Yawn Yawn, Wakey Wakey...!!!! MK7...

Good morning everyone,
Great to 'see' you Shiney and send my love to Mrs Shiney too
I bet those pics are amazing Moyra
Sounds like you're organised for christmas Lili,hope you feel better today....
I've got a Kiwi fruit thing 'going on' at the moment...Vitamin C and all that...i'm desperate to get rid of this cold.....so i shall chomp away...get the dogs in and off i go again
Have a great day everyone and take care

 

Good morning Shiney and everyone

Shiney,I sometimes have snail connection problems and it doesn't help either with the fact that i can't type very fast Hope all is well with both you and Mrs Shiney and hope that your weather is still good down in your part of the world

Jazmine,it was lucky that you and your DiL was on hand to help out that dear old lady.I do hope that she is now on the road to recovery.Good news though with the weight loss and very well done to you

Woo,good luck with the new camera and hope you have many hours of happy snapping with it,especially as we have the winter coming up.

Moyra,that is a lovely story about Steve and the fox eating out of his hand and it must have been a lovely sight to see Hope your feet are a bit better now and that you are able to take Amber for her walks albeit short ones

Loli,hope you are coping ok with work and getting everything done for Christmas.Have you got your Christmas tree up yet?Mr Kandy has put up the main tree and was putting lights up outside and inside yesterday.I expect for you like all us ladies it will be non stop before we finally get to the day

Caz,many thanks for the kind words to us all and hope that you are feeling a bit better now after your chest infection the other week

Lili,sorry to hear you are bunged up with a cold and hopefully it will be cleared up before Christmas day.I have got all the prezzie wrapping done and a few cards written out but have to get a move on soon as we have one that needs to go to France and another to Spain so don't want to miss the last posting date

Penny hope you had a good weekend as well and that you are not having too much of the cold weather at the moment

Mum,lucky you with the new Kitchen Aid.We saw them on the Great British Bake Off a few months ago but i think with the small amount of baking we do it would for us be a bit of a waste of money.What colour did you go for?I think most of the country will be on a diet after January 1st

Have a good day everyone and please stay warm if you have to venture out

 

Morning Loli,sorry to hear about your cold and hope that it clears up soon.Nothing worse than not feeling 100% and i think colds can really bring people down

I do hope that you feel much better soon

 

Aloha everyone,

Lovely morning out there although there is rain in the wind. Pretty cold too.

We are having the last bit of our cavity wall insulation done this morning. They had to bring a cherry picker in as Steve's shed in the corner of the garden up against the flat wall prevents them from getting to the 1st and 2nd storey flats. Still marvellous machine did the trick.

I have to pop down into Wickford to the vets to pick up Amber's flea and worm treatment. So had better go before the traffic gets too much.

Good to see you Shiney, why is the system on a slow go?

Have a good day everyone and get well those who are still suffering. Kandy my feet are much better thank you back to my everyday shoes better than sandals this weather.

Aloha!

 

Evening all,

I god a snotty gnose, and my chest's wuff.

Had my monthly checkup, my glands are swollen as well, and I have had to have my painkillers doubled up, as my hands are wracked with pain..

So I feel Bleeping bad, OH not sympathetic or helpful at all.

So today, I finally got my Christmas letter written to go in with the cards, finished wrapping pressies. Cleared most of my paperwork stacked on my computer table, and got a lot of shredding done.

Started to try and get my knitting done, and had to stop as my hands were aching too much, so I am going to catch up with some magazines I have got hanging around.

So everyone take care this evening xx

 

Evening friends.

Kandy - the KA was a gift so I didn't get any choice in the colour: white! With all the eggs I get, the very best way to use them up is baking (especially the duck eggs) and Mr Mum and the Mini-Men do like a slice of cake with a cuppa (I don't eat it ) Plus, I'm baking for Christmas gifts this year. The KA is a very robust machine and I'm quite sure it will outlive me. And I'm thoroughly enjoying experimenting with it

Strange start to the day: Mr Mum saw a carrier bag in the front garden (no surprise, the locals tend to view it as their personal recycling resource ) but, inside were ... 4 copies of the Dairy Diary 2013 Looks like someone is going to be out of a job this Christmas ... they sell for £7 a time and someone has just dumped them!! Wouldn't like to be in their shoes when the complaints from customers come in that they are missing their order.

Get well wishes to those under par

Miles of smiles
xMx

 

Mum,i didn't realise that you could still get those Dairy Diaries as i used to buy them off our milkman{co-op}and i loved the fact that as well as a diary you got household tips and loads of other stuff and i would spend hours reading it as well as filling bits of the diary.I think mine used to be about £4 but well worth the money.We started to buy our milk in bottles from the supermarket so gave up with putting out the coloured tokens each day.I think Waitrose have all the token now which they dish out to their customers Yes the KA looked very good when we looked at them in our local cookware shop and was nearly tempted in the cerise one but had to spend the money on Christmas prezzies so can't have everything

Moyra, glad to hear that your feet a lot better now and you are back to wearing proper shoes instead of sandals and you will be as warm as toast with the insulation now which should help the bills

Lili,i have had cronic joint pain this year due to the cold and wet and it has gone from my wrists and ankles to my hand and feet bones so know how you must be feeling.Sometimes i can't sleep at night because of it and am hoping for a nice hot summer next year but hen will have problems with the humidty.Quiet a few people i have talked to this year have all had the same problem so it seems to be quiet common I still have a couple of letters to write to go with cards but can't be bothered with it at the moment. Hope you start to feel much better soon

 

Hello everyone, late again but have been out all day -weightwatchers then trying to get the last of the pressies. I am stuck with my mothers " don't get me clothes, I don't want DVDs, no books, no ornaments etc etc" my dad is so easy to please
I hope everyone suffering at the moment gets better before Christmas.
I need to get my backside into gear to have the stuff ready for London when we go to see my sister

 

Good morning everyone,
Sorry to hear Mrs Shiney is coming down with the lurgy now aswell but i'm sure you'll take good care of her
Aw and Woo...another poorly soldier.....Woo,i think it was some chap in the 1800's that said 'every cloud has a silver lining'.....if he'd have still been around today i'd have got him for you
Hope everyone else is getting better,doesn't this always happen when there is so much to do
Don't know about a 'scraper' ..nearly resorted to a hammer and chisel to get the ice off the car earlier.....but it's blue skies and sunshine now

Takeit easy and takecare everyone

 

Aloha Everyone,

Shiney, sorry to hear Hannah is suffering too, wish her better from me. WOO, oh poor you a quick rub down with an oily rag I reckon, I'll be round in a while. Lost my broomstick so now I'm in trouble. I wont be able to get across the Thames then.

Hope everyone else is beginning to feel better. There's some nice sunshine out there now to melt the Jack Frost away. Boy it was white with frost this morning out there.

Have a nice day everyone. Stay safe.

Aloha!

 

Morning everyone,

Its cool here and we had a dusting of snow overnight.

I'm off soon, have a bunch of errands to do for Brad.

Had a busy weekend, it was Natalie's 21st b-day, and took Kait back down to University on Sunday, we go back and get her on Saturday.

Hope everyone has a great day!!