Oh of course, yes it's a military town! I'm glad you liked it there, I always went there for Xmas shopping before I learned how to shop online I couldn't agree more about pork vs lamb, the only tasty part of pork is crackling Ooh I just heard it'll be ready in 5 mins

I prefer pork chops with apple sauce I feel odd now

 

Hope that hairdresser makes you look your best Joyron, ready for your special visitors.

If only you could get a lamb chop the size of a pork chop  

 

Both have merits  

With you all the way on that one, Velvet.

Don't feel odd, Squiggle. I love roast pork with apple sauce, I just find pork chops a wee bit dry - but maybe it's my cooking that's at fault.

Well done, Mr Summer. Enjoy your meal, Summer.

Friendship is a wonderful thing, whether it's RL, penfriends or forum friends.

You are very lucky to have had such a supportive and enduring friendship, Joyron.

I like having my hair cut, it always makes me feel good - hope your hairdresser does the same for you tomorrow.

That's because you've never casseroled them in cider

You are right, I've never casseroled them in cider, but I will try it soon.

I've been watching The Natural World on BBC2. It was following an elephant family, which used to be lead by a matriarch called Echo. Echo died in 2009 aged 64, after a really bad drought. The film followed her 38 relatives and descendants and their struggle to survive.

Poignant, heartbreaking and uplifting, all at the same time.

Gotta be grilled.

 

The cider in a glass.

 I think I've seen that before Yogi.

 

 Magnificent social animals.

 

 In fact...my favourite 

 

I very rarely drink alcohol because I'm not keen on the taste. But recently, my youngest son gave me a bottle of Pear Cider to try, and it was lovely.

I actually nicked  borrowed another bottle from his fridge one night, but it was rather costly. I felt so guilty that I bought him a four-pack to replace it.

I loved it, Velvet. Elephants are definitely one of my favourite animals.

 Not tried it Yogi but I've read it's nice. Just seems like an oxymoron.

 

 And your son's lucky he's got a mum like you 

 

 

 

 

Hi yogi  squiggle and velvet hope you are all OK

 

i agree with velvet - you are a lovely mum yogi

He's a good lad, Velvet - as are his two brothers. I'm a lucky mum, too.

 

Off for a bath before BB starts. I can hardly contain myself, I know it's going to be dead exciting.

Back soon.

Hi Ros  

Ooh I've Sky+d this, I love anything about elephants

 

Hi Velvet nice to see you in here

 

Well I'm off to start my new book, catch you all tomorrow, leaving for the night owls.

Thanks for the squiggle - night

I'm back.

Hi Ros, how was work today?

You won't be disappointed Squiggle, it was brilliant.

Which author are you reading now? Anyway, enjoy your book, and catch up tomorrow.

Hi yogi  a bit today - weather a bit colder as well - how are you???

I'm okay, thanks.

I'm glad to see the back of those gales - and amazed that my greenhouse is still standing.

I have a lot of green tomatoes waiting to ripen. All I need now is some sun - what do you think the odds are on a week of warm, sunny weather?

500/1  

That sounds about right.

The banana thing works. Last year, I stuck a big bunch of bananas in the greenhouse, and they all ripened.

thanks squiggle, hope you enjoy your new book, sweet dreams Hi velvet Yogi I love shows like natural world, the elephants I adore <3 I've chosen my duvet over BB tonight

I don't blame you, Summer.

I'm signing out, hope BB was good tonight yogi Sweet dreams everyone

It's the same old rubbish, but I keep watching anyway.

Goodnight Summer, sweet dreams.

Off to watch Silent Witness on Alibi, see you all tomorrow.

Goodnight Ros, Summer and Velvet.

night yogi

Good morning everyone

 

Summer, I think the reason why the other Cheltenham lost its name was that there is just one long road through the valley there with houses built on both sides all the way along and it and the next village just merged into one because of building development in between.

 

Another pleasantly sunny morning today.

Morning Flying visit, i have had my granddaughter and have her today too, just going to drop her off at nursery, then back home, then off to the vets 

Hope you are all well, have a nice day 

morning It's bright & dry but chilly here today, i think the first frost isn't too far away Thanks El, I'm a curious creature and love a good logical explanation isn't it interesting how places change over time, changing the geography of the area with them Skylark I hope have a lovely day with your granddaughter & good luck at the vets

Good morning everyone. There has been a definite drop in temperature in recent days, but the sun is shining, atm.

Skylark, hope all goes well at the vets, and have a good day with your granddaughter.

Summer, are you at work today? If so, hope you only get nice, polite clients.

El, are you working from home, or out and about today?

I'm going to do my weekly grocery shop this morning, so I'll catch up later.

Good morning everyone, yes a noticeable drop in temperature but it can be deceptive.  Out shopping earlier in the week and then doing some work outside I wore warm jumpers and was soon too hot, you don't know what to wear.  Its one thing sitting around but when you start to do something you can soon heat up.

 

Good luck with your shopping Yogi and with the vets Skylark (and enjoy your time with the wee one).

 

I am reading David Baldacci at the moment who I really like but the book I have just finished was by a new author to me Belinda Jones, the California Club, it was a great read.

Yogi, I'm working at home but have just been out. Yesterday afternoon, I went to see a client mid afternoon and didn't get back in until 7.30 and I was starving by then so immediately had my tea. I will be starting work on the accounts for my largest client. They are not quite ready yet for me to start but because the weather tomorrow is a bit dodgy I thought I would get their records this morning as I didn't want to be carrying boxes of paper in the rain. 4 large boxes of papers and obviously heavy. Carrying them down their rather precarious staircase means I have to be ultra careful otherwise I could have a nasty fall.

 

Their bookkeeper had been thinking of emailing me their accounts data so that I didn't need to go back. At over 350 mb of data, I'm not sure that it would be possible to send that as 1 email, and the time it would take for them to email it would be substantial even if it was possible. To give you an idea of the size of data, a PDF file of War and Peace is 10 m. So they will put it onto a CD or 2 as that is more sensible.