pieces before being served as vindaloo later in the week.  Maybe phal if I go a bit heavy on the chili    With my own-recipe sag aloo alongside.  

 

It's that time.  G'night all.  Sleep well.  

[laurenceb]

Fingers crossed for John & OH

Night awl

[polybear]

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

Bear missed a great opportunity this afternoon, myself and two others devoured a great section of a chocolate Bullwinkle CAKE!!!! Even with the assistance of DH's F-4, he would have been too late!

 

Yet another crossed off my chrimbo card list.....

 

In other news:

 

Bear has been removing the kitchen "ceiling box" which covers the top part of the staircase, with a view to making it smaller and less of an eyesore.

An investigation hole was first drilled, to see if I was onto a winner:

 

Then the first side disappeared......

 

 

Why is it that builders consider it ok to bury all the crap where it doesn't belong? :

 

 

And then it was gone; the vertical timbers will be removed, shortened and re-used to support the new plasterboard.  Various options exist for boxing in, with appearance, complexity, as well as ease of plastering all playing a part:

 

edit:  There's some real scope for making the box much smaller - probably by around 50%, and also altering the shape to make it a bit easier on the eye.

 

 

Oh yes, and here's some vintage wood filler - circa 1990. It looks suspiciously like newspaper to me.....

Courtesy of the superstars working for Charles F. Hunt Ltd. Building Contractors, working on the house refurb programme for the local council.  I've spent the last 30 years slowly correcting their cr@p workmanship....

It appears they no longer exist, thankfully.

 

 

Mess?  Oh yes, and some.   Dated from 1925 onwards..........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 29, 2020 by polybear

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Erichill16]

 Evening All,

Just watching the F1 highlights program as I type this. Spent most of the day doing diy jobs for bil. 
i ve got to go to the pharmacy tomorrow to collect some paperwork and bills that need paying tomorrow. Ive normally got these jobs done well before the end of the month but haven’t had the energy recently. Could do with a supermarket shop as I’m out of cider and smoked cheese. Mums asked me to get her some hearing aid batteries so looks like a busy day so I’ll bid you a goodnight .

Robert

 

Edited November 29, 2020 by Erichill16
Grammar

[figworthy]

10 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

At least it's better than being referred to as Dagenham, which is one stop past.

 

Jamie

 

PS Just seen that Andrew C beat me to it.

 

 

Upminister.

 

End of the line, way past Barking.

 

Adrian