*nightowls* Evening! Hope everyone had a lovely day

Evening Summer, how's your day been?

It was good thank you, I spent my spare time Sorting out coins from our cookie jar, they should have been done for the Xmas food shop but we didn't get round to it this year.. I'm half way through now, it's kinda fun How was your day?

My day was good. We went looking at carpets for the spare room and think we've found something we like. Then we went to Costco and stocked up on some food, then went for lunch.

What colour carpet? I love Costco, especially at Christmas

Digestive biscuit coloured.

Excellent choice and anything else will go with it! Will you be decorating before the carpet is fitted?

Yes, we are supposed to be decorating this week while Mr Yogi is on leave.

Have you chosen the wall colour? And what finish?

There are several shades which might be suitable. I'll get a few tester pots to make sure I choose the right one. They are all quite neutral shades.

Off for a bath before bed, goodnight Summer, see you tomorrow.

Sorry yogi, I had to put bramble out before bed and then clean my teeth! Lovely colour scheme, then you can add a colour theme with soft furnishings if you wish to I'm eyeing up our hallway for a makeover and I was thinking a warm neutral tone too- the choices are exceptional now aren't they It's jolly good fun splashing testers everywhere too Sweetest of dreams yogi, sleep well

Good morning everyone

Summer, you're early this morning

 

Sunny here and frosty though it will soon be warmer and a nice spring day

Good morning everyone. It is chilly and sunny up here.

Summer, you must have been up with the dawn chorus this morning.

The plan for today is to go on a decorating shopping trip, but I can tell Mr Yogi would rather not go. 

Skylark, hope you are well and able to pop in soon.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone, what a lovely start to my day watching the scene from Brassed Off and listening to that wonderful music.  What a loss Pete Postlethwaite is.

 

I like going to DIY shops, I hope you find just the colour carpet and paint that you want Yogi, do you have the colour fixed in your mind and then struggle to match it?  That's what I do I know just what I want and then it's a case of tracking it down.

 

It is the most beautiful morning and although I know we are due to get rain tomorrow this morning fills you with hope of spring just around the corner.

It's been a very foggy start here and now the sun has burst through and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day I'm up early most days, I was just delaying getting out from under the duvet when I posted this morning my sunrise lamp has been a godsend this winter, but it's almost light when I rise now so it won't be needed for too much longer. I would rather go DIY shopping than clothes shopping, it's far less stressful and much more satisfying I've got a raging sore throat this morning, it resembles the colour of inside a live volcano hope that's all it'll be Skylark I too hope you are well and can pop in soon for joyron too, for if you see this

Squiggle.. One of my favourite sights in spring!

A beautiful sight Summer, so many beautiful spring flowers, primroses, crocus, daffodils, snowdrops, bluebells, all so beautiful.  Remember now warm salt water to soothe and heal your throat

 

My internet might be off for a couple of days during the decorating. Didn't want to disappear without letting you know.

Thanks yogi, least we know mr yogi won't have locked you under the stairs until the decorating has finished hope it all goes smoothly and you're back with us soon

Thank you squiggle I'm definitely going to get the salt out! I wish I'd have planted spring bulbs last autumn but I didn't, they would be looking lovely around now if I had. A few existing ones are coming through but I'd like more of them

We will miss you Yogi, hurry back, I hope everything turns out just right.

 

Summer will you check your messages again please?

You better be back quick or else...well its to terrible to contemplate   

Summer, I hope squiggle's advice on gargling with warm salty water helps ease you sore throat

 

Yogi, thanks for letting us know and I hope the decorating goes well

 

Meant to mention this morning, did anyone else notice Carson from Downton in the band?

Although I don't watch Downton I did notice Jim Carter in the band in the clip I posted.

I've taken advantage of the nice weather today and have cut the grass. Weather goes downhill as from tonight and by this time next week there is the prospect of snow across much of the country so take note gardeners amongst you not to put plants out yet - winter is far from finished.

Well done El a good head start on this years gardening 

I'm night owling so late because I've been crafting christmas decorations, well making a start. It's been great fun! 

 

for yogi to collect upon her return 

 

sweet dreams everyone  

Good morning everyone

 

Cloudy here but dry at present, rain forecast soon today and every day until Tuesday when it's more likely to be snow. 

 

Well done Summer on making a start on your Christmas preparations. My neighbours still have their outside Christmas lights in place (they don't switch them on though).

 

I had another email from a different client this morning which had a dubious link on it. I rang her and she's been up much of the night trying to contact everyone on her address book to warn them not to click on the link. She had been texted by someone about this at 2 in the morning and was exhausted.

Good morning Overcast and dull here with rain forecast. I'm meeting a friend for a catch up so we could be getting wet, lets hope it's not too bad Bramble is snoozing nicely while I lay in, got to love her What are everyone's plans today?

Aw your poor friend, it's horrible when things like that happen I've literally just deleted an email before I opened it, it's from someone I don't know and had a link in so I didn't even open it!

Summer, there does seem to be a surge around the world in this sort of unsolicited email with links.

Summer, my plans today are to continue my "independent examination" of the accounts for my church. Not very exciting work and of course it's not work that I charge for.

Why do they need an independent examination?

My brother recently was given a slice of rainbow cake from a neighbour who was celebrating their son's first birthday. I guess the cake looked something like this:

Churches are charities. Although our church does not have to register with the Charity Commissioners as it is a C of E church it still has to comply with the Charity Commissioners rules on accounts. The majority of churches would have to have their annual accounts independently examined. Independent examination is a cut down version of an audit which would only be required for churches with substantially higher income than ours. Our accounts get filed with the local Diocesan Board of Finance covering Gloucesteshire rather than with the Charity Commissioners. The rules have recently changed so that if a church's income exceeds £100,000 then it has to register with the Charity Commissioners unless they can convince the Commissioners that the increase in income was due to exceptional circumstances.

 

Oh, I've just noticed something in the church accounts - I better let the treasurer know

Good morning everyone, good luck with the examination of the church accounts EL, does it take you long?

 

I am impressed Summer, starting your Christmas preparations so early, but it does sound a lovely task.  I keep meaning to getting around to putting my Christmas list in a format that will print directly onto labels, a friend of mine does it but when I looked at how to do it my brain fainted   I am sure there must be an easy way.

 

That is some cake EL - they missed off the violet   I used to make rainbow jellies for birthday parties when my daughter was small, they looked nothing in the mould but when you cut into them they were so pretty.

 

Have a good day everyone, hope the decorating goes well Yogi, and no arguments   Skylark hope all is OK.

Squiggle, I don't really make a note of the time I spend on looking through the church accounts as I do it in bits over several days.

 

In the past for a few years I dealt with the church envelopes scheme. Each year I had to run off sticky labels for everyone's envelope box. The details were on a Windows Access database and it wasn't an easy job as I was not used to using Access. Good luck with your efforts.

 

People making rainbow cakes seem to generally only use 6 colours and effectively combine indigo and violet - that's what Google results seem to show. Rainbows also have colours at either end - infra red and ultra violet but in very low quantity which the human eye can't see. Snakes and scorpions can see infra red, and insects can see ultra violet so their perception of rainbows would be different to ours.