Poppy says she’s so sorry to hear about your loss.

I lived for a number of years in South Derbyshire, where all the men worked at pit bonk.  I think the sentence “ay nailed on a neel” was a super one.  All greetings were of course “ay up”, usually followed by “our” whoever, as in “ay up our Ada”.  And everyone went “up wom” instead of home.

Moving there at the age of 11 from a very posh and well-spoken Sutton Coldfield meant I hadn’t heard of words like nesh, mardy, etc, so I was a little confused for a while.

Nothing on the Isle of Skye where my brother lives.

But they’ve got deliveries to make, they can’t just take a day off, I want my Ikea stuff on Thursday.

The other day I tried to find out what benefit that Screwfix card is to us – they couldn’t tell me.  And despite t’other half having altered the email and address online about two years ago, he still got an email to the old one showing the old address too.  Perhaps as well the card is of no use to us…

Over here in the East (Lincolnshire coast) we have had snow showers on and off today, there is kind of enough to see lying in the fields, but it’s not covering the cabbages.  And the roads are clear.

A few bob sent to help – wishing you all the best with the treatment.

Far too commercialised, so for that reason we won’t do it.  Also, since when did one wish everyone a “Happy Valentine’s Day”?  Surely you only say it to the one you love?  It’s not a general celebration.

Our dog’s soft toys just go in the washing machine, then either on the line or, at this time of year, on the radiators to dry.  Trouble is, she does help herself to them before they are dry sometimes.

If in doubt, I’d definitely hand wash, then spin in machine.

Oh, thoughts – for a moment I read that as throat…

Guess I don’t qualify then 😆

We have an Eglu Cube for our four girls (two hybrids and two Pekin bantams and yes, of course they have names), and Omlet’s 4m x 3m walk-in run, which (so far) has proved fox proof. We go away for three days or so and just leave them with two big feeders of food and two water, and don’t worry about the coop door being open as the run is so secure. No red mite with a plastic coop, expensive set-up, but so trouble free, and looks neat and tidy too.

Miles and miles of fields, fortunately there are no hills to get in the way the views 😀
If we had an upstairs, we’d possibly see over the sea banks to the sea.

What am I doing? Not a lot, pinned to the chair by a standard poodle who sometimes thinks she’s a lap dog 😯 😀

Let’s hope it grows again quickly so he doesn’t look about 60 years old.

36? Middle aged?? Hahaha, that’s hilarious, someone’s wishing themselves old! 36 is a mere baby, and, like my 36 year-old son, not too big for your mother to give you a good hiding.

I bought a cheap one off ebay (or it may have been Amazon) and it’s fine, and a bit higher seat than some of the expensive ones.

“Smashed” avocado? Is that like mashed but not properly?

*wanders off, muttering “yoof of today”*

this isn’t even a smart TV-

Hahahaha, nice one, project 😀

“Can you please learn to use different barks for when you want a wee, a poo, your food, water, or just messing about?”

I think there may be something wrong with me, all I seem to do these days is a tiny little trumpet on getting out of bed and that’s about it. No lovely loud ones, no fantastically smelly ones.
I must be ill…

The pedant in me has to point out that it’s a batten you want, not a baton that would be used to conduct an orchestra 😀

If you use that hammer and give it a fairly solid tap in the middle of the front of the telly, something will happen.

Disclaimer – You won’t necessarily like what happens, so only complete this action as the absolute last resort…

I’m fat and went out for a waddle walk on Boxing day, but only four miles on the local lanes, so no-one saw me 🙂

The professor who was an expert in it said he’d never have a fire in his house because they were so bad for your health. That’s before the smoke even gets outside!

Hmmm, my late mother sat by an open fire most evenings for most of her life, I wonder if that’s what did for her? She was only 96 when we lost her…

Anyway, as it’s quite warm tonight now I’ve read this thread, I won’t light our log burner.

Ok, just been for a couple of miles walk to the nearest village shop for mushrooms, sugar and kindling, very festive purchases. Definitely no queue at the till 😀

You still go out to shops? How quaint 😉

They are harvesting the posh purple sprouts in one of the fields down our lane – right bloody mess the tractors are making of the roads just cos you lot want posh sprouts.

Not in the fridge, totally ruins the flavour of chocolate!

I lived in one for nearly two years, stayed on a couple of different sites outside Manchester so I had electric hook-up. Winters were cold at night, but two quilts and a very small oil-filled radiator left on all the time made it bearable, although getting up for a wee in the middle of the night was something I put off til I was desperate!!

Everything goes in business end down, so you then pick them out with the handles – obvious really!

Just set it to record, it’s on at 8pm on my telly 🙂

Lady Grey is so much nicer than Earl Grey, black of course, but I need a spoon of sugar in it. Tea just should not have milk in it.

What about carrot cake?

Carrots are vegetables.

I did mine this year, just the court fee costs of £550, dead simple to do, all necessary forms are online, along with guidance notes.

Real cake does NOT contain vegetables 🙄

The best bit of this story was the female presenter on BBC Breakfast having a giggling fit and really struggling to stop 😀

Our house has a bit of a naff name, but there are no numbers for miles around, it’s all just names. Poor delivery drivers, they hate this area. We try not to get Sainsburys to deliver in the dark evenings, poor sods would never find us.

Amazing how The Sun managed to make a full news story about 3 twitter comments!

Never thought I’d read “The Sun” and “news story” in the same sentence…

Ours came with two lithium ion batteries and you get about half an hour of hoovering on a charge.
That’s a whole months worth!

You mean people use a vacuum as often as once a month? 😯

New? It’s been on before hasn’t it? This “new” version I mean, or am I imagining how absolutely dire it was?