RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2012 Until I'd reached drinking age I always thought pubs that declared themselves as 'free houses' just gave it all away.... ;-) I thought I'd be able to save money by living on range eggs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 On holiday in Austria at first I thought Parking Frei meant free but it meant there were places free but you had to pay. Not quite as silly as when in France I asked Aditi why dogs with big tails were not allowed on a chateau tour. Lesson learned was just because words look vaguely similar they aren't the same! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 (edited) Just finished in the garden, nice weather on the south coast. This little fellow turned up, first one I've seen this this Autumn, a bit early for Xmas! Edited September 22, 2012 by Shadow 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 We have had a pair of robins feeding in the garden throughout the summer. I don't think they had a nest in our garden, I suspect it was somewhere next door. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I thought I'd be able to save money by living on range eggs. What about those "Massive Rug Sales" that one sees sign-posted? .......I`d surely need to fold any purchase I made there; what with my small house! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 But what would you do with the stuff you bought at the huge furniture warehouse? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 (edited) There are times I wish I'd done Domestic Science in school rather than Metalwork. This is one of them..... Fish and chips, Indian or Chinese? Decisions, decisions.... Edited September 22, 2012 by gordon s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 There are times I wished I'd done Domestic Science in school rather than Metalwork. This is one of them..... Fish and chips, Indian or Chinese? Decisions, decisions.... All depends on who delivers to your door (and don't remind me about such things, Mrs S and daughter will be off to Rome in a couple of weeks time leaving me in charge - which means written instructions for the washing machine, Downy instead of the ironing board, and probably a trip round various local or almost local eateries in preference to starvation or food poisoning). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2012 Evening All Just not been around enough to use the computer when I get home - a virtual ban on internet access on the work machines, some less than decent shift patterns, and a totally whacked out 45156 as a result. All this talk of retirement and the like (mainly from Phil) reminds me that I SHOULD have been finished by now, as my plans were set to finish up at 60, but a change in job, then changes in the pension scheme mean that 65 is more likely. As to everything else, the sun shone today, and Lily is making the most of it now, as she's only seen the sun about twice since she came to live with us. This was how she reacted to some sunlight through the kitchen door... Regards to All Stewart ps glad to know that Ian is still with us, abeit that he is an internet-free zone at present - nowadays when that happens we feel as if we've lost an arm, whereas ten years ago the answer was more along the lines of the interwot? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 Decided I'd easily become a slob if I lived on my own Welcome to my world.....it's great. Good day today - mega shunt around the yard at Ropley with the class 11, trundle down to Alresford and back with the 9F and then the Schools, now it's curry and beer with some good telly. Give me the simple life every time! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I'm chuckling to myself Mike as I've never learned how to cook, nor do I want to. I know this is terribly dated and very sexist but I come from an era when the roles of men and women were very clear, so I've always gone out to work, fixed things and did all the manual tasks about the house and never got involved in matters of culinary excellence. Thankfully Mrs S is totally in tune with that way of living, so it works perfectly for us. I can hear the guffaws from here from the younger generation and I fully appreciate I'm a dinosaur, but that's the way my life has been.... Of course there is a huge hole in that strategy when your wife goes away.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 I need hardly add I'm much the same Gordon (although I can cook somethings - provided I've got my specs on to read the instructions on the packaging. However this whole business about 'old fashioned' roles reminds me off my something or other assessment when trying to leave hospital back in 1998. I had a series of questions about my ability to wash myself and dress myself then it came to the hard stuff about cooking and ironing etc and I gave the same answer to every such question 'I've got a wife'. In the end the clearly modern minded woman asking the questions said 'well can you do those things?' to which I replied 'some of them, but I have got a wife and she can do them - or doesn't she count?'; form duly signed off by woman who was clearly puzzled by my way of answering her daft questions. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2012 fixed things and did all the manual tasks about the house and never got involved in matters of culinary excellence. Problem solved -- mend the tin opener. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Currently carrying out the evening walk-round inspection of 12A after a very enjoyable afternoon at Whitrope. Lots of silent locomotives across in the 1967 depot and a gorgeous golden sunset with a real autumnal chill in the air. Abi has gone ahead to see that the turntable well is in order. I think I shall spend a couple of hours in the shed attending to my pair of project B1s. Abi, I suspect will be content to flop in front of the fire! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 I do most of the cooking, baking and also most of the loading / unloading of washing machine / dishwashers. As Aditi is out earning money that seems quite reasonable. She claims to enjoy ironing which is good because I don't. My father always encouraged my brother and me to be able to look after ourselves with things like cooking. I think he felt that when he left home to join the army he was something of a "Mummy's boy" and had previously had everything done for him. I notice from Dave's post that Abi is hoping to lie in front of the fire. I put our central heating on last night to test it but this evening it is still really warm and the windows are still open. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2012 I shall be ironing this evening, whilst watching the footy. The weekly shop was done this morning ( before 8am) and I prepared breakfast, lunch & tea (chicken stroganoff) for the five of us. Inbetween, I did do some modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Morning all, Spent the day going round the "Cabot Trail" on Cape Bretton. Just catching the start of the fall colours. Weather though was mix of Rain fog & sun. Visited the Industrial museum in New Glasgow yesterday, GF fell in love with this "cutie" loco.(!) Nearly stuffed and mounted but you can "cab" it (so I did!) Enjoy your Sunday, Trev 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted September 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2012 Mornin all. A soft boiled egg for Sunday breakfast? This makes a perfect timer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVHK8Yh8Bc 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberdare Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Morning all I have an old Danish friend of mine and his wife visiting today. So once I have given the house its final clean we and they have arrived it is off out for a spot of Sunday lunch, a day off from kitchen duties for me then. I doubt I'll get much modelling done but then I get a number of days like that. Whatever your doing have a good day. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted September 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2012 Morning all... Overcast skies, but not too nippy at 10°C and with a gentle breeze would be the weather report at this moment. I believe some tidying up will be on the agenda first of all. Enjoy your day, guys and gals... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hello all, Back from Church on a REALLY cold, grey, drizzly day.. I hope it's better where you are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Before reading your most recent post I was going to ask you what you were doing about food, since I remembered yout total lack of cooking ability, except for making porridge! Now I know. Isn't there a take-away that does a Sunday roast? Living here I now get a Sunday roast cooked for me. Saturday and Sunday suppers however are very basic. (Soup and sandwich/fruit/Yoghurt usually) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Morning all... No worries, Don, I won't starve. My local pub does a cracking Sunday lunch, but I won't be there today. Far too much sport on TV. The Singapore GP and Man City v Arsenal and Liverpool v Man Utd, all on Sky. Great to see our ranks are swelling and others are joining us to amble gently through life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Morning all. Martin, not sure then about your grass. Maybe its a bad batch of seeds. SWMBO generally justs rakes down the compost and broadcasts the seeds on top with excellent results. Sore and stiff today. All of my arthritic joints are having a combined protest. For those keeping score, that's the neck, right shoulder, right hip, left knee, and right ankle. Spent far too much time standing and then hauling about baseboards yesterday. Much fun was had though. Congrats to Warbonnet for putting on a great North American modelling show yesterday. Today I will mostly be installing/configuring CML DAC20s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted September 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2012 Morning all, a bit nippy out but a lot to do Matt to Doncaster soon for a snake show for couple of hours then back home load up Student DD1 and kit and away to Carlisle should be back home between 10-11 tonight. Kids never think you get tired do they, they may think you are 'old' but inexhaustable just the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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