A busy day all in all then Sweet? 

Good and good what mischief have you been up to today? It's been busy yogi, they've admitted MIL so we had to come all the way home for her overnight stuff & medicines etc and then go back. Luckily they let us in even though visiting hours were closed and thankfully SIL had bramble for the day, she's perfectly tired out tonight

Is MiL in hospital for tests or treatment?

Where did Summer go?

That was our two days Yogi  

 Unfortunately, you could be right.

At least they are actually doing something for her now.

Sorry, got to sign out mow. Goodnight Moonie, Summer and Velvet, see you tomorrow.

Leaving hugs for Ros and YR.

Goodnight Yogi. Sleep well and have a lovely day tomorrow   

Hoot hoot! It's a yellow sunshine owl tonight...

Nice one Sweet 

Oh another pretty owl pic, yellow is my sunshine colour  Summer, the cushions were pretty colours and they had applique'd messages on them that were smiley and positive, happy cushions  Lol at you on the zip wire, you're braver than me  I'd have trust issues about will the wire snap lol. Same as I'd never do something like a parachute jump in case it didn't open. Anyway I have real problems with heights, even the kitchen step ladder makes me feel unsafe lol.

Night night and hugs to all the owlets and others here, sleep cosily in your nests tonight.

Good morning everyone

Total cloud cover here at present, supposed to be sunny later.

I've had a busy start on the forum today with finding & dealing with a total of 10 spam threads having been posted this morning. I think that's possibly a record for this site.

Good morning everyone. It's a bit cloudy atm, hopefully some sun will break through later.

What a sweet night owl, Summer.

I hope your MiL feels rested after her first night in hospital and they are taking good care of her.

YR, your cushions sound lovely, and I agree with you about parachute jumps etc, I'd always be afraid of chutes not opening or wires breaking.

I have the weekly shopping to do this afternoon and a pile of ironing waiting to be done - exciting stuff!

Have a good day all.

I noticed them, El. We seem to be getting these spam threads, more and more often.

We've been getting the spam threads for a long time. Until recently they seemed to be done around 4/5 in the morning so we got to remove them first thing. But the more recent ones have been done a few hours later which means it's more likely to be spotted by others.

If you hadn't heard you may be pleased to learn that another 4 part series of Endeavour has been commissioned with Shaun Evans and Roger Allam continuing in their roles

Good morning everyone, Summer I am glad your MiL is being taken good care of, I hope she is coping with the sudden admission though, it must have been a bit disconcerting.

Yogi I know that the rain must have been disappointing but I would think it would help the new grass seeds to germinate

Yellow Rose I'm with you on the heights thing, I am a bit wobbly on step ladders and even kiddy rides make me feel queasy, I'm such a wimp.  Hi Velvet nice to see you in here.

Excellent news!

 Good point about the rain and the grass seed, Squiggle.

Great news about Endeavour!

Good morning, Joe.

Good morning, Summer.

Good afternoon everyone  

The sun is trying its very hardest to break though but is fighting a loosing battle at the moment  Hope its nice where you are 

Have a nice day all 

Here it's a bit less cloudy than it was and there are bits of blue sky so it's very slowly improving.

As I speak (well type)  The sun and some blue sky have appeared whoohoo! 

 Sun and blue sky here too.

Youngest son is coming for dinner tonight. I asked what he'd like for dinner and he said"Something chickeny and healthy". *gets out recipe books*

And now it's blue sky here though a bit hazy

Yogi, poached chicken (skinless breasts in water sufficient to cover them with half an inch water above their top, bring water to boil, then reduce to a bare simmer, partially cover the pot, cook for 10 minutes once the water is simmering, then turn the heat off and leave the chicken to finish cooking in the hot water for a further 10-15 minutes) served with boiled potatoes and vegetables. That is likely to be as healthy a meal as any

http://lowfatcooking.about.com...a/poachedchicken.htm

 Thanks El. I have some nice baby potatoes, fresh green beans and carrots, and some chicken breasts, so I could do that recipe,

Yogi, of course you can use chicken stock or something like that in place of water to make the meal more chickeny but then it would be more salty so slightly less healthy. It depends on just how healthy you want the meal

I think he is more worried about calories than salt, so adding chicken stock is a good idea and will add flavour.

From time to time I get takeway flyers pushed through my door from takeaways. I haven't ordered a takeaway for many years but I though I would have a look at what the Food Standards agency had to say about one place where a flyer has just landed on the hall floor. It's for a place which sells kebabs and other things.

The score on a scale of 0 to 5 was 0. "Urgent Improvement Necessary"

I think I will put the flyer in the recycle bin and go without a kebab (not that I've ever had one)

Did you see Watchdog yesterday?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...tchdog-investigation

Just had another kebab place posting a flyer through my door. They must be competing with each other.

This one says it's Halal. On the BBC on Monday there was a Fake Britain programme about fake food. One of these was on Halal takeways which supply pizzas. Ham is a very popular topping on pizzas but of course is prohibited under Halal. The item in Fake Britain was about some of the takeaways which specified ham as one of the toppings but substituted turkey in place. Although no issue about food safety but the programme did say that this was misleading and such Halal takeaways needed to amend their menus to say turkey instead of ham.

The takeaway's menu includes some pizzas. So I thought I would have a look. You can guess what I found They obviously hadn't been watching Fake Britain.